Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have no doubt that I will have questions that my colleagues will find fascinating.
First, thank you very much for being with us tonight. We are very grateful to you. I think that, so far, you have been able to sense from my colleagues' comments how much solidarity we feel with Taiwan and its people.
In an article published in The Globe and Mail on October 25, you said that part of your job as Taiwan's representative at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada is to prevent war by convincing western countries to raise the costs inflicted on the People's Republic of China if it tries to take the island. You added that if we want to help Taiwan, we need to talk less and act more.
As an introduction to my question, I would like to tell you about some exchanges I had with Ukrainians a few days before the February invasion. At that time, even people in Ukraine considered an attack from Russia to be absolutely unlikely, believing that the cost for it would be too high. We can see that this is indeed the case. Nevertheless, this did not prevent Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine. Indeed, what appears to us to be reasonable is not necessarily logical to an individual like Vladimir Putin.
Similarly, how high could the price be to prevent an individual like the president of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, from doing exactly the same thing?
When you ask us to talk less and act more, what do you expect from Canada?