Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and the committee. It is a privilege to have this opportunity to speak to you today at this critical time for Hong Kong, and I want to thank you for holding this hearing. Hong Kong has seen many dark days over the past 12 months, and Monday this week, as

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much for that very important question. So far, what we have seen are mostly threats by the Chinese government. I'm not aware of concrete steps yet, but certainly there's the threat to not recognize the British national overseas passport, and that obviously could c

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you very much. I fully accept that it's an incredibly difficult dilemma. That's really what I was trying to illustrate in my statement. In principle, this course of action should be a last resort. We should be trying to do everything possible to prevent further deteriorati

Canada-China Relations committee  The group has never been located in Hong Kong, but I lived in Hong Kong for the first five years after the handover. I meant to say in my testimony earlier, and I omitted it, that I was denied entry to Hong Kong in October 2017, probably the first of—

Canada-China Relations committee  I think Taiwan is absolutely next if the international community does not act robustly. I have no doubt that.... A parallel was mentioned earlier with Poland and the Czech Republic. I think we're seeing Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Poland. We have to act.

Canada-China Relations committee  After Taiwan, we will be next if we don't act.