The former diplomat who spent nearly three years in Chinese detention says Ottawa cannot afford naivety about CCP engagement A Warning From Someone Who Learned the Hard Way There are few voices on Canada-China relations more authoritative - or more sobering - than Michael Kovrig's. A former Canadian diplomat, Kovrig spent 1,019 days in arbitrary detention in China, held without credible charges in retaliation for Canada's arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. He was imprisoned in isolation, denied adequate consular access, and subjected to conditions that the Canadian government and international human rights organizations characterized as a fundamental violation of his rights. He knows, better than perhaps any living Canadian, exactly what the CCP is willing to do when it calculates that hostage diplomacy serves its interests. In a March 2026 opinion piece for the National Post, Kovrig turned his firsthand knowledge of Beijing's methods onto an assessment of Prime Minister Mark Carney's approach to China - and what he found was cause for serious concern. Carney's China Problem Mark Carney, who came to office as Canada's prime minister following a Liberal leadership transition, has signaled a desire to recalibrate Canada's relationship with Beijing from the deep chill that followed the Two Michaels crisis and the Meng Wanzhou affair. Carney's background as a former central banker who deeply values multilateral…
Micro-dwellers pay full-market rents for spaces smaller than a parking space A City of Millions Living in Spaces Measured in Feet Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest cities on earth and one of its most crowded. For tens of thousands of its poorest residents, home is a space that can be measured not in square metres but in square feet - or, in the most extreme cases, in inches. The so-called coffin homes, cage homes, and subdivided flats that house a significant and growing segment of Hong Kong's population represent one of the starkest expressions of what happens when housing markets are allowed to operate without meaningful social safeguards in a context of extreme land scarcity and extreme inequality. These micro-dwellings, which include wooden or metal-framed bunks stacked in rows and subdivided flats chopped into single-room or studio units of as little as 60 to 80 square feet, are a long-documented feature of Hong Kong's housing landscape. But they are not a historical curiosity. They are a present-tense emergency affecting real people right now. What Life in a Coffin Home Looks Like A coffin home, or gung hei lau in Cantonese, is typically a plywood or metal-framed sleeping compartment of roughly six feet by two and a half feet - about the dimensions of a large suitcase. Residents share…
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Hong Kong vs Kuwait Cricket: The T20 Series That Matters More Than the Scoreline – Cricket connects Hong Kong to the world in a season when international ties matter more than ever
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Xiaomi 17 Ultra Arrives in Barcelona With Leica Cameras and Flagship Ambitions – China’s smartphone giant challenges Apple and Samsung with a 200MP super telephoto and a 1499 Euro price tag
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Ka Ying Rising Gallops into History with 18 Consecutive Wins – Hong Kong’s unbeaten racehorse delivers a record that may stand for generations
China’s Spy Worm Saga: How Beijing Secured Dropped Charges for Michigan Scientists – Defense lawyers reveal Chinese government intervention freed three researchers jailed months over a biological smuggling case
Mainland Man Hijacks Hong Kong Bus, Claims AIDS in North Point Rampage – A disturbed passenger’s attack on King’s Road exposes cross-border public safety gaps
America’s Air Force Is Aging Out: Experts Warn Hundreds More Jets Are Needed to Beat China – A new Mitchell Institute report says the Pentagon must double its planned F-47 and B-21 purchases or accept a dangerous disadvantage in any Pacific war
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Oath Breaker: Former F-35 Instructor Charged With Training China’s Fighter Pilots – Gerald Eddie Brown Jr. spent decades in the US Air Force before allegedly spending years teaching those skills to America’s most capable adversary
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: The AI Ethics Battle That Could Redefine Warfare – Pete Hegseth wants AI without guardrails. Anthropic is saying no – and the fight exposes a dangerous divide inside America’s national security apparatus
Anthropic Cuts Claude Access to CCP-Linked Companies — And Takes the Revenue Hit – In a landmark act of democratic responsibility, AI firm Anthropic chose principle over hundreds of millions in profits
SPCA Dogathon 2026: Hong Kong’s MTR Goes Dog-Friendly for One Day Only – 1,200 Woof Pass holders take their dogs on the train as the city raises funds for animal welfare
Father Jailed, Daughter Defiant: Anna Kwok Refuses to Break – Hong Kong’s NSL weaponizes families to silence democracy activists in exile
John Woo’s Hong Kong Masterpieces Return in 4K — Cinema’s Greatest Action Vision Gets a Second Life – How A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled defined an era and why their restoration matters now more than ever
CCP Spy Network Caught Targeting Trump, Japan Elections — 330 Fake Accounts Exposed – Researchers from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reveal a coordinated Chinese influence operation running across five major platforms
Beijing’s Cultural Assassins: The CCP Campaign to Kill Shen Yun – Death threats against world leaders reveal the Communist Party’s fear of beauty and truth
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Bodies in the Harbor: How the CCP Erased a 1968 Mass Killing – When hundreds of massacre victims washed into Hong Kong waters, Beijing’s response was not grief – it was a cover-up order
Darwin’s Dilemma: How Beijing Turned an Australian Port Into a Strategic Weapon – China’s Landbridge Group controls Australia’s most strategic northern port – and Beijing has made clear it intends to keep it that way
Rubio Honors Tiananmen’s Dead: A Message to Beijing That Freedom Is Not Forgotten – The US Secretary of State’s Tiananmen tribute lands as US-China relations hit new lows
Hong Kong Airport Terminal 2 Opens May 2026: A Gateway Built for Growth – HKIA’s landmark expansion reshapes regional aviation and Greater Bay Area connectivity
PLA Reveals Luanniao Space Carrier: Beijing’s Sci-Fi Weapon That Could Orbit Above Taiwan – China’s state media unveils a concept video for a hypersonic space carrier drone mothership that could redraw the rules of aerial warfare within a generation
Hong Kong IPO Market Revives With Four New Listings Seeking HK$4.9 Billion – Post-Lunar New Year momentum returns to the exchange as fresh capital offerings test investor appetite in the world’s most watched emerging market
American Tech Giants Helped Build the Machine That Now Persecutes China’s Christians – From Cisco to Nvidia, US companies provided the surveillance infrastructure the CCP uses to monitor and arrest believers
Hong Kong Teen Linked to Mainland Cat Abuse Ring Faces Police Action – A 14-year-old Kowloon student is accused of coordinating a cross-border network of online animal cruelty
An Accidental Confession: How China’s ChatGPT Logbook Exposed a Global Dissident Hunt – A Chinese law enforcement official forgot that AI assistants keep records – and in doing so revealed Beijing’s systematic campaign to terrorize critics abroad
The Strait That Could Break the World: Iran’s Hormuz Strategy Turns Geography Into Power – How Tehran has engineered a 21-mile waterway into the world’s most expensive military dare, and why China is helping it do exactly that
