{"id":3147,"date":"2017-03-03T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2023-08-06T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T06:01:18","slug":"a-strategic-focus-for-canada-australia-security-cooperation-in-the-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/a-strategic-focus-for-canada-australia-security-cooperation-in-the-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"A strategic focus for Canada-Australia security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n<p>Canada and Australia are remarkably alike in many areas.\u00a0 It was no surprise that Prime Minister Stephen Harper in <a href=\"http:\/\/parlinfo.aph.gov.au\/parlInfo\/search\/display\/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F2007-09-11%2F0007%22\">addressing the Australian Parliament<\/a> in 2007 called the countries: &#8220;strategic cousins.&#8221; \u00a0Given this, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdonaldlaurier.ca\/building-canada-into-a-pacific-power-mli-commentary-with-edward-luttwak\/\">some proposing<\/a> Canada should shift its military focus westward into Asia, it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/australia-and-canada-must-try-harder\/\">only sensible<\/a> that the two countries should cooperate more fully.<\/p>\n<p>As middle powers, Canada and Australia already undertake <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadainternational.gc.ca\/australia-australie\/bilateral_relations_bilaterales\/canada_australia-australie.aspx?lang=eng\">significant cooperation<\/a> across governmental, commercial, and cultural domains.\u00a0 Indeed, cooperation in the security field has steadily deepened given both nations\u2019 involvement in Afghanistan and East Timor.\u00a0 There <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspi.org.au\/publications\/facing-west,-facing-north-canada-and-australia-in-east-asia\/SR_ASPI_CIGI_facing_west.pdf\">are now<\/a> annual Australia-Canada Ministerial Bilateral Meetings, annual Chiefs of Defence Force meetings and senior Departmental official\u2019s meetings.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rosy picture but some real deficiencies are hidden in it. Both countries are highly pragmatic, with present cooperation largely driven by pressing security matters \u2013 as these wax and wane so does mutual collaboration. The urgent displaces the important. This makes Canadian-Australian cooperation episodic and idiosyncratic rather than long-term and enduring.\u00a0 In some respects this is understandable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada and Australia, with their distinct and distant geographic locations, have quite different strategic concerns and drivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Canada and Australia, with their distinct and distant geographic locations, have quite different strategic concerns and drivers.\u00a0 Canada\u2019s defence is ultimately underwritten by the US while generally Canada has seen Western Europe as its major defence focus.\u00a0 For Australia, national defence is fundamentally an Australian responsibility with South East Asia of greatest defence concern.\u00a0 To paraphrase the old Chinese adage, in defence matters Canada and Australia have historically had different beds and different dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdonaldlaurier.ca\/a-strategic-focus-for-canada-australia-security-cooperation-in-the-asia-pacific-peter-layton-for-inside-policy\/\">A strategic focus for Canada-Australia security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0article in Inside Policy\u00a0by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| Canada and Australia are remarkably alike in many areas.\u00a0 It was no surprise that Prime Minister Stephen Harper in addressing the Australian Parliament in 2007 called the countries: &#8220;strategic cousins.&#8221; \u00a0Given this, with some proposing Canada should shift its military focus westward into Asia, it seems only sensible that the two countries should 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