OTTAWA—Newly-released secret documents show the country’s top intelligence agency was concerned there are “no consequences” for foreign interference in Canadian democracy, as a parliamentary committee calls on the federal government to strengthen criminal laws to crack down on the threat that is the focus of an upcoming public inquiry.
The head of Canada’s spy agency says previous attempts by the Chinese regime to purchase locations in the country for collecting intelligence have been blocked by the government.
“We have seen in the past, acquisition of land, acquisition of different companies … when you start to dig a little bit further, you realize that … there is another intent,” said Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault in an interview with U.S. network CBS.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and dozens of MPs have been targeted by a “Spamouflage” campaign connected to China, which saw a bot network leave thousands of comments on their social media accounts in recent weeks.
According to a new statement from Global Affairs Canada, the federal government’s “Rapid Response Mechanism” detected the campaign, which it says traces back to the People’s Republic of China.
Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer.
The clip has received tens of millions of views on social media.
The company said it alerted police immediately after the video came to its attention, adding that the batch of ingredients had been sealed.
Tsingtao is one of China’s top beer producers and its biggest exporter.
A video clip showed someone urinating in the warehouse containing raw material for Tsingtao Beer went viral on Chinese social media. Regulators of Pingdu County, Qingdao, have started an investigation.
A bearish news for Tsingtao Beer(SH600600).#China #Tsingtao pic.twitter.com/sani5QL2Vx— CN Wire (@Sino_Market) October 20, 2023
China is setting fires.
Chinese President Xi Jinping green-lighted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is supporting that war with lethal and other assistance. In North Africa, Beijing, in conjunction with Moscow, has been fueling insurgencies that resemble wars. In the Middle East, China is backing Hamas’s monstrous attacks on Israel.
Hamas fighters, for instance, appear to have Chinese-made weapons, presumably supplied through Iran. Moreover, the U.S. Navy in 2021 and this year seized Chinese weapons in transit to another proxy of the Islamic Republic, the Houthi militia in Yemen.
The Chinese communist regime employs a “mass collection” approach to subvert its target countries, sending numerous operatives abroad to gradually infiltrate different facets of society, says a former senior manager with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
In an interview with The Epoch Times “American Thought Leaders” program, Michel Juneau-Katsuya spoke on the interference tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that he has observed over the past several decades. They involve collaborating with gang members and tycoons who have immigrated to Canada and made investments there, he said.
The Canadian government has given Chinese law enforcement assistance in their pursuit of fugitive Chinese nationals living abroad for decades, an investigation by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has learned.
In Canada, that help has sometimes come as a result of quid pro quo deals, people with first-hand knowledge of the relationship, including two former Canadian ambassadors to China, told The Fifth Estate.
A TikTok senior executive confirmed that the video sharing app’s Chinese parent company has access to user data, but did not confirm whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can also access this data under its National Intelligence Law.
David Lieber, head of TikTok’s privacy public policy for the Americas, was asked by NDP MP Matthew Green at a House of Commons Ethics Committee on Oct. 18 whether TikTok has “a parent company in China that has access to user data.”
Mr. Lieber responded “yes.” TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which has its headquarters in Beijing.
A former deputy minister of public safety testified on Thursday that it was “not my job” to warn a Conservative MP that he was being targeted by Chinese foreign agents attempting to influence a federal election.
The head of Canada’s intelligence agency spoke openly about China’s interest in partnering with Canadian universities to gain a military edge during a conference with his Five Eyes counterparts on Tuesday.
“China has been very transparent,” Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault said.
“Everything that they’re doing in our universities and in new technology, it’s going back into a system very organized to create dual-use applications for the military.”
Moscow and Beijing seek to ride the wave of solidarity with Palestinians while taking advantage of American distraction
DUBAI—The war between Israel and Hamas isn’t just risking a regional conflagration. It is also affecting the global balance of power, stretching American and European resources while relieving pressure on Russia and providing new opportunities to China.
The long-term effect of the Middle East flare-up is hard to predict. It depends, first of all, on whether Israel is ultimately successful in its stated goal of eliminating Hamas as Gaza’s main military and political force. Another critical issue is whether Israel’s diplomatic relationships in the region and the global standing of its Western supporters can survive the rising civilian casualties in Gaza and the looming horrors of urban warfare in the densely populated enclave.
China continues to move hundreds of millions of tons of coal across its railway system each year, drawing ire from Western pundits as other countries are forcing citizens to ‘go green’ and reduce their carbon footprint.
Scottish journalist Andrew Neil recently ripped Western governments in the wake of China’s projects, such as the Menghua Railway, which is the longest-coal transporting train in the world.
The 1,141-mile railway moves 200million tons of coal each year as fossil fuel use – and traditional greenhouse gas emissions – continue to skyrocket in the communist nation.
A second national security adviser to the prime minister got a warning in 2021 from the nation’s spy agency that Beijing was targeting MPs, a classified document obtained by The Epoch Times shows, but he didn’t brief it up. Additionally, this detail was not included in the special rapporteur’s report on foreign interference.
The Epoch Times has obtained, through the access to information regime, a partly redacted Top Secret limited distribution briefing note the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) sent to a handful of government officials in May 2021, advising them it would conduct defensive briefings with the targeted MPs.
Fifty-five Chinese sailors are feared dead after their nuclear submarine apparently got caught in a trap intended to ensnare British sub-surface vessels in the Yellow Sea.
According to a secret UK report the seamen died following a catastrophic failure of the submarine’s oxygen systems which poisoned the crew.
The captain of the Chinese PLA Navy submarine ‘093-417’ is understood to be among the deceased, as were 21 other officers.
Experts believe that more than seven million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since *President Biden occupied the White House.
The apparatchiks in the Pravda Press downplay the situation by assuring us the invaders are “families,” even though most of the videos we see are of single, military-aged men, frequently from Venezuela.
