Posts tagged diplomacy
CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy
CNN Opinion: Omicron and the Olympics could be on a collision course with China's zero-Covid strategy

Can Chinese officials -- who initially kept the 2003 SARS outbreak under wraps for months and have not been fully transparent about the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan -- be trusted to provide realistic case figures during the February 2022 Winter Olympics?

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Michael BociurkiwChina, Olympics, Beijing 2022, Xi Jinping, tourism, asia, sports, Michael Bociurkiw, Syra Madad, diplomacy, covid, covid-19, coronavirus, pandemic, XianComment
CNN Opinion: Canada-China 'prisoner swap' soothes but doesn't resolve tensions
CNN Opinion: Canada-China 'prisoner swap' soothes but doesn't resolve tensions

The strange and unpredictable world of geopolitics played out over the Pacific skies Friday as one commercial jet carrying the just-released daughter of one of China's most prominent tycoons flew westbound while another carrying two Canadians incarcerated in apparent retaliation for her arrest flew in the opposition direction.

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Michael BociurkiwChina, Huawei, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, diplomacy, technology, 5G, michael bociurkiw, Meng Wanzhou, Vancouver, Marc GarneauComment
CNN Opinion: The Conflict We Can't Ignore
CNN Opinion: The Conflict We Can't Ignore

While the world is preoccupied with the Covid-19 pandemic, the regional conflict in the remote separatist enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is threatening to escalate into a wider war on the doorsteps of Europe and Asia.

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Michael BociurkiwNagoro Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, OSCE, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, diplomacy, conflict, ICRC, Peter Maurer, Michael Bociurkiw, Turkey, Sergei Lavrov, Iran, Yemen Comment