Trudeau’s Indo-Pacific Strategy already raising serious doubts

To adopt an Indo-Pacific strategy that largely excludes China and attempts with the U.S. to isolate it, is a dead end. It solves nothing while it risks a future war, that could escalate into something too awful to contemplate. Is this really in Canada’s national interest? Where are wiser people when we need them?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured on the Hill. Canadian foreign policy now seems driven by a determination to show the United States we are its most reliable ally in its efforts to contain China, as well as by our vulnerability to American protectionism, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

January 5, 2023

TORONTO—It’s only a few weeks old. But the Trudeau government’s Indo-Pacific Strategy is already raising serious doubts. It does enough to please the Biden administration, so it will now support Canada joining the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Strategy, an initiative for an As...

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