OpinionThe next big threat facing the Trudeau Liberals: ChinaStephen Maher: China’s increasing belligerence will require a tougher tone from Ottawa. The fate of the Liberal government may depend on it.
WorldBeijing has fuelled a huge trade in animal-based remedies. Is that where the pandemic began?Terry Glavin: A study suggesting the coronavirus arose from trafficking in bat-derived concoctions is getting attention. So is the WHO’s role in legitimizing the business.
WorldHong Kong protestors to democratic leaders: Stand up for us before it’s too late’Hong Kong is the foreshadow of what will happen to the western world,’ warns one leading demonstrator. ’Whatever happens here is the first chapter’
WorldWhile Hong Kong fights for democracy, Canada goes silentTerry Glavin: ’We have emboldened China’s thuggish behaviours, because we haven’t done anything,’ says one organizer
WorldWhen the democratic world turned its back on Hong Kong’s freedom fightersTerry Glavin: Leaders at the G20 ignored their plight. Now pro-democracy demonstrators are in such despair that some have resorted to suicide.
OttawaTrudeau’s unrequited love for ChinaPaul Wells: The Canada-China relationship is now a smoking rubble. It would be great if the Prime Minister had something to say about it.
RoyaltyThe Queen is used to thin-skinned megalomaniacs. She can deal with Trump.Her Majesty has already handled the thieving Ceauşescus and a plotting Idi Amin
WorldWhy Mike Pence is giving Xi Jinping the stink-eye in this pictureImage of the week: APEC leaders gathered in Papua New Guinea against the backdrop of a U.S.-China trade war. It did not go well.
NewsXi Jinping’s chilling grab for absolute power in ChinaOpinion: China is now a one-man dictatorship yearning to restore the archaic political norms of the country’s imperial past
PoliticsCanada drops charade of progressive trade with ChinaOpinion: There’s now an opportunity for a serious reconsideration of the trade relationship between Canada and China