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Washington needs Canada to be a better ally like Australia

  • MONTREAL—Canada is contributing far less to the defence of North America and global democracy than you would expect from the world’s ninth largest economy.
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | June 1, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured. Canada is contributing far less to the defence of North America and global democracy than you would expect from the world’s ninth largest economy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Washington needs Canada to be a better ally like Australia

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | June 1, 2022
  • MONTREAL—Canada is contributing far less to the defence of North America and global democracy than you would expect from the world’s ninth largest economy.

Washington needs Canada to be a better ally like Australia

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | June 1, 2022
  • MONTREAL—Canada is contributing far less to the defence of North America and global democracy than you would expect from the world’s ninth largest economy.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured. Canada is contributing far less to the defence of North America and global democracy than you would expect from the world’s ninth largest economy. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ottawa correctly staking a moral claim for the integrity of Ukraine

  • Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s prompt visit to Kyiv, to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine, will not contribute any effective enhancement to
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 20, 2022
The prompt visit by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured in October 2020, to Kyiv to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine will not contribute any effective enhancement to the military deterrent against Russian conquest, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ottawa correctly staking a moral claim for the integrity of Ukraine

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 20, 2022
  • Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s prompt visit to Kyiv, to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine, will not contribute any effective enhancement to

Ottawa correctly staking a moral claim for the integrity of Ukraine

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 20, 2022
  • Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s prompt visit to Kyiv, to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine, will not contribute any effective enhancement to
The prompt visit by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured in October 2020, to Kyiv to discuss financial and weapons assistance to Ukraine will not contribute any effective enhancement to the military deterrent against Russian conquest, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

China’s growing coalition of revisionist allies

  • MONTREAL—Like all emerging revisionist powers seeking to overturn the international system, Communist China is gathering a coalition of like-minded, dissatisfied states. Besides the political
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 12, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured ahead of the APEC Summit on Nov. 9, 2014, with China's President Xi Jinping. Some power adversaries need to be satisfied, and some value enemies need to be reassured. Some costly campaigns, like the War on Terror, and the constant push to bomb Iran, need to shelved. This is a pressing policy need, as China has already sought to fracture the democratic coalition of states, and is itself also seeking to neutralize the alignment of states in Southeast Asia. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

China’s growing coalition of revisionist allies

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 12, 2022
  • MONTREAL—Like all emerging revisionist powers seeking to overturn the international system, Communist China is gathering a coalition of like-minded, dissatisfied states. Besides the political

China’s growing coalition of revisionist allies

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | January 12, 2022
  • MONTREAL—Like all emerging revisionist powers seeking to overturn the international system, Communist China is gathering a coalition of like-minded, dissatisfied states. Besides the political
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured ahead of the APEC Summit on Nov. 9, 2014, with China's President Xi Jinping. Some power adversaries need to be satisfied, and some value enemies need to be reassured. Some costly campaigns, like the War on Terror, and the constant push to bomb Iran, need to shelved. This is a pressing policy need, as China has already sought to fracture the democratic coalition of states, and is itself also seeking to neutralize the alignment of states in Southeast Asia. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Chinese hypersonic missiles make no difference to the strategic nuclear balance

  • MONTREAL—China’s Oct. 18 denial that a hypersonic missile test in August was part of its broad nuclear weapons buildup, is symptomatic of the immaturity
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | December 9, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured. The problem is that China’s aggressive sabre-rattling may be a symptom of self-delusion that a small arsenal is sufficient to coerce its neighbours and deter U.S. intervention on the Asian littoral, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Chinese hypersonic missiles make no difference to the strategic nuclear balance

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | December 9, 2021
  • MONTREAL—China’s Oct. 18 denial that a hypersonic missile test in August was part of its broad nuclear weapons buildup, is symptomatic of the immaturity

Chinese hypersonic missiles make no difference to the strategic nuclear balance

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | December 9, 2021
  • MONTREAL—China’s Oct. 18 denial that a hypersonic missile test in August was part of its broad nuclear weapons buildup, is symptomatic of the immaturity
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured. The problem is that China’s aggressive sabre-rattling may be a symptom of self-delusion that a small arsenal is sufficient to coerce its neighbours and deter U.S. intervention on the Asian littoral, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Climate change will also impact Canada’s traditional security interests

  • MONTREAL—On Oct. 29, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. Trudeau may be
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | November 10, 2021
Justin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 8, 2021, addressing his Liberal caucus in-person on the Hill for the first time since the federal election on Sept. 20. The prime minister recently proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Climate change will also impact Canada’s traditional security interests

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | November 10, 2021
  • MONTREAL—On Oct. 29, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. Trudeau may be

Climate change will also impact Canada’s traditional security interests

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | November 10, 2021
  • MONTREAL—On Oct. 29, 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. Trudeau may be
Justin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 8, 2021, addressing his Liberal caucus in-person on the Hill for the first time since the federal election on Sept. 20. The prime minister recently proposed that Canada host a NATO Centre of Excellence on Climate and Security. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

The wrong choice of regime in Kabul

  • The catastrophically abrupt collapse of the Western sponsored Kabul government was not inevitable. The principal cause of the collapse, previously opaque, is now clearly
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 29, 2021
U.S. Marines are pictured on Aug. 20 participating in an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The wrong choice of regime in Kabul

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 29, 2021
  • The catastrophically abrupt collapse of the Western sponsored Kabul government was not inevitable. The principal cause of the collapse, previously opaque, is now clearly

The wrong choice of regime in Kabul

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 29, 2021
  • The catastrophically abrupt collapse of the Western sponsored Kabul government was not inevitable. The principal cause of the collapse, previously opaque, is now clearly
U.S. Marines are pictured on Aug. 20 participating in an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

China threatens to end the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

  • MONTREAL— The end of the NPT in Asia could lead to a nuclear buildup, which in its milder form will see U.S. nuclear weapons re-deployed
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 27, 2021
China's President Xi Jinping, pictured. China’s implicit warning on Oct. 21 that it would abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in retaliation for the AUKUS submarine deal between the U.S., the UK, and Australia, is a cheap act of public diplomacy, and is against China’s own self-interest, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

China threatens to end the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 27, 2021
  • MONTREAL— The end of the NPT in Asia could lead to a nuclear buildup, which in its milder form will see U.S. nuclear weapons re-deployed

China threatens to end the nuclear non-proliferation treaty

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 27, 2021
  • MONTREAL— The end of the NPT in Asia could lead to a nuclear buildup, which in its milder form will see U.S. nuclear weapons re-deployed
China's President Xi Jinping, pictured. China’s implicit warning on Oct. 21 that it would abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in retaliation for the AUKUS submarine deal between the U.S., the UK, and Australia, is a cheap act of public diplomacy, and is against China’s own self-interest, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

The ignorance of political Islam continues to doom Western policy in Afghanistan

  • The current controversy over whether to recognize and constructively engage the odious Taliban regime, or to isolate it, continues to be guided by a
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 21, 2021
The last Canadians involved in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan are pictured boarding a helicopter in Kabul in March 2014. The military campaign and provision of services in Afghanistan, however effectively executed, should have been accompanied by a third campaign of ideas. NATO’s failure to address the issue of political Islam doomed its efforts to failure, and continues to haunt Western policy, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Canadian Armed Forces/Cpcl Patrick Blanchard

The ignorance of political Islam continues to doom Western policy in Afghanistan

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 21, 2021
  • The current controversy over whether to recognize and constructively engage the odious Taliban regime, or to isolate it, continues to be guided by a

The ignorance of political Islam continues to doom Western policy in Afghanistan

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 21, 2021
  • The current controversy over whether to recognize and constructively engage the odious Taliban regime, or to isolate it, continues to be guided by a
The last Canadians involved in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan are pictured boarding a helicopter in Kabul in March 2014. The military campaign and provision of services in Afghanistan, however effectively executed, should have been accompanied by a third campaign of ideas. NATO’s failure to address the issue of political Islam doomed its efforts to failure, and continues to haunt Western policy, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Canadian Armed Forces/Cpcl Patrick Blanchard

Now is the time: in defending Taiwan, we defend Canadian democracy

  • MONTREAL—War between the United States and China over Taiwan will occur, or will not occur, not because of the wise prognostication of a Henry
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 7, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured. War between the United States and China over Taiwan will occur, or will not occur, not because of the wise prognostication of a Henry Kissinger or the China experts focused on the backroom politics in Beijing, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Now is the time: in defending Taiwan, we defend Canadian democracy

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 7, 2021
  • MONTREAL—War between the United States and China over Taiwan will occur, or will not occur, not because of the wise prognostication of a Henry

Now is the time: in defending Taiwan, we defend Canadian democracy

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | October 7, 2021
  • MONTREAL—War between the United States and China over Taiwan will occur, or will not occur, not because of the wise prognostication of a Henry
Chinese President Xi Jinping, pictured. War between the United States and China over Taiwan will occur, or will not occur, not because of the wise prognostication of a Henry Kissinger or the China experts focused on the backroom politics in Beijing, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

AUKUS rare instance of democracies anticipating an emerging threat, rejection of irresponsible politics of appeasement

  • MONTREAL—AUKUS, the alliance arrangement announced this month by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, is a rare instance of democracies anticipating an
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 23, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 30, 2021, in Ottawa. Our prime minister is desperately following the polls, as a Liberal must do, given that the fractured left vote sincerely rather than strategically. He is therefore not likely to pursue policies that anticipate near-term world events, particularly in dealing with the rise of a territorially assertive China, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

AUKUS rare instance of democracies anticipating an emerging threat, rejection of irresponsible politics of appeasement

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 23, 2021
  • MONTREAL—AUKUS, the alliance arrangement announced this month by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, is a rare instance of democracies anticipating an

AUKUS rare instance of democracies anticipating an emerging threat, rejection of irresponsible politics of appeasement

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 23, 2021
  • MONTREAL—AUKUS, the alliance arrangement announced this month by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, is a rare instance of democracies anticipating an
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 30, 2021, in Ottawa. Our prime minister is desperately following the polls, as a Liberal must do, given that the fractured left vote sincerely rather than strategically. He is therefore not likely to pursue policies that anticipate near-term world events, particularly in dealing with the rise of a territorially assertive China, writes Julian Spencer-Churchill. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Biden needs to move in the right direction: away from Kabul

  • MONTREAL—U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan is actually long overdue. The withdrawal abides by the military principle of economy
Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 20, 2021
Afghan national police and army personnel and U.S. army soldiers patrol in July 2009 in Zabul province, Afghanistan. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Army

Biden needs to move in the right direction: away from Kabul

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 20, 2021
  • MONTREAL—U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan is actually long overdue. The withdrawal abides by the military principle of economy

Biden needs to move in the right direction: away from Kabul

Opinion | BY JULIAN SPENCER-CHURCHILL | September 20, 2021
  • MONTREAL—U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan is actually long overdue. The withdrawal abides by the military principle of economy
Afghan national police and army personnel and U.S. army soldiers patrol in July 2009 in Zabul province, Afghanistan. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Army
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