In a groundbreaking new book, former Canadian intelligence analyst and historian Dennis Molinaro argues that nearly a thousand pages of newly declassified RCMP Security Service files indicate Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the first Canadian prime minister ever targeted by a successful Chinese Communist Party influence operation—one whose reverberations shape the central geopolitical crisis of our time: Beijing’s threat to invade Taiwan.
Canada has provided more than $100 million in foreign aid to China since 2015, with the Department of Foreign Affairs saying the funding promoted “sustainable development.”
Blacklock’s Reporter says a briefing note for the Minister of International Development stated the money supported “key foreign policy priorities in China including human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and climate change.”
We are lead by Grifters.
Chinese interests own more than £190 billion in British companies and property and Beijing is making millions a year from asylum hotels, analysis reveals.
The Sunday Times China List discloses that organisations linked to the Chinese Communist Party own three hotels block-booked for migrants, netting them at least £15 million in Home Office contracts.
They are just some of the 442 UK assets owned by private individuals and firms from China and Hong Kong, as well as state-backed organisations.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Negotiators have reached a framework of a trade deal to avert additional 100 percent tariffs that President Donald Trump had threatened to impose on imports from China, setting the stage for the U.S. president’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in interviews Sunday that constructive meetings with his Chinese counterparts led to the deal, with the delegation from Beijing agreeing to defer restrictions on rare earth minerals that were poised to harm the U.S. economy. The announcement marked a significant de-escalation of a whiplashing trade war between the world’s two largest economies, which heated up when Trump threatened to ratchet up tariffs earlier this month in response to China’s restrictions on the minerals, which are essential components in most electronics.
And from CBC – Shadow of Trump’s trade war follows Carney to Malaysia
Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Malaysia late Saturday in search of trade opportunities with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
But the question on everyone’s mind is whether he’ll get any face time with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is expected to arrive at the same gathering on Sunday.
Learn Mandarin Cheap!
JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is ready to make a trade deal which would remove President Trump’s 100% tariff. pic.twitter.com/OdJbLMhuYZ
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 26, 2025
The United States and Thailand reached a Framework for an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade. This historic Agreement will eliminate tariff barriers on approximately 99% of goods, covering a full range of U.S. industrial and agricultural products.
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— United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) October 26, 2025
The Soybean Summit!
h/t Mauser and Clink9
The recent collapse of the prosecution in a major China spy case has unfolded as one of the most significant scandals for the U.K.’s Labour government since it assumed power last year.
At the center of this case are Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash, British citizens who both have connections to China. Witness statements from Matthew Collins, the U.K.’s deputy national security adviser, reveal that Berry was recruited by China’s spy agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), to gather intelligence on the U.K. parliament while he was teaching in China.
Six months after Prime Minister Mark Carney called China Canada’s greatest security threat, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is gushing about forging a “strategic partnership” with it.
“There are going to always be challenges in any relationship,” Anand cheerily told The Canadian Press last week. “What we are aiming to do is recalibrate the relationship, so that it is constructive and pragmatic.”
The Libs were never off China.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid a U.S. trade war, a former diplomat who spent more than a thousand days imprisoned in China is warning Ottawa to remember the threat China poses to Canada.
As then-Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault faced questions about his travel to China in 2023 amid reports of widespread interference by Beijing in Canada’s internal affairs, he said engagement with China was needed to tackle climate change.
Last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney also had words of praise for China on net-zero initiatives, saying on Sept. 22, “In my experience with China, they are, amongst other things, very sincere and engaged on climate.”
Anand says Canada is in a ‘strategic partnership’ with China
OTTAWA – Just three years after Canada called China a “disruptive global power,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now views Beijing as a strategic partner in a dangerous world.
Anand told The Canadian Press on Monday that a strategic partnership with China means going beyond allowing individual irritants to strain the entire relationship and permitting Canada to advance its economic and security interests.
He worked in the shadows, using at least 20 aliases: some knew him as “Mr Haha” or as “Brother Wang”. To others he was “Mr T” or “Nelson Mandela” apparently reflecting his childhood heroes. To his neighbours in Mexico City, he was just “Pancho”.
His scruffy appearance and diminutive size gave few clues that he was, according to the US authorities, an immensely wealthy kingpin who bridged the gap between China and the two most powerful drug cartels in the world.
When China tightened restrictions on rare-earth exports this month, stunning the White House, it was the latest reminder of Beijing’s control over an industry vital to the world economy.
Its dominance was decades in the making.
Since the 1990s, China has used aggressive tactics to build up and maintain its lock over rare-earth minerals, which are essential to making magnets needed for cars, wind turbines, jet fighters and other products.
Human rights and civil society groups are urging Ottawa to maintain tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs), saying that allowing them into the Canadian market could pose national security risks.
Pro-democracy group Saskatchewan Stands with Hong Kong issued a press release on Oct. 16, calling on the federal government to maintain its tariffs on Chinese EVs “in light of serious national security concerns.” The call comes after China’s ambassador to Canada last weekend suggested that dropping the tariffs could prompt Beijing to lift its levies on Canadian canola–a proposal Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew have urged Ottawa to consider.
OTTAWA — As Prince Edward Island calls for an RCMP investigation into allegedly suspicious foreign land acquisitions, The Bureau has learned that the prominent lawyer now chairing the province’s land regulator — the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (IRAC) — previously spent more than 20 years with the same P.E.I. law firm that represented Buddhist organizations IRAC was mandated to investigate.
Beijing’s biggest fish bazaar is a briny-smelling maze of stalls stocked with massive crabs from Russia, purple lobster from Australia and yellow croaker fish from China’s southeastern coast.
What’s increasingly hard to find at Jingshen Seafood Market, however, are products from Canada: the casualties of a punishing trade war between Ottawa and Beijing.
This lost business is becoming harder for Canada to write off as the United States under Donald Trump grows increasingly protectionist and unpredictable.
China – Too Big to Bail
h/t Mauser
After years of strained relations, Canadians are showing a modest shift in their views of China, according to new research from the Angus Reid Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
While favourability remains low, more Canadians are signalling interest in focusing on economic engagement with the Asian powerhouse.
It’s not exactly a Love-In.
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