Beijing threatens ‘forceful measures’ if Canada ‘interferes’ as MPs plan trade delegation to Taipei later this year
“China will take resolute and forceful measures against any country that attempts to interfere with or infringe upon China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the Chinese embassy said.
Members of a Canada-Taiwan parliamentary “friendship group“, which does not receive administrative or financial support from the Canadian parliament, had been planning to visit the self-ruled island in October, the Liberal MP Judy Sgro said last week. Sgro said the trip would focus on trade and the lawmakers’ intent was not to disrupt and cause problems for Taiwan or with China.
In a statement, Canada’s government said parliamentary associations and friendship groups were independent, and it respected the lawmakers’ intent to visit Taiwan. Canada, like the rest of the west, follows a one-China policy that recognizes Beijing, not Taipei, diplomatically, while unofficially it supports Taiwan.Topics
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