Why Not Just Say That You Would Rather Not Talk About It, Woo?

 Because it's not like you have a leg to stand on here:

It is difficult enough to manage relations with China in the current context of intense geostrategic competition with the United States; misinformation, prejudice, and binary thinking in Canada will only make it more so.

 

Extraordinary anti-American and wokist deflection on your part, Senator.

Some Canadians might regard that as well-played but, in truth, it is as weak as attempting to hold a mirror to Canada and excoriate it over its past with the aboriginals.

Why not refute claims that China is, in fact, persecuting the Uighurs and do so with evidence? Because it sounds like you cannot prove that China is doing things it is accused of but conceding its guilt by saying: "Well, Canada is bad, too".

Weak.

And the two Michaels? Are you that jelly-spined when it comes to Meng Wanzhuo?

I doubt it.

Also:

Japan believes rising tension surrounding Taiwan requires its attention “with a sense of crisis” as China intensifies military activities in the area and the United States steps up support for the self-governing island.

Japan's concerns about Taiwan, Beijing’s growing rivalry with the United States and China’s increasingly assertive military actions in the region were added to an annual Defense Ministry paper that was adopted Tuesday by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s Cabinet.

“Stabilizing the Taiwan situation is important for Japan’s national security and stability of the international community,” the paper said. “We need to pay close attention with a sense of crisis more than ever before.”

 

Start nuclearising, Japan.