INTERNATIONAL relations, CANADIAN foreign relations, FOREIGN trade promotion
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The article focuses on the promotion of educational institutions for strengthening trade relations between Canada and China led by the non-profit industry association Canada China Business Council (CCBC).
*WHEAT, *COLD War, 1945-1991, *EXPORTS, *INTERNATIONAL relations, *INTERNATIONAL trade, CANADIAN foreign relations
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Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC's efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition. Drawing on a broad range of archival records, this paper explores the three main factors that encouraged the Canadian government in this course: growing doubts about the wisdom of isolating communist China; mounting anger at Washington, DC'S use of subsidized wheat sales to capture traditional Canadian markets; and a surging sense of Canadian nationalism that sought a distinct role for Canada on the world stage. Clearly, as was so often the case in postwar Canadian foreign economic policy, a narrowly defined national interest easily trumped the ideological pressures of western solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Proudfoot, Shannon, Geddes, John, Wells, Paul, Brownell, Claire, Hutchins, Aaron, Markusoff, Jason, and Glavin, Terry
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HOME detention, INTERNATIONAL relations, CANADIAN foreign relations, INTERNATIONAL sanctions, EXTRADITION
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The article discusses the arrest of chief financial officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou of the firm Huawei by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers for extradition to the U.S. due to her alleged role in violating international sanctions against Iran. Topics include the implications of the arrest for Canadian trade with China, the policy approaches of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and Meng's case for a house arrest arrangement. The arrests of Canadian citizens in China are noted.
PANDAS, PETROLEUM transportation, INTERNATIONAL relations, CANADIAN foreign relations
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