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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Israeli border police on Thursday, May 13, 2021 in Lod, near Tel Aviv. Yuval Chen/AP Photo
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Matas and Teich: Trivializing apartheid to attack Israel

Human Rights Watch itself is not prepared to defend the comparison between Israel and apartheid, even though they assert it. The word “apartheid” is used without any reference to what it really was.

By David Matas and Sarah Teich - Posted on May 19, 2021
Prime Minister Stephen Harper comments on the death of Osama bin Laden in Abbotsford, B.C. on May 1, 2011. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
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Sean Speer: The ten-year anniversary of a crazy 24 hours

It was a frenetic 24 hours that started with a mystery about what was going on in northeastern Pakistan and ended with celebrations of a majority government with friends and colleagues in an Ottawa bar.

By Sean Speer - Posted on May 3, 2021
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin sit on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea. AP Photo
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Sean Speer: We need a ‘long telegram’ on the growing great power competition

While there’s a growing consensus that western countries need to rethink their economic and political relationships with China, there’s far less agreement on the goals, purpose and tactics of a new strategy.

By Sean Speer - Posted on April 30, 2021
A woman attends a protest during the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Berlin on Sept. 1, 2020. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
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Andrew Bennett: The Chinese Communist Party is routing its oldest foe: religion

The lack of coherency in the government of Canada’s approach to China reflects a confusion of its interests and a hypocrisy in its values.

By Andrew Bennett - Posted on April 29, 2021
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping walk in Brasilia, Brazil on Nov. 14, 2019. Eraldo Peres/AP Photo
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Balkan Devlen: Wishful thinking is no substitute for strategy with China and Russia

Russia and China are strange bedfellows driven to one another by their shared neo-authoritarian ideology and conviction that the West is in terminal decline.

By Balkan Devlen - Posted on April 28, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhang Dejiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on Dec. 5, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Janice Stein: Canada needs to walk and chew gum when it comes to China

The relationship between the United States and China will be the scaffolding of the international order that emerges from the ashes of two global events that bookended the last decade.

By Janice Stein - Posted on April 27, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China on Dec. 5, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Canadians are disturbed by the prospect of China as the next superpower: Poll

Seventy-five percent of respondents reported they are uneasy with the prospect of China becoming the next global superpower, according to survey data conducted by Public Square and Maru/Blue and provided exclusively to The Hub.

By L. Graeme Smith - Posted on April 26, 2021
A family photograph during the G7 leaders summit in La Malbaie, Quebec. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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Sean Speer: The four spectacular elite failures shaping modern politics

Back in the immediacy of the populist moment in 2016, there was a brief window when academic, business, media and political elites seemed to recognize that they had drifted too far from ordinary citizens in their societies. These early developments, however, failed to sustain themselves

By Sean Speer - Posted on April 16, 2021

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