From cold war to ‘hot conflict’: Michael Kovrig on confronting China

“It’s better to prioritize stronger economic trade and investment and security relations with other countries — with Europe, with the Indo-Pacific countries, with ASEAN, Latin America, Africa. Ideally, Canada should focus and prioritize relations with Japan, South Korea, other like-minded democracies, members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, for example, and then come to China with a relatively strong hand,” he said.