Welcome to a special episode of The Youth Element, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s podcast series about youth cultures in Canada and Asia. Join Justin Kwan and special guest host Erin Williams as they talk to Canadian youth about their...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s attendance at the G7 in Quebec from June 8-to-10 at the invitation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is of special significance as the two countries hold various activities to celebrate the 45th...

Over the next four weeks, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada will be releasing a four-part blog series on the development of the Arctic dimension of China's Belt and Road Initiative: 'The Polar Silk Road.' Our Post-Graduate Research Fellow,...

China is at the centre of a global clean technology transformation. The world’s largest green-house gas emitter is attempting to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, in what Chinese President Xi Jinping has termed the “energy revolution.” Beijing...

Over the next four weeks, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada will be releasing a four-part blog series on the development of the Arctic dimension of China's Belt and Road Initiative: 'The Polar Silk Road.' Our Post-Graduate Research Fellow,...

It should come as reassuring news to the international community that China appears genuinely committed to addressing climate change and promoting clean-tech innovation. China’s 13th five-year plan lays out one of the world’s most anticipated and...

In the start-up community, the biblical-sounding term ‘Valley of Death’ refers to the precarious intermediate stage between Research and Development (R&D) and product commercialization. This gap is especially pronounced within the cleantech...

The global market for clean technology is now estimated to be around US$1 trillion and is expected to surpass US$2.5 trillion by 2020. For Canada, a country with an economy largely reliant on resource exports, the performance of its companies in a...

As China surges forward as the world’s second largest economy, it comes as little surprise that it is the world’s largest solid waste generator, surpassing the U.S. in 2004. The World Bank predicts China will produce twice as much municipal solid...

China faces a daunting challenge: it houses 20 per cent of the world’s population while only having seven per cent of the world’s water resources. In addition, only 67.7 per cent of China’s surface water is deemed safe for human contact and over 75...

Reeling from the 'airpocalypse' of deadly air pollution that attracted global media attention and sparked public outrage beginning in 2013, Beijing has made international headlines once again, but this time for the blue skies that have begun to...

China has made commitments to environmental protection and pollution control, to create cities with "a blue sky, clear water, green land and a beautiful environment." Not only did China declare "green development" as a priority in its 13th five-year...

This week the world turned its attention to Panmunjom, a small village that shares a border with both North and South Korea, and the meeting spot for the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in 11 years. Details of the meeting – from...

Just a few years ago, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and policy were limited to a very specific community of academics and enthusiasts, and perhaps a marginal few in the circle of avant garde policy-makers. Today, with rapid...

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is pleased to host a private roundtable discussion with the Head of Communications and Development for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Laurel Ostfield, on April 18, 2018. Laurel will discuss how...

For Canadian entrepreneurs seeking new opportunities, Asia is full of markets with great promise. They look to Japan, China, South Korea, India, and Taiwan, knowing that real business growth will involve crossing the Pacific. Yet the complexities of...

Business leaders from across Canada and Asia met in Toronto on March 2nd for the third annual gathering of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2018). Formed in 2016, ABLAC provides a forum for open and candid dialogue on how Canada can...

When Mahatma Gandhi challenged Indians with the statement, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change,” it was a rallying call for the country to inspire change across the globe by looking first introspectively at...

Canadian millennials are the drivers of tomorrow and will represent the largest voting bloc in the Canadian 2019 federal election. Already, millennials as a cohort dominate the Canadian workforce, and this generational shift coincides with important...

Winnie Wong and Derek Woo, students at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, spent the fall 2017 term in Hong Kong on a study-abroad program and an internship, respectively. Their travel to and from Hong Kong was provided by Hong...