Conservative MP Michael Chong is travelling to Taiwan this week in a self-described bid to assert Canadian sovereignty.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/8998758

Conservative MP Michael Chong is travelling to Taiwan this week in a self-described bid to assert Canadian sovereignty.

The former cabinet minister says the trip is to show solidarity with Taiwan, and also to spite China’s ambassador to Canada.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail last month, Beijing’s envoy to Canada said any MPs travelling to Taiwan would risk damaging the new partnership between the two countries Prime Minister Mark Carney signed this year.

In a news release, Chong said Canadians “do not take direction from a foreign government about where Canadian MPs can travel internationally.”

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
    41·
    11 days ago

    Pursuing the US’s foreign policy isn’t exactly asserting sovereignty from the US. Wait is he implying China is impinging on Canada’s sovereignty?

    • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Well if you listen to Trump after he met with Xi, sounds like it’s not US policy anymore. At least not from the executive branch who have to follow his every whim. LOL

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
        5·
        11 days ago

        Trump believes whatever the last guy who massaged his ego tells him. So give him like 10 minutes with his cabinet full of ghouls lusting for the blood of foreigners and he’ll be back to normal.

        • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          11 days ago

          Yep, unfortunately, his minions have to enact it until the next time. So, if while the US is no longer willing to support Taiwan, China decides to finally use military force to invade (or to them to quash the rebellion or whatever), it will be too late by the time someone else tells him why the US and much of the rest of the world need Taiwan to remain independent.

          Unlike Hong Kong, there’s not really a globally recognized agreement with Taiwan that they owned by China and just temporarily independent. China has been wanting their tech industry for ages and with their recent decisions to stop exporting certain raw materials, they may be on that path and using Trump’s senile state to keep the US from intervening until it’s too late.