Communist China is a “common component” of many of the challenges facing the international community, Taiwan’s minister of foreign affairs said during a panel discussion in Ottawa coinciding with the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Minister Wu Jaushieh made the opening remarks at the webinar, titled The Challenge of China and hosted by the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) on June 2 and 3.
Wu spoke of the growing despotism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), noting that “human rights is anathema to authoritarianism” while free and open democracy is what nurtures humanitarianism.
“The authoritarian regime that wrote the bloody history of the Tiananmen massacre 33 years ago is no better today than it was back then,” he said via telecommunication….