I would quickly say one thing about U.S.-Japan-ROK before moving on to the Taiwan and U.S. elections.
The Camp David summit is a tremendous opportunity for Canada, as Canada has good relations, as Ms. Goto said, with both Tokyo and Seoul. Also, the spirit of Camp David really aims at institutionalizing the U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral relationship to weather the political changes at their three capitals. Hopefully that will hold.
It's not necessarily the Taiwanese elections because, even if the Legislative Yuan picture is a little bit unfavourable for incoming President Lai, the Kuomintang went through a great evolution in the last decade or so. They're much less willing to be soft on China, for lack of better words. That reflects the very deep change in the Taiwanese electorate that really doesn't find the option of being reunified with the mainland all that attractive for their future.
I think there is a baseline consensus now in Taiwan that any reunification needs to be peaceful and that Taiwan will need to have an equal say in how that reunification will take place. There is a tremendous opportunity for Canada as a peacetime enforcer of those principles. Any reunification effort—dialogue across the strait—needs to be conducted peacefully, and no forceful attempt to change the status quo should be allowed.
Now, back to the U.S. presidential elections, I'm sure you're all watching nervously in Ottawa as well. So are we in Washington, D.C., but even more so in Tokyo, because some of the analysts are already talking about Trump administration 2.0 being a big change between Trump administration 1.0 and whether 2.0 will become a reality. With Trump administration 1.0, Japan had the biggest weapon in its capital: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who knew how to work with President Trump. Right now, Tokyo is not so confident which political leader in Tokyo has the capacity that the late Prime Minister Abe showed working with President Trump.
To say that this is making everyone nervous in Tokyo is an understatement. That is what I'm sensing right now, but leading up to that and preparing for that scenario, I can say that, bilaterally, between the U.S. and Japan, especially on the political-military front, efforts are being accelerated to make sure that whatever corporate framework they're working toward will be institutionalized by the end of this year. They're trying to get as much done as possible before the new administration comes in.