Hu Jintao

The prime minister’s trip wasn’t about trade, goodwill or pandas. It was about crushing his opposition at home.

With our focus so firmly fixed on the tension between the U.S. accent on stimulus and the deficit preoccupations of Canada and Europe, the question of China’s place in the G20 has been pushed a bit to the side of this weekend’s summit.

Globe and Mail, yesterday. Environment Minister Jim Prentice is playing down the climate-change pledges made Tuesday by Chinese President Hu Jintao at the United Nations, saying Beijing has yet to commit to clear targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Around the world, authoritarianism is on the rise, and the West seems powerless to oppose it