As Prime Minister Mark Carney units off for his first official journey to Asia, International Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada’s regional coverage is outdated.
Anand says she has advised her division to replace the Indo-Pacific strategy that the Trudeau authorities launched three years in the past.
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Anand advised the Canada 2020 assume tank this week that the technique now not displays Canada’s financial ambitions within the area nor evolving relations with China and India, each of which the Carney authorities has reset.
The plan Ottawa launched three years in the past branded Beijing as a “disruptive world energy” whose values don’t align with Canada, however Anand now calls China a strategic associate.
She additionally says the Carney authorities has an financial pragmatism “that has not been current in diplomacy” lately.
Anand additionally says her subsequent area of focus would be the Gulf, simply days after Carney stated he plans to go to the United Arab Emirates subsequent month.
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