The China panic: is Canada risking war in the Pacific?

In more closely aligning with the U.S. military in the Pacific today, Canada is positioning itself in opposition to the Indigenous Pacific, increasing the risks of war, and courting environmental catastrophe.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Oct. 19, 2023. Over the past five years, Canada has moved to significantly increase its military presence in Asia and the Pacific via Operation Neon, Operation Projection (Indo-Pacific), and RIMPAC naval exercises, write John Price and Satoko Oka Norimatsu.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOHN PRICE AND SATOKO OKA NORIMATSU

January 22, 2024

VANCOUVER—Last month, Global News broadcast a news item from Okinawa, Japan, in which Indigenous Okinawans recounted the ongoi...

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