Karen Wen Lin Woods says she has “absolutely” no relationship with the Chinese government or its diplomatic missions in Canada.

Co-founder of the Canadian Chinese Political Affairs Committee (CCPAC), Woods has become a prominent commentator on China-related affairs in Canada since the arrest of a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei in Canada,

“[The] Huawei case has put a dark cloud shrouding the psyche of many Chinese Canadians,” she wrote in an opinion piece for The Toronto Star in…

At the end of the commercial, before Leica Camera’s red logo fades in, a man with an intense gaze raises his camera to capture a photo of the Tank Man despite the Chinese soldiers banging on his door.

But while the video says it’s dedicated to photographers who don’t waver in times of conflict, Leica has sought to distance itself from the commercial after it landed the German company in hot water in China, one of its most important markets.

The release of the short film comes at a…

You know it must be nothing short of transformational when Washington goes on the offensive over Beijing getting ahead in a telecommunications standard.

But what is this new 5G technology and why has it got the world’s two biggest economies at each other’s throats?

Let’s just say it’s a lot more important than allowing you to download the latest high-definition episode of Game of Thrones on your smartphone in seconds. According to some experts, 5G could change the way we live forever.

Simply…

Donald Trump’s top China expert Michael Pillsbury has called for a “visa war” ceasefire after Beijing failed to approve his visa application.

Pillsbury, director for Chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute, has advised Trump on his China policy and was described by the president as “the leading authority on China.”

But the frequent China traveler was unable to speak at a forum in Beijing as planned this week, because the Chinese embassy in America was still processing his visa.

“We need to…

While the warming relations between Russia and China remain marred by mutual suspicion, the countries have found much common ground in the frigid waters of the Arctic Ocean.

The countries have said they want to work together in developing the Northern Sea Route, Russia’s traditional Arctic shipping route, after China launched what it called the “Polar Silk Road” last year.

While Chinese investment along border regions have fed popular resentment in Russia, the countries have much to gain from…

Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou, who earned his fortune making iPhones, said on Wednesday that he would run for president of Taiwan after receiving a divine blessing from a sea goddess.

Hardly a household name abroad, Gou is well known in Asia for founding the world’s largest contract manufacturer of iPhones and other electronics, Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known by its trading name, Foxconn.

By throwing his hat into the ring, Gou looks set to shake up politics on the self-ruled island.

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Governments around the world are scrambling to figure out how to deal with harmful content online, whatever they think it is.

The United Kingdom seeks to enforce a mandatory age check for online pornography. Singapore has proposed laws targeting the spread of “fake news.” New Australian legislation punishes social media companies if they fail to take down violent content quickly.

While different countries have different things in mind when it comes to what is bad, China’s sophisticated…

The world is running out of pork to feed Chinese people, as a swine fever epidemic sweeps across China’s pig farms.

Financial services firm Rabobank says there’s not enough pork in “the whole world combined” to fill the potential supply shortfall that will hit China later this year.

China is the world’s biggest pork producer and consumer. A staple food in most Chinese families, pork makes up 60% of the total meat consumption in China.

However, the country is set to lose up to 200 million…

In April 2018, an American bus company was sued by Illinois prosecutors for alleged racial discrimination over an advertisement saying, “You won’t feel like you’re in China when you’re on our buses.”

The bus company, Suburban Express, reached a six-figure settlement on April 9 that would allow the company to continue shuttling students between campuses and the Chicago area.

But the deal does not mean the company, or its owner Dennis Toeppen, admits to having done anything wrong.

On the…