Facing the Reality of the Chinese Regime

Facing the Reality of the Chinese Regime
Louis Huang of Freedom and Democracy for China holds photos of Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who have been arrested by China, outside the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver on March 6, 2019. Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images
Omid Ghoreishi
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OTTAWA—The West can learn a lot from observing how China is attempting to undermine democracy and infiltrate the society in Taiwan, because the strategy the regime is honing on the self-ruled island today, it will implement in other countries tomorrow, says Chen Tan-sun, a former Taiwanese foreign minister.

“China is trying to push out its influence on Western countries,” Chen, now chair of the Taiwan-based think tank Prospect Foundation, said at a panel discussion in Ottawa on Oct. 28. Titled “Blunting China’s Sharp Power: How democracies can defend against Chinese influence operations,” the discussion was organized jointly by Chen’s organization and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI).