How Can Canada Tackle Foreign Interference Without a U.S. Ally?

In a piece for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Emile Dirks and Diana Fu argue that the U.S.’s pull back from its liberal-minded engagements in China “poses an imminent challenge to Canada: how to curb Beijing’s foreign interference without the support of a network of organizations backed by its powerful ally to the south.”

Adding that “Trumpian autocratic legalism means that Canada has not only lost an ally in the fight against foreign interference; it has also gained a new adversary in terms of foreign interference: the United States.” 

Read the full article here.

Emile Dirks is a senior research associate at the Citizen Lab and Diana Fu is an associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.