Quickly, there's a lot of talk about multilateral organizations, and we should be aware of how successfully China has gamed multilateral organizations, including the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank. When you're talking about infrastructure projects in places like the Pacific Islands, you'll often see China winning the bid, but it's effectively subsidizing the belt and road initiative, or the BRI, which I like to think of as the “bribery and repression initiative”, because that's functionally what's being spread out along the BRI.
Before you go jumping fully into the multilateral organizations, it's useful to do a risk analysis of exactly how much they have been gamed by China, to make sure that Canada isn't actually funding Chinese operations.
