Michael Kovrig stands as he is recognized in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 24, 2023. Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Enduring tensions between Ottawa and Beijing stem from the Chinese Communist Party’s failure to understand that Canada’s foreign policy goal is not subservience to world powers but rather to defend its values, interests, and agency, says former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig.
Kovrig made the comments in an article in the July edition of the Institut Montaigne’s China Trends, a quarterly publication that analyzes Chinese policies based on Chinese language sources.
