{"id":50270,"date":"2018-04-03T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50270"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:06","slug":"burton-what-xi-jinpings-power-grab-means-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/burton-what-xi-jinpings-power-grab-means-for-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: What Xi Jinping\u2019s power grab means for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-xi-jinpings-power-grab-means-for-canada-94258?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%203%202018%20-%2098368526&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%203%202018%20-%2098368526+CID_3d5c4e954bcf22b85a397223c6fc23d4&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=What%20Xi%20Jinpings%20power%20grab%20means%20for%20Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about what a recent political power play in China means for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>Since the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AIIB_Official\/status\/976398132610138113?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted last week<\/a>\u00a0that Canada is now officially a full member, it hasn\u2019t exactly made headlines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yet this is ostensibly a prelude for trade talks with China in an increasingly protectionist global landscape. And admission wasn\u2019t cheap: Chinese sources say\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiib.org\/en\/about-aiib\/governance\/members-of-bank\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ottawa committed more than a billion dollars to the Beijing-based bank<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But China-watchers are more fixated on the dramatic changes rolling out after the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npc.gov.cn\/englishnpc\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just-completed National People\u2019s Congress<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Among other moves, the annual Congress voted 2,970-to-0 to give President Xi Jinping a second five-year term and repealed a regulation barring him from seeking a third.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They also rubber-stamped the creation of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-politics-corruption\/china-defends-controversial-detention-measure-of-new-anti-graft-ministry-idUSKCN1GB0KY?il=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Supervision Commission<\/a>\u00a0(NSC), empowered to detain people for months at secret locations without access to lawyers or due process.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This NSC ranks above even China\u2019s judiciary in the newly amended Constitution. Its establishment would certainly make Chinese Congress members pause before entering a symbolic protest vote against Xi\u2019s Machiavellian restructuring of institutions to consolidate his own power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-xi-jinpings-power-grab-means-for-canada-94258?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%203%202018%20-%2098368526&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%203%202018%20-%2098368526+CID_3d5c4e954bcf22b85a397223c6fc23d4&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=What%20Xi%20Jinpings%20power%20grab%20means%20for%20Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about what a recent political power play in China means for Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[4008,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50271,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50270\/revisions\/50271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}