Senator Yuen Pau Woo

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Derek Burney’s blistering attack on my recent speech in the Senate reveals more about the toxic nature of debates on China, than it does about what I said. He is entitled to disagree with my vote against the motion labelling the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang a genocide and moving the Olympics away from China. What is unacceptable is his distortion of my speech and the use of a xenophobic trope. Burney is right that I compared Canada’s history of residential…

Senator Woo participated in the Ditchley conference focused on The new space race and its intersection with power, the rules-based order and the economy. The conference was not only about the science of space but rather how national and commercial moves in space intersect with other technologies, political power, a rules-based order and the economy.