Thank you, Mr. Ambassador.
I think people have great hopes for Canada's Indo-Pacific Strategy as regards ASEAN in particular. Most of the witnesses who have spoken to us about ASEAN also had a relatively positive view, but last week one witness shared a different opinion about ASEAN. I hate to paraphrase, but he essentially said that we should not vest so much economic hope in ASEAN and that certain members were essentially branch plants of Beijing. What do you think of that statement?