Canada should defend its basic principles by helping Taiwan against China: Glavin

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/09/07
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – If Canada is serious about championing democratic values, it should defend Taiwan’s threatened democracy against bullying by China, author Terry Glavin wrote in the Ottawa Citizen Wednesday.

Canada should re-evaluate its approach to Beijing due to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s aggressive stance against Taiwan, Glavin writes in the opinion piece titled “Lessons on human rights for Canada from Taiwan.”

The author slams the Canadian government as being “uniquely supine among the G7 countries,” an attitude which needs revision, and not just because of the Chinese threat against Taiwan.

Canada’s foreign minister cannot be taken seriously as she calls on “liberal democracies to unite against the dire threats of rising authoritarian unilateralism while at the same time doing nothing about Beijing’s accelerated military and economic encirclement of Taiwan,” Glavin writes.    [FULL  STORY]