While the rest of the world frets about confrontation between Taiwan and China, transplanted Canadians suggest the \u0027crisis\u0027 might be much ado about nothing
Ensconced in a land they’ve grown to love — or that they returned to after emigrating to Canada — they told the National Post Sunday they’ve gotten used to the periodic bouts of Chinese sabre-rattling and question whether Beijing will ever attack.
“People overseas are nervous about it. Here we’re saying, ‘Oh, well’ … and we just go on with our lives,” said Guedon. “I’m trying to get out the notice that life is normal here. We’re not living in a state of war or anything.”Article content Nova Scotia native Dylan Black, an English professor in Taiwan, attends an early Thanksgiving dinner for Canadian expats at a Taipei hotel Sunday. Black says he told friends and relatives recently he has no intention of leaving the country, but admits that tensions with China have increased ‘palpably’ in the last two years.
“From 1971 the remained an insistent and consistent voice for human rights and democracy” and aided in the “miracle” of Taiwan’s peaceful transition to free elections, wrote York University research associate Michael Stainton in a 2000 paper. “Overall, none of us expats living in Taiwan are at all concerned about it,” said Steven Clark, a native of Walkerton, Ont., who chairs the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, which organized the Thanksgiving dinner.
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