Canada-China Relations committee  I'll be brief. I would say that the Chinese Communist Party shows signs of both fragility and resilience. It is very difficult to predict going forward whether it will continue to strengthen itself. I think Xi Jinping has put so many resources and so much energy into strengtheni

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, none of us are Russia experts, but I can certainly highlight the fact that Russia and China are increasingly working together in the international system. They are working in the UN to develop their own methods of cyber-governance that prioritize sovereignty and oppose ind

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for the question. I think it's an important one. I'm certainly an American, but I'm an expert on China. I examine how countries around the world deal with China and what has worked and what has not. There are many middle powers and others that have been the target of e

Canada-China Relations committee  Absolutely. Of course it begins with an economic threat, but it is a security threat, and you mentioned the close relationship between the civilian and military sectors in China. This is called civil-military fusion by Xi Jinping. The idea is to make it very easy for innovation i

Canada-China Relations committee  The made in China 2025 plan is just one of many industrial policies that Xi Jinping has put forward. I think what surprised many people was that this particular plan was very public and very detailed. It laid out 10 areas of key cutting-edge technologies that China, Xi Jinping sa

Canada-China Relations committee  The suggestion put forward was mine. I think that when countries have been subject to Chinese coercion, nobody has been there to help them. Even with South Korea, a close U.S. ally, when China stopped buying so many of the goods of the Lotte company and put a lot of political pre

Canada-China Relations committee  That's a very important question. To quickly finish my thought, Beijing fears the formation of an anti-China coalition of other countries working together to push back against China. I really do feel that this is an area that should be exploited. I'll cite the example of one co

Canada-China Relations committee  I would just add that the Chinese, I think, are ambivalent about the Trump administration. They don't like its approach, of course, to imposing tariffs on China, but they see the Trump administration policy towards allies and towards multilateral organizations as the gift that ke

Canada-China Relations committee  If a Democrat were to win in November and the majority of the tariffs that the United States has placed on China remain in place—and I think it is highly likely that they would not be lifted by the end of this year—then it is unlikely that any Democratic president is going to com

Canada-China Relations committee  I'll start. None of us are trade experts. I know that you've already had a witness from Canada West, I think it was, at the end of last month, who talked about some of the implications of what is a managed trade deal. If China has to buy all of its soybeans, or most of them, fr

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for inviting me to appear as a witness at this hearing on Canada-China relations. As an observer of Chinese foreign and security policy for more than 40 years, I'm pleased to provide my assessment of China's evolving global role. China's involvement in the world is a v