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2022-01-18

Evan Oddleifson, Shaoyan Sun, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Guofeng Wu, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin

Canada and Hong Kong have long shared close economic and people-to-people ties that have supported cultural exchange and mutual economic gain. Hong Kong also serves as a gateway between Canada and China, making the Canada-Hong Kong relationship key for Canada-China relations and the future of...

2021-10-26

Evan Oddleifson, Guofeng Wu, Tom Alton, Camille Bourgeois-Fortin, Darren Choi, Sean Janke, Shaoyan Sun, Xiaowen Zhang, Liang Ma

Canada and China have a strong history of economic connection and, through its rise to prominence over recent decades, China has become Canada’s second most important national economic partner, after the United States. Given the many countries re-evaluating their relationships with China,...

2020-01-01

Tom Alton, Evan Oddleifson

Canada is expected, at some point in the near future, to make a formal decision on whether or not to allow Huawei to participate in the development of its 5G telecommunications network. This has been a long-standing area of deliberation and debate for Canadian politicians, policymakers, security...

2020-10-01

Shaoyan Sun

Three months after Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018, China decided to stop purchasing canola from two major Canadian canola exporters -- Richardson and Viterra. Most mainstream media sources identify the canola embargo as a political issue, whereby Beijing is...

2020-06-01

Tom Alton, Evan Oddleifson

This analysis provides an overview of recent measures regarding Huawei by eight of Canada’s closest economic and political partners: the United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan. This encapsulates the informally-named “Five Eyes” intelligencesharing...

2020-01-01

Evan Oddleifson,, Tom Alton, Sarah, Clifford

As China’s global economic and political stature has grown, so too has its relationship with Canada. The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of formal Canada-China diplomatic relations, which comes at a time of heightened tension in global politics and, in particular, Canada’s relationship with...

2020-08-01

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston

Technology firms, as outlined in this Occasional Paper, face special challenges in the China market. Far better for small and medium-sized Canadian companies to be aware of these risks before venturing into the Chinese market. The size and complexity of the Chinese economic landscape is...

2020-12-01

Tom Alton, Evan Oddleifson

The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) is pleased to publish this Occasional Paper, titled “Foreign Investment Review in Canada: Assessing Chinese Investment amid a Re-Evaluation of the Investment Canada Act.” As Canada confronts historic global and bilateral challenges, the...

2019-01-01

Anya Kuteleva

China’s extraordinary transformation has captured Canadians’ attention and elicited questions about the global future. In the 1980s, China accounted for a minor fraction of the global economy and had little influence outside its borders, save for some neighbouring countries. In the 1990s, China...

2019-08-01

Zaamout, Noureddin, Alton, Tom, Houlden, Gordon

The China Institute at the University of Alberta (CIUA) is pleased to publish this Occasional Paper titled “Examining Huawei’s Growth and Global Reach: Key Implications, Issues and the Canadian Connection.” This is the first publication by the China Institute on the subject of Huawei, but is one...