Taiwan's Flight Canceled, Blames China's Airspace Blockade

0:00Taiwan's President Leiching Tay just scrapped a five-day trip to Eswatini after three Indian ocean countries, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar yanked permission for his plane to fly over the airspace. This came out of nowhere, blocking the direct route and forcing a cancellation. Taiwan blames economic pressure from China, calling the sudden flip, unexpected, and baseless. Beijing denied it flat out, but gave props to those nations for respecting China. Since months back, Taiwanese reps were an Ottawa pushing for a seat at the International Civil Aviation Organization table in Montreal. Taiwan's locked out of UN agencies since a 1971 resolution booted them under Chinese pressure. Still, they run one of the world's busiest air spaces, handling over 1.64 million flights last year, with big carriers like China. Airlines and EVA air, moving 64 million passengers. Canadian voices are fired up. Deputy opposition leader Melissa Lansman blasted Beijing on social media, saying Canada should

1:04stand loud for Taiwan's 23 million. Democratic souls getting squeezed one permit at a time. Taiwan's top-reping Canada called it straight-weaponizing aviation to push agendas. Taiwan insists this won't shake their sovereignty or global ties, vowing to keep flying straight while calling on the world to shut down these, coercive plays, and backfair skies for everyone. Canada news today, powered by AI bringing you what matters. I'm Corey with The Story.