Author: Jonathan Manthorpe
ISBN: 978-1-77086-539-6
Paperback: 290 pages
Canada’s long relationship with the People’s Republic of China — first based on missionary zeal, followed by diplomacy and trade — has been complicated in the last few decades as result of covert efforts by Beijing to exert undue influence on Canadian government, educational institutions, and business. Canada has continued to misjudge the reality and potential of the relationship, while the Chinese Communist Party has benefited from Canadian naiveté.
As Beijing continues to exert its economic power throughout the world, and in Canada, the Canadian government needs to look closely at its ability to engage with this fully emerged superpower, one of whose approach to human rights and the rule of law is incompatible with our own.
Claws of the Panda details our history with China, chronicling the ways in which a foreign government has succeeded in infiltrating Canadian politics, academia, and media, in an attempt to use public policy and perception to their advantage, and this same foreign government monitors and intimidates Canadians of Chinese heritage to this day.
About the author:
Jonathan Manthorpe is the author of three books on international relations, politics, and history. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist, he has been the foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa, and Europe for Southam News, the European Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star, and the national political reporter for The Globe and Mail. For the last few years he has been based in Victoria, British Columbia.
