Liberals to Launch Indo-Pacific Strategy This Year, Shaped by Looming China Assembly
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she will release Canada’s long-delayed Indo-Pacific strategy this year.
She says the strategy will be shaped by a major meeting the Chinese government is holding in two weeks.
The strategy will include co-operation on climate change, she said in an interview with the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C.
Joly also revealed she will visit Peru next week for the Organization of American States summit.
In mid-October, she will head to Japan and South Korea.
Business leaders and former diplomats have been pushing the Trudeau government for months to outline Canada’s friends, foes and priorities in the Indo-Pacific region….