Michael Kovrig

And finally, a quick note about our other articles in our coming edition, which goes online Sunday evening New York time.

In our cover article, Michael Kovrig, the former Canadian diplomat detained by Chinese state security agents for almost three years, writes about the terrors of so-called residential surveillance at a designated location.

or RSDL, which is basically a euphemism for psychological torture by means including, but not limited to, solitary confinement, marathon interrogations, and sensory and sleep deprivation.

Kovrig's article is adapted from his introduction to the third edition of a forthcoming anthology, The People's Republic of the Disappeared, in which political prisoners describe their experiences in the hells that are China's black jails.

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Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig told the House Science and Research Committee in early April that Prime Minister Mark Carney's recent trade deal with China was a tactical gamble that risks deep entanglement with an increasingly totalitarian one-party state.

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Our upcoming cover story is an excerpt from the introduction to The People's Republic of the Disappeared.

That excerpt was written by Michael Kovrig, who was held in detention in China for over 1,000 days.

It's a piercing and moving piece on what people detained in China suffer through.

We also have other coverage on whether or not China is about to break through a key chip making bottleneck by Alberto Moel, an op-ed on the global impact of Taiwan's local November elections by John Pomfret and Seamus Boyle, a profile of China's state run scientific research funder by myself, and a Q&A with former EU diplomat Gunnar Wiegand on the almost but barely just averted EU-China trade war.

Contributors include Chief Allan Adam on treaties, Margaret Atwood on the arts, Vass Bednar on Canadian companies, Dan...

Sorry, Don Tapscott on digital sovereignty, Lloyd Ox- Axworthy and Michael Kovrig on Canada's place in the world, and I contributed a chapter on middle powers titled "Principled Pragmatism in a World Without Guardrails." Bob's own introduction asks why and how we reconcile national self-interest with our obligation to others.

He draws on history, political philosophy, and his experience at the United Nations to argue that Canada has choices but must acquire the means and the will to exercise them.

So let's get started.

Right.

The US asks Canada to detain a Huawei executive for fraud, and literally days later, China arrests two Canadian citizens, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and charges them with severe espionage.

They held them for over 1,000 days in terrible conditions, and then the exact same day that Huawei executive reaches an agreement with our Justice Department and flies home-

Magically, the two Michaels are put on a plane back to Canada

That is a wild and significant political choice when looking for a peace prize, and it needs to be examined alongside the language about resisting powerful countries that use leverage against others, because he also likes sipping on gin and juice with violent princes from Qatar! Canadians have direct experience with Beijing's coercion, too.

It's not like we've all forgotten, or at least I hope we haven't, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who spent 1,020 days in arbitrary detention in China.

This is part of the history against which any new strategic partnership must be judged, but it frankly hasn't been at all.

And that's on purpose.

Not to mention hostage, uh, diplomacy.

I'm sure you've all heard of the two Michaels, Michael, uh, Spavor and, and Kovrig, if I pronounced that correctly, from Canada.

I'll stop there.

Thank you, Frank.