What Taiwan can teach us about managing China

Thanks to the Taiwan government’s generosity, I have just returned from a visit to the island as part of a Canadian delegation made up of think tankers and academics. The Taiwanese have built a society that is in many way exemplary and done so in the face of Chinese hostility and intimidation. Yet they have now developed an extremely close relationship across the Straits, a topic that is causing a lot of anxiety on the island. How close is close enough? How close is too close? For my thoughts on these questions, have a look at my latest column in the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers.