LOS ANGELES — After the high-profile arrest Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport of a China-born real-estate agent accused of spying in Seattle on the family of Taiwan’s president, The Bureau found photographs placing her among members of an association linked to President Xi Jinping’s prior California visit, anti-Taiwan advocacy, and Beijing’s so-called United Front networks.
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford called them Chinese spy cars earlier this year, some foolish people laughed. Now there’s more evidence that Ford was right and more reason why Prime Minister Mark Carney should reverse course.
LNG Canada will once again use Chinese steel for the “specialized fabrication capability” it says it requires for its $33-billion Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.
When the proposed expansion led the list of early projects referred to the new federal Major Projects Office in September 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters these ambitious building projects would be “at the heart of our new, comprehensive Buy Canadian policy.”
In fact, the joint venture will buy more components from the state-owned China Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (COOEC), which also manufactured its first two liquified natural gas processing units, known as trains, now in operation.
Taxpayers will “make a lot of money” on oil exports to Asia, says Prime Minister. @MarkJCarney says permits for new $43.7 billion pipeline from Bruderheim, Alta. to Pacific terminals at Delta, B.C. will be fast-tracked within 12 months.https://t.co/3r7Uvmr0VU #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/qnhufTUeox
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) October 2, 2026
h/t Mauser
LONDON — Britain’s domestic intelligence service has taken the extraordinary step of publicly identifying a Chinese research organization it says is being used to strengthen Beijing’s espionage capabilities, warning more than 100 UK-linked academics have already contributed to projects ultimately funded by China’s Ministry of State Security.
The public alert also puts academics on notice that from now on, continuing to work with the organization could expose them to criminal prosecution under Britain’s National Security Act.
Conservative MP Adam Chambers says layoffs at a Hamilton steel plant should raise questions about Canada forging closer economic ties with China, citing concerns about Chinese steel dumping in the Canadian market.
Stelco Holdings Inc. announced on Sept. 28 that it would indefinitely idle finishing operations at its steel plant in Hamilton, Ont., due to “market uncertainty,” a move that could affect as many as 500 employees.
US President Donald Trump’s decision to sell state-of-the-art F-35 stealth fighter jets to Saudi Arabia seriously risks undermining his efforts to secure America’s technological advantage over China, both in national security and the battle for global AI supremacy.
Trump initially agreed to sell the Saudis 48 F-35s in a deal worth an estimated $24.3 billion when he hosted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November 2025.
On Monday, China released more information of what was agreed at the talks between Xi Jinping and Donald Tump last week, shedding light on a handful of concrete outcomes.
But there were no joint statements and few major breakthroughs.
Instead, both governments issued separate accounts of the meeting – perhaps a sign that despite the White House tours and promise of warmer ties, Washington and Beijing remain wary of each other.
On a sticky summer’s day in July, a blue-and-white handbag stuffed with cash was shoved into Melanie’s* hands.
It had been given to her by a 36-year-old Chinese woman as she was rushed into surgery for a C-section.
Melanie had been called to the main hospital on the remote island of Saipan to translate for the woman, who had travelled alone from China to give birth in the US territory, automatically giving her baby US citizenship.
Back in WWII
The arithmetic of money is incorruptible: when it comes to international settlement systems, the pricing of commodities and energy, and access to the credit system, the U.S. dollar still reigns unchallenged. Eighty-nine percent of all foreign exchange transactions are conducted in greenbacks — central banks, commercial banks, and other capital pools hold roughly 57 percent of global currency reserves in U.S. dollars.
OTTAWA — The Canadian government is using at least 1,600 Chinese-made drones across more than a dozen public service departments with varying security protocols, documents tabled in Parliament show.
The RCMP is the biggest user by far with 1,027 of the drones, but says it has avoided using them in national security operations and will look elsewhere as it prepares to use hundreds of millions of dollars in upcoming funding to expand its fleet.
President Xi Jinping’s summits with Donald Trump have one clear aim.
China believes the United States is trying to contain its rise as a superpower, and it wants Washington to stay out of its way – particularly when it comes to trade, technology and Taiwan.
On this visit, however, despite Trump rolling out the red carpet for him, the Chinese leader didn’t get everything he wanted.
Trump showing Xi his “Meme Wall”!
This is too damn funny.😂
— Mojtaba Khamenei Commentary (@MojtabaKhamen) September 25, 2026
BROOKLYN, New York — Jurors in Huawei’s racketeering trial saw evidence Wednesday suggesting proprietary antenna technology disclosed by Quintel during joint-venture negotiations was subsequently incorporated into a patent application by a Huawei engineer, as prosecutors sought to portray trade-secret theft as a corporate strategy rather than isolated employee misconduct.
When explaining why trade talks between Canada and the United States collapsed in late August, Prime Minister Mark Carney often cites the U.S. team’s shifting and last-minute demands. Those mattered, to be sure. But what he doesn’t mention is equally important.
In a 2,700-word address on Aug. 22 explaining why we’re in a trade war, Mr. Carney never said the word “China.” In his Sept. 8 Forward Guidance video, he mentioned it once, observing that an Alberta farm can now get better prices for its canola “because our trade diversification opens opportunities with China.” That was the deal he negotiated in January in Beijing, with the benefit emphasized and the price tag removed.
In one of the week’s more troubling global developments, the Pentagon has confirmed that China may have gotten its hands on components tied to America’s most advanced fighter-jet technology.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN—The Canadian federal government and Canadian consumers should be wary of continuing to import Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) in its trade deal with China, says the head of a Taiwanese think tank focusing on Taiwanese government policy and relations with China.
“You do not want your land vehicles to be controlled by [China] and weaponized by them,” I-Chung Lai—The Prospect Foundation president and the former director general of both international affairs and China affairs—told The Hub during a foreign press tour event at the think tank’s headquarters in Taipei. “That threat needs to be taken very seriously.”
