What Taiwan can teach Canada about fighting foreign interference
On a Sunday morning in Taipei, a few dozen Taiwanese civilians carrying travel coffee mugs and notebooks settled into their seats in a classroom for a day-long crash course on surviving a Chinese military invasion.
The classes, run by a Taiwanese non-profit called Kuma Academy, provide lessons in first aid techniques and evacuation planning.
And there’s a new addition to the survival course curriculum: debunking disinformation. “Before the troops arrive, first comes the disinformation to justify the invasion,” explained Puma Shen, co-founder of Kuma Academy.
Shen pointed to the war in Ukraine, where the Kremlin falsely claims it’s rescuing Russian-speaking regions from Nazis. Like President Vladimir Putin’s baseless claim to Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping similarly believes Taiwan, a thriving democracy, belongs to the Chinese Communist Party.
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