What is urgently required is a frank assessment of where Canada is today and where it wishes to be tomorrow, Matthew Fisher says.

Short-term foreign policy changes won't be enough to meet the global challenges Canada faces, Rob Breakenridge says — particularly with China.

Canada's Liberal government is blind to China's interference and elite capture, critics say.

Twelve senators are calling on the Liberals to impose sanctions on Chinese officials over China's treatment of its Muslim minority, Hong Kong, and its arrests of two Canadians.

Scheer says Champagne is Canada's top diplomat and China's communist leaders can use the $1.2 million he owes on two London properties to the Bank of China as leverage at a time of strained relations.

"The U.S. has been taking advantage of Canada, and the U.S. is the trouble maker of China-Canada relations," the Chinese envoy to Ottawa, Cong Peiwu, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

Canada has expressed "deep concern" about the controversial Hong Kong bill but hasn't gone as far as to say it will act in any way.

Experts argue the coronavirus pandemic and tensions with Hong Kong have put China in a far weaker position globally than when Meng Wanzhou was first arrested, putting Canada at a potential advantage.

Some protestors were willing to speak with media under the condition their full, legal names not be used out of fear of the Chinese Communist Party and for their families' safety in Hong Kong.

Trudeau said Canada has long called for de-escalation of tensions between Beijing and the semi-autonomous territory.