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Indo-Pacific Security Roundtable 2

Canada-Japan cooperation in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific

On May 3rd, 2021 Canada and Japan released  the Shared Canada-Japan Priorities Contributing to a Free and Open Indo-Pacific statement as a framework for their cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Focusing on (1) The Rule of Law; (2) Peacekeeping Operations, Peacebuilding, and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (3) Health Security and Responding to COVID-19; (4) Energy Security; (5) Free Trade Promotion and Trade Agreement Implementation; and (6) Environment and Climate Change, the statement charts out a path for middle power cooperation between Canada and Japan to protect and buttress a rules-based order. This panel will discuss Canada-Japan cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region focusing on three areas: (1) Rationalizing the raison d’etre for cooperation; (2) Understanding the Strategic vision behind the cooperation; and (3) Practical examples of cooperation in the region.  

Speakers:

Jonathan Berkshire Miller, MacDonald Laurier Institute
Professor Stephen Nagy, ICU/ JIIA/ CGAI
Cleo Paskel, Researcher for Foundation for the Defence of Democracy/ Chatham House 
Professor Hideshi Tokuchi, (GRIPS)/ President of the Research Institute for Peace Security (RIPS)