{"id":237763,"date":"2025-10-24T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237763\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:03:10","slug":"canada-needs-new-indo-pacific-strategy-as-it-seeks-deeper-asia-ties-anand-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237763\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada needs new Indo-Pacific strategy as it seeks deeper Asia ties: Anand &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Dylan Robertson<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 24, 2025 4:59 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>As Prime Minister Mark Carney sets off for his first official trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/asia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia<\/a>, Foreign Affairs Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/anita-anand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anita Anand<\/a> says Canada\u2019s regional policy is outdated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760811489_47_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anand says she has told her department to update the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9306508\/canada-china-indo-pacific-strategy-joly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indo-Pacific strategy<\/a> that the Trudeau government released three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760811490_766_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Anand told the Canada 2020 think tank this week that the strategy no longer reflects Canada\u2019s economic ambitions in the region nor evolving relations with China and India, both of which the Carney government has reset.<\/p>\n<p>The plan Ottawa released three years ago branded Beijing as a \u201cdisruptive global power\u201d whose values don\u2019t align with Canada, but Anand now calls China a strategic partner.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/the-curator\/11490020\/christmas-2025-decor-trends\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761339790_123_Frame-285.png\" 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said he plans to visit the United Arab Emirates next month.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Politics<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted October 24, 2025 4:59 pm 1 min read Descrease article 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