My Op-Ed "Taking stock of the Chinese stock market slide" in today's Globe and Mail

My Op-Ed "Taking stock of the Chinese stock market slide" in today's Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/taking-stock-of-the-chinese-stock-market-slide/article25368429/

"The larger question relates to the implications for the Communist Party rule in general. When China’s stock markets were booming, the Communist media celebrated this as a sign of the superiority of the country’s authoritarian state capitalist model of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” But when things are going very wrong, it is the party that is seen as accountable for the consequences."

My views on the Chinese stock market are quoted in Nathan Vanderklippe's report "China’s investors fear leaders ‘cannot control’ swoon" also in today's Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/asian-pacific-business/chinas-stock-rout-continues-markets-full-of-panic/article25349457/

Another case wherein China will not return a citizen who has fled abroad

http://shanghaiist.com/2015/07/01/chinese-overseas-student-accused-killing-girlfriend-arrested-homeland.php

It appears much the same as the circumstances of the Ang Li murder of Amanda Zhao in Burnaby a few years back.  The murderer fled to China and our request that he be returned to Canada to face Canadian justice was rebuffed.

The young victim has such an open and honest face in the photo --- such a tragedy!