Positioning Canada in a Messy World /

For the Chinese, the “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West and Japan is current history and thus they are pushing their boundaries to the traditional Middle Kingdom, including the South China Sea and Taiwan. [...] For Xi and the CCP, the state is indivisible from the party and the party’s job is to ensure the state’s stability. [...] There is the traditional transatlantic relationship of the U. S., the EU and Canada and now the transindo- pacific relationship of these nations with Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and like-minded liberal democracies in Asia and the Americas. [...] Social media are helping to speed the pace of change and in democracies, to accelerate the defeat, even the demise, of traditional parties and the rise of new ones. [...] Manned and unmanned, these warships and submarines are the weapons necessary to meet traditional and grey-zone threats What the Atlantic was to the 19th century, the Indo-Pacific will be to the 21st century.