Charles Burton: Kovrig and Spavor’s two-year ordeal and what it means for Canada-China relations
Ignorant hubris of CCP's ignoble leaders makes them culpable for deep suffering of these innocent Canadians. But Ottawa has also mismanaged the situation due to its own misconceptions.
Tohti and Burton: Canada must respond to China's harrowing genocide
by Mehmet Tohti and Charles Burton
If the international community does not condemn China’s campaign against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province, a precedent will be set and such atrocities will be adopted by other regimes.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/tohti-and-burton-canada-must-respond-to-chinas-harrowing-genocide
Joe Biden is coming – and Beijing should be worried
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-joe-biden-is-coming-and-beijing-should-be-worried/
"But this is really about China’s worry that its hubristic global expansionist plans – a key element in the Chinese Communist Party’s legitimating ideology – are about to be seriously derailed. In contrast to President Donald Trump’s claim that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “terrific” and a “very special person,” the president-elect recently called Mr. Xi “a thug,” a global disruptor “who doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” Moreover, Mr. Biden has vowed to host a “global Summit for Democracy” next year, to bring together the world’s democracies and “strengthen our democratic institutions, honestly confront nations that are backsliding, and forge a common agenda.”
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has urged that, this December, supporters of democracy around the world buy a bottle of Australian wine to show support for Australia against Chinese economic coercion. Evidently, the Australian reds are particularly good. This holiday season, let’s drink to that – and to a tougher, changing horizon for Beijing."
