Security around Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square has been heightened for days, with rumours on social media swirling of a special parade or some big, choreographed event.
Preparations for this major event have started with a whisper, but China appears ready to put on a show for US President Donald Trump.
The visit will include talks, a banquet, and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, a complex of imperial temples where emperors would pray for a good harvest.
Donald Trump is expected to confront Xi Jinping about selling weapons to Iran when the pair meet for a pivotal summit in Beijing this week.
The US president will raise the ongoing war with the Chinese president, including Tehran’s attempts to rearm using Chinese hardware once a deal to end the war has been reached.
According to US intelligence, Beijing has considered shipping air defence systems to Iran via other countries to mask its involvement, something Mr Trump has threatened to punish with 50 per cent tariffs.
As Canada prepares to accept more Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, a U.S. senator is warning that although Canada-U.S. ties are strained, Canadian officials should be cautious when making agreements with China’s government.
“I understand that Canada is looking elsewhere and trying to diversify,” Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning.
“I think the point that I would make and did make to Canadian leaders is, just because we have become more difficult doesn’t mean the Chinese are always the straightest shooters when it comes to national security,” Slotkin told host Rosemary Barton.
NEW YORK — A six-story glass-clad building in Manhattan’s Chinatown — wedged between a hotel, a spicy Fuzhou noodle shop and a business billed as a high-end private spa — became this week the unlikely center of one of the most revealing federal trials yet of how Beijing’s security apparatus has allegedly embedded itself inside American society.
WASHINGTON — For nearly four decades, I have advocated for justice and human rights for the Uyghur people in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) oppression. Its record of gross human rights violations is well documented, despite an extensive propaganda apparatus designed to obscure it. China’s use of economic leverage to expand its political influence is also widely recognized, with overt examples across the globe. What is often less visible is the breadth and depth of what the CCP is willing to do, and the lengths it will go, to sustain control and project power.
VANCOUVER — Kennedy Stewart, the former mayor of Vancouver, said in a broadcast interview Monday that British Columbia Premier David Eby is aware of an active RCMP investigation into a sitting cabinet minister suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government — and that senior NDP officials have been alerted to the matter with no apparent action taken.
Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.
At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen Yun dance group to be stopped, the sources said.
The Chinese authorities have known for four years that a pilot of a China Eastern Airlines jet deliberately crashed the aircraft, killing all 132 aboard, according to data from the United States.
The data, released by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), confirms earlier leaked US accounts that Flight 5735, a Boeing 737, was intentionally crashed into mountains in Guangxi province in March 2022.
Canada’s auto sector is raising alarm bells over Ottawa’s decision to open the door to Chinese electric vehicles, warning the move could undercut domestic manufacturing and cost jobs.
Blacklock’s Reporter says executives from General Motors Canada told MPs that new federal concessions allowing thousands of low-tariff Chinese electric vehicles into the country risk weakening Canada’s industrial base and “hollowing out” its skilled workforce.
We were likely to lost auto manufacturing anyway, this will accelerate it.
They certainly didn’t waste any time …
Chinese EVs were spotted in Toronto, here’s what you need to know ahead of their Canadian release
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It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed to a secret deal on co-operating with Chinese police, given the highly controversial nature of these agreements in the past.
Since the details can’t be disclosed without China’s permission, all we know about it is the brief description the Prime Minister’s Office released when Carney announced his EV-canola deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in January.
Two federal indictments unsealed this week provide fresh evidence that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is waging an unconventional war against the United States, one that targets American lives, security, and scientific edge through hacking and industrial-scale drug trafficking.
On April 27, Chinese national Xu Zewei appeared in a federal court in Houston after being extradited from Italy. He faces a nine-count indictment for hacking campaigns between 2020 and 2021. According to prosecutors, officials of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB) recruited Xu and co-conspirator Zhang Yu in early 2020 and instructed the pair to break into U.S. universities and steal research on vaccines, treatments, and testing from leading immunologists and virologists.
As a NATO member and U.S. ally, Canada is a natural target for Beijing’s overseas influence operations, according to Peter Mattis, China expert and president of the U.S.-based think tank The Jamestown Foundation.
However, Canada is particularly vulnerable, Matti says, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as an easy target for several reasons.
One factor is a lack of strong controls against CCP interference in Canada, Mattis said in an interview with Jan Jekielek, senior editor and host of The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.”
On April 27, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced it had blocked a foreign acquisition of Manus, the Chinese AI startup.
The one-line statement did not explain the NDRC’s reasoning. Nor did it mention that the acquirer was Meta Platforms, which had agreed to acquire Manus for more than $2 billion. Meta had wanted to offer Manus’s AI agent, a product the company offers, which can perform skilled work autonomously, across its various platforms.
NEW YORK — A federal indictment unsealed this week has exposed what prosecutors describe as an industrial-scale methamphetamine manufacturing operation engineered by two Chinese national engineers, shipped from Shanghai across two continents, and designed to flood global markets with synthetic drugs at a volume that would dwarf most known production facilities.
OTTAWA – In April 2025, Mehmet Tohti received what appeared to be a routine message on WhatsApp. The sender claimed to be a well-known Uyghur film director and ethnomusicologist — someone Tohti, a leading Uyghur-Canadian rights advocate based in Ottawa, had every reason to trust. The director wanted to send him something official by email. Could Tohti share his address?
Tohti knew better than most what it meant to be a target of Beijing.
