Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Tsering, a few moments ago, you mentioned Taiwan. I’d like to point out that we have the Taiwanese representative here in the room, in Ottawa.
Thank you for being with us, Mr. Chen.
Mr. Tsering, in August 2020, we welcomed your predecessor, Lobsang Sangay, to our committee. While Mr. Sangay was extremely critical of the People's Republic of China's actions towards Tibet and Hong Kong specifically, we were quite surprised by his optimistic remarks.
Building on discussions at the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations, I then went to the House and tabled the motion Mr. Oliphant just read to you. We felt some optimism on the Tibetan side at that time, but now I get the impression that optimism has faded to some extent.
Can you tell us what might have changed since we met with Mr. Sangay in August 2020 to make the optimism we felt in his words seemingly fade away?