The art of diplomacy with rising powers demands more than goodwill. It requires strategic literacy, carefully cultivated leverage and the discipline to sequence engagement properly.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Beijing this week for a four-day visit — his first major bilateral engagement in the Indo-Pacific since taking office.
Notably absent from his itinerary: Tokyo and Seoul. Carney’s decision reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how middle powers must engage with Beijing in an era of intensifying great power competition.
AloJapan.com