Dr Casey Babb

It may come as a surprise, but China remains Canada’s second-largest trading partner after the U.S. In fact, Canada’s economic reliance on China, for a wide range of goods, is akin to Europe’s on Russia for natural gas – a dependence that led to the threat of an energy crisis and industrial decline at the foot of Russia’s invasion. If the Taiwan issue comes to a head, we might see history repeat itself. Canada cannot make the same mistakes that Europe did, in terms of not decoupling from an adversarial country until it is too late.

Associate Fellow, Casey Babb, has co-authored a new book chapter called 'New Technologies and Deterrence: Artificial Intelligence and Adversarial Behaviour' published as part of the Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2020.