John Robson: Trudeau’s ‘wilful blindness’ to the evils of Chinese communism

John Robson: Trudeau’s ‘wilful blindness’ to the evils of Chinese communism

If you’re wondering what it would take for the Trudeau administration to get over its crush on Chinese communism, I have no idea. Especially once we learned that despite everything, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) is doing its best to pour our industrial secrets into the Politburo’s pockets via … wait for it … Huawei. And by “despite everything” I mean massive evidence of the Chinese Communist Party’s hostility to human rights and decency, including putting history’s worst mass killer on their banknotes in case anyone was struggling with the concept of “brutal communist dictatorship and loving it.

This is Globalism, Canada’s China class is hard at work.

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Time to End Hostile Powers’ Influence Operations at American Universities

Time to End Hostile Powers’ Influence Operations at American Universities

For years, they’ve been taking money under the table from China, Qatar, and elsewhere.

American universities are awash in foreign money, with at least $12 billion in gifts and contracts reported from 2013 through June 2019. Research by Congress and the Department of Education (DoE) demonstrates that no one knows exactly how much foreign support academe has received or to what ends it has been used. Acting in concert, the Biden administration and Congress could end this influx of dark money by requiring universities to be transparent in their reporting of any foreign support.

Instead, Joe Biden has just ensured that Americans will remain in the dark regarding a major source of those funds: China.

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As China’s Big Tech Hits America, Biden Signals Surrender

As China’s Big Tech Hits America, Biden Signals Surrender

On February 11, the Justice Department asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put on hold its review of the Trump-era ban on WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app.

This request came a day after the administration asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a similar hold on the case considering the Trump ban on the Chinese mobile video-sharing platform TikTok.

Lower U.S. courts had previously enjoined the enforcement of the Trump bans. WeChat users and TikTok had sued to block enforcement. Trump banned the apps because they were, he correctly contended, collecting “vast swaths” of data and censoring Americans.

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Canada’s China Class – ‘Let’s go learn’: Not for Canada to tell China it’s wrong, N.S. premier Stephen McNeil says

Canada’s China Class at work.

Amid growing calls for a tougher Canadian stance toward China, outgoing Nova Scotia Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil had some provocative advice recently, suggesting politicians here should actually avoid reproaching Beijing.

The federal government is grappling with China’s imprisonment of two Canadians, a clampdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong and the sweeping suppression of the country’s Uyghur minority.

Gee, I wonder who greased his palms?

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WHO Adviser: Wuhan COVID-19 Probe ‘Done by Chinese Authorities’

WHO Adviser: Wuhan COVID-19 Probe ‘Done by Chinese Authorities’

World Health Organization (WHO) adviser Jamie Metzl has said that the international body’s investigation into the origins of the CCP virus was in fact conducted by Chinese authorities.

The probe, which also considered whether the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology that had been studying coronavirus spread from bats to humans, was carried out by local authorities and not WHO investigators, Metzl told Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle” on Feb. 10.

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Kelly McParland: What will it take for the Liberals to admit that China is dangerous?

Kelly McParland: What will it take for the Liberals to admit that China is dangerous?

You have to wonder how often knowledgeable people need to attest that China’s is a dangerous, predatory and untrustworthy government before the fact of it begins to sink in and action is taken.

Yet as warnings go, you don’t get more authoritative or plain-spoken than the one issued by David Vigneault, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, during an online forum.

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Pathogen Pipeline: Chinese Agents In Canada Shipped Deadly Pathogens To The Wuhan Institute Of Virology

Justin Trudeau Xiangguo Qiu Keding Cheng – Everybody say Xi

It is “extremely unlikely” that the virus causing Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), but for the World Health Organization there’s more to the story. According to WHO mouthpiece Peter Ben Emerek, the issue does not even warrant further study.

“Phew. That’s China off the hook, then,” wrote Miranda Devine of the New York Post.

Contrary to Emerek, a food safety and nutrition specialist, not a virologist, the WIV warrants plenty of further study. Consider, for example, recent revelations from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Covid ‘was circulating widely’ in China and had mutated at least 13 times before Beijing reported it to the world

Covid ‘was circulating widely’ in China and had mutated at least 13 times before Beijing reported it to the world

The scientist who led the WHO’s Covid fact-finding mission to Wuhan has revealed the first evidence that the virus was circulating widely in China before Beijing alerted the world to its existence.

Peter Embarek said his team have discovered there were at least 13 Covid variants in Wuhan in December last year, suggesting the virus had been in the human population for some time to allow these different strains to develop.

He also revealed that up to 1,000 people in Wuhan could have been infected in early December – an estimate based on Chinese data that showed 174 severe cases of the disease.

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China Used Secret Microchip to Spy on US Computers

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China — the result of code hidden in chips that handled the machines’ startup process.

In 2014, Intel Corp. discovered that an elite Chinese hacking group breached its network through a single server that downloaded malware from a supplier’s update site.

And in 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned multiple companies that Chinese operatives had concealed an extra chip loaded with backdoor code in one manufacturer’s servers.

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Maybe boycotts don’t work, but that doesn’t quite end the debate about the 2022 Olympics in China

Maybe boycotts don’t work, but that doesn’t quite end the debate about the 2022 Olympics in China

The debate about whether Canadian athletes should boycott the next winter Olympics, scheduled to take place in China in 2022, ultimately rests on a series of questions about the efficacy of such action, the morality of proceeding with the games and even who should get to decide whether or not to launch a boycott.

But if the Olympics do proceed with most of the world’s nations represented, the question might then become whether its grand stage could be used to air the political and humanitarian concerns that now encircle the games.

The boycott is the right approach, it will piss off Canada’s China class. The Olympics are just another elitist scam few would miss.

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Worthwhile Canadian Initiative

Canada, dozens of allies, declare arbitrary detentions immoral amid Kovrig, Spavor

OTTAWA — Canada and has created a coalition with 57 other countries to support a new international declaration denouncing state-sponsored arbitrary detention of foreign nationals for political purposes.

The new declaration was born out of a year of behind-the-scenes international diplomacy, spearheaded by former foreign affairs minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.

Canada has sought global support to free Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who are spending their 798th day in Chinese prisons today.

Yup this’ll have Xi reversing course.

 

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Canada’s China Class At Work… Ottawa partners with Huawei to fund university research despite security concerns

Canada’s China Class At Work… Ottawa partners with Huawei to fund university research despite security concerns

The federal government is partnering with Huawei to sponsor leading-edge computer and electrical engineering research at Canadian universities, a move critics say threatens this country’s national security and economic interests.

The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), a federal agency, is collaborating with the Canadian arm of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to fund the studies. Top universities in the United States and Britain have shunned further research money from Huawei over intellectual-property and national-security concerns.

The federally funded council is putting up $4.8-million for research partnerships that include Huawei. The technology giant would not divulge its contribution but would only say it is “greater than $4.8-million.”

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Liberal Hollywood Sold Its Soul to China … Now What?

For years whenever China told Hollywood to jump, the industry had but one answer … how high?

Studios drooled over China’s vast theatrical marketplace, with millions of movie goers eager to watch American popcorn franchises like “Fast & Furious.” And they did just that while filmmakers followed the country’s strict rules at every step.

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Covid-19 pandemic: China ‘refused to give data’ to WHO team

China refused to hand over key data to the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of Covid-19, one of its members has said.

Microbiologist Dominic Dwyer told Reuters, the Wall St Journal and the New York Times the team requested raw patient data from early cases, what he called “standard practice”.

He said they only received a summary.

China has not responded to the allegation but has previously insisted it was transparent with the WHO.

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‘They’d have made me a spy’: China uses LinkedIn to steal state secrets

Under fake profiles, agents offer money and lucrative business opportunities in exchange for sensitive information. Fiona Hamilton meets one of their targets

Philip Ingram was initially interested when he was contacted to do some work for a security company in Shanghai.

As a former colonel whose expertise includes specialist cyberintelligence work and knowledge of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, Ingram was used to such approaches.

“I got a connection request from someone on LinkedIn, I get lots of them,” Ingram said. “His name was Robin, he was a Chinese businessman with links across the security industry in his profile. It fitted the sort of people I would connect with, so I accepted.”

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