The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) hosted a national conference in 2014 on building Canada’s ‘Asia competence’ – the knowledge, skills, and experiences young Canadians will need to be effective working with their counterparts across...

The surprise release of China's first-ever Arctic policy white paper last week made international headlines. Among other things, the report promises the development of a ‘Polar Silk Road’ through the melting Arctic. China seems to be confirming that...

Canada’s millennials (born between 1983 and 1999; aged 18 to 34 as of 2017) are the generation that grew up in an era of a rising Asia and who will form the largest block of the electorate in the 2019 Canadian federal election. Their views on Asia...

As the rest of the world rang in the new year with champagne toasts and lists of changes for 2018, China opted to enact a New Year’s resolution all of its own: to rid itself of the reputation as the “world’s garbage dump.” With the sobering light of...

The scene wouldn't have looked out of place in a James Bond film. In the Arctic port of Sabetta, in front of an audience that included the Saudi Arabian energy minister, billionaires, and various Chinese officials, at the push of a button Russian...

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) is hosting an informal conversation with Paul Thoppil, CFO of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, led by Stewart Beck, President and CEO of APF Canada, at its Vancouver offices on the afternoon...

While Hollywood films such as Rogue One: A Star Wars or Finding Dory dominate American box offices, a new genre of film has become increasingly popular among domestic South Korean audiences. Patriotic Korean cinema, depicting the country’s complex...

A Fish out of Water is a quiet film, the antithesis of the Hollywood action-packed blockbuster. Eerily beautiful, this film explores the vulnerability, struggles, and cultural sensibilities of a generation of Taiwanese. The story centers around an...

Welcome to the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s new podcast series about youth cultures in East Asia. Over the next several weeks, join co-hosts Justin Kwan and Linda Qian as they travel across five cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Taipei, Hong...

Though a comparison of Canada and China’s health-care systems may not come naturally, there is one chief parallel: both of these vast countries’ rural populations experience a lower standard of health care than those of urban areas. As Canada seeks...

Visceral. Dreamlike. Violent. These are a few of the words I scribbled in my notebook in the first minutes of Doug Chan’s latest film, The Last Roar of a Mother Bear. Reviewer Shelly Kraicer describes the film as “one of the strangest murder-mystery...

With images of ballistic missiles, beleaguered refugees and bombastic despots still fresh in our minds, thoughts now turn from the year that was to the one to come. APF Canada’s crack team of dedicated researchers has once again turned its...

Kristina Shen is a fourth-year student at the University of Victoria’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business. After declaring her specialization in international business, she went on to complete an international co-op with the Kyoto Sangyo...

Peter Wang is a fourth-year student at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He recently completed a four-month co-op term with Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), a major professional services firm specializing in...

From November 8th to November 11th, 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a historic visit to Vietnam where he and Vietnamese Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, announced a comprehensive economic partnership. After 44 years of diplomacy, Canada...

Hannah Shin was a student at the University of Victoria, where she studied Anthropology. She also has a degree in microbiology from the University of Manitoba. From October 2016 to March 2017, she did an internship with Network Activities Group (NAG...

What began in China as a youth-driven social movement to celebrate being single has now morphed into a shopping holiday that makes Black Friday look amateurish. Every Nov. 11, on Singles’ Day, shoppers across China take to their phones and...

Relations between Beijing and Seoul, which had become increasingly frigid with the so-called 'THAAD crisis' of recent months, have started to show signs of thawing. Last week, the two governments signaled their agreement to disagree about the THAAD...