Much is up for grabs as we look to democratic events in the United States in the fall. I will say, however, that the Indo-Pacific strategy is much more than a China hedge. The Indo-Pacific strategy is very explicit that the centre of political and economic weight in the world has moved, and is continuing to move, towards the Indo-Pacific so, for the future security and prosperity of Canadians, we need to move there as well.
China tends to see a great number of things through a China-U.S. lens, and the rest of us, in terms of close partners of the United States, are not in the same category. How this plays out under a future Biden or Trump administration is something we'll look at very closely. I have personally been at pains to impress upon our Chinese interlocutors that we are Canada. We're not just another entity near the United States. We have a long and proud history of Canada-China relations, and we don't agree with the United States about everything, either, so if they want to deal with Canada, they should deal with Canada.