Next big existential risk to worry about? U.S. and China

Canada’s obligation is to do all it can to preserve the peace in a multipolar world. This should be at the heart of our foreign policy. The alternative is unthinkable.

U.S. President Joe Biden, China's President Xi Jinping, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured. For Canada, this would mean a foreign policy where we are ready to advocate for a multipolar world with effective global institutions to increase prospects for peace and deal with the big and urgent problems the world faces, starting with climate change, writes David Crane. Photographs courtesy of Flickr and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

May 30, 2022

TORONTO—We know that the 2020s will be a dangerous decade. Climate change is the biggest existential risk to the future of human society. But there’s another risk as well that also demands much greater attention. As Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia and one of the most knowledgea...

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