OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his first official trip to Asia, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the regional policy the Trudeau government released three years ago is outdated and should now place economic interests at its core.

“What I’m saying to the department now is we need to update that Indo-Pacific strategy. It is not reflective of our economic ambitions in the region,” Anand said Thursday at an event held by the Canada 2020 think tank.

“It was fine in 2022 but our relationships in the region have changed. We are on a different footing with India and China.”

The plan Ottawa released three years ago branded Beijing as a “disruptive global power” whose values don’t align with Canada. Anand now calls China a strategic partner.

Anand visited both Beijing and

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