The parliamentary Canada-China relations committee (CACN) is urging the government to bolster its support for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly aggressive Beijing. Tabled in the House on March 30, CACN’s latest report offers 18 recommendations regarding Taiwan, including rejecting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to coerce countries like Canada to consider Taiwan as…

A group of Congressional lawmakers is set to introduce a measure urging the U.S. administration to end its “One China Policy” and formally recognize Taiwan’s status as an independent nation. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) will lead 18 other members of Congress in introducing the resolution later this week, which calls for the United States to…

A group of Congressional lawmakers has introduced a measure urging the U.S. administration to end its “One China Policy” and formally recognize Taiwan’s status as an independent nation. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) led 18 other members of Congress in introducing the resolution on Jan. 15, which calls for the United States to resume formal diplomatic…

House Republicans showcased their “Commitment to America” plan—their promise to the people in the run-up to the midterms. We’ll hear from the House Republican leader himself to find out more about the GOP’s plan for a “new direction.” President Joe Biden pushed back against the Republicans’ proposed agenda Friday, attending an event by the Democratic…

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) insists that there is only “one China” and that the people of Taiwan answer to Beijing. Xi Jinping, China’s authoritarian-in-chief, has said, on more than one occasion, that “reunification” with Taiwan will occur, even if force is necessary. Contrary to popular belief, the United States does not support Taiwan independence. According to an official statement, the…

Commentary On Aug. 10, the Chinese Ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian, used the opportunity of an address to the National Press Club in Canberra to bemoan the fragile relationship between Australia and China and to comment upon Australia’s Taiwan policy. By any standard, the comments of the ambassador were bellicose and uncompromising. He noted that…

The United States’s so-called “One China Policy” is no longer realistic or tenable, according to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. “It may have been the case in 1972 that the people of Taiwan saw themselves as Chinese, but they don’t today,” Esper said during a July 26 talk at the Atlantic Council, a…

Commentary The Chinese regime recently claimed sovereign rights on the entire Taiwan Strait, adding that U.S. warships sailing through it were partaking in provocative behavior. Beijing’s new move might have put the U.S. government in a more difficult position to continue its “One China” policy. On May 23, U.S. President Joe Biden commented during a…

Canadian institutions and corporations must not be complicit in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) effort to delegitimize and oppress Taiwan, Conservative MP Michael Cooper says. Members of the Taiwanese community in Canada have recently made complaints to Cooper that they were forced to indicate “Taiwan, Province of China” when specifying their nationality in applications to…

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has repeatedly denied a Taiwanese Canadian the right to specify her nationality unless she accepts that the self-governing democracy is part of communist China, according to Conservative MP Michael Cooper. In a letter to CIHR president Michael Strong, Cooper said the Taiwanese Canadian scholar, whom he doesn’t name,…