Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper.
The Right Honorable Joe Clark, Professor Paul Evans, and Ambassador Robert Wright
7:30 p.m. May 20th 2014.
Geneva Hall,Knox Presbyterian Church.
120 Lisgar Street, (corner Elgin)
Please use entrance off of Elgin via the pathway beside the main door
Refreshments and conversation following the presentation.
To see the promotional announcement for this event, click here.
For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing China as a moral enterprise as important as trade and diplomacy.
As global China’s economic and diplomatic reach has expanded, policy makers in Ottawa have not fashioned an effective response. They are failing to produce a compelling strategy that addresses the power shift underway and growing public anxiety about China at home.
Engaging China is a concise account of the evolution and state of the Canadian approach to China, its achievements, disappointments, and current dilemmas. His assessment of the evolution of Canada’s China policy speaks to the intellectual history of the idea of “engagement,” and assesses its internal contradictions and possibilities. He provides the elements of a comprehensive and strategic approach to China’s central role in the most important power shift in the global order since World War II.
Everyone is welcome*
* Free for CCFS members. $10 for non-CCFS members. The CCFS-Ottawa annual membership is $20 for individuals, $30 for a family, $12 for a student and $17 for a student family. No pre-registration. For further information, please call 613-789-3318 or complete a Membership Form and submit it at a monthly meeting.
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Dr. Paul Evans is the author or editor of eight books, and his latest one, “Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper,” has just been released in late March 2014. Copies of Dr. Evans’ book will be available for sale after his presentation.
This invaluable book provides an informed and expert analysis—clear, brief, and balanced—of the evolution over decades of Canada’s experiences with China, and recommends an approach that can make the most of our future relations with this inevitable, changing, and dominant power. — The Right Honourable Joe Clark, P.C., C.C.
Paul Evans has given us an engaging and balanced assessment of Canada’s approach to the rising economic superpower during governments past and present. For anyone who cares about the future of Canada’s relations with the Middle Kingdom, it’s a must read. — John Ibbitson, Chief Political Writer, The Globe and Mail
Written by Canada’s foremost student of China and the Asia-Pacific, Engaging China is an excellent survey of Canada’s past engagement with China, and a clear and coherent argument about what our future engagement should be. — Kim Richard Nossal, Director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.
The Right Honorable Joe Clark, Professor Paul Evans, and Ambassador Robert Wright
The Right Honorable Joe Clark, Professor Paul Evans, and Ambassador Robert Wright
7:30 p.m. May 20th 2014.
Geneva Hall,Knox Presbyterian Church.
120 Lisgar Street, (corner Elgin)
Please use entrance off of Elgin via the pathway beside the main door
Refreshments and conversation following the presentation.
To see the promotional announcement for this event, click here.
For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing China as a moral enterprise as important as trade and diplomacy.
As global China’s economic and diplomatic reach has expanded, policy makers in Ottawa have not fashioned an effective response. They are failing to produce a compelling strategy that addresses the power shift underway and growing public anxiety about China at home.
Engaging China is a concise account of the evolution and state of the Canadian approach to China, its achievements, disappointments, and current dilemmas. His assessment of the evolution of Canada’s China policy speaks to the intellectual history of the idea of “engagement,” and assesses its internal contradictions and possibilities. He provides the elements of a comprehensive and strategic approach to China’s central role in the most important power shift in the global order since World War II.
Everyone is welcome*
* Free for CCFS members. $10 for non-CCFS members. The CCFS-Ottawa annual membership is $20 for individuals, $30 for a family, $12 for a student and $17 for a student family. No pre-registration. For further information, please call 613-789-3318 or complete a Membership Form and submit it at a monthly meeting.
———————
Dr. Paul Evans is the author or editor of eight books, and his latest one, “Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper,” has just been released in late March 2014. Copies of Dr. Evans’ book will be available for sale after his presentation.
This invaluable book provides an informed and expert analysis—clear, brief, and balanced—of the evolution over decades of Canada’s experiences with China, and recommends an approach that can make the most of our future relations with this inevitable, changing, and dominant power. — The Right Honourable Joe Clark, P.C., C.C.
Paul Evans has given us an engaging and balanced assessment of Canada’s approach to the rising economic superpower during governments past and present. For anyone who cares about the future of Canada’s relations with the Middle Kingdom, it’s a must read. — John Ibbitson, Chief Political Writer, The Globe and Mail
Written by Canada’s foremost student of China and the Asia-Pacific, Engaging China is an excellent survey of Canada’s past engagement with China, and a clear and coherent argument about what our future engagement should be. — Kim Richard Nossal, Director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.
The Right Honorable Joe Clark, Professor Paul Evans, and Ambassador Robert Wright
