Positioning Canada in a Messy and Meaner World /

In the wake of the great recession, increasing numbers in the great democracies lost faith in their systems and the elites who managed it and turned to those who said they felt their pain and promised to fix it. [...] Positioning Canada in a Messy and Meaner World Page 4 by Colin Robertson September 2019 Positioning Canada in a Messy and Meaner World Situated in the middle of a great plain, the Russians are conscious of threats from the west (and the east). [...] As Henry Kissinger has observed, a unique characteristic of Russia is that “upheaval in almost any part of the world affects it, gives it an opportunity and is also perceived by it as a threat.” For the Chinese, the “century of humiliation” at the hands of the West and Japan is current history and thus they are pushing their boundaries to the traditional Middle Kingdom, including the South China S [...] For Xi and the CCP, the state is indivisible from the party and the party’s job is to ensure the state’s stability. [...] There is the traditional transatlantic relationship of the U. S., the EU and Canada and now the transindo- pacific relationship of these nations with Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and like-minded liberal democracies in Asia and the Americas.