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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U.S. Officials: Chinese Shipping Giant Uses Cargo Ships to Spy on Military Communications

U.S. Officials: Chinese Shipping Giant Uses Cargo Ships to Spy on Military Communications

China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO has secretly equipped commercial vessels with sophisticated technology to collect military communications near the United States and other countries, according to senior Trump administration officials.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters that COSCO has maintained a decades-long intelligence relationship with Beijing, allowing China to collect communications signals from ships and aircraft operating across North America, Europe and Asia.

The equipment aboard COSCO vessels consists of “sophisticated signals intelligence collection” systems rather than ordinary communications hardware, the officials said.

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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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The Chinese Dragon Lurks Beneath the Pacific

The Chinese Dragon Lurks Beneath the Pacific

In an era when artificial intelligence is guiding drones in deadly attacks in Ukraine, it would be understandable to focus exclusively on what that now means on the battlefield.

This would be a grave mistake.

Few in the West have noticed that China just test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, using the waters of the South Pacific as their testing site.

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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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Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China

Canada’s tough response to Trump’s trade war is winning fans in China

In the wake of Ottawa’s forceful response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, the White House on Wednesday said Canada “is joined only by the People’s Republic of China in choosing retaliation over negotiation.”

It’s a strange parallel for Mr. Trump’s team to draw – given Beijing fought the United States to a draw last year, winning concessions and breathing room to further shore up its economy against future U.S. pressure – but one that has also been made in China itself.

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China is weaponizing the Canada–US trade rift to divide North America: Stephen Nagy for Inside Policy

China is weaponizing the Canada–US trade rift to divide North America: Stephen Nagy for Inside Policy

According to a Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report released in March 2026, China views Canada as a “high priority” for foreign interference. The strategic rationale is straightforward. Our geographic, institutional, and cultural proximity to the United States means that a compromised Canada is a direct liability to Washington. If Beijing — America’s primary security challenger — can exert enough influence to misalign Canadian domestic and foreign policy from that of the US, it effectively renders North America vulnerable.

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Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

Lord David Alton of Liverpool, a prominent member of the House of Lords in the UK, recently condemned the 2018 provisional agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a “deal with the devil,” highlighting its complicity in “gross violations” of religious freedom and its resultant betrayal of the underground Church in the nation.

“In the case of the Chinese Communist regime, it is making a deal with the devil—a regime that has committed genocide against Uyghur Muslims and persecutes Tibetan Buddhists, Falun Gong practitioners, and Chinese Christians,” Alton said.

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