Justin Trudeau survived, Andrew Scheer went there on the blackface scandal and populists courted north-of-the-border Trump fans with a "Canada First” promise. Two weeks before Oct. 21 elections, Canada's six party leaders took the stage at the National History Museum in Gatineau, Quebec on Monday night — and with only one official English language debate scheduled, none of them could afford to misfire. Canadians may be a polite bunch, but this was a raucous, squabbling debate. All eyes were on the once-ascendant Trudeau; only recently an icon of global liberals, he’s been hobbled by a series of scandals and…

L'ordre du jour discuté avec le président Iranien apporta un bol d'air frais : -Créer un espace économique et renforcer la coopération militaire devrait nous servir de tremplin pour dépasser les clivages, différents et méfiance Madame, fit remarquer le président Iranien Jâafar Diroum. -Tout à fait excellence, pouvoir avancer ensemble dans la bonne direction sera certainement un message fort, fit la jeune femme. -Assurément, affirma Jâafar Diroum il faudrait penser…

In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got "woke" on China. For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities and political dissidents. Almost every assumption Washington made, both by Democratic and Republican administrations, was logically flawed at best. And at worst, these calculations were a weird mix of conservative commercial greed, liberal political correctness and shared screwball naivete. American trade and political appeasement were never interpreted by Beijing as magnanimity…

It’s not the first time I have seen this particular meme on Facebook. It is rather striking and these days I see it (or something like it) perhaps every other week.  It involves a sinister looking, decrepit old man in a black suit, grinning luridly, affixing the camera with a furtive stare.  The background has been blacked out so that the man’s features achieve a heightened definition; the large-domed forehead, the few straggly white hairs which draggle from it, and the long pronounced nose.  Next to him are a few lines of plain white text which are equally striking in…

Avant la seconde réunion à huit clos, Chamss Al-Hakh eut des rencontre informelle avec chacun des quatre présidents. Mis au courant des thèmes à aborder, elle discuta à fond avec en premier le président Turc : -Excellence, nous devrions axer sur deux volets, l'économique et le militaire, commença-t'elle. Il nous faut un marché commun, où nous pourrons commercialiser des produits agricoles, aux technologies de pointe. Il faut travailler sur une…