Cherniak on Politics: Harper: Taiwan "an integral part of China"
In today's Vancouver Sun, Barbara Yaffe reports on comments that Stephen Harper made to Mary Yang of the Sing Tao Daily. This paper is widely read in Canada's Chinese community. Mr. Harper said: We believe it [Taiwan] is an integral part of China. Yes. Mr. Harper, a man of supposed principle, believes that democratic Taiwan is an integral part of authoritarian China. As Taiwan consular official Brian Su explained, the Liberals "never so bluntly referred to Taiwan as an integral part of China".
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It was the former PM, Paul Martin, who signed on to that statement:
http://canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/5802.shtml
"..."The joint agreement between China and Canada signed by Paul Martin on his recent trip is now being used by Beijing to legalize a potential invasion and annexation of Taiwan," said Columbus Leo, a former political prisoner in Taiwan and a director of CCD. ....
The document signed by Prime Minister Martin on 20 January 2005, states: "...Taiwan is an inseparable part of Chinese territory."
Of course, it is just as discouraging if it came from Martin as if it came from Harper. I think it is more suprising from a Liberal (maybe not Martin) than from a conservative. We should be supporting liberalism when we see it.
Quick question: have I signed you up as part of the BANPC? Did you send me an e-mail? If so, I didn't receive it and I was a bit swamped these past six days due to a massive webhosting problem. But now that this is resolved, I'd be happy to sign you into the BANPC if you are still interested. Just e-mail me.
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