David Crane: Is Canada trying to match or outdo American hostility to China? cdnpoli (subs)
As Pierre Trudeau said in 1968, 'many of the major world issues will not be resolved completely, or in any lasting way, unless, and until an accommodation has been reached with the Chinese nation.' That is even truer today. Why doesn’t Ottawa get it?
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, left, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured Oct. 27, 2022, holding a joint press conference in Ottawa.
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Canada doesn’t understand the Indo-PacificFREDERICTON, N.B.—Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Global Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly were in the Asia Pacific, attending regional multilateral institutional meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the G20 and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). When she returns, Joly has promised to finally release Canada’s policy on the “Indo-Pacific.” However, recent speeches by Joly, Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne foreshadow that policy, and indicate that Canada has chosen to make China an adversary. This decision illustrates how little independence Canadian policymakers feel they have from the United States. But it also illustrates how little Canada understands the Indo-Pacific region. Canada aligns with the U.S. insofar as both countries portray China as a “disruptive” influence which must be contained. This objective is opposed by most Asian states. In 2019, ASEAN issued its “ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific,” in which it emphasizes the Asia Pacific as a region of co-operation and mutual benefit. Southeast Asia is not anti-Chinese. Indeed, regional states are telling Australia that it is going too far in its hostility to China. Southeast Asian states are wary of China’s size and power. They are concerned by China’s excessive claims in the South China Sea. They want the U.S. to balance China. However, they understand that China will always be their neighbour. Wariness of China does not mean they see it as a “threat.” They do not want to take sides in any competition between the two superpowers. America’s increasingly aggressive and provocative attacks on China seem designed to force a confrontation. America’s ideological rhetoric—which Canada has adopted—is alienating regional states. Freeland’s recent speech at the Brookings Institution in New York rejected the liberal international economic order. According to her, this order had failed to
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