Conservative leadership candidate and MP Scott Aitchison says it’s important to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign state, and that the “One China” policy has been a “failure.”
“Taiwan is a vibrant democracy right next door to the behemoth communist regime of China. They’re constantly under [the regime’s] bully tactics and threats, and yet, that’s a beacon to the world,” Aitchison told The Epoch Times in an interview.
“We need to stand with those beacons. If we really do believe in freedom, then we need to stand up for their freedom as well.”
Aitchison, who represents the riding of Parry Sound-Muskoka in Ontario, says the “One China” policy which sought to acknowledge the Chinese Communist Party as “the sole legitimate government of China” and says that Taiwan is a part of China, simply doesn’t work….