The Indo-Pacific Strategy Forum (IPSF) is the most extensive Indo-Pacific conference in Canada and focuses on conversations of defence and trade relations in the Indo-Pacific. The IPSF in Ottawa, December 2023 hosted approximately 40 experts from the Indo-Pacific, Canada, and the United States to engage in comprehensive panels and interviews. This two-day event included key discussions between Indo-Pacific press and officials working in Canadian policy-making. The IPSF hosted dialogue on the increasingly prominent role of security and issues of defence in the Indo-Pacific trade: https://peacediplomacy.org/2023/11/02/indo-pacific-strategy-forum-2023/.
Panel 5 discusses the topic of “The Security-Trade Nexus in the Indo-Pacific” and features Dr. Robert Hanlon, Director & Principal Investigator for Canada and the Asia Pacific Policy Project