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Tasha Kheiriddin: In India, Carney might be being pragmatic, but principled?

Foreign interference is being practiced by both enemies and allies

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RIP Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, we hardly knew you. As Prime Minister Mark Carney alights in Australia this week, fresh from a trade mission to India, the basic premise of the strategy — “to seize opportunities in the national interest of Canadians, while defending the values they hold dear” — has been junked in favour of realpolitik: doing business with countries other than the United States, even if their values don’t quite align with ours.

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Exhibit A: China. In 2022, the strategy described the Middle Kingdom as “an increasingly disruptive global power” whose rise was “enabled by the same international rules and norms that it now increasingly disregards.” In 2026, none of this has changed. However, Beijing has benefitted enormously from the aggressive and unpredictable behaviour of the United States, which in the past year has tariffed, threatened, and invaded other countries with impunity.

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