The term “new world disorder,” Chiu told HKFP, refers not only to Beijing’s behaviour but also the West’s role in enabling an increasingly aggressive China. “The focus is actually more on the West and what they’re doing, what they got wrong. How they mishandled, misunderstood or simply ignored some of what was happening, often because they were single-handedly pursuing stronger economic ties with Beijing, often at the expense of caring about human rights issues,” she said.

“People of Chinese descent have been warning for years that China has been gearing up to be more aggressive and that they have been working in subtle ways to try to gain influence - foreign influence - in Canada, such as trying to control the Chinese-language media here through intimidation and coercion. Chinese officials have visited Canadians’ homes to try to get them to stop talking about things like the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.”

"There doesn't seem to be a strategy on ... how to prevent more hostages from being taken in the future whenever Beijing is unhappy about something." - On the continued detention of Canadians in China, and relations between the two countries.

Now that the two Michaels are home, what message has China sent to the entire world about their power across international borders? Have we entered a new age of Canada-China relations? What about the other 115 Canadians still detained in China? Joanna Chiu, Toronto Star’s Canada-China politics reporter and author of the book China Unbound, and Jeremy Nuttall, investigative reporter for the Toronto Star, join “This Matters” to discuss.

"Many Western countries felt immune to China's growing authoritarianism" journalist Joanna Chiu tells BBC News, adding the detention of the #TwoMichaels made western countries a lot more wary. She says in spite of that, they still lack China expertise in senior government roles.

The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay: Joanna Chiu on the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and what it means for Canada-China relations. Her new book China Unbound: A New World Disorder, breaks down how and why the Chinese government operates the way it does, at home and abroad, and why it's essential for countries like Canada gain a better understanding of that.

Vancouver's Joanna Chiu spent last decade tracking China's moves to make waves on world stage. Out Sept. 28, the book lays out the routes to success China has quickly travelled and what that means to the rest of the world. Chiu, who is doing a digital Vancouver Writers Festival event on Oct. 22, 6 p.m., took some time to answer a few of Postmedia’s questions.

Peter and Joanna go under the hood of leader Xi Jinping's policies and understand how China's actions in Honk Kong should be closely observed by all nations as it could be closer to home in the future, how China has retaliated to moves against it's citizens on foreign soil and they discuss the policy of Wolf Warrior diplomacy.

Guest host Madeleine O’Dea, award-winning author of The Phoenix Years, speaks with Chiu about how Western governments have failed to adjust to the reality that China doesn’t simply want to join the existing global order but instead re-shape it to suit themselves. The two also share advice on book-writing, and the unique characteristics of China-related storytelling from diaspora perspectives.

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Joanna Chiu – senior journalist at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper, and author of newly published “China Unbound: A New World Disorder” (ANANSI 2021) – is the 289th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”

#15 Truth, Reconciliation and China

Trudeau drops the first apology of his third term and has us wondering how reconciliation can go beyond symbolic actions. And as the Two Michaels make it home, what have we learned from this whole saga?

Jacco Zwetsloot, a friend of Michael Spavor, and Joanna Chiu, national correspondent for the Toronto Star, author of China Unbound and a friend of Michael Kovrig, told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton that they expected the process of the men's release to take months.

Hong Kong police flanked protesters demanding the release of people charged under the National Security Law.

Journalist and author Joanna Chiu told Ryan Ho Kilpatrick the clampdown encapsulates China's strategy for greater regional influence.

Following ten years of reporting around the world, Chinese-Canadian journalist Joanna Chiu tracks China’s rise, and its influence on populations and institutions. The Agenda’s Steve Paikin talks to Joanna Chiu about her new book, “China Unbound”

The author of China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which details China’s rapid international rise and the ways Western nations have contributed to a state of global disorder, Chiu explained how her reporting revealed “paranoid rhetoric” and a tendency of United Front effort to focus on individuals and “no-names” who don’t pose a meaningful threat to the CCP.

“From meeting displaced Uyghurs in Istanbul and China-curious entrepreneurs in Sicily, to witnessing street protests in Hong Kong and Xi Jinping’s wooing of Vladimir Putin in Beijing, Chiu does on-the-ground reporting and adds brisk, smart analysis of China’s creeping influence in Canada and around the world. The result: China Unbound is a sweeping portrait of a rising superpower that is essential reading for any follower of Canadian politics.”

— 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury (Charelle Evelyn, Jacques Poitras, and Lisa Raitt)

Chatter podcast conversation with Josh Hamilton - For too long, Western societies have mishandled or simply ignored Beijing’s actions, out of narrow self-interest. Over time, Chiu argues, decades of willful misinterpretation have become harmful complicity in the toxic diplomacy, human rights abuses and foreign interference seen from China today.

It has become a major preoccupation of many governments across the globe; how to build a productive diplomatic relationship with China. Annette Young talks to Canadian-Chinese journalist and author, Joanna Chiu, whose new book 'China Unbound' argues how democracies have effectively enabled Beijing's campaign to increase its global influence. She speaks about the diplomatic toolkit required to ensure a healthy and robust relationship with China.

Joanna Chiu; Modern Stepmums; Angela Merkel's military farewell - Host Krupa Padhy explores the realities and complexities facing modern stepmothers and speaks to author Joanna Chiu about China's human rights abuses and police surveillance.

Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu has been named a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her first book “China Unbound: A New World Disorder.” With the world’s eyes on Canada-China relations in light of the saga of Meng Wanzhou and the two Michaels, Chiu said she wrote the book as a way to seize the moment on the increased interest.

In China Unbound: A New World Disorder, Joanna Chiu, a reporter for the Toronto Star, provides a powerful, heartfelt account of Chinese immigrants and their fraught encounters with Beijing’s United Front Work Department … Chiu tells gripping stories of influence operations in such disparate places as Australia, Canada, the US, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia.

The author of “China Unbound” examines the nation’s rise as a global superpower, and what that means for Canada.

Co-hosted by Melissa Grelo, Cynthia Loyst, Lainey Lui and correspondent Jess Allen, THE SOCIAL brings a fresh, daily perspective on the up-to-the-minute news, pop culture, and lifestyle topics that matter most to Canadians.

The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus autocratic China if we hope to engage China in a way that seriously addresses issues such as human rights, climate change, and economic development.

In this episode Jeff and Jesse are joined by a special intrepid reporter to discuss:

1. China’s complicated behaviour regarding geopolitics and foreign interference

2. Global attitudes towards China and its people in the wake of Covid-19 and the wave of anti-Chinese and anti-Asian racism that followed