South Korea is the third largest e-commerce markets globally. Sales reached $71.2B dollars between domestic and international purchases in 2017 with over 30% of its citizens spending more than half of their monthly disposable income in online...

Together, strategic communications firm Creative Fire and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada convened a roundtable on how to accelerate Indigenous business relations with Asia Pacific markets. This first-ever meeting between Indigenous business...

Artificial Intelligence Policies in East Asia: An Overview from the Canadian Perspective provides an overview of policies on artificial intelligence (AI) from three East Asian countries – China, Japan, and South Korea. This new report focuses on...

This Canada-Asia Agenda report from life sciences consultant Francois-Jean Denault explores how China and Japan are planning to reform their health-care systems in the years ahead, and also outlines the opportunities for Canadian companies in these...

This report provides recommendations for how Canada can better prepare for the coming era of closer engagement with China. Specifically, it looks at what Canada can do to support Canadian youth in developing the types of China competencies that will...

Japan is a high-tech country, and e-commerce is on the rise. The island country has the second-largest e-commerce market in the Asia Pacific and the fourth-largest market in the world. For Canadian exporters, opportunities abound. The primary...

In this examination of Canada-Japan twinning relationships, Canada-Asia Agenda author Dr. Scott Harrison explores the value of these initiatives for building transpacific ties and overall gains in provincial and national foreign policy.

China appears to have been surprised by the sharp escalation of its rivalry with the United States into a full-blown trade war. There are several practical options available for China to de-escalate the conflict …

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Recent public feuding between Canadian journalists and Chinese officials draws attention to coverage of China in the Canadian media. Here, our authors explore Canadian media coverage of China, and provide partial answers to a few key questions: Are...

China’s cross-border e-commerce has been growing in recent years in terms of both volume and value. With increasingly sophisticated customers who have rapidly evolving expectations, Asia’s largest economy is expected to become the world’s largest e-...

Faced with the twin challenge of maintaining its unprecedented pace of economic growth while protecting the environment and enhancing the quality of life for its citizens, the Chinese government has turned to promoting the development and adoption...

International schools are booming in China. This phenomenon is certainly market driven, as Chinese society is increasingly open to the outside world, and a growing number of Chinese parents want their children to have alternative options for...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rolled the dice and called a general election for October 22, a full year ahead of schedule. The election campaign was replete with drama. In the course of barely four weeks, years’ worth of political evolution took...

Canadians have watched from the sidelines as the crisis on the Korean Peninsula has spiralled upward, creating the greatest risk of the use of nuclear weapons since the Cuban missile crisis.

LGBTQ movements are gaining strength and prominence across Asia. With the current global political situation, there is desire and an opening for Canada to become a partner for change within the region. The Canadian government has already taken steps...

Despite their importance in creating private-sector jobs and diversifying economies, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) often struggle to access adequate finance. This problem has only become worse since the global financial crisis,...

Once the focus of human rights protests, East Timor (Timor-Leste) appears to have fallen out of the headlines since the country’s emergence as the 21st century’s first new independent state.