Intel agencies set to show Xi Jinping’s hidden wealth

Intel agencies set to show Xi Jinping’s hidden wealth

American intelligence agencies are working on a report to Congress that will disclose new details about the wealth of Chinese Communist Party leaders, including Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, who is also president, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The public report is due before the end of the year and is required under the fiscal 2026 Intelligence Authorization Act signed into law in December as part of the Defense Authorization Act.

“I can confirm ODNI is actively working on the report, as required by the FY26 IAA,” an ODNI spokeswoman told Inside the Ring.

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Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

Chinese EV Deal Embeds Sabotage Risk in the Country’s Roads, Ports and Grids

OTTAWA — China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada’s new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet.

That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and written by Brenda Shaffer, an energy and national-security specialist who teaches at the United States Naval Postgraduate School.

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NYC Socialist ‘Leader’ Is Billionaire CCP Propagandist’s Niece

NYC Socialist ‘Leader’ Is Billionaire CCP Propagandist’s Niece

As socialist candidates surge in New York and New York City, it’s worth noting that one leader of New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapter is the niece of Neville Roy Singham — a propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party and ardent supporter of Maoism and socialism.

The NYC-DSA made headlines this week after candidates it endorsed won their congressional primaries. Winners included Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who are both DSA members, as well as Brad Lander (who was backed by Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders, though he failed to receive a formal DSA endorsement).

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Terry Glavin: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it

Terry Glavin: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it

It’s a war that’s underway everywhere, all the time. It’s being waged by Beijing and Moscow. It’s a hybrid war that confounds western intelligence agencies and transcends borders. Like conventional warfare, it involves mobilizations and sophisticated operations and devastating weaponry that lays waste to entire industries.

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China Taking Scarborough Shoal to Control Entire South China Sea

China Taking Scarborough Shoal to Control Entire South China Sea

China on May 20 towed a “floating structure” to Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The Chinese termed it a temporary facility and claimed it was carrying out activities “including scientific research.”

The South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said it was using the platform for environmental monitoring and sampling and that it was supporting “ecological civilization development.”

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Majority of Canadians see China as ‘significant threat,’ poll shows

Majority of Canadians see China as ‘significant threat,’ poll shows

New in-house federal research shows that Canadians see China as a bigger threat than Iran, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

The poll by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said that 70% saw Russia and 66% saw China as “significant threats” compared to only 34% who felt that way about Iran.

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Canada’s deal for Chinese EVs threatens trade with U.S., automakers warn

Canada’s deal for Chinese EVs threatens trade with U.S., automakers warn

OTTAWA — Canadian auto industry leaders panned Industry Minister Melanie Joly’s claim Monday that Chinese carmakers are interested in forming joint ventures to make electric vehicles with Canadian labour, parts and standards, and said Ottawa’s China push threatens Canada’s chances at getting a deal at the trade table with the United States.

As the July 1 deadline for renewal of the deal looms, and Ottawa is in the midst of a delicate dance with the Trump administration over how closely it is aligning with China, a trip in the past week by Joly to China accompanied by several mining, investment and business executives, but no Canadian carmakers, was seen as cause for concern.


Carney has to know what Joly is up to.

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If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution

If Canada Auto can’t survive, let it fade away. Courting China is not the solution

Prime Minister Mark Carney was caught on a hot mic speaking with U.S. President Donald Trump on June 16 justifying Chinese EV imports. “Less than 3 per cent of our market, 49,000 cars,” Mr. Carney said on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in France. “It’s a cap, we capped, a hard line … I thought you’d actually like that.”

Mr. Trump does like it, Mr. Carney told reporters later.

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Anand won’t say if Chinese EVs will be banned under Canada’s forced labour law

Anand won’t say if Chinese EVs will be banned under Canada’s forced labour law

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refused to say whether Chinese-made electric vehicles could be banned under new federal legislation targeting products linked to forced labour, despite evidence that some Chinese auto supply chains rely on materials connected to Uyghur labour camps.

(Incognito)

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US fears China has obtained vital AI machine from Europe

US fears China has obtained vital AI machine from Europe

The US has raised concerns that Dutch semiconductor giant ASML may have shipped an ultra-high-tech chip-making machine to China.

Howard Lutnick, the US commerce secretary, reportedly held several meetings with ASML executives in which he voiced fears that an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine may have ended up in Chinese hands.

This would be a major violation of the US’s export control regime, which bans the transfer of ASML’s EUVs to restricted markets such as China.

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Motor Mouth: What the hell is Melanie Joly doing?

Motor Mouth: What the hell is Melanie Joly doing?

According to Wiktionary, a “mixed message” is “communication that contains contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear information, making it difficult for the receiver to understand the sender’s true intent, thoughts, or feelings.” If that be so, then Mark Carney’s recent “hot mic” moment at this week’s G7 summit and Melanie Joly’s (almost) simultaneous announcement she was heading to China to drum up some auto business might be the very definition of getting your wires crossed.

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Senior Defence Official’s Firing Claim Casts a Newspaper Report on Her Op-Ed as a Flashpoint in Her Ouster

Senior Defence Official’s Firing Claim Casts a Newspaper Report on Her Op-Ed as a Flashpoint in Her Ouster

OTTAWA — An explosive wrongful-dismissal lawsuit that claims a senior defence official was fired after warning that Ottawa’s anti-American rhetoric was handing a gift to Canada’s real adversaries, China and Russia, casts an article by a veteran Ottawa newspaper reporter as a turning point in the government’s posture toward her — a characterization the reporter firmly rejects.

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France shuts down nine Chinese ‘secret police stations’

France shuts down nine Chinese ‘secret police stations’

France has shut down nine secret Chinese “police stations” allegedly used by Beijing to spy on dissidents and pressure them to return home.

French counter-intelligence dismantled the clandestine operations earlier this year after a year-long investigation into China’s growing reach on French soil.

Three Chinese nationals accused of running the shadow stations faced expulsion, according to the interior ministry, with two already removed from France.

A third case was heard before the Council of State, France’s highest administrative court, this month.

The undeclared outposts allegedly operated under China’s ministry of public security and some were hidden inside Chinese community or cultural associations, particularly those in Paris.

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How a $15 Billion Fujian Scam Empire That Preyed on Americans Bought Protection Inside China’s Security State

How a $15 Billion Fujian Scam Empire That Preyed on Americans Bought Protection Inside China’s Security State

WASHINGTON — When United States prosecutors moved last October to seize roughly 127,271 bitcoin — about $15 billion, the largest forfeiture in American history — the headlines fixed on the number. But The Bureau’s investigation into Chinese-run Cambodian scam compounds — operations that prey on Western citizens — finds something more explosive buried in hundreds of case records.

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Canada’s Spy Service Won Permission to Hack Two State-Linked Botnets — Assessed to Likely Include China — Hiding Inside Canadian Homes

Canada’s Spy Service Won Permission to Hack Two State-Linked Botnets — Assessed to Likely Include China — Hiding Inside Canadian Homes

OTTAWA — For the first time, a Federal Court judge has authorized Canada’s intelligence service to hack into privately owned routers, servers and household internet devices across the country and disarm the malicious software that conscripts them into foreign botnets — virtual armies implanted by hostile states to act as trojan horses, attacking critical Canadian infrastructure from within Canadian homes — a power the court itself acknowledged would otherwise be a crime.

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