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SEE TWO WORLDS COLLIDE: CanadasMagazineStore.ca/video 15270.02_Retail_Full_Page_Print_Ad_ENG.indd 1 2016-07-26 4:29 PM The World in Canada Volume 27, Number 4 PUBLISHER Donna Jacobs PUBLISHER IN MEMORIAM Neil Reynolds Table of EDITOR Jennifer Campbell ART DIRECTOR Paul Cavanaugh CONTENTS BOOKS EDITOR George Fetherling DIPLOMATICA| CULTURE COLUMNIST Cartoons from around the world . 14 Margo Roston Fen Hampson on globalization and its enemies . 18 FOOD COLUMNIST Questions Asked: An interview with Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion . 22 Margaret Dickenson STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Notes from the Field: Amnesty International's fight for human rights . 28 Ülle Baum Good deeds: A fête hosted by the French ambassador . 29 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Trade Winds: Argentina, Turkey and Venezuela . 30 Yana Amis Ülle Baum Diplomatic Agenda: Norwegian ambassador on oil wealth and policy . 34 Ala Beleavschi Charles Burton Wolfgang Depner DISPATCHES| Marcelo Gabriel Suarez Salvia Fen Hampson China on the rise Robert D’A . Henderson A new "golden age" for China and Canada? . 37 David Kilgour China's foreign policy: The world must pay attention . 40 André Laliberté "Big Daddy Xi": China's powerful leader . 42 Peter K . MacKinnon Fred McMahon Domestic policy: Pollution, an aging population and urban crush . 44 Wilmer Omar Barrientos China's science and technology surge . 50 Anne Kari Hansen Ovind China's expansionism condemned by UN . 52 Jeremy Paltiel Robert I . Rotberg The New Silk Road Economic Belt Initiative . 56 Scott Simon Is China harvesting organs from prisoners? . 60 Selçuk Ünal Pieter Van den Weghe CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Tunisia's steps toward democracy . 62 Ülle Baum Byfield-Pitman Turkey in crisis . 66 Larry Dickenson Ashley Fraser Will Africa continue to rise? . 68 Sam Garcia Gordon King The history and allure of the diamond . 70 Sgt . 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Contact Jennifer Campbell at editor@diplomatonline com. or (613) 231-8476 . PRINTER: The Lowe Martin Group . destinations| DIPLOMAT & INTERNATIONAL CANADA A wine tour of Moldova . 126 P O. Box 1173, Station B COVER PHOTO: © SEASKYLAB | DREAMSTIME.COM Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1P 5R2 Phone: (613) 422-5262 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material . E-mail: info@diplomatonline com. No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the pub- www.diplomatonline.com lisher . © 2007 ISSN 1190-8343 Publication Mail # 40957514 . Return undeliverable Canadian copies to: Published by Sparrow House Diplomat Magazine, P O. Box 1173, Station B, Ottawa, ON K1P 5R2 Enterprises Inc . 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