Scenes from the annual Taipei Economic and Cultural Office reception in Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront Centre Hotel on Oct. 4, hosted by director general Angel Liu.
The event marked the 114th Republic of China national day on Oct. 10 and included a parade of speeches by various federal, provincial and municipal politicians. Some emphatically applauded democratic Taiwan’s tenacity amid threats of invasion by the People’s Republic of China. Others carefully chose their words.
Some 45,000 Taiwanese-Canadians live in B.C., where the NDP government declared last July as Taiwan Heritage Month.
No members of the Conservative Party of B.C. caucus were in attendance. On Sept. 23, according to the Chinese consulate, Teresa Wat (Richmond-Bridgeport) and Hon Chan (Richmond Centre) attended a celebration of 76 years of Communist Party rule.
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