Especially after the pro-Communist KMT won the most recent Taiwan elections with their promise to promote CLOSER ties with the COMMUNIST mainlaind; i. e, most likely erode, if not destroy Taiwan's de facto autonomy that has been in existence at least since 1949 when Mao Tse Tung's Communists forced Chiang Kai Shek's (more) democratic Nationalists to flee to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, it is IMPERATIVE for Canada to take a FIRM and INDEPENDENT STANCE from that of our American neighbours, who, on the one-hand pay lip service to protecting Taiwan's autonomously democratic interests, while rewarding the mainland's continuing ANTI-deomcratic POST-6/4 TIENANMEN SQUARE machinations by bestowing Most favoured Nation status on it. 

Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. James 3:10-12