Saturday, October 24, 2020

Burton - "China: History as Destiny"

 China: History as Destiny

By Charles Burton,
Senior Fellow, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa

As published by The Dorchester Review, Spring/Summer, 2020

https://williamgairdner.ca/some-deep-insight-on-china/


Thursday, October 22, 2020

Burton: As China’s global actions worsen, Canada looks at its feet

 Burton: As China’s global actions worsen, Canada looks at its feet

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/burton-as-chinas-global-actions-worsen-canada-looks-at-its-feet


Threats to the safety of Canadians by any other nation’s ambassador would have them turfed within 48 hours. Cong was instead called in to Global Affairs Canada for a chat requesting that he play nicer in future.

Of course, the People’s Republic of China would expel Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton in retaliation, but that might not be such a bad thing. The Chinese evidently see him as a pushover, and don’t return his calls. While Ambassador Cong is all over the Canadian media with interviews and webinars, our man in Beijing is a non-person.