Tag: Beijing

Shen Yun Faces Unrelenting Interference From Beijing in South Korea

Shen Yun Performing Arts has faced challenges in securing top-flight venues in South Korea, sparking concerns over Beijing’s interference in South Korea’s internal affairs and cultural sovereignty. New York-based Shen Yun is the world’s top classical Chinese dance company, and since its inception in 2006, it has become a global phenomenon. Using the universal language…


As We Dither Over a Public Inquiry, Beijing Continues Its Subterfuge in Canada

Commentary  Canada is not that big a deal on the world stage.   Don’t get me wrong, I am a proud, loyal Canadian and love my country. It is just that we don’t really matter that much on the global scene. Our economy is the 10th largest in the world, which isn’t bad but could…


China Has a Serious Youth Unemployment Problem

Commentary For years the world stood in awe at the number of science and engineering degrees earned at Chinese universities. Now it seems China cannot find meaningful work for these graduates. Youth unemployment has gone off the charts. Matters are so severe that it threatens the economy’s growth potential, even the social contract between the…


House Committee Passes Motion to Study Research Partnerships With Beijing-Linked Entities

A House of Commons committee has passed a motion to launch a committee study into the federal government research grants, funds, and contributions by Canadian universities and research institutions in partnerships with entities with connections to the communist regime in Beijing. The motion, introduced by Conservative MP Dan Mazier, was passed in the House Standing…


Japan at the G-7 Gets Its Way on China

Commentary A few weeks ago, a column in this space described Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s hopes for the G-7 meetings in Hiroshima. He wanted those powerful economies—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, his own Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States—to counter Beijing’s unfair and often bullying trade practices. He seems to have got what…


Clueless CEOs Will Regret Playing Ball With Beijing

Commentary A year before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, one James M. Lindsay, then senior fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution, now director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, lamented of the ongoing aftermath of the Cold War that “at the very moment that the United States has more influence than ever on international…


Taiwan Today Is Eerily Similar to the Sudetenland in 1938

Commentary Over the past several years, the People’s Liberation Army Navy has been saber-rattling in the Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, and South China Sea. Chinese warships were conducting “intensive combat exercises,” as noted by Newsweek, and, more recently, practicing what long-time China watchers James Fanell and Bradley Thayer referred to in The Washington Times on…


Solomon Islands Ex-Premier Who Stood Up to Beijing Warns of Perils of Dealing With Communist Regime

Daniel Suidani, a former provincial premier of Solomon Islands who was ousted from office for standing up against Beijing’s foreign interference, says countries need to be very careful when dealing with communist regimes as they don’t share the same values as other parts of the world. “The [ideology] of communism, … these people are atheist….


Russia, China Seal Economic Pacts Amid Western Criticism

BEIJING—Russia’s prime minister signed a set of agreements with China on Wednesday during a trip to Beijing, describing bilateral ties at an unprecedented high, despite criticism of their relationship in the West as the war in Ukraine drags on. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, the highest-ranking Russian official to visit Beijing since Moscow sent thousands of…


Trudeau Hints He’s Open to Han Dong Rejoining Liberal Caucus Following Johnston’s Report

Following Special Rapporteur David Johnston’s report on foreign interference that claimed an allegation against former Liberal MP Han Dong was false, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted he is open to the now-Independent MP rejoining the party. “Han Dong chose to step away from caucus so that he could clear his name; so that he could…