WASHINGTON 每 Japan needs to be part of an Indo-Pacific ※balancing coalition§ that can constrain China＊s influence, says Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat of Canada who spent over 1,000 days in Chinese detainment on espionage charges from 2018 to 2021.
Countries like Japan, South Korea and Australia are not big or united enough to counterbalance China, but together with the United States and India, they could pursue a strategy to resist China＊s goal of regional dominance, Kovrig says.
The Communist Party of China is ※a very dangerous organization that has a fundamentally adversarial agenda toward democracies and free societies and that treats human beings very callously,§ Kovrig said in an online interview.
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