Canada-China Relations committee  In my opening remarks, I elaborated on what I meant by “chilling message to all of us in the like-minded group”. As I pointed out, the economic message coming out of the 20th party congress is not very rosy at all, and I have given you the reasons I said that. It's because in the

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, sir. From the information I have access to, we still don't have any Taiwanese nationals or Taiwanese Canadians living in Canada being intimidated by Chinese diplomats or Chinese nationals working in Canada, but we hear a lot about it. It's been reported that people fr

Canada-China Relations committee  It's unheard of and totally out of the question for this kind of service station. It's actually in the name of an association, but it's semi-official because it carries some functions that only a government branch can do. In Taiwan, it's totally impossible for this kind of police

Canada-China Relations committee  As far as I know, these police or service stations have existed in 24 countries—52 stations in 24 countries—and none of them were found in Taiwan. With the way we do things, I think we will be very vigilant, if I may put it that way. The reason we've fought the pandemic in a ver

Canada-China Relations committee  Without a doubt, the visit of the special committee with the members here would be more than welcome in Taiwan. I believe it would be conducive to the final draft of the Indo-Pacific strategy.

Canada-China Relations committee  To be honest, when we dropped the three points in the opening remarks, I hadn't had prior consultation with your officials. The way I see it, they are consistent with our existing policies because, as you can see, what is stressed here is to preserve peace, stability and prosperi

Canada-China Relations committee  I have discerned increasing improvement in our bilateral relations, and I know that it will take time for a policy to shift, but I think that is happening. There is more that can be done in our bilateral relations, and I think we will keep our minds open. We would like to take up

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, sir, for the question. Why is the minister's visit important to Taiwan? I think it's because a minister's meeting doesn't come about easily. For any minister to visit a country, they would probably get some lower-ranking officers to visit, and usually there's some co

Canada-China Relations committee  The response or retaliation from China with regard to a potential.... We are talking about a hypothetical situation. I think that would include a strong démarche from the Chinese embassy here. Some officials at GAC would have a hard time receiving a very harsh response from Chine

Canada-China Relations committee  The motions passed in different committees are mostly in support of Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization.

Canada-China Relations committee  The most important message I am trying to convey is that Canada has played a very important role, and we hope there will be more supportive gestures to come out of Parliament. I appreciate the assistance from individual members, including many who are here tonight.

Canada-China Relations committee  Again, just as in the CPTPP, Canada cannot do it alone. In maintaining peace and stability in our part of the world, Canada is a very important country for making a contribution, but you are not making it by yourself. I think we have mentioned like-minded countries a lot, includi

Canada-China Relations committee  Indeed, Canada is one of the most favoured countries as a destination for our young people, who come over for a higher degree and for broader study. That has been interrupted by the pandemic. The exchange programs between the universities had to suspend for three years in some ca

Canada-China Relations committee  We get very polite responses from Canada. We understand, as I said, that all 11 members of the CPTPP are devoting their time to the U.K.'s accession issue, and that all the other issues, including China's application, have been put on the shelf. We hope there will be something f

Canada-China Relations committee  Lithuania's relations with Taiwan are very unique. They continue to talk to Taiwan, and we helped them to weather through their difficulties when China used economic coercion as a retaliation for their receiving Taiwan's new office in Vilnius. I think that is not the case we are