“China – Communist Slave State” – Page 81

Intelligence Officials Previously Warned Ottawa About TikTok’s Data-Harvesting Methods: Report

The federal government was allegedly warned by a Canadian intelligence official that the Beijing-linked video-sharing app TikTok was misleading governments and the general public about its data-harvesting methods nearly half a year before Ottawa banned the app from all federal devices, according to an internal briefing note.

A document prepared for the government in September 2022 by the Privy Council Office’s (PCO) Intelligence Assessment Secretariat said that TikTok was giving “false public and governmental reassurances about data sovereignty and security.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2023July 18, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

She’s a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. How can she be so oblivious?

The plight of the “Two Michaels” might seem a distant memory for most Canadians.

Yet barely two years after China released these two high-profile hostages from prison, Canadians have reason to fear a repetition of Beijing’s strong-arm tactics — through the heavy hand of Hong Kong.

by Blazingcatfur•July 17, 2023July 16, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Fighting Foreign Influence: Beijing Exploits Gaps in Canadian Law; David Matas Proposes Remedies

Beijing and other tyrannical regimes exploit gaps in Canadian law to advance their transnational repression in Canada, and a prominent international human rights lawyer says this is a problem that calls for comprehensive legislation to combat their foreign interference.

Winnipeg-based lawyer David Matas, senior legal counsel for B’nai Brith Canada, said repressive states like China, Russia, and Iran have been exploiting organizations such as the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to harass and intimidate their own nationals even after they’ve fled abroad to escape persecution back home. He said malign state actors are also abusing conventional mechanisms for international cooperation on criminal matters.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2023July 15, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Canadian Politicians Who Criticize China Become Its Targets

As China increases its reach in diaspora communities, Chinese Canadian politicians in Vancouver are the focus of Chinese state interference in Canadian politics.

The polls predicted a re-election victory, maybe even a landslide.

But a couple of weeks before the vote, Kenny Chiu, a member of Canada’s Parliament and a critic of China’s human rights record, was panicking. Something had flipped among the ethnic Chinese voters in his British Columbia district.

“Initially, they were supportive,” he said. “And all of a sudden, they just vanished, vaporized, disappeared.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2023July 15, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Poilievre ‘sitting next to our phone waiting’ for Trudeau to update on public inquiry

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said his party is waiting on the Liberals to move ahead on a public inquiry on foreign interference, saying the government is to blame for any delays.

Poilievre held a media availability in Vancouver Friday, and said the ball is in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s court.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2023July 14, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Canada Confronts Allegations of China-Led Electoral Interference

Reports of possible meddling by Chinese government in Canada’s elections are pressuring Trudeau government

RICHMOND, British Columbia—A series of public revelations about alleged Chinese government meddling in Canadian politics has roiled the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, prompting calls from opposition politicians and China analysts for tighter monitoring of foreign-interference threats within Canada’s borders and a full probe of the alleged activities.

The latest concerns flared when Erin O’Toole, the former Conservative Party leader, said he was told recently by Canadian security officials that Beijing had tried to thwart his path to replace Trudeau as prime minister in the 2021 elections.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2023July 14, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Scientists who denounced Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy secretly believed it was ‘highly likely’ the virus escaped Chinese research facility

A renowned scientist who led the condemnation of the Covid lab leak theory privately believed it was ‘high likely’, leaked messages show.

Dr Kristian Andersen, a Danish evolutionary biologist, co-authored a now-notorious research paper published in March 2020 that denounced the origin scenario as a conspiracy theory and xenophobic.

Yet Slack messages obtained by DailyMail.com show how just weeks before the publication of that paper, Dr Anderson told colleagues the idea of a lab leak was ‘not some fringe theory’ and was, in fact, ‘highly likely’ the genesis of the pandemic.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2023July 13, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

Is America Losing The Battle For Naval Superiority To Red China?

It’s no secret Red China has spent the past several decades heavily investing in its armed forces. In a matter of decades, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has evolved into the largest military in the world, retrofitted with some of the latest and most advanced weapons systems.

Such developments have prompted Beijing to take more aggressive actions throughout the Indo-Pacific region in recent years. Just last month, a U.S. destroyer was abruptly cut off by a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessel during a transit through the Taiwan Strait. The incident occurred a few weeks after a Chinese fighter jet came within 400 feet of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft while the latter was conducting a patrol of the South China Sea.

by Blazingcatfur•July 14, 2023July 13, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Beijing Donated Communist Propaganda Books to City Library in Quebec

BROSSARD—Beijing made an unsolicited donation of Chinese language books to a municipal library in Quebec, which included a piece praising the accomplishments of the Communist Party.

The Chinese consulate in Montreal donated 300 books to a city on the south shore of Montreal in 2017, and attempted another donation in 2019, as first reported by the Journal de Montréal.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2023July 12, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

Do Not Let China Attack America from America

The America ChangLe Association in Manhattan’s Chinatown, which closed down after an FBI raid last year, has just reopened with a grand ceremony celebrating… July 4! This is China’s new form of political warfare, brazen in the extreme.

It is way past time to end the ability of the Chinese regime to conduct political warfare against the United States from American soil. America’s defense begins with closing down the America ChangLe Association.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2023July 12, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA

Blair Doubles Down in Blaming CSIS for His Not Receiving Intel on Beijing Threat to MPs

Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair says staff in his office and department aren’t to blame for not informing him of Beijing threats to MPs and has repeated that Canada’s spy agency is at fault.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) “had Top Secret information that they felt that I should see, and clearly, the process that they had in place to bring it to my attention was not complete, and did not bring it to my office’s attention and that’s now been remedied,” Mr. Blair said in a press conference in Ottawa on July 11.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2023July 11, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Scientists at center of Covid lab leak ‘cover-up’ admit decision to downplay theory was ‘political’ because they feared a ‘s***show from China’

High-profile scientists caught up in the controversy over Covid’s origins have admitted the decision to play down the lab leak theory was political.

Internal Slack communications obtained by a House subcommittee investigating the early days of the pandemic showed how scientists who wrote a paper dismissing the idea of a lab accident feared retribution from the Chinese government.

Dr Andrew Rambaut, a biologist at the University of Edinburgh, was a co-author of the March 2020 Nature Medicine research article titled ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ which degenerated believers of the lab leak theory as conspiracy theorists and racists.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2023July 11, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "China eats weird animals disease"

China’s military is leading the world in brain ‘neurostrike’ weapons: Report

China‘s People’s Liberation Army is developing high-technology weapons designed to disrupt brain functions and influence government leaders or entire populations, according to a report by three open-source intelligence analysts.

The weapons can be used to directly attack or control brains using microwave or other directed energy weapons in handheld guns or larger weapons firing electromagnetic beams, adding that the danger of China‘s brain warfare weapons prior to or during a conflict is no longer theoretical.

h/t Dana G

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2023July 11, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State"

Corporate ethics czar launches forced-labour probes into Nike, Dynasty Gold in China

OTTAWA – Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog has announced investigations into a gold-mining corporation and the Canadian branch of Nike for possible forced labour in supply chains.

Sheri Meyerhoffer, who is the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, says the first two investigations her office has launched related to China’s Uyghur minority.

I suspect Canada’s China Class has nothing to fear.

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2023July 11, 2023•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada

China’s Advances in Space Warfare Are Terrifying

“China is steadily progressing toward becoming a world-class space leader, with the intent to match or surpass the United States by 2045.”

The indefatigable Bill Gertz of the Washington Times has a page-one story highlighting a Mitchell Institute report that warns that the United States is falling behind China in “counterspace capabilities” that will be crucial to success in any future war.

To quote the report: “The U.S. advantage in space is at risk … [T]he United States must maintain its access to space capabilities that are now threatened by China. And the United States must have the potential to deny China access to the space capabilities it needs to threaten U.S. space and terrestrial forces and national interests.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2023July 10, 2023•0•"China - Communist Slave State", USA