beijing
The fight for a free Hong Kong isn’t over just because Canada wants no part of it
Terry Glavin: Politicians, academics and activists around the world say Beijing has undermined its claim to sovereignty over Hong Kong by breaching its 1997 agreement with Britain. Will the Trudeau government join them?
Is Beijing sticking its nose into the election campaign in Markham?
Marcus Kolga: For the sake of democracy, voters in the Markham-Unionville riding should ask their local candidates about their positions on human rights in China
Who lost China? And how was Canada supposed to win it?
Paul Wells: Some old hands think Canada should have tipped off China in the Huawei case. Their advice says a lot about what’s changed in Ottawa.
So long, Silicon Valley. China is the world’s innovation engine.
China’s innovation leap appears unstoppable, writes John Shmuel. Even Western startups are starting to copy Chinese ideas.
Welcome to a world no longer led by Moscow and Washington
Scott Gilmore: While America slinks into isolation and Russia jokes on Twitter, Beijing is shaping the world order
Trudeau tries to thread the China needle
Paul Wells : The Liberals held public consultations on free trade with China. Will the message they got inform the latest mission to Beijing?
Why Canadians need to start worrying about China
Terry Glavin on the Liberals’ increasingly dangerous, starry-eyed enthusiasm for China, and how badly Ottawa keeps misreading its rise
The odds (and evens) of the sun shining in Beijing aren’t good
The government’s recent red alerts about smog in Beijing have left many residents feeling more cynical than safe
Hailing a P.I. for taxi lost-and-found
On the cold, mean streets of Beijing, a private detective searches taxis to recover lost objects and hope
Sandstorm and smog combination causes terrible air quality in Beijing
Air rated at ‘Beyond Index’
What’s in a city name?
Pretoria, South Africa, could soon become Tshwane
Time out: New art in Beijing
Thursday in Beijing. The Prime Minister had pooled events for the first half of the day, so most reporters had a break from work. A few of us took a suggestion from Canadian embassy staff and made our way to 798 Art District, a maze of contemporary art galleries, cafés and design stores in a mid-20th-century industrial neighbourhood on the way out to Beijing Airport. In the way it’s repurposed factory space to creative ends, it’s a little like the Distillery District in Toronto or the Exchange District in Winnipeg, except far larger and more elaborate.