The countdown is on to the third Asian Business Leaders Advisory Council (ABLAC 2018) meeting taking place this year in Toronto on March 2. ABLAC brings together a high-level group of Asian and Canadian business leaders who meet annually to discuss...

Amid great fanfare, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited international businesses to “Come, make in India, invest in India – for India, and for the world” at the eighth annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit in November of 2017. This sentiment...

Canada’s engagement in Asia dates back to Confederation. Reaching Asia was one of the notable reasons we built the Canadian Pacific Railway. We didn’t use these words at the time but our “geopolitical” partners—those who helped set the parameters of...

It's Nov. 20, 1983. Across North America, children are up past their bedtimes with their parents, glued to the TV set. Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most...

Canada-Japan relations are at a low ebb politically and need to be rescued by urgent and decisive action. One of our largest trading relationships has been put at risk by the perceived snub offered to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Vietnam...

India’s economy is at a crossroads. As economic momentum in China declines, The Economist Intelligence Unit predicts that India will be Asia’s fastest-growing economy between 2018 and 2022, carving out more influence in and importance to the global...

As Prime Minister Trudeau has said, “Canada and India share a special bond.” Our relationship is underpinned not only by sharing a common language and a commitment to democracy, but also by the fact that there are more than one million Canadians of...

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...

With tough and uncertain negotiations happening simultaneously with the United States over NAFTA, Japan over TPP and with China (plus Southeast Asia and India down the line), Canada's trade policy is at a critical juncture. The national public good...

"Under-promise and over-deliver" is usually a winning formula when it comes to politics and state visits. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's most recent visit to China seems to have been based on the opposite premise. Another basic rule for trade...

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...

In the days after tanks rolled through the nation's capital, tens of thousands of Zimbabweans marched through the streets, many of them chanting one slogan in particular: Bob-o watengesa nyika kuma china — "[Mugabe] you have sold the country to the...

Millennials are the first generation of Canadians whose world will be shaped by the "rise of Asia" for the entirety of their adult lives. As we plug into our digitally-connected world, we have witnessed in real-time the rapid economic growth and...

It hasn't been a good few weeks for the Trudeau government's "progressive" trade agenda. First, the unwillingness of some countries to swallow elements of the progressive agenda was at least partially responsible for the sudden postponement of an...

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...