Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned in an interview that seeking to mollify China is risky, and sends the message that hostage diplomacy works
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu gestures while speaking during an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at his ministry in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 10, 2019. Taiwan is a self-governing democratic territory, with its own currency and military, that is claimed by China as a renegade province.
Taiwan occupies a unique position relative to Beijing. It is a self-governing democratic territory, with its own currency and military, that is claimed by China as a renegade province. But to do so “would encourage [China] to use hostage diplomacy more in the future, because it shows that it works,” said Scott Simon, the co-chair in Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa. He also warned that it’s unlikely any such move, even if it won the release of the imprisoned Canadians, would return relations with Beijing to normal. “We can’t go back,” he said, pointing to a Chinese leadership he called recalcitrant and confident.
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