Conservative MP Michael Chong is visiting Taiwan and meeting with President Lai Ching-te this week in defiance of a recent warning from the Chinese ambassador to Canada against sending parliamentarians to Taiwan.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province, despite never having governed the island nation, and seeks to place it under Beijing’s rule. Taiwan, meanwhile, is pushing back against Beijing’s international pressure campaign to sideline the island.
Chong, who is the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic, is visiting Taiwan from May 18 to May 21 and is set to meet with Lai, Taiwanese minister and trade representative Jen-Ni Yang, and deputy minister of foreign affairs Chen Ming-chi. He is also expected to meet with officials at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei….