Former prime minister Jean Chretien speaks to reporters after an event in Ottawa, on March 3, 2020. To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). The starting point of the Quad is much like an Indian arranged marriage — the principals have been lined up, horoscopes matched. Prince William was in New Zealand to commemorate the people killed in the Christchurch mosque terror attacks. Jacinda Ardern casts her vote on October 3, 2020 in Auckland. "I think there was always going to be a moment where people have to sort of put up or shut up. Prominent Conservatives have been adamant that the prime minister should impose sanctions and cancel investments. Such efforts might at least ensure that China's international reputation won't come away from this unscathed. However "tough" Canada might get, China can always get tougher. Yesterday, two dozen former officials — including two more Chrétien-era ministers and former NDP leader Ed Broadbent — released a remarkable open letter calling on Lametti to do just that. Ardern is engaged to television presenter Clarke Gayford. By submitting a comment, you accept that CBC has the right to reproduce and publish that comment in whole or in part, in any manner CBC chooses. United States President Donald Trump joins South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Taiwan's representative James Soong to take part in a "family photo" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. The situation deteriorated after the June 15 Galwan Valley clashes in which 20 Indian Army personnel were killed. Maybe someday, with enough pressure, China could be convinced to retreat. Bloomfield and Ardern ran daily briefings during New Zealand's nationwide coronavirus lockdown. Both the argument made in that letter and the decision facing Trudeau now can be framed by a series of events that seem to have led the prime minister to this moment. Jacinda Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford pose for a photo with their newborn baby girl Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford on June 24, 2018 in Auckland. Should it? Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images). It highlights the efforts by India, which have been redoubled after the latest tensions, to develop key infrastructure - roads, tunnels, bridges and airfields - along the unsettled 3,500 km border with China. The virtual talks were held under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on border affairs. For months now, there have been calls from some quarters for the Liberals to effectively trade the freedom of Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei executive now facing extradition, for the release of Kovrig and Spavor. Readers can judge for themselves whether resisting China's pressure is likelier to result in more or fewer Canadians being imprisoned. Jacinda Ardern greets Prince William with a hongi, a traditional Māori greeting, as they attend an Anzac Day service remembering fallen soldiers on April 25, 2019 in Auckland. Comments on this story are moderated according to our Submission Guidelines. The letter's authors might have been better off putting their argument more simply, though — by saying that while the risk of encouraging future bad actions is real, Canada should take that chance. Ardern was only the second world leader to give birth in office. Tomorrow is different. Ardern gives birth to daughter Neve Te Aroha, becoming the first world leader to give birth since Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto in 1990. Then the international order began to wobble as the United States abandoned its traditional position of leadership — and the Trudeau government found itself struggling solo to defend Canada against hostile actions by both China and Saudi Arabia. "[R]esisting China's pressure is no guarantee that it will never be applied again in the future," they write. Ardern condemns the attacks at two mosques in the city of Christchurch, Ardern confirms that New Zealand's government has agreed to reform the country's gun laws, Ardern closes New Zealand's borders to foreign visitors, Announces a nationwide lockdown, requiring all non-essential workers to stay at home, she and her cabinet will take a 20% pay cut for the next six months because of the coronavirus pandemic, Ardern announces she is delaying the country's parliamentary election by four weeks to October 17. Former prime minister and China scholar Kevin Rudd wrote in the Foreign Affairs journal this week that the risk of armed conflict between the United States and China in the next three months was “especially high.” Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. The ITBP was raised in the aftermath of the 1962 Chinese aggression and it has a strength of about 90,000 personnel with 60 battalions on the ground. In addition to whatever might be happening privately between Canadian and Chinese officials, the Liberals have tried to rally Western allies to publicly condemn China's detention of Kovrig and Spavor. Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Vancouver in late 2018 on a bank fraud warrant issued by U.S. authorities. It's hard to know what the current American administration will do next, who will be the president come next spring, and what, if anything, that might mean for Meng and the international order. Jean Chrétien was reported to be "floating" the idea of dropping the extradition case in June 2019. Former prime minister and China scholar Kevin Rudd wrote in the Foreign Affairs journal this week that the risk of armed conflict between the United States and China in the next three months was “especially high.”. But it was Michael Kovrig's wife, Vina Nadjibulla, who in an interview with CBC News most succinctly explained why attempting to engage in tit-for-tat with a superpower is unlikely to end well. should have found an opening to let Meng get away, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices. Add some “good” to your morning and evening. Shortly after Meng's arrest, Beijing detained two Canadians on national security charges and halted imports of canola seed. Queen Elizabeth II greets Jacinda Ardern at Buckingham Palace on April 19, 2018 in London, England. Barack Obama attends a pōwhiri -- a formal Māori welcoming ceremony -- with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Government House on March 22, 2018 during his visit to Auckland. NZ First leader Winston Peters announces on television that he supports Ardern as prime minister. Copyright © 2020 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. If Quad succeeds, it will signal the end of the post-Cold War era and the beginning of new multipolar security architecture in Asia and, gradually, the world. Updated 12:06 PM ET, Sun October 18, 2020. The Asian giants accused each other this week of sending soldiers into the other's territory and fired warning shots for the first time in 45 years, raising the specter of full-scale military conflict. But then the letter's authors speculate creatively about how it might get worse anyway. Jacinda Ardern hugs a first responder from the St John's ambulance team that helped those injured in the White Island volcano eruption on December 9, 2019. In the government's handling of Meng Wanzhou's case, you can see elements of both Trudeau's position in 2016 and his comments in January 2019. Soon after the two Canadians were seized, John Manley, a former Liberal cabinet minister, suggested the Trudeau government should have found an opening to let Meng get away. "If countries around the world, including China, realize that by arbitrarily arresting random Canadians they can get what they want out of Canada politically, well, that makes an awful lot more Canadians who travel around the world vulnerable to that kind of pressure," Trudeau said today.
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