Michael Kovrig's Strategic Narratives

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Trade disputes are just one vector in the CCP's power struggle with the West
Beijing’s tariffs are part of a strategy to condition behaviour and define a new hierarchy
 • Michael Kovrig
Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai found guilty of "foreign collusion" and "sedition"
After 1,800 days in mostly solitary confinement, the iconic voice for free speech faces more years as a political prisoner—unless advocacy and pressure…
 • Michael Kovrig
China Shock 2.0 is coming for your advanced manufacturing
The price of China’s beggar-thy-neighbour growth is deindustrialization for everyone else
 • Michael Kovrig
China’s Strategy in the Pacific
Expand presence, encircle emptiness, entice elites, entrench influence, deepen dependence, divert attention, and break the island chains that constrain
 • Michael Kovrig
Handling Canada-China relations in an age of weaponized supply chains
If Canada wants to remain a G7 economy, it must approach economic relations with China through the lens of strategic caution, not short-term commercial…
 • Vina
A "Correct" Perception of China
It's not the one the Chinese Communist Party wants you to have. That's why it's crucial to decode what its diplomatic slogans really mean.
 • Michael Kovrig
As Canada's Mark Carney meets China's Li Qiang, it's time for a new strategy
Featuring a guest post by Vina Nadjibulla
 • Michael Kovrig
Michael Kovrig's Strategic Narratives
Michael Kovrig's Strategic Narratives
Comment and analysis on the intersection of geopolitics, geoeconomics, global security, strategic communication and human values with a focus on China, the Indo-Pacific and great power rivalry from an ex-diplomat and current policy adviser.
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