Solstice Public Affairs partner Craig Brockwell and senior associate Karen Lin Woods, with Chinese consul Li Sining, at a welcoming ceremony for the new Chinese consul-general in Toronto, on August 31 last year. Photo: Twitter / @KarenWenLin

How China’s Canadian lobbyists blurred the lines of PR, journalism and political activism

Lobbyists from Solstice Public Affairs, hired by China’s consulate, have been regular contributors to media discourse about China in Canada
In a Toronto Star opinion piece, a Solstice employee warned of a ‘new wave of Sino-phobia’ without originally identifying China as a company client

Topic | Canada

Ian Young in Vancouver

Published: 1:37am, 18 Apr, 2019

Updated: 11:22am, 19 Apr, 2019

Solstice Public Affairs partner Craig Brockwell and senior associate Karen Lin Woods, with Chinese consul Li Sining, at a welcoming ceremony for the new Chinese consul-general in Toronto, on August 31 last year. Photo: Twitter / @KarenWenLin

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Ian Young

Ian Young is the Post's Vancouver correspondent. A journalist for more than 20 years, he worked for Australian newspapers and the London Evening Standard before arriving in Hong Kong in 1997. There he won or shared awards for excellence in investigative reporting and human rights reporting, and the HK News Awards Scoop of the Year. He moved to Canada with his wife in 2010.