Now is the time Now is the time for Indigenous peoples in Canada to connect to the global economy and most particularly with markets in the Asia Pacific. Increasing recognition of the right to self-determination through laws, regulations, and...

On June 4th, the world commemorated the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. In Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, 180,000 people held a vigil, the largest gathering since the 25th anniversary...

People who were expecting a close race in India’s May 2019 national elections were disappointed: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ran away with it, winning by an even larger margin than in their upset victory in the...

Both Canada and Italy are middle powers experiencing similar constraints and incentives from the evolving configuration of the international system. However, while Italy recently became the first G7 nation to join the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI...

Last week marked the end of the largest democratic election in human history, with more than 600 million Indians casting their vote over the course of five and a half weeks, re-electing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party....

Results of India’s 2019 Lok Sabha (lower house) parliamentary elections were announced on Thursday.  APF Canada’s student-led India Election Watch has been following the election for three months, and has summarized some key insights and things...

It didn’t take long for Canadian importers and exporters to see big wins in Asia via the CPTPP – a mere two months. Just-released trade numbers from Canada’s partners in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (...

The 2019 Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2019) meeting is the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s signature high-level business conference comprising senior corporate and government representatives with a mission to identify and...

The Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2019) met on February 27, 2019 in Hong Kong SAR. An initiative of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, this was the fourth meeting of ABLAC, and its first outside Canada. The discussions centred...

Delegates at China’s annual ‘Two Sessions’ meetings in March formed laws covering everything from new GDP targets and death education in schools, to legal tools for fighting economic battles and additional days off around the Lunar New Year holidays...

In recent years, the Canadian government has stated that improving relations with Asia is not just a choice or an option, but a national imperative. This prioritization of Asia has been accompanied with a strong focus on enhancing economic ties...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a diverse field, one that seems to be changing every time you hit the refresh button in your browser. Research reports have certain merit, but the best way of understanding how AI is changing our world and why it...

In June 2018, APF Canada, in partnership with Global Affairs Canada’s International Education Division, convened a series of roundtable discussions on how to help more Canadian youth and young professionals connect with China-related networks and...

As part of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada’s APEC-Canada Growing Business Partnership team, University of British Columbia international relations and political science students Avneet Darred, Sandra Lin, and Chanpreet Pabla had an opportunity...

If you are on social media (or even mainstream media), you’ve probably noticed that plant-based diets are very much in vogue, from the growing popularity and celebrity of health and wellness ‘experts’ on Instagram and widespread Canadian...

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) presented the second installment of the John H. McArthur Distinguished Fellowship at a sold-out event on January 15, 2019, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The Fellowship’...

Following a series of vaccination scandals over the last few years, China is now drafting a new health act that not only guarantees the right to health care as a fundamental human right, but also provides provisions to strengthen the management of...

In a world where ALL CAPS Tweets shape foreign policy, where full-blown trade wars supplant differences of opinion, and where despots and autocrats gleefully jackboot the liberal world order, thoughts now turn to a less interesting year ahead....

Noah Holdings Limited, a China-based wealth and asset management company serving clients in Mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States, hosted its first cohort of Canadian interns at its Hong Kong office in the summer of 2018. The internship...

Although the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) is now official, Canada should not let up on its push for more trade diversification. Canada’s federal government has taken a step in the right direction in setting a goal to boost our...