Charles Burton is Senior Fellow at Sinopsis specializing in China’s domestic affairs and international relations, with extensive publications on these topics. He has been commissioned by Canadian and international agencies to produce strategic reports on China’s relations with the Western and developing worlds. He served as a counsellor at the Canadian Embassy to China in the early 1990s and late 1990s – 2000s. He previously worked for the Communications Security Establishment at the Canadian Department of National Defence. From 1989 to 2020, he was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University, focusing on comparative politics, China-Canada relations, and human rights. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, having also studied at Cambridge University and Fudan University. After achieving his doctorate, he was Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Alberta.