{"id":54945,"date":"2023-05-09T03:16:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/08\/canada-aukus-defence-pact"},"modified":"2023-05-09T03:16:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T18:16:17","slug":"canada-hopes-to-join-aukus-defence-pact-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54945","title":{"rendered":"Canada hopes to join Aukus defence pact, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa \u2018highly interested\u2019 in joining group amid fears country could be shut out of intelligence and tech sharing<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s defence minister has said the country is \u201chighly interested\u201d working closer on defence technology with Australia, Britain and the US, after reports that the country wants to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/aukus\">Aukus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/16\/aukus-pact-uk-and-us-battle-to-contain-international-backlash\">defence pact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe and Mail reported on Monday that Canada was making efforts to join the group, amid fears that the country could be excluded from valuable intelligence and technology sharing between a smaller circle of nations. Both the foreign affairs ministry and Privy Council are working to have Canada included, the Globe reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/08\/canada-aukus-defence-pact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa \u2018highly interested\u2019 in joining group amid fears country could be shut out of intelligence and tech sharingCanada\u2019s defence minister has said the country is \u201chighly interested\u201d working closer on defence technology with Australia, Britain and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,2346,244,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-canada","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54945\/revisions\/54946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}