Canadian election outcome not of ‘pivotal strategic importance’ for China and India, say observers

China is focused on its budding trade war with the U.S., says Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada VP Vina Nadjibulla, but former envoy Guy Saint-Jacques thinks Beijing would still prefer a Liberal government.
Canada’s national security bureaucracy needs a rethink

When the House of Commons returns, it should shape how Ottawa analyzes intelligence.
Beyond Trump’s tariffs: return of geoeconomics and Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy

Geoeconomics—a disruptive force reshaping the global economy—is driving a new reality, and getting creative can help.
In Charlevoix, G7 ministers chose domestic audiences over taking message to the world

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was the lone top diplomat to take the stage at the press theatre at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting as she took the strongest stand in defence of Canada’s sovereignty.
Italy’s top diplomat says ‘not my job’ to condemn Trump’s annexation threats as Germany takes tougher stand

G7 foreign ministers were reluctant to directly condemn U.S. President Donald Trump over his threats to annex Canada.
G7 foreign ministers avoid explicit support for Canada as Trump doubles down

Trade wars and annexation threats overshadow G7 co-operation at the gathering of top diplomats.
G7 top diplomats open three-day meeting with all eyes on U.S. as trade war deepens

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says threats to Canadian sovereignty won’t be a topic of discussion at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting.
Trudeau failed to live up to initial foreign policy promise, says past foreign minister Axworthy

‘We lacked that kind of real sense of: what do we want to see happen in the world?’ says former top diplomat Lloyd Axworthy.
Trump’s Uno reverse

White people colonizing white people is the western world eating its own tail.
‘We’re the canary in the coal mine’: Joly’s wake-up call to Europe as Canada looks to co-ordinate a Trump response with allies

Former Canadian diplomat Colin Robertson says the world is returning to a ‘darker age for small- and medium-sized powers like Canada’ as Donald Trump has no interest in the U.S. safeguarding the global rules-based order.