As Ottawa forges closer ties with Beijing, a foreign affairs official told MPs he believes the federal government still sees China as an “increasingly disruptive power.”
Foreign Affairs Assistant Deputy Minister Weldon Epp made the comments on April 16 while appearing before the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, which is studying the review of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy.
Canada’s 2022 Indo-Pacific Strategy called China “an increasingly disruptive global power,” and said Beijing is “looking to shape the international order into a more permissive environment for interests and values that increasingly depart from ours.”
Conservative MP Tamara Kronis asked Epp during the committee meeting whether Canada still sees China as a disruptive force in the Indo-Pacific region….