Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific plan offers Canadian stamp on an American strategy

The running theme in both the U.S. National Defence Strategy and Canada's recently-released strategy for the region is an 'us versus them' dichotomy. Them being China.

U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured Feb. 23, 2021, delivering a joint press statement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the East Room of the White House. Canada’s new Indo-Pacific strategy is about the Trudeau’s Liberals propping up the U.S. Democrats on the one hand, and fighting off the Conservatives on the other, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

November 30, 2022

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific strategy reads at times like a press release and, at others, like a propaganda tool to stir up Sinophobia. But mainly, it talks and walks like U.S. President Joe Biden’s National Defence Strategy, released last mont...

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