According to Canada's defense minister, China's live-fire exercises off Taiwan were an "unnecessary escalation."
Anita her Anand commented on CBC's Radio The House this weekend. The remarks came a day after Beijing announced it would end all contact with the United States on key issues, including cooperation on climate change.
"We are concerned about threats from China," Anand said in a feature interview.
"There is no valid reason to use the visit as a pretext for aggressive military activity in the Taiwan Strait."
Beijing's response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan goes beyond mere retaliation, she added.
"It is commonplace for our members of parliament to travel internationally, and China's escalating response runs the risk of heightening tensions and destabilizing the region." Anand said.
"We urge China to resolve cross-strait disputes through peaceful means rather than unilaterally changing the status quo in the region by force of arms. ."
doesn't seem to happen any time soon.
In recent days, China has deployed more than 100 of her fighter planes and more than 10 of her warships in a show of military might off Taiwan. dispatched area.
The nation's Strategic Rocket Force also launched ballistic missiles over the island and into the Pacific Ocean in further anger.
Officials in Beijing said on Friday they were also planning sanctions against Pelosi personally.
Jonathan Berkshire Miller, an Asia-Pacific expert at the Ottawa-based McDonald's Laurier Institute, believes China's reaction has gone too far, but the message is that the message will not reach a domestic audience. said to be aimed at It is for the international community.
With the country's Communist Party scheduled to hold a major congress this fall, President Xi Jinping cannot afford to take a weak stance on Taiwan. in advance.
"I think the United States... read the tea leaves beforehand," Miller said. "We could see the Biden administration... I will warn you publicly, and then publicly, against such visits."
Nonetheless, Mr. Miller said this was not the first time the Speaker of the US House of Representatives had visited the island, and that Beijing was not the only one to visit the area.
Beyond Taiwan, five of the missiles launched by China hit Hateruma, an island far south of Japan's main island. Landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone offshore.
According to Miller, it was a message to all US allies in the region.
China summons Canadian diplomats in Beijing
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned Canada's top diplomat — acting ambassador Jim Nickel — in Beijing this week. , ministers who called for a dress-down after G7 diplomacy condemned China's actions.
In a speech Friday, China's undersecretary of foreign affairs urged Canada to "immediately correct its mistakes." did not disclose whether it had announced Responding on behalf of Beijing.
Anand said the government was fully involved in the seething crisis.
"We are keeping our eyes wide open on China," said Anand. "We remain committed to the safety and security of the region."
Canada has two of her frigates — HMCS Winnipeg and her HMCS Vancouver — and We are working with allies in the Pacific. Both warships are heading to Asia in pre-planned deployments after participating in large-scale US-led military exercises near Hawaii.
China's claim that Taiwan is its territory and its threat to use force to reclaim the island have been repeated restraints by the ruling Communist Party. But the statement has gotten tougher in recent years.
Taiwan separated from the mainland at the end of the civil war in 1949.
Taiwanese residents overwhelmingly support the status quo of de facto independence and reject China's demands for reunification.
