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1. Ignoring the truth about free trade

   Democratic candidates’ anti-NAFTA posturing ignores the agreement’s benefits and the needs of the whole of North America

   3/3/08 by Josh Xiong

   It seems that the Democrat Party suffers from a bad case of amnesia these days. Once a party of international intervention and nation building, its members now call for a hastened withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Lately, on the domestic front, this forgetfulness can be witnessed by the row between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, over their...

2. Chinese power: it’s all about context

   3/13/08 by Josh Xiong

   It’s not unusual these days to equate China with the future. The country’s rise to power, depending on one’s viewpoint, brings either apocalypse or opportunity. It is hard to ignore that China wields the world’s largest standing army, or that its economic growth is astronomical. A recent increase of its military budget by 17.6 per cent has prompted two rival...

3. Knocking on the G8’s door

   Why Brazil is best suited to join the elite group

   10/26/09 by Josh Xiong

   As Canada braces for the 2010 G8 Summit in Huntsville, one question is on the mind of every pertinent policy maker and opinion leader: how should the Group of Eight expand? There are endlessly differing concepts of how the G8 should enlarge itself, from the usual talk of adding China and India to more ambitious plans of merging the G20...

4. All the president’s deeds

   Since his historic victory one year ago, Obama has done more harm than good

   11/10/09 by Josh Xiong

   The conventional liberal interpretation of current events is that, one year after winning the U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama does not have much to show for his presidency. In a now notorious Saturday Night Live skit, Obama was lampooned for doing “jack” and “squat.” To the American left he promised universal health care, an end to the war in Iraq,...