Long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy key to Canada being seen as a partner at the table

Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy needs to attract our southern neighbour's attention, and will have to make every effort to ensure that its engagement is meaningful and sustained in order to cement partner relations in Asia.

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Biden administration has been at pains to demonstrate its commitment to the Indo-Pacific region, including meeting with Xi on the margins of the G20 in Indonesia last week, writes Deanna Horton.Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DEANNA HORTON

November 23, 2022

A recent presentation by the U.S. State Department official responsible for Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said it all. In a wide-ranging tour d’horizon of American policy in Asia, including on engagement with partner countries, Canada was not on the list. Similar...

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