Chinese Ambassador Cong on the question of humanitarian release of the ‘Two Michaels’, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, and Cooperation

 In an exclusive interview with Ottawa Life Magazine last week, Ambassador Cong Peiwu was asked if he could update Canadians on the treatment and condition of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. China arrested Kovrig, a former diplomat, and fellow Canadian Michael Spavor (the two Michaels) in December 2018, soon after Canadian

Letter to the Editor from the Philippine Ambassador to Canada

 This letter to the editor from the Philippine Ambassador Petronila P. Garcia is a response to the article "Correcting Misconceptions & Upholding Justice in the South China Sea" from our February/March 2016 print issue. You can find that article here. The letter is included below in full.

Correcting Misconceptions & Upholding Justice in the South China Sea

 With new discoveries of rich marine resources in the South China Sea around the 1970s, some   countries adjacent to the South China Sea region staged an illegal occupation of some of China’s Nansha Islands and remain there to this day. In the 1980s, despite some countries’ illegal encroachment and occupation of China’s islands, China demonstrated