‘Now’, Ep. 11: Jeremy Paltiel on Chinese Foreign Policy and the Current China-Canada Tensions

The decision by the Trump Administration to impose tariffs on China and demand changes to the bilateral trade and investment policies has had serious consequences for U.S.-China relations. But the fallout has not been limited to U.S. China relations. This podcast with Jeremy Paltiel explores the rising tensions in the bilateral relationship, or more broadly the relationship of ‘China and the West’. With Jeremy I explore the rising tensions in the Canada-China relationship arising from the U.S. request to Canadian authorities to extradite Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of its founder Ren Zhengfei. The detention has met with a strong Chinese reaction including Beijing charging two Canadians arrested in China on December 10th of stealing sensitive state secrets in tandem. The Canadian pair is Michael Kovrigand Michael Spavor. Additionally, Canada’s ambassador to China, and a former politician, John McCallum, was forced to resign for what were perceived to be inappropriate statements. Jeremy is Professor of political science at Carleton University in Ottawa and was visiting professor at the department of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2009. He has published widely on subjects relating to China and its foreign relations, including on the political economy of transition to market economies, management training in the People’s Republic of China, and comparison of business culture in China and Canada. This podcast explores the consequences of the rising tensions in China-U.S. relations and the spillover to the relations between China and other states in the ‘West’.