I think there are two developments that we can see. How will the United States work with its allies and partners in meeting the China challenge, and how will it actually engage with China itself?
The bipartisan support from both Democrats and Republicans in seeing the China threat is going to remain unchanged.
If I can elaborate a little bit more on perhaps the strength of the Biden administration, of course it has come up with an Indo-Pacific strategy. I think that has encouraged a lot of other countries, including Canada, to develop their own respective Indo-Pacific strategies. An Indo-Pacific strategy, I see as a shorthand for a China strategy, so there is greater alignment amongst U.S. allies and partners on that. There is concern that the United States, under a Trump administration, would be more hesitant or downright object to having that kind of co-operative multilateral stance when it comes to meeting that China challenge.
If I may add, Japan is a very committed multilateral actor. It wants to work multilaterally on the security front and on the economic front too, and it wants to position itself as the champion of the rule of law as well, so we see the development of the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy by Japan being adopted by many countries. Japan is now pushing for a free and open international order, which I believe will be one of the issues that it will really want to play up moving forward.
Under a Trump administration, the United States is probably going to be less open to that kind of approach of a multistakeholder push-back against China.