Beijing Feared Meng Wanzhou Would Cooperate in New York—and Mounted a Coercive Campaign to Bring Her Home. Huawei’s Racketeering Trial Starts Without Her

Beijing Feared Meng Wanzhou Would Cooperate in New York—and Mounted a Coercive Campaign to Bring Her Home. Huawei’s Racketeering Trial Starts Without Her

BROOKLYN, New York — “Theft, lies, cover-up.”

That was how Justice Department lawyer Taylor Stout opened the United States government’s criminal case against Huawei Technologies, alleging that the Chinese telecommunications giant spent two decades stealing American technology, deceiving global banks and concealing its business with Iran’s repressive regime.

The government’s first witness took the jury into the prosecution’s claim that Huawei assisted Iran’s domestic-surveillance machinery.

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Defence Official Fired After Warning About Beijing Says Ottawa’s Renewed PLA Engagement Bolsters Washington’s Claim That Canada Is China’s Back Door

Defence Official Fired After Warning About Beijing Says Ottawa’s Renewed PLA Engagement Bolsters Washington’s Claim That Canada Is China’s Back Door

OTTAWA — A former senior Canadian defence official suing the federal government over a dismissal her lawyer links to Mark Carney’s pivot toward China is pointing to the government’s newly disclosed military engagement with Beijing — and to what she calls growing public recognition that Canada’s partnership with China has impeded trade talks with Washington.


They’re not in the least ashamed about it.

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CBC says Beijing told it to announce that China held ‘candid and in-depth’ military talks with Canadian officials last week

CBC says Beijing told it to announce that China held ‘candid and in-depth’ military talks with Canadian officials last week

As the Carney government pursues deeper relations with Beijing, the Chinese government reports it held a “candid” exchange on military issues with Canadian officials earlier this month.

The meeting — which Beijing said took place in Canada on Sept. 4 — followed years of diplomatic strain and is raising concerns among Conservatives, who reject the idea of military co-operation with China.

China’s defence ministry revealed the two countries held their fifth defence co-ordination dialogue last week. Canada’s Defence Department confirmed that report days later.

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OMISSION: Networks SILENT on Canada-China Military Talks

OMISSION: Networks SILENT on Canada-China Military Talks

The Elitist Media evening news continue their mission on trade, acting as spokespeople for the Canadian prime minister instead of reporting the full scope of US-Canada relations that led to the breakdown at the negotiating table. Over the weekend and through today, an alarming omission emerges.

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Canada Has Reopened Military Channel to Beijing After Eight Years, China’s Defense Ministry Announces

Canada Has Reopened Military Channel to Beijing After Eight Years, China’s Defense Ministry Announces

OTTAWA — Canada’s military reopened a formal channel to China’s People’s Liberation Army last Friday for the first time in eight years, and Canadians have learned of it only from Beijing.

China’s defence ministry says Canada and China revived their formal Defence Coordination Dialogue on September 4.

Canadians have learned of the meeting not from their own government, but from a terse statement issued by Beijing.

h/t handy n handsome

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WTF? Carney Volunteers Canada As a Chicom Vassal State Without Bothering To Let Us Know

WTF? Carney Volunteers Canada As a Chicom Vassal State Without Bothering To Let Us Know

Not the first time Canadians have had to rely on foreign sources for important news. It’s a perfect snapshot of the LPC’s contempt of this country.

h/t Mauser

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Canadian intern was found near NATO supreme commander’s office, source says

Canadian intern was found near NATO supreme commander’s office, source says

The Canadian intern charged with espionage at NATO headquarters in Belgium was found in April near the office of the alliance’s supreme commander after a fire alarm was pulled by a suspected accomplice, a Belgian source familiar with the case told The Globe and Mail.

The intern’s unexpected appearance there triggered an investigation into her activities by the counterintelligence service of NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, known as SHAPE.


Before trial she’ll be released and perhaps allowed to return to Canada.

Either way she will manage to flee to China.

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VU DUC: Geography trumps geopolitics — Canada cannot play Beijing off Washington

VU DUC: Geography trumps geopolitics — Canada cannot play Beijing off Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney was right to walk away from the latest Canada–US trade talks. But he should not confuse resisting Washington with balancing Washington.

The collapse of negotiations, followed by Washington’s new 50% tariffs on roughly $28 billion of Canadian goods, marks a new rift in a relationship that will not simply return to pre-Trump normality. Carney says the United States (US) demanded too much and offered too little, including terms affecting Canadian culture, the auto sector, and Canada’s ability to negotiate future trade agreements.

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China Supplies the Industry, the Satellites and the Cash Behind Iran’s War Machine

China Supplies the Industry, the Satellites and the Cash Behind Iran’s War Machine

OTTAWA – In April 2012, a salesman in Vancouver wrote to his partners in China with a proposition.

As The Bureau reported this week, the Iranian immigrant was describing the outlines of a trade-based money laundering architecture that enables Tehran to mount its missile and drone war machine using American technology, evading United States sanctions through clandestine Chinese trade networks operated through third parties worldwide, and prominently, set up in Canadian business networks.

China, Iran, Russia? Those are Carney’s Allies.

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What did she see? The intelligence scramble to retrace an accused spy’s footsteps

What did she see? The intelligence scramble to retrace an accused spy’s footsteps

Several Western intelligence agencies were sent scrambling this summer to figure out what — if anything — of value an accused Canadian spy managed to access during internships at multiple agencies and government departments.

Biwei Zhang, a Canadian intern at NATO military’s headquarters in Mons, Belgium, was arrested by Belgian authorities in July on suspicion of espionage and communicating with a foreign crime entity. She has been held in pretrial detention since being taken into custody and was this week denied an appeal for release.

How does someone caught lying fail upwards?

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Terry Glavin: Carney recruiting Dominic Barton will please Xi Jinping

Terry Glavin: Carney recruiting Dominic Barton will please Xi Jinping

There has been no greater gift to the Liberal Party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s Uyghur slave camps, its “hostage diplomacy,” mass espionage, intellectual property theft, forced corporate co-ventures and clandestine election-interference operations, by this summer the Pew Research Centre found that Canadians had come to view China more favorably than the United States.

You could say the American president can be thanked for that.

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How China is paying big bucks to target Ottawa power brokers

How China is paying big bucks to target Ottawa power brokers

OTTAWA — Beijing is shelling out big bucks to spread its message deep inside the Ottawa bubble, buying ad space to publish editorials in a niche Parliament Hill newspaper directly targeting Canada’s top policymakers.

Since 2022, China’s embassy in Ottawa has published 37 editorials in The Hill Times, a twice-weekly newspaper distributed on Parliament Hill with content often of interest to federal political insiders

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FBI Says Chinese National Studying In Canada Took Paid Taskings to Photograph Airplanes In Toronto and Chicago

FBI Says Chinese National Studying In Canada Took Paid Taskings to Photograph Airplanes In Toronto and Chicago

OTTAWA — While the case of Biwei Zhang moves through the courts in Brussels, where an appeals court has extended the detention of the Canadian intern from China accused of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military high command, a second file involving a Chinese national living and studying in Ontario — whose phone, United States officials found, held photographs of himself and others in tactical formations holding rifle-styled firearms, after he was caught photographing American aircraft in Chicago and admitted to a similar operation at Toronto’s airport — is opening in federal court in Michigan.


Seems the LPC is a ChiCom subsidiary.

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Belgian Court Extends NATO Spy Suspect’s Detention as European Reporting Shows Canada Consented to an Investigation of the Intern It Had Cleared

Belgian Court Extends NATO Spy Suspect’s Detention as European Reporting Shows Canada Consented to an Investigation of the Intern It Had Cleared

BRUSSELS – A Belgian appeals court on Monday rejected the release appeal of Biwei Zhang, the Canadian intern accused of involvement in a criminal organization and of espionage inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military command. The Chamber of Indictments in Brussels extended her pre-trial detention by a month.

The ruling comes days after a European investigative consortium published the most detailed reporting yet on how the closely guarded case began, and on what Canada’s part in it was.

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Canada Opens to Chinese EVs as FBI Exposes Beijing-Linked IoT Hacking Network

Canada Opens to Chinese EVs as FBI Exposes Beijing-Linked IoT Hacking Network

SAN DIEGO — A sworn FBI affidavit unsealed Wednesday describes a seven-year investigation into a Chinese hacking operation that targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, the Justice Department, the National Institutes of Health and, this year, the United States Senate.

The filing says payments from China’s Ministry of State Security to Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Co. indicate that the private company conducted malicious cyber operations for Beijing. Some of its hackers were former members of the People’s Liberation Army who used their military connections to obtain contracts and subcontracts for offensive cyber operations.

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