{"id":157485,"date":"2023-05-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=918291"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:00:00","slug":"global-economic-security-top-priorities-as-trudeau-heads-to-south-korea-g7-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/05\/15\/global-economic-security-top-priorities-as-trudeau-heads-to-south-korea-g7-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Global, economic security top priorities as Trudeau heads to South Korea, G7 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to a meeting at the United Nations in New York on April 27.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press
\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to leave Monday for a weeklong trip to Asia, where he will make his first official visit to South Korea and attend the G7 leaders\u2019 summit in Japan.
\nThe trip comes at a time when the world is collectively facing security threats and economic uncertainty magnified by climate change.
\nThe prime minister is expected to be in Seoul between May 16 and May 18, after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s visit to Ottawa last fall. Since then, both countries have released their Indo-Pacific strategies, plans that aim to counterbalance Chinese influence by increasing economic and military ties in the region.
\nTrudeau is also scheduled to attend the G7 leaders\u2019 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, between May 19 and 21.
\nAs G7 host, Japan says it chose to have the summit in Hiroshima to symbolize its \u201ccommitment to peace\u201d during a time of growing risk of weapons of mass destruction and an ongoing war in Ukraine.
\nThe United States dropped the world\u2019s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroying the city and killing 140,000 people. It dropped a second bomb three days later on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 more.
\nWhile in Seoul, Trudeau is expected to attend a ceremony to open the Kapyong Battle Commemorative Trail, meant to honour Canada\u2019s contributions during the Korean War.
\nHe is not expected to visit the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.
\nLeaders of G7 countries \u2013 Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Japan \u2013 meet annually to collaborate on shared goals. This year\u2019s summit will focus on seven main agenda items, including geopolitical and global security issues, economic resilience, and climate change and energy.
\n\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be one of the most successful summits ever since they started in 1975,\u201d said John Kirton, a political science professor who heads the G7 research group at the University of Toronto.
\n\u201cBecause never before has a G7 summit faced so many big, interconnected global crises all at once.\u201d
\nAs they reflect on the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, face an uncertain economic outlook and work to avoid a climate crisis, Kirton says the G7 leaders have no shortage of issues to tackle.
\nOne of Canada\u2019s top priorities will be strengthening ties between the allied countries to address these converging challenges. Canada is expected to seek the G7 members\u2019 co-operationon providing ongoing support to Ukraine as well as addressing climate change.
\nThe Liberal government is investing heavily in the green economy transition, arguing that promoting cleaner sources of energy and technology will bring economic prosperity to the country while curbing the risk of catastrophic climate change.
\nIn a statement Trudeau provided to Kirton\u2019s group before the summit, the prime minister links addressing climate change with increased security.
\n\u201cThe clean economy presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to not only keep 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming within reach and to avert the worst impacts of climate change, but also to create and secure good, middle-class jobs for our people and grow our economies,\u201d Trudeau wrote.
\n\u201cWhen we cut emissions we can drive economic growth and build new strong, reliable supply chains that reduce our reliance on raw materials and components from countries such as China and Russia, too. This is economic policy, it is climate policy and it is security policy.\u201d
\nThe clean economy transition is also expected to be the focus of Trudeau\u2019s visit to South Korea.
\nIn an interview with The Canadian Press, South Korea\u2019s ambassador to Canada, Lim Woongsoon, said it will be at \u201cthe top of the agenda.\u201d Lim said South Korea is interested in increasing business ties in areas such as clean fuel and critical minerals.
\n\u201cCanada can be a very ideal partner for Korean companies to manufacture electric vehicle batteries and battery components,\u201d he said.
\nThe trip comes as Canada attempts to strengthen its relationships with Japan and South Korea, which are longtime allies and trading partners.
\nForeign Affairs Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly has said the relationship with each is so natural that Ottawa has at times taken it for granted, but that global instability is a time to shore up these bonds.
\n\u201cWe want to be as close to Korea, to Japan as (we are) to Germany, France and Great Britain; that\u2019s our goal,\u201d Joly said last December.
\n\u2013 With files from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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