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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University

Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institutes's Centre for Advancing Canadian Interests Abroad and Associate Professor at Brock University specializing in Comparative Politics, Government and Politics of China, Canada-China Relations and Human Rights. Served as Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy to China between 1991-1993 and 1998-2000. Prior to coming to Brock worked at the Communications Security Establishment of the Department of National Defence.

PhD 1987 from the University of Toronto after studies at Cambridge University (Oriental Studies) and Fudan University (History of Ancient Chinese Thought Program, Department of Philosophy, class of '77). Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Scholar in Political Science at University of Alberta, 1986-88.

He has published extensively on Chinese and North Korean affairs and Canada-China relations and has been commissioned to write reports on matters relating to Canada's relations with China for agencies of the Government of Canada. He is a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs in newspapers, radio and TV.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University

Education

  • 1987 
    University of Toronto, Ph.D / East Asian Studies