Xi Jinping, president for life of the People’s Republic of China, is a strategist. He acts with a long time horizon. His supreme goal is…
Xi Jinping, president for life of the People’s Republic of China, is a strategist. He acts with a long time horizon. His supreme goal is…
In the upper Himalayan valley of Ladakh, twenty Indian soldiers were killed on 15 June 2020 in a border incident with the Chinese army. This…
On Sunday, the Hong Kong municipal elections were a spectacular success for pro-democracy activists opposed to supporters of the Chinese Communist Party line. Turnout (some…
Faced with the persistence of the pro-democracy mass movement within Hong Kong’s “special administrative region”, the all-powerful Chinese president is not sure what to do….
Created by Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin in 1999 to bring together finance ministers from the world’s top 20 economies, expanded by President Sarkozy in…
Let us be clear. China is a repressive, authoritarian state. It suppresses all dissent and free speech and blocks access to the internet. It runs…
We’ve never seen this in Hong Kong before. Neither during the time of British colonization (1841-1997), nor in the current period of the ‘One Country…
In Aix-la-Chapelle, the capital of the Western Empire of Charlemagne – precursor, twelve centuries ago, of the European Union – the leaders of France and…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…