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The Chinese balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast was part of a large surveillance program that China has been conducting for “several years,” the Pentagon said Wednesday. When similar balloons passed over U.S. territory on four occasions during the Trump and Biden administrations, the U.S. did not immediately …
Read More »Amnesty International Canada says it was target of Chinese state cyberattack – National
The Canadian branch of human rights organization Amnesty International says it was the target of a cyberattack it believes was sponsored by the Chinese state. In a statement posted on its website, Amnesty International Canada said the digital security breach was first detected on Oct. 5, 2022, when suspicious activity …
Read More »COP15: Canada, China jointly host UN biodiversity talks amid rising political tensions
A major UN conference on biodiversity will get underway in Montreal Tuesday with a lofty goal to get every country to agree to protect almost one-third of the world’s land and oceans before the end of this decade. But the environment may be the easy part of a meeting that …
Read More »Trudeau government unveils long-awaited plan to confront an ‘increasingly disruptive’ China
Canada’s long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy describes China as “an increasingly disruptive global power” on the world stage — a social and economic force that’s too big to ignore but is also increasingly focused on bending international rules to suit its own interests. Using some surprisingly blunt language, the strategy says the Canadian government needs …
Read More »China tightens security in Shanghai after anti-lockdown protests erupt across country
What you need to know: Protests erupted after a fire killed at least 10 in the city of Urumqi, where some people have been locked in their homes for four months. Widespread public protest is extremely rare in China, the world’s second-largest economy. The protests roiled global markets on Monday, …
Read More »Why Xi Jinping publicly rebuked Justin Trudeau, and what it means for Canada’s relations with China
Xi Jinping’s threatening rebuke of Justin Trudeau was a rare and surprising move by the Chinese president, and highlighted the disregard he has for the Canadian prime minister, according to some experts and former diplomats. “He certainly wouldn’t speak like that to the U.S. president. So it does suggest that Mr. Xi has a degree of disdain …
Read More »Canada is set to reveal its China strategy. For a sneak peek, look to Washington
Canada’s long-awaited strategy for dealing with China and the broader Indo-Pacific region might finally be released within days. It’s taken a while. But two sources say the Trudeau government hopes to have the paper completed and out in public before the prime minister heads to Asia later this month. Advance clues …
Read More »Why CBC News will close its China bureau
We use this editor’s blog to explain our journalism and what’s happening at CBC News. You can find more blogs here. Read this blog in traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese. 閱讀此部落格的繁體中文版。阅读此博客简体中文版。 Journalism is not stenography. Reporting is not regurgitation. Rather, journalism is the act of truth finding and truth telling, guided by …
Read More »UN Uyghur report 'damning' for China: former ambassador
Former Canadian ambassador to China Guy Saint-Jacques says the UN human rights chief’s report on China’s treatment of Muslim minority Uyghurs is “important and damning.” News Source link
Read More »NATO chief warns Canada that Russia, China have designs on the Arctic
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ended his trip to Canada’s Arctic on Friday by underlining the threats to the region posed by both Russia and China. Standing alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at one of the country’s principal northern fighter jet bases in Cold Lake, Alta., Stoltenberg cited a list of actions Moscow has taken …
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