Canada Needs New Indo-pacific Strategy As It Seeks Deeper Asia Ties: Anand - Beritaja

As Prime Minister Mark Carney sets disconnected for his first charismatic travel to Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s location argumentation is outdated.

Anand says she has told her section to update the Indo-Pacific strategy that the Trudeau authorities released 3 years ago.

Anand told the Canada 2020 deliberation vessel this week that the strategy nary longer reflects Canada’s economical ambitions successful the region nor evolving relations pinch China and India, some of which the Carney authorities has reset.

The scheme Ottawa released 3 years agone branded Beijing arsenic a “disruptive world power” whose values don’t align pinch Canada, but Anand now calls China a strategical partner.

She besides says the Carney authorities has an economical pragmatism “that has not been coming successful diplomacy” successful caller years.

Anand besides says her adjacent region of attraction will beryllium the Gulf, conscionable days aft Carney said he plans to sojourn the United Arab Emirates adjacent month.