Trudeau arrives in Cambodia for ASEAN summit as Canada seeks deeper Indo-Pacific ties

Trade between the two countries has ballooned despite a limited diplomatic presence

. In 2009, the Harper government closed Canada’s embassy in Phnom Penh, downgrading it to a consular office. At the time, Ottawa cited a “serious examination of Canada’s current diplomatic representation abroad,” but many chalked the move up to budget cuts.

Farmer said Canada used to have a large presence in ASEAN countries decades ago, in the post-colonial period of the 1960s, as a major aid partner. “It would have been the natural transition to go from assistance with development to then developing business.” Jeffrey Reeves, research director of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, said the West also hurt its reputation by doing little to allow developing countries to produce COVID-19 vaccines, such as through waving patents.

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