CCP’s 20th National Congress Sends ‘Chilling’ Message to Democracies: Taiwan’s Top Envoy in Canada

Chinese President Xi Jinping, bottom right, is applauded by senior members of the government and delegates as he stands before his speech during the Opening Ceremony of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at The Great Hall of People on October 16, 2022 in Beijing, China. Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Taiwan’s top envoy in Canada says the recent national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sends a “chilling” message to like-minded democracies around the world.

Testifying before the parliamentary Canada-China committee on Nov. 1, Harry Ho-Jen Tseng, representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada, warned parliamentarians not to take the message from the CCP’s 20th national congress “lightly,” and “to prepare in order not to be harmed in the near future.”