Archive » Tag: China
Countering North Korea’s Nuclear advance
June 28, 2016
Frustration over North Korea’s “slow but steady nuclear advance” has reached the point where even its heretofore staunchest ally, China, has taken the unprecedented step of voting in favour of the latest UN Security Council resolution on North Korea. Resolution 2270 puts in place one of the toughest sanctions regimes ever imposed by the Security […]
Read More
Nuclear Security requires Nuclear Disarmament
April 2, 2016
by Peggy Mason, Rideau Institute President and a former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament Leaders from more than 50 countries including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Washington on Thursday and Friday at a Nuclear Security Summit dedicated to keeping nuclear bomb making materials out of the hands of terrorists. To stave off this horrifying […]
Read More
Rideau Institute Senior Advisor Gar Pardy op-ed: Canada could be drawn into Chinese containment strategy
November 28, 2012
Embassy News November 28, 2012 On Feb. 22, 1946, the American chargé in Moscow, George F. Kennan, replied to a State Department inquiry on Soviet foreign policy in the aftermath of the Second World War. His 8,000 word response, historically referred to as the Long Telegram, within a few months became the basis of American […]
Read More