Ottawa should also expel the Chinese ambassador: Crowley
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/01/16
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (By Associated Press)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Canada could respond to the escalating dispute with China by immediately expelling its ambassador and by improving relations with Taiwan, the head of a Canadian think tank wrote in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Following the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, the latest step in the dispute has been the death sentence for drugs smuggling for Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg.
China has identified Canada as a weak link in its contest with Western nations, but it only “respects strength, not weakness,” so Ottawa should immediately show its resolve, wrote Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
He named the expulsion of the Chinese ambassador, sanctions against Chinese government members, and “a warming of our relations with Taiwan” as actions that Canada could take immediately. [FULL STORY]
