China boasts the largest e-commerce market in the world, but it also maintains some of the most restrictive regulations on the internet sector. This strange combination makes it hard to decipher China’s positions on e-commerce governance issues, which oscillate between liberalization and restriction in different fora and at different times. In this opinion piece, Henry Gao provides a succinct analysis of the evolution of China’s positions on e-commerce in trade agreements.
China has been driven to grow and win at all costs, and 5G (the fifth-generation mobile network) is one of the strategic, global industries on which Beijing has chosen to focus. As Amy Karam writes, China operates by different rules than the West, which puts Western players at a competitive disadvantage. The upshot is that Canada and other Western allies need a new playbook in order to compete effectively in the evolving global economy.
On December 28, CBC talked to Simon Dalby about the cumulative threats presented to national security by the “disruptive new player” climate change. Dalby, a contributor to CIGI’s work on reimagining a modern Canadian national security strategy, said that Canada needs to undertake long-term planning to be prepared for emerging threats. You can read the article here.
In a look back at 2021, CIGI compiled some of our most-read opinions and analyses of the past 12 months — from Elizabeth M. Renieris’s examination of the Clubhouse app, to Heidi Tworek’s exposition of the history of disinformation, to Sean McDonald’s long-form article about the new frontiers of data governance, and beyond. You can explore them all here.
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