Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Balloch


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The result was  keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) LibStar (talk) 23:22, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Howard Balloch

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Unreferenced stub for 15 years. No significant coverage to meet WP:BIO. LibStar (talk) 22:24, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Canada. Shellwood (talk) 22:55, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Bilateral relations, China, Korea,  and Mongolia.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 22:57, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Notability (people), which says: "People are presumed if they have received significant coverage in  that are,  of each other, and .If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability."  The article notes: "It is customary to describe political books as “hotly awaited.” Balloch’s isn’t. His long career as a bureaucrat and diplomat concluded with a stint as Canada’s ambassador to China until 2001. He stayed in China for a successful business career, where he remains to this day. I can find nobody who knew he’d self-published a memoir. ... Balloch gets the coveted national-unity gig almost by accident. He’s an assistant deputy minister for the Asia-Pacific who briefs Chrétien before the APEC summit in Seattle at the end of 1993. Chrétien notices his elegant French. Three months later, Balloch is called into the Langevin Block office of Chrétien’s formidable chief of staff, Jean Pelletier. Pelletier hands him a job Balloch did not know existed."   The article notes: "Howard Balloch, founder and president of his eponymous The Balloch Group (TBG), is former Canadian Ambassador to China. ... Balloch hit the headlines in Canada when he set up TBG, an advisory and merchant banking firm, in Beijing in 2001 after his ambassadorial tenure in China ended. Some lauded his courage, and some called him "nuts". ... Balloch's fascination with China originated in the photographs and paintings left by his tea-trading grandfather who lived in Fuzhou, capital of East China's Fujian province, for more than 20 years in the late 19th century."   The article notes: "Chairman Mao achieved some “great things.” So says Howard Balloch, a former Canadian ambassador to China from 1996 to 2001, who praised Mao Zedong during his testimony to the Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Balloch, who left his post to become a Hong Kong investment banker, claimed personal freedom in the People’s Republic has been on the upswing for decades."  <li>Less significant coverage:<ol> <li> The book notes: "Chrétien created a strategic planning unit to advise him on the referendum, with a bright but strutting foreign service officer named Howard Balloch heading it up. He had first encountered Balloch as an advocate of closer relations with China in preparing for the November 1993 Seattle summit. To some, it was a measure of Chrétien's cockiness that he would put a bureaucrat with little domestic experience, a Newfoundlander at that, in charge of his national unity squad. ... The Balloch group also suffered from an uncertain chain of command in relation to both the Prime Minister's Office and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Marcel Massé. Balloch would never become a big player; in Montreal, where the real referendum planning would take place, he was unknown and therefore untrusted." </li> <li> The article notes: "Howard Balloch, a Canadian career diplomat; as Canada's new ambassador to China; announced by Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy in Ottawa Feb. 15. Balloch succeeds John Paynter who died Oct. 31." </li> <li> The article notes: "Balloch clearly knows what he's talking about. Not only did he manage three prime ministerial trade missions to China while serving as ambassador from 1996 to 2001, he also served as president of the China Canada Business Council. He now runs his own investment firm called the Balloch Group, which assists companies hoping to do business with the Asian giant." </li> <li> The article notes: "The delicate negotiations culminated this month with a visit by Canada's new ambassador to Pyongyang, Howard Balloch, asking to see this capital's hockey arena, known formally as The Ice Rink. Balloch dropped the puck for the opening faceoff in a match pitting the Women's National Team against a group of younger male players, watched by a clutch of Canadian envoys." </li> <li> The article notes: "The man who headed the federal unity advisory operation during the Quebec referendum is going to China as ambassador.  Howard Balloch ran a unity war room of about 70 bureaucrats during the referendum. The secretive unity office kept Prime Minister Jean Chretien briefed on every development.  The former assistant deputy minister of Asian and Pacific affairs has served abroad in Jakarta and Prague.  In Ottawa, Balloch has held several senior postings at Foreign Affairs as well as serving as deputy secretary for intergovernmental affairs in the Privy Council Office." </li> <li> The article notes: "As always, China continues to be a hot topic in global investing. Howard Balloch, president of the Balloch Group and the Canada China Business Council, as well as former Canadian ambassador to China, delivered an informed and intimate glimpse of the Middle Kingdom in his key note speech." </li> <li> The article notes: "Howard Balloch has lived in China for the past 17 years. After serving as Canada's ambassador to China for five years, he founded Balloch Group in 2001, a consulting firm specializing in China and other Asian markets. The company was acquired by investment firm Canaccord Genuity in 2010, and Balloch became chairman of its Asia operation." </li> <li> The article notes: "A half-century of hostility comes to an end today as  Canada's newly-appointed ambassador to North Korea inaugurates  diplomatic relations with the world's most isolated nation.  Howard Balloch stepped off an aging, Russian-built Air Koryo  Ilyushin 62 at Pyongyang's desolate airport yesterday, after a  short flight from his base in Beijing where he will continue as  Canada's ambassador to China.  The Canadian delegation was whisked along wide boulevards bereft  of cars, while work gangs along the route stared at the passing  convoy.  Balloch was scheduled to formally present his credentials to Kim  Yong-nam, president of the Supreme People's Assembly. For  protocol reasons, Korea's paramount ruler, Kim Jong-il, does not  normally receive ambassadors personally, though a visit with  Balloch has not been ruled out." </li> <li> The article notes: "Canaccord Financial Inc. (TSX:CF) is expanding its global capital arm into the world's most populous country through the acquisition of The Balloch Group, a small investment bank formed by a former Canadian ambassador to China. Through Balloch, which will be renamed Canaccord Genuity Asia, the Canadian firm will advise Chinese clients expanding abroad and foreign clients seeking to enter China — and facilitate Chinese financing on international projects. Howard Balloch, Canada's ambassador to China from 1996 to 2001, will remain with the company he founded in 2001 and become chairman of Canaccord Genuity Asia. He'll also be appointed a director of Canaccord Financial." </li> <li> The article notes: "In the belly of the beast, Ambassador Howard Balloch proudly flies  the Toronto Olympic flag.  He's run it up the pole at the Canadian embassy here, just below  the Maple Leaf. It's a cheeky declaration of his unapologetic - indeed,  flagrantly undiplomatic - bias, and his hopes for Toronto's Olympic aspirations. Balloch is not exactly sleeping with the enemy. But he's  certainly bunking down in a guest bedroom, which is Canada's huge diplomatic mission in Beijing. Yet amid the frenzy of a  metropolis gaga with anxiety over today's bestowal of the 2008  Summer Games and surrounded by 12 million patriotic Beijingers,  the ambassador is not shy about showing the colours." </li> </ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Howard Balloch to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 07:00, 23 March 2023 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep - following Cunard's expansion, this does look to meet GNG Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:41, 23 March 2023 (UTC)


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