John Ivison: Canada's modest Indo-Pacific ‘strategy’ has much to be modest about

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Ottawa’s new Indo-Pacific strategy, sprinkling $2.3 billion over five years across just about every department in government, is not going to have Beijing pulling up the drawbridge. That idea became increasingly untenable as the Biden Administration released its China strategy, identifying the People’s Republic as the most serious long-term challenge to the international order.Article content

At the same time as it invests in technology and competes aggressively with China, Blinken said America will align with its allies in new and existing bodies such as the Indo-Pacific Framework for Prosperity, the Quad and AUKUS, with Australia and the U.K.Article content There is potential for Canada in the region. The government can point to the relative success of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, signed in 2018 with a host of Asian-Pacific countries including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, where exports with those five signatories grew 8.3 per cent in the three years after ratification, outpacing the growth of exports to the rest of the world.

Trade between the two countries is meager and the Indian government has been suspicious of Trudeau since he attended a Sikh event that featured Khalistani flags. Bridges clearly need to be rebuilt.

IvisonJ There’s a group of BC-based realtors in Hawaii who’s sole duty is to service buyers (money launderers) from China.

IvisonJ How many rubber rib boats crewed by Cdn Corps of Commissionaires are we sending? All words and no action. JT, has demonstrated self before country. I do not expect much except more love bombing to keep donations rolling into LPC and satisfy his political ego.

IvisonJ I'd rather have the US dictate our China policy than Joly or Trudeau (or John McCallum or Dominic Barton) and his odd affection for and gross naivete about China. cdnpoli

By the way, since you won't put that story up here, you can call it what you will, but it's Monkey Pox, just as covid is the wuhan virus.

Really this country has a problem with building anything first helicopters now ships procurement is a problem in our bureaucracy

It should have been more specific that Canada will stop sending stupid trade missions to China and instead just try to source goods from TPP countries that abide with rule of law. We need to disassociate from China and just give up on scolding them.

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