Unpublished Newswire

The core assumption behind Canada’s China policy was simple: trade and politics could be kept in separate lanes. But China’s tariffs on Canadian canola, imposed earlier this year, show how that separation is collapsing. Markets are being used as instruments of intimidation, leaving middle-sized economies, like ours, to discover just how exposed they really are. Few people grasp that shift more viscerally than Michael Kovrig. The former diplomat, who spent nearly three years detained in China, has since emerged as one of the sharpest critics of how Beijing uses economic leverage to shape...