Thank you for that. The film without an ending is a very interesting idea.
What I was going to end with is that we're at a very difficult moment in the Canadian approach to the Indo-Pacific. The China question is going to be of enduring difficulty and challenge, but we also have a challenge with the United States. The Indo-Pacific era is an era that is largely an American projection on what the region is and can be.
In that context, we're able to work with the Americans now. For this alignment I talked about—Canada and the U.S.—your committee discovered an 85% overlap. That overlap would change very quickly if the administration in the United States changes. We don't need to focus on Mr. Trump exclusively on this matter. Americans, including Mr. Lighthizer, Mr. Navarro and Mr. Pompeo earlier, put the U.S.-China relationship into hyper-strategic competition. We'll be side-swiped by that in several ways if it comes to pass.
I think what we're trying to do with our American friends, right now, is identify areas of hard Canadian interest and areas of hard American interest that we can discuss and come up with some common ideas about what to do with China in the Arctic or how tightly we limit the restrictions we put in place on technology interactions with China. Please try to codify some of the areas where we differ.
However, where we think we can take it forward into an administration in the United States is unpredictable. We all know we're in a very fluid situation in Canada on our political future, and in the United States. Some of us are trying very hard to put in place areas where there can be U.S.-Canada agreement and some areas where we had better get ready for a discussion.