Canada-China Relations committee  Taiwan's inclusion would be incredibly important. During the SARS pandemic, Taiwan had the second-highest number of cases. The fact that we had to go through the People's Republic of China government in order to have any sort of engagement between the Taiwanese government and t

Canada-China Relations committee  Oh, my goodness. It's a lot to go through in two and a half minutes. To take the second point first, this is a classic case of “trust, but verify”. This is why we need to have multiple sets of eyes involved. It is important to get the information that is coming from official sou

Canada-China Relations committee  Thanks for the question. It is a difficult moment to try to engage in this sort of dialogue, for exactly the reason you pointed out: President Xi has shown an inclination toward looking inward. One of the things that I think can be done is to make the overtures, to at least sh

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you for that question . It's an incredibly important issue. It will be a challenge at this moment. That's just the absolute truth. The geopolitics are not really in favour of the sort of co-operative relationships that are going to be necessary in order to address any sort

Canada-China Relations committee  Sure. Thank you. I'll be brief. I think there is a need to look at the domestic politics and the fact that we just had this big national party congress. That plays into it. We've seen historically, if we look at the response that China had to SARS, for instance, and on the geop

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you so much for the invitation. I hope my sound is coming through okay for everyone. I come to you today to speak as the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota Duluth. I'm also a political scientist who is particularly i