China's Long Game: A Nation Rewriting Its Destiny

An enigmatic country sprints from empire to technocracy without losing the instinct for survival

China’s modern rise is often best described as a miracle, but miracles imply intention. China’s ascent is better understood as a century‑long sprint through chaos, improvisation, and bureaucratic sleight‑of‑hand. The country that once tried to remake the human soul now remakes supply chains, demographic curves, and the global balance of power — all with the same straight‑faced confidence of a nation that has never once admitted to winging it.

A Drone War Pretending It Isn’t a Threat of Nuclear Conflagration

Canada quietly bankrolls a battlefield revolution while the world pretends the nuclear clock isn’t ticking

Canada has always had a peculiar talent for participating in world history without ever quite admitting it. We are the polite man at the bar who quietly buys a round for the table, then pretends he wasn’t involved when the fight breaks out. But the war in Eastern Europe has made that old national habit impossible. When a country funds a drone program so effective it rewrites battlefield physics, it cannot pretend to be a bystander. It is, whether it likes it or not, a co‑author.

Why Petroleum Isn’t the Past

It’s the Platform

Also read: The Lost LNG Decade | A Canadian Taxpayer’s Multiple Nightmares

The Doorway Doctrine: 

Everyone keeps announcing the end of petroleum. Petroleum, meanwhile, keeps powering the announcements

Political‑Religious Hybrids Topple Empires

Belief Lights a Fuse, Bureaucracy Drops the Bomb

Stephen Harper’s Trade Expansion with China: Necessity, Policy, and Fallout

 Canada-China trade impacted by restrictions 

Trudeau's Oil Tanker Moratorium landlocks expansion