A Canadian naval turn to East Asia in the making? Interests, expectations and challenges
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Abstract
There is a growing chorus from Canada's strategic community to include political-security aspects into Ottawa's renewed interactions with East Asia, moving beyond an exclusive economic orientation. As the rise of East Asia emerges as the most important geopolitical feature of the international system, Canada, like its allies have already begun, should shift strategic focus it is argued. In particular, a renewed and sustained naval presence necessitating a naval rebalance westwards is promoted as an effective contribution towards regional stability and bolstering Canada's credentials. Wanting to extend the discussion beyond the current focus on interests and benefits received, this paper argues the impacts to the Navy as an institution must also be brought into the debate. A strategic and operational refocus towards East Asia shall involve more than just repositioning ships from one coast to another to include a wide spectrum of changes needed and compromises made in terms of inter-service relations, funding, capabilities, missions, interactions with new partners, an intimate understanding of the region, and the almost certain reduction of military operations from other theatres. Inclusion of these matters will create a more holistic assessment of the feasibility and effectiveness of such an option to support both regional security and Canada's interests at large.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".