The China Blueprint: Hard Power, Sovereignty, and the Realist Path to CUSMA Renewal

OTTAWA For more than half a century, the architectural foundation of Canadian foreign policy has rested upon a comforting, if increasingly untenable, premise: that geography is destiny, and that destiny is inherently benign [CUSMA]. Shielded by three oceans and anchored by the worlds longest undefended border, Ottawa has long treated national security as an inherited asset rather than a primary…