House China Committee Urges More Support for Taiwan in Face of Increasingly Aggressive Beijing

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at a ceremony to mark the island's National Day in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei on October 10, 2022. Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images

The parliamentary Canada-China relations committee (CACN) is urging the government to bolster its support for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly aggressive Beijing.

Tabled in the House on March 30, CACN’s latest report offers 18 recommendations regarding Taiwan, including rejecting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to coerce countries like Canada to consider Taiwan as part of its territory. It also urged Canada to join its allies’ security agreements—such as the trilateral AUKUS and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—in order to bolster Canada’s presence in the Indo-Pacific region.