Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses for their testimony.
There have been some very interesting responses. Of course, I think all of us in this room are trying to determine how we can best support Taiwan and deal with the constant but increasing threat that we are seeing against Taiwan.
Obviously, there's the fact that Taiwan is a democracy. The work that they do on the sustainable development goals and to support the LGBTQ community is very important. They align with all of our values.
I want to ask a few questions about the Indo-Pacific strategy that we are hopeful to hear about. We did hear some rumours of what will be in that Indo-Pacific strategy, though, again, it's a long-awaited strategy that we have not yet fully seen. We did hear from the minister that Canada will oppose the escalation of military action against Taiwan and seek to deepen our economic ties with the self-governing island.
This is a bit of a tricky question, and I'm trying to ask it in a way that I can get the answer but not appear in any way to support what China is doing.
Is there a risk of Canada increasing its economic relationship with Taiwan as being seen as enraging to the Chinese government? Would there be that risk there in other ways that we can mitigate that, because I think it is very important that Canada does play that increased role?
Perhaps, Dr. Lam, I could start with you.