Beijing after Meng’s release:“No power can stop China’s advancing steps”

(Originally published here on September 28, 2021 in the South China Morning Post.) Immediately after news broke that Meng Wanzhou would fly free last week, many analysts assumed, as did I, that tension would escalate between Ottawa and Beijing as Chinese officials figured out when the tribunals adjudicating on the cases of Michael Spavor and Micheal Kovrig would end, [...]