tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20739845935941934762024-03-19T01:46:58.072-07:00China'Watch'CanadaKeeping an eye on Communist, Totalitarian China, and its influence both globally, and we as Canadians. I have come to the opinion that we are rarely privy to truth regarding the real goal, the agenda of Red China, and it's implications for Canada [and North America as a whole]. No more can we rely on our media as more and more information on China is actively being swept under the carpet - not for consumption.Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.comBlogger14079125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-73881602407778950182024-03-12T11:48:00.000-07:002024-03-12T11:48:32.748-07:00NIH Doesn’t Want To Publicly Answer Congress On Wuhan Lab Funding<p><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: georgia; font-size: 2.625rem;">NIH Doesn’t Want To Publicly Answer Congress</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: 2.625rem;"> <b>On Wuhan Lab Funding</b></span></p><header class="mb-8 bracket-blue relative" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 22.4px; margin-bottom: 2rem; position: relative;"><div class="featured-image relative" data-fullscreen-image="" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 330px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"><div class="ad" data-google-query-id="CK2I-r7l_PACFcEQ-QAdwhEJbw" id="dailycaller_right1" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/10519169/dailycaller_right1_0__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; position: sticky; top: 100px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.025em; text-align: left;">The director of the </span><b style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.025em; text-align: left;">National Institutes of Health</b><span style="font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.025em; text-align: left;"> wants to answer congressional inquiries about the agency’s links to a Wuhan lab in private, he told e <span style="font-size: medium;">ugh Hewitt Show on sday.</span></span></div></div></div></aside><div id="ob-read-more-selector" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Referring to a congressional <a href="https://republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NIH-Investigation-COVID-origins.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">letter</a> on his agency’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, <b>NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins</b> <a href="https://hughhewitt.com/dr-francis-collins-on-the-u-s-funding-of-the-wuhan-lab-and-congressional-oversight/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">said</a>, “in our response, we offered to have a chance to simply get into a secure space and have a conversation … Much of the information they’re asking for, we don’t have the answers to. Some of it is pretty sensitive, not quite classified, but getting close to that.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthF7x0Lp09fzuriZ4uRP6c4xA_a_7I5fHTRf5Qk33QRZKeZT0N-Dy4Qgb5n_ef0wD22iwFnRBazX5HgJME4cxp99K6eOq37Vsu99S7XyCxDoY-1H25T2heVfBoSEWMjU9JKP0rEadcWqN/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjthF7x0Lp09fzuriZ4uRP6c4xA_a_7I5fHTRf5Qk33QRZKeZT0N-Dy4Qgb5n_ef0wD22iwFnRBazX5HgJME4cxp99K6eOq37Vsu99S7XyCxDoY-1H25T2heVfBoSEWMjU9JKP0rEadcWqN/w640-h640/image.png" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;">“No good. The public needs answers,” Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1400102729066991617?s=11" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; letter-spacing: -0.025em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tweeted</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;">in response.</span></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"></div><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>The Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the center of speculation that COVID-19 could have accidentally leaked from a lab. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;">The NIH’s granting of funds that went to a Wuhan lab complied with regulations because it was for research on a bat virus, not a human one, and was to study how the virus transferred to humans, Collins said in separate</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;"> </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/francis-collins-nih/619065/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; letter-spacing: -0.025em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">comments</a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.025em;">published Wednesday in The Atlantic.</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The terms of the grant were limited to bat viruses, and absolutely did not allow gain-of-function research in the sense of studying human pathogens,” he said.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The gain of function that is of much greater concern, and for which the United States has in place stringent oversight guidelines, relates to experiments that might make a human pathogen more transmissible or more virulent,” Collins <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/francis-collins-nih/619065/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">told</a> the publication.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Under <a href="https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/p3co.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">regulations</a> created in 2017, federal funding for research on viruses with pandemic potential must be reviewed by a board that evaluates its risks. But the board does not review a grant proposal if the funding agency determines that the virus being studied is unlikely to be highly transmissible and deadly to humans.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor does the board review grant proposals studying “naturally occurring pathogens that are circulating in or have been recovered from nature, regardless of their pandemic potential,” the regulations say.<span style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"> <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/04/nih-gain-of-function-anthony-fauci-review-board-wuhan-lab/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">(RELATED: US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says)</a></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The research regulations are largely shrugged off, Vanity Fair <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reported</a> Thursday.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology,” an unnamed longtime agency official told the magazine. “Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u>NIH grants to EcoHealth Alliance totaling <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/26/senate-amendment-ban-gain-of-function-china/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d;" target="_blank">$600,000</a> between 2014 and 2019 were subcontracted to <b>the Wuhan Institute of Virology.</b></u></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The NIH <a href="https://reporter.nih.gov/search/ZBjgKIfaCUyvJmxyKyn6xg/project-details/9819304" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff2a2d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">subcontract</a> was to study viruses from bats living in caves in China, because bat viruses were the source of the human diseases SARS and MERS, respiratory diseases in humans that are also caused by coronaviruses, Collins said.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Collins still believes by far the most likely origin of SARS-CoV-2 is a natural zoonotic pathway from bats to some unidentified intermediate host to humans, he told The Atlantic.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He said the theory that the virus may have leaked from a lab was “muddled up with the intentional-bioweapon hypothesis,” leading to “too much credibility to the latter and not enough to the former.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="346" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UtHKbe1j0TQ" width="416" youtube-src-id="UtHKbe1j0TQ"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; font-weight: 700;"> Britanica</span></span></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span>Francis Collins</span></span><span>, in full </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span>Francis Sellers Collins</span></span><span>, (born April 14, 1950, </span><a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Staunton" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Staunton</a><span>, Virginia, U.S.), American geneticist who discovered </span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/gene" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">genes</a><span> causing </span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/human-genetic-disease" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">genetic diseases</a><span> and who was director (2009– ) of the U.S. <span id="ref1046701" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Institutes-of-Health" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">National Institutes of Health</a><span> (NIH) public research </span><a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="consortium" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consortium" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">consortium</a><span> in the <span id="ref1008790" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Human-Genome-Project" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Human Genome Project</a><span> (HGP).</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="marker MOD1 mod-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span></span></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Homeschooled by his mother for much of his childhood, Collins took an early interest in <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/science" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">science</a>. He received a B.S. from the <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-Virginia" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Virginia</a> (1970), went on to <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yale-University" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Yale University</a> to earn an M.S. and a Ph.D. (1974), and earned an M.D. (1977) at the <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-North-Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">University of North Carolina</a> at <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Chapel-Hill-North-Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Chapel Hill</a>. In 1984 Collins joined the staff of the <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-Michigan" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Michigan</a> at <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ann-Arbor" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Ann Arbor</a> as an assistant professor. His work at Michigan would earn him a reputation as one of the world’s foremost <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/genetics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">genetics</a> researchers. In 1989 he announced the discovery of the <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/gene" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">gene</a> that causes <span id="ref1008791" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/cystic-fibrosis" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">cystic fibrosis</a>. The following year a Collins-led team found the gene that causes <span id="ref1008792" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/neurofibromatosis" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">neurofibromatosis</a>, a genetic disorder that generates the growth of <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/tumor" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">tumours</a>. He also served as a leading researcher in a collaboration of six laboratories that in 1993 uncovered the gene that causes <span id="ref1008793" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Huntington-disease" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Huntington chorea</a>, a neurological <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/disease" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">disease</a>.</span></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 1993 Collins, by then a full professor, left Michigan to take the post as head of the <span id="ref1008796" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Human-Genome-Research-Institute" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">National Human Genome Research Institute</a> (NHGRI) of the NIH, which had begun work on the HGP three years earlier with a stated goal of completing the sequencing project in 15 years at a cost of $3 billion by coordinating the work of a number of leading academic research centres around the country, in collaboration with the <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/US-Department-of-Energy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Department of Energy</a> and the Wellcome Trust of London. Driven by a sincere interest in successful research that could help humanity, Collins was an obvious choice for the job, and he willingly took a sizable pay cut to participate in a historic project.</span></p><div class="assemblies" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><figure class="md-assembly card print-false" data-assembly-id="139400" style="box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><div class="md-assembly-wrapper" data-type="image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><figcaption class="card-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px;"><a class="md-assembly-title font-weight-bold mb-5 d-inline-block font-16 font-sans-serif media-overlay-link" data-href="/media/1/711055/139400" href="https://cdn.britannica.com/92/136092-050-C9CA07FD/Francis-Collins.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-bottom: 5px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Francis Collins</span></a><div class="md-assembly-caption text-muted font-14 font-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Francis Collins.</span></div><cite class="credit d-block mt-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: block; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">National Institutes of Health [NIH]</span></cite></figcaption></figure></div></div><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The necessity of a government effort was questioned when a rival operation, <span id="ref1008794" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Celera-Genomics" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Celera Genomics</a>, emerged in 1998 and appeared to be working even faster than the HGP at deciphering the human deoxyribonucleic acid (<span id="ref1286308" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/DNA" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">DNA</a>) sequence. Headed by American geneticist and businessman <span id="ref1008795" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-Craig-Venter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">J. Craig Venter</a>, a former NIH scientist, Celera had devised its own, quicker method—though some scientists, Collins among them, questioned the accuracy of the work. However, in the end the public and private endeavours came together. On June 26, 2000, Collins, Venter, and U.S. Pres. <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Clinton" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Bill Clinton</a> gathered in Washington, D.C., to announce that the rough draft sequence of the DNA in the human genetic map had been completed through the combined effort of Collins’s public research consortium and Venter’s private company. The breakthrough was hailed as the first step toward helping doctors diagnose, treat, and even prevent thousands of illnesses caused by genetic disorders. In April 2003, following further analysis of the sequence, the HGP came to a close. The announcement of the completion of the HGP coincided with the 50th anniversary of American geneticist and biophysicist <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Dewey-Watson" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">James D. Watson</a> and British biophysicist <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Crick" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Francis Crick’s</a> publication on the structure of DNA.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="marker p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker AM2 am-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker MOD2 mod-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker p3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker AM3 am-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker MOD3 mod-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker p4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker AM4 am-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span><span class="marker MOD4 mod-inline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal;"></span></span></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A practicing Christian, Collins freely expressed the awe he experienced as a leader in the uncloaking of one of the mysteries of life. As concerns arose about the <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="moral" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moral" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">moral</a> and <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="ethical" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethical" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">ethical</a> <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="implications" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implications" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">implications</a> of the research he had conducted, Collins actively cautioned against misuse of genetic information. At congressional hearings in July 2000, Collins urged the passage of federal law to set guidelines on how individuals’ genetic information could be handled. “The potential for mischief is quite great,” he said. On <a class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off" data-term="August" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/August" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted var(--blue); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">August</a> 1, 2008, Collins resigned from his position as director of the NHGRI in order to pursue broader, more flexible research opportunities. The following year Pres. <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barack-Obama" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a> nominated Collins to head the NIH, and he was soon approved by the Senate. In October 2009 he was appointed by <a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benedict-XVI" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Pope Benedict XVI</a> to the <span id="ref1077728" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><a class="md-crosslink" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pontifical-Academy-of-Sciences" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #14599d; text-decoration-line: none;">Pontifical Academy of Sciences</a>, an organization that promotes advancement in the fundamental understanding of scientific questions and the investigation of ethical and philosophical issues associated with science.</span></p><p class="topic-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">.........................................................................................................................................</span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">The Jesuit Handler of Bill Gates and Tony Fauci<b> is Francis Collins.</b></span></span></span></span></p><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="color: black; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whenever you see Gates and Fauci together they always have a Jesuit handler with them on behalf of the Vatican. His name is Francis Sellers Collins who is a geneticist and the boss of Fauci. He works for the National Institute of Health in America.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ErlJ7gzDRORiRnMlwdBnOCwph0RnoPm5y6PkXXb6nYa3wEWRA3Z-5NtL9tAQ40FA_rncNmv6XFflrL3uUK_0UXxANOZX0_h3l1txIZaQinJtGd1GieE9RIkUgu7kvObTMENomo4OU1_n/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ErlJ7gzDRORiRnMlwdBnOCwph0RnoPm5y6PkXXb6nYa3wEWRA3Z-5NtL9tAQ40FA_rncNmv6XFflrL3uUK_0UXxANOZX0_h3l1txIZaQinJtGd1GieE9RIkUgu7kvObTMENomo4OU1_n/s16000/image.png" /></a></span></div></strong></span></span><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Jesuits, the military arm of the "Khazarian Jews", are orchestrating the destruction of America on behalf of the Vatican in order to bring in a one world fascist government and one world religion under the Catholic Pope. The objective is to once again give all power, both spiritual and temporal to the Pope.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">HUGE COVID SCANDAL AT THE NIH: Why has no one investigated Fauci’s boss?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why was the British Templeton Prize of $1.3 MIL awarded to Dr. Fauci’s Boss on May 20, 2020?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHluaSfzM59zR625tU9Xczb48nuKOycvQmOW6LcQ9hxni898J-IxPmnaMPFs55ycOfittvXcJZ5hMk-JmjWiUjkI__ZDLZBb7F24f35sJofyTkxZIlhdt48UZ4QvfPaz4_ihHHVEHKfcwT/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHluaSfzM59zR625tU9Xczb48nuKOycvQmOW6LcQ9hxni898J-IxPmnaMPFs55ycOfittvXcJZ5hMk-JmjWiUjkI__ZDLZBb7F24f35sJofyTkxZIlhdt48UZ4QvfPaz4_ihHHVEHKfcwT/w640-h640/image.png" width="640" /></a></span></strong></strong></div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CHRISTIAN ALERT</span><span> </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This exposé about the National Institutes of Health needs to be disseminated far and wide and as quickly as possible. It concerns a complex psychological operation being conducted by none other than Dr. Anthony Fauci’s boss—NIH Director Francis Collins (see photo below). The Christian churches throughout the USA must become aware of the ongoing COVID-19 psyop stealthily directed at them and their extended communities before it’s too late.</span></span></span><p></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., PhD is also the founder of The BioLogos Foundation, a Christian advocacy group that is pushing vaccines, mandatory masks, social distancing all the time, and business closures via 2700+ Evangelical leaders nationwide.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbcRTDUA-e430u20qQPp0LilCDi-JjgsG8OY-3CCl-WTZ1Elf47MwZbBSTw8NAMm0o5EeTL5NaVNON0bRdPV2yXTabFx9Nf1lV83fMIbkkRCamscZDQAj42BYRX0nvxI6_wvXmFINJkKA/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="640" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqbcRTDUA-e430u20qQPp0LilCDi-JjgsG8OY-3CCl-WTZ1Elf47MwZbBSTw8NAMm0o5EeTL5NaVNON0bRdPV2yXTabFx9Nf1lV83fMIbkkRCamscZDQAj42BYRX0nvxI6_wvXmFINJkKA/w640-h394/image.png" width="640" /></span></a></strong></div><p style="font-weight: bold;"></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25554" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">State of the Nation</span></a></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This most recent piece of SOTN investigative journalism is a work-in-progress as our researchers are presently tied up with more pressing projects related to OPERATION COVID-19</strong>. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Executive Summary</strong></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health quite suspiciously received The Templeton Prize which awarded him $1.3 million on May 20, 2020.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• Since that day, Dr. Collins, who <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“was appointed the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health by President Barack Obama”</em>, has significantly intensified his highly deceptive COVID-19 outreach via the The BioLogos Foundation which he founded in 2007.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• That highly dubious BioLogos missionary work focuses on debunking all the many COVID-19 conspiracy realities that have gone viral on the Internet, especially on social media. It specifically targets Christian communities across America and particularly the various Evangelical churches that are quite truth-seeking and averse to toxic vaccinations.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• The primary mission of both Dr. Collins and his minions at BioLogos appears to be selling the coming COVID-19 vaccine as a safe medical preventative. Their various media presentations also vigorously promote mask wearing, social distancing all the times and mom-and-pop business shut-downs.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The key organizational co-conspirators of this psyop are the NIH, NIAID, CDC, The BioLogos Foundation and the Templeton Prize. Of course, the key Covid plotters are Francis Collins, Tony Fauci, Bill Gates, Deborah Birx, Robert Redfield, Tedros Adhanom et al.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" src="https://img.beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/724569/images/iu-1%20(44).jpg" style="height: 479px; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 5px; width: 640px;" /></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As always, the source of this convoluted criminal conspiracy can be traced back to the British Crown and the Financial District in the City of London. No matter who they say the enemy is, we know it always traces back to the Jew as the Jews are the children of the Serpent and they want to exterminate all the non Jews! The Jesuits are crypto Jews and the Jews control the Jesuits. The Jesuits were created to destroy Protestantism.</span></span></span></p><h1 style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h1><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">/prophecy/2021/05/it-is-time-to-hear-from-the-jews-themselves-jews-admit-they-are-not-the-israelites-of-the-bible-must-see-videos-for-the-truth-2521117.html<br /></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This Executive Summary will be completed shortly; however, in the interest of releasing this urgent “<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CHRISTIAN ALERT</strong>” we have posted the following articles that will permit any armchair investigator to piece together the entire criminal conspiratorial plot.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25618" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Here’s Dr. Fauci’s Evangelical boss at NIH using his BioLogos video platform to unsuccessfully debunk the numerous Covid conspiracy truths (Video)</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25605" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Why was this special COVID-19 discussion with the NIH Director aired the day after he won the $1.3 MIL Templeton Prize?</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25585" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Look at how BioLogos, founded by NIH Director is Francis Collins, is religiously shaming Christians to reject Covid conspiracy truth!</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25581" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Look at the NWO globalists who have judged and presented the Templeton Prize.</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25577" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Does the Templeton Prize about “Celebrating Scientific & Spiritual Curiosity” or Implementing the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New World Order</em> globalist agenda?</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25572" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2016 Templeton Prize Laureate was a protégé of Chabad-Lubavitch movement Leader Menachem Mendel Schneerson</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25569" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">It’s about time to take a closer look at Fauci’s boss at NIH, yes?!</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25566" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">How convenient that the bankster-funded Templeton Prize (via the Templeton Growth Fund) honors the current NIH Director with the 2020 award of 1.1 million British pounds!</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25561" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Why did the NIH Director really win the $1.3 million Templeton Prize on May 20, 2020?</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25558" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Talk about the churches doing the work of the devil!</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25541" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Why are 2,700 high-profile LAODICEAN EVANGELICALS fervently advocating the COVID-19 vaccine?</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">• <a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=http://stateofthenation.co/?p=25540" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">WOW! 2700 Evangelical Leaders Sell the “Mark of the Beast” to Their Congregations</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To be continued —</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the meantime remember that Dr. Collins is Dr. Fauci’s boss.</span></span></span></p><h1 style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">False Prophet Francis, another Jesuit who wants you dead, is pushing the vaccines made with aborted baby parts where the heart is pulled from a 5 month old live fetus, to kill you as well.</span></strong></span></span></h1><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is not one solution for everyone unless it is a lethal dose which will be the “final solution” as Killer Gates dubbed it in his interview with Steve Colbert.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pope Francis Sides With Bill Gates And Says COVID Vaccine Must Be ‘Universal And For All People’ Despite Being Made From Aborted Baby Parts</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pope-francis-sides-with-bill-gates-and-says-covid-vaccine-must-be-universal-and-for-all-people-new-world-order/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/pope-francis-sides-with-bill-gates-and-says-covid-vaccine-must-be-universal-and-for-all-people-new-world-order/</span></a></strong></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pope Francis backs ‘universal’ COVID vaccination ‘for all’, WHO thrilled</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-backs-universal-covid-vaccination-for-all" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-backs-universal-covid-vaccination-for-all</span></a></span></span></p><h1 style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Time to Act: Debunking Christian Excuses for Inaction in the Face of Evil</span></strong></span></span></h1><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/time-act-debunking-christian-excuses-inaction-face-evil/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/time-act-debunking-christian-excuses-inaction-face-evil/</span></a></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Submit to the Authorities” Does Not Apply Here </span></strong></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Those who use Scripture’s admonition to “submit to the authorities” to justify doing nothing while our nation is under siege are also misusing Scripture. The Bible tells us that unless the authorities are following the law of God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, then we do not have to follow them. Passages such as 1 Peter 2:13-17 (c.f. Romans 13:1-7) are not a blanket command to always submit to authorities in every situation. Rather, they are a general admonition to be applied under certain conditions. Note that Peter clearly states in verse 14 that the authorities in question recognize the difference between good and evil, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and commend good</em> (c.f. Romans 13:3). This is not the case today. Congressmembers, judges, governors, mayors, and local authorities are openly fomenting and funding lawlessness. They celebrate those who break our laws while vilifying those who uphold them. They clearly do not stand for, nor commend, good.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is another important implication of both this passage and the Romans 13 passage that is often overlooked: Through the act of obeying the authorities, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">believers help maintain their freedom to do good </em>(1 Peter 2:14, Romans 13:3-4). This is also not the case today. Rather than maintaining it, our obedience — played out in silence and inaction — is costing us our freedom to do good. We are being vilified for our beliefs, silenced in the public square, and forced out of and denied jobs. If we believers do not stand now against the lawlessness overtaking our land, we will lose our freedom to do good <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">for good</em>. It is only a matter of time.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is not surprising then that we see Peter, who penned 1 Peter 2:13-17, defying the authorities in Acts 4 and 5 when those authorities command him to stop preaching the gospel. Peter’s response? An emphatic, “<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29)</strong></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rabbi Michoel Green Tells Us That Vaccines Are Against The Torah (Old Testament) And The Contrived Noahide Laws Coming Soon in the NWO.</span></strong></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am not sure how long this Rabbi and his post last for telling the truth.<br /><a href="https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/r2/?url=https://stopnoahidelaw.blogspot.com/2020/08/rabbi-says-noahide-laws-prohibit.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3970dc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://stopnoahidelaw.blogspot.com/2020/08/rabbi-says-noahide-laws-prohibit.html</a></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Judaism prohibits current vaccine schedule for several reasons [1]. The schedule is also a grave violation of the Seven Noahide Laws, a universal code for all humankind [2]. The fact that it’s mandatory is an assault on the very concept of religion, i.e. that a human being is subordinate only to his/her Divine creator. In effect, there is no major world religion that does not support religious exemption.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Foot Notes:</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[1] Deuteronomy 14:1 prohibits needle wounds if not for direct curative benefit for patient. Preventative benefit qualifies, but only if it prevents an actual risk of disease. It is dubious whether an STD like Hep-B or HPV poses any substantive risk to a young child, or to any orthodox Jewish child. Deuteronomy 4:15 prohibits exposing oneself to risk, even negligible risk, and even for the sake of a so-called herd. Avoda Zara 29b prohibits deriving benefit from human cadavers. Abortion is akin to murder, as per Genesis 9:6. It is forbidden to compensate a company for the abortions and live dissections of human beings that it committed by harvesting the fetal tissue for human cell lines in numerous vaccines. Purchasing vaccines that contain aborted fetal tissue is a violation of Leviticus 19:14, as it enables and encourages these companies to commit their heinous deeds.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">[2] Genesis 9:5 prohibits Noahides from self-inflicting wounds or exposing oneself to risk. Abortion is murder, as per Genesis 9:6. A Noahide is prohibited from compensating a murderer. Rambam, Mishne Torah, Laws of Rotzeach 2:2. See Sheva Mitzvot HaShem by Rabbi Moshe Vainer, volume 1, page 58, regarding the precise prohibition of a Noahide of encouraging others to violate the Noahide Code.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Killer Gates will be in charge of Digital ID 2020 and the Mark of the Beast. I am told by the Holy Spirit that Killer Gates will be inserting the Bubonic plague as well as ebola into the vaccines. Anyone that take the Covid-19 vaccines will have the plagues of Babylon poured out on them and they will beg for death and not find it. The neuralink is also a form of the Mark of the Beast which is inserted into your head. God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob does not dwell in a machine and will leave our temple (our body) once we take the neuralink or the DNA changing Covid-19 vaccines and you will become a zombie or worse. The Covid-19 tests have been proven to be contaminated and the Covid-19 tests can be tagging you and vaccinating you so do not take the Covid-19 test which are100% fraudulent or submit anyone a blood sample. The Covid-19 vaccines and tests are DNA changing and we are commanded by God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to keep our DNA pure. Just like in the days of Noah, people are polluting and changing their DNA by race mixing and taking vaccines and other nefarious means such as crispr cas-9.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are bubonic plague outbreaks occurring now in China and Mongolia so they must be trying out the Covid-19 vaccines on the unsuspecting people there. Killer Gates was already caught for putting ebola in the vaccines on previous occasions, Africa was conquered using ebola and there is an ebola outbreak in the USA. Gates owns the patent on Ebola.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" src="https://img.beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/724569/images/bubonic%204(6).jpg" style="height: 394px; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 5px; width: 700px;" /><img alt="" src="https://img.beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/724569/images/Masks%20aplenty.jpg" style="height: 450px; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 5px; width: 700px;" /></span></p></span></div></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-39432038742871225362024-03-11T15:07:00.000-07:002024-03-11T15:08:11.785-07:00 Was/Is China,The US and Canada part of a worldwide conspiracy involving lethal vaccines?<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"> Was/Is China,The US and Canada</span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></span><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">part of a worldwide conspiracy </span></b><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">involving lethal vaccines?</span></span><br /><br />March 11 2024<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="371" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vQdaxkGAOIk" width="446" youtube-src-id="vQdaxkGAOIk"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: large;">.....Trudeau??? What is he hiding? Why shut down or prolong everything involving this high profile case.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="378" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UM2jp6V0af8" width="455" youtube-src-id="UM2jp6V0af8"></iframe></div></span><p></p><h1 class="detailHeadline" lang="en" style="font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.3; margin-block: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 0.67em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Speaker wants information on fired scientists released,</span><span style="font-weight: 300;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> prepares to challenge Liberal government in court</span></span></span></h1><h2 class="deck" lang="en" style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Liberal government asking court to prohibit disclosure of documents related to firing of lab scientists</span></h2><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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font-size: 1rem; line-height: 24px; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota intends to take on the Liberal government in a court fight over the disclosure of documents related to the firing of two scientists at Canada's highest-security laboratory.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Speaker's office says the Speaker's legal counsel has advised the attorney general that Rota — who is named as the respondent on behalf of the House of Commons in the Liberal government's court application — will challenge the court's jurisdiction on the basis of parliamentary privilege, unless the government drops its application to block the disclosure of the documents.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rota told the House of Commons on Wednesday that his argument will be "that the legal system does not have jurisdiction over the operations of the House. We are our own jurisdiction.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"That is something that we will fight tooth and nail to protect."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Opposition MPs said they were shocked by the government's court application.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Liberal government and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) are refusing to release documents related to the firing of scientist Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng, who were escorted off the premises of the National Microbiology Laboratory in 2019 during an RCMP investigation.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The two were officially <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-scientists-national-microbiology-laboratory-1.5904035" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;">fired in January of this year</a>.</span></p><div><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scientists-documents-1.6077303" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="Ottawa asks court to keep documents related to scientists' firing under wraps"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ottawa asks court to keep documents related to scientists' firing under wraps</span></span></a></li></ul><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/winnipeg-lab-house-bar-iain-stewart-1.6050835" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="PHAC president Iain Stewart reprimanded in House by Speaker for failing to produce documents"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PHAC president Iain Stewart reprimanded in House by Speaker for failing to produce documents</span></span></a></li></ul><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/otoole-nsicop-withdrawal-1.6070130" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="O'Toole pulls Conservative MPs from national security committee, alleging Liberal cover-up related to COVID-19"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">O'Toole pulls Conservative MPs from national security committee, alleging Liberal cover-up related to COVID-19</span></span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Opposition parties joined forces in the Commons earlier this month to order PHAC to turn over all unredacted documents related to the firing of the two scientists.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Liberal government <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/scientists-documents-1.6077303" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;">asked the court earlier this week</a> to prohibit the disclosure of the documents and named Rota, a Liberal MP, as the respondent in the matter.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Liberal government says it is concerned about the possible impact of releasing sensitive intelligence on international relations, national security and national defence.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">PHAC president Iain Stewart said he is prohibited under the Canada Evidence Act from disclosing "sensitive information or potentially injurious information" unless the attorney general and the Federal Court authorize the disclosure.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Mr. Stewart's intention is to comply with the law. It is not to defy Parliament," he said through his lawyer in a letter tabled in the House earlier this week.</span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/commons-20210621.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/commons-20210621.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/commons-20210621.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/commons-20210621.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/commons-20210621.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6074440.1633791508!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/commons-20210621.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.2731 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">President of the Public Health Agency of Canada Iain Stewart, right, approaches the bar in the House of Commons to be admonished by Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 21, 2021. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The opposition parties' motion called for the documents to be handed to the parliamentary law clerk, who would confidentially review them and redact anything he felt would compromise national security or the ongoing police investigation.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The motion specified that the Canada-China relations committee could, after consulting with the law clerk, choose to make public any redacted material.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The minority Liberal government defied the House order and instead provided the unredacted documents to the all-party National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, NSICOP, whose members have top security clearance and are bound to secrecy.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Liberal government argued that NSICOP was the appropriate body to examine the documents without putting at risk national security or compromising any ongoing investigations.</span></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">'The House has the power'</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Last week, Rota ruled that sending the documents to NSICOP is not an acceptable alternative since it's a relatively new body and not a standing committee of Parliament.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rota used a rarely used House procedure on Monday to <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/winnipeg-lab-house-bar-iain-stewart-1.6050835" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;">publicly reprimand Stewart</a> for his failure to hand over the requested documents.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The powers in question, like all those enjoyed by the House collectively and by members individually, are essential to the performance of their duties," Rota said. "The House has the power, and indeed the duty to reaffirm them when obstruction or interference impedes with its deliberations.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"As guardian of these rights and privileges, that is precisely what the House has asked me to do today, by ordering the Speaker to reprimand you for the Public Health Agency of Canada's contempt, refusing to submit the required documents."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, who alleges the Liberal government's refusal to release the documents is evidence of a cover-up, said the Conservatives support Rota's position.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The Trudeau government's decision to use Canada's independent judicial system to defy the orders of the House of Commons undermines the rule of law and our parliamentary democracy. This should concern every Canadian," said Chong.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Until the documents are released, Canada's Conservatives will continue to demand answers and hold the Trudeau government accountable. We will protect our national security."</span></p></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-38541212980312356952024-03-11T14:30:00.000-07:002024-03-11T14:30:56.542-07:00 Immigration Fraud in Canada<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #b4a7d6;"> Immigration Fraud</b><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"> in Canada<br /></span></span></p><h1 class="detailHeadline" lang="en" style="background-color: white; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.3; margin-block: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 0.67em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Biggest immigration fraudster in Canadian history left $900K fine unpaid</span></h1><h2 class="deck" lang="en" style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Parole Board decision says</span> Xun (Sunny) Wang <span style="font-weight: 400;">had to be released one-third through his 7-year sentence</span></span></h2><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #545454; display: flex; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><figure class="imageMedia author-image full" style="display: inline; height: 40px; margin: 0px 0.5rem 0px 0px; min-width: 40px; padding: 0px; width: 40px;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: none; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"></div></figure><div class="bylineDetails"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><time class="timeStamp" datetime="2018-06-29T19:21:40.029Z" style="display: inline-block;">Jun 29, 2018</time></span></div></div><div data-cy="storyWrapper" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><figure class="imageMedia leadmedia-story full" style="margin: 0px;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin: 1rem 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2fhAgAfq9yY3B8Un4eVzz9chATGRnIYuB-e2EnuZyUnwtBgsjckgFtXGXCNcRM7U_QdM8zrO0I3pw3GgzNu4DYE1pc74uI1a845wYvi6cXpqzdr7sK1oOnRz1MLqfzj-yZAet84PbQcGn-JJDDIKIWMCpzE6kW3DnTfBqHcZOFlMSsTAbZ13KinXwyJa_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1090" data-original-width="1932" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2fhAgAfq9yY3B8Un4eVzz9chATGRnIYuB-e2EnuZyUnwtBgsjckgFtXGXCNcRM7U_QdM8zrO0I3pw3GgzNu4DYE1pc74uI1a845wYvi6cXpqzdr7sK1oOnRz1MLqfzj-yZAet84PbQcGn-JJDDIKIWMCpzE6kW3DnTfBqHcZOFlMSsTAbZ13KinXwyJa_=w649-h367" width="649" /></a></div><br /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Xun (Sunny) Wang has been released after serving a third of his sentence for the largest immigration fraud in Canadian history. He refused to answer questions from Radio-Canada's investigative program Enquête. </span></figcaption></figure><div class="story" style="color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 24px; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtIXboU0BuU8rUJ51-otkk6FcalKir523LEgH8953B4_HnDg4hbNP1Kx7Cg4BvXXI0T9tqCwewVlfIYU0jKR_3P9MqjZK1F0N9dK-rxS9Teu_3u_Aq0qmCcL150Xjb3djV-wedTft8XiDfx1Ybu9WjANtJnIxvmYn_aoXAuLgczFzV063KSfdgAzghd--C" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19.2px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center; text-wrap: nowrap;"><img alt="" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="780" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtIXboU0BuU8rUJ51-otkk6FcalKir523LEgH8953B4_HnDg4hbNP1Kx7Cg4BvXXI0T9tqCwewVlfIYU0jKR_3P9MqjZK1F0N9dK-rxS9Teu_3u_Aq0qmCcL150Xjb3djV-wedTft8XiDfx1Ybu9WjANtJnIxvmYn_aoXAuLgczFzV063KSfdgAzghd--C=s16000" /></a></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ERMtBEgk9ls" width="438" youtube-src-id="ERMtBEgk9ls"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 1rem;">The board also noted Xun (Sunny) Wang had transferred all of his assets to his spouse <b><u>"to avoid the Canada Revenue Agency fines."</u></b></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Despite "concerns," the parole board was compelled to free Wang after he served one-third of his seven-year sentence, because he's not at risk of committing a violent offence and his behaviour behind bars was "appropriate."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wang, 49, was convicted of enabling more than 1,000 people to illegally obtain residency in Canada by falsifying passport entries, faking job offers and supplying them with bogus Canadian home addresses, to thwart immigration requirements. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The tactics made it appear his clients had spent the required two years out of every five in Canada to maintain their permanent residency status. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Instead, many spent most of their time living in China. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At his trial in 2015, the court heard Wang made $10 million through his two immigration-consulting companies, <u>New Can Consulting</u> and <u>Wellong International Investments Ltd.</u></span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/fake-chinese-passports.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/fake-chinese-passports.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/fake-chinese-passports.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/fake-chinese-passports.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/fake-chinese-passports.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3286071.1445621835!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/fake-chinese-passports.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Canada Border Services Agency released this picture of passports seized from Xun Wang, as part of an investigation into his immigration fraud scheme. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wang was sentenced to seven years behind bars minus time served in custody and ordered to pay two fines: $730,837 to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) for tax evasion and $187,901.24 for defrauding the federal government — a total of almost $920,000.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Promise to mortgage home</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In reviewing his pending release in November, the parole board admonished Wang, stating "you have indicated you do not believe you owe the CRA any money."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But it noted that when "confronted" on his defiant attitude, Wang indicated he would pay the fines by having his home mortgaged.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seven months later, a check of Wang's Richmond, B.C., residence on the province's land registry website shows no mortgage listed.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Canada Revenue Agency refused to say if Wang has paid his fine, citing privacy. </span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868961.1480118137!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/xun-sunny-wang-richmond-house.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 2.10884 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wang used his own home in Richmond as a fake address for at least 114 of his clients. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Approached outside his home by a T.V. crew from the Radio-Canada investigative program <em>Enquête</em>, Wang refused comment, instead calling Richmond RCMP to complain about the presence of a news camera on his street. The RCMP declined to attend.</span></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">'It's unfair and an injustice'</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fact that Wang is now a free man infuriates former client Zheng Li (Jenny) Geng, who lives in Vancouver and is facing deportation because Wang was her immigration consultant.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 1rem;">Geng says she had no idea Wang was breaking the law. And she's surprised he's now a free man while she faces a pending removal hearing.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"I feel it's unfair and an injustice," Geng said through an interpreter. "I'm a little angry because I think if he had paid the penalty, things might not have happened to me."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has been conducting an ongoing investigation since Wang's immigration scam was uncovered, reviewing the cases of his 1,677 former clients.</span></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u>1,081</u> ex-clients face removal</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To date, the CBSA says:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">608 permanent residents have been reported for inadmissibility; </span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">221 who obtained Canadian citizenship could be stripped of their status;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: georgia;">252 others have "lost their status through other process," including voluntarily giving up their permanent residency or citizenship.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That's a total of 1,081 of Wang's ex-clients who face deportation or have already left Canada.</span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868873.1530227563!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/cbsa-handout-of-fake-stamps-in-a-seized-passport.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.21807 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Page of a passport showing entry and exit stamps that were falsified to meet residency requirements to maintain permanent residency in Canada. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Geng's lawyer, <b>Lawrence Wong,</b> believes it's guilt by association.<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdIOgyCi6DgvEj0ZAjiD-foCPgkSKZK6I3CgdeaPFWQ4KiuQDLU0Ljv6Hq19qQ8bKpn-VnsUQfX0RyX07wGL6ejSBxLKl_kQ_EUpaPXTh68GW_SdY460shOpPd-9V6cGXfmLeYbVZpeS-4Ns1m4ezzWIWEVMLMyzqJOYlCQcn8bU9vzZp-l2hs6dv86erL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="213" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdIOgyCi6DgvEj0ZAjiD-foCPgkSKZK6I3CgdeaPFWQ4KiuQDLU0Ljv6Hq19qQ8bKpn-VnsUQfX0RyX07wGL6ejSBxLKl_kQ_EUpaPXTh68GW_SdY460shOpPd-9V6cGXfmLeYbVZpeS-4Ns1m4ezzWIWEVMLMyzqJOYlCQcn8bU9vzZp-l2hs6dv86erL=w270-h355" width="270" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"They're painted by the same brush," said Wong. "And you see time and time again the CBSA actually does not have any evidence that these people are all complicit."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wong maintains many of Wang's clients are innocent victims.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He's launched a proposed class action lawsuit in Federal Court — not against Wang, but against the minister responsible for the Canada Border Services Agency.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wong alleges the CBSA has unfairly targeted Wang's clients.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The consequences could be devastating as many of these clients have Canadian spouses or Canadian born children," states his lawsuit.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The federal government has responded, arguing the ex-clients were "clearly complicit in the fraud ... and do not come to this court with clean hands."</span></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Possible lawsuit against Wang</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wong isn't deterred, saying he might also file a lawsuit against Wang.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But he admits that could be a waste of time.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"If Sunny Wang owes the government $900,000, what are the chances of private individuals getting paid by Sunny Wang?" he said.<br /><br /></span></p><h1 class="detailHeadline" lang="en" style="color: black; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.3; margin-block: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 0.67em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Three employees sentenced to 18 months in jail in </span>B.C.'s biggest immigration scam</span></h1><h2 class="deck" lang="en" style="color: black; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Three women were former employees of Xun 'Sunny' Wang's New Can Consultants</span></h2><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; color: #545454; display: flex; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><div class="bylineDetails"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><time class="timeStamp" datetime="2017-04-19T08:16:24.235Z" style="display: inline-block;"> April 19, 2017</time></span></div></div><div data-cy="storyWrapper" style="color: black;"><figure class="imageMedia leadmedia-story full" style="margin: 0px;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin: 1rem 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="" fetchpriority="high" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3827178.1492567301!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/ming-kun-makkie-wu-and-jin-fanny-ma.JPG" style="aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ming Kun (Makkie) Wu, left, and Jin (Fanny) Ma are shown leaving the provincial courthouse where they were sentenced for their role in a fraudulent immigration scheme. </span></figcaption></figure><div class="story" style="color: #222222; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 24px; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Three former immigration consultants have received 18-month sentences and will have to pay large fines for their roles in B.C.'s biggest-ever immigration fraud scheme. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Jin (Fanny) Ma, Wen (Vivian)Jiang </b>and<b> Ming Kun (Makkie) Wu</b> were sentenced under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Income Tax Act and the criminal code Tuesday afternoon in a Vancouver courtroom.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPTD0YcIohvxLjM4tF-ZNhKAuocw1TvRQ6Uts4ZQMIlgwVge1HNCDhEYmB7924QeGZhiIp1ImqJCF6ohJp9mAT4CoAZQPn_LPEzrgIjzHAEgTGFgJhcELux_38mPmDV4HC1HV7qLxRv-hCMEOtYVFMR5rlK5Qaa9bs6jRlLYkRO4raoa8W13K6-36BL0hY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="620" height="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPTD0YcIohvxLjM4tF-ZNhKAuocw1TvRQ6Uts4ZQMIlgwVge1HNCDhEYmB7924QeGZhiIp1ImqJCF6ohJp9mAT4CoAZQPn_LPEzrgIjzHAEgTGFgJhcELux_38mPmDV4HC1HV7qLxRv-hCMEOtYVFMR5rlK5Qaa9bs6jRlLYkRO4raoa8W13K6-36BL0hY=w644-h483" width="644" /></a></span></div><p></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/pei-jia-li.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/pei-jia-li.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/pei-jia-li.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/pei-jia-li.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/pei-jia-li.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868820.1480118699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/pei-jia-li.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.78161 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pei Jia Li peeks through the doors after his hearing at the Immigration and Refugee Board in Vancouver in November. He was ruled 'inadmissible to Canada' for having fraudulent entry and exit stamps in his passport. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The women are former employees of Xun (Sunny) Wang and New Can Consultants and had pleaded guilty to several charges including passport offences, misrepresentation, forgery and tax evasion. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wang was charged in October 2012, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $900,000 in one of the biggest immigration scams in Canadian history </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A total of nine of Wang's employees were charged. Three others are going through the courts and the last three have warrants out for their arrest. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In addition to the 18-month sentences in provincial jail, the women will have to pay fines assessed on their crimes.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a statement, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) says the women "financially gained by committing fraud for their clients, did not report their income to the Canada Revenue Agency and applied for tax credits to which they were not entitled." </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ma has been fined $96,000. Jiang $74,000 and Wu $50,000. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The crown had asked for three-year sentences. </span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.3868927.1480120195!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/eric-leung-and-guo-liang-lin.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.64021 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Immigration consultant Eric Leung, left, and client Guo Liang Lin, right. Lin admits he signed documents that said he lived in Canada three times longer than he actually had, to obtain permanent residency. Lin was with a different immigration company at the time. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The long and complex investigation began in 2012 after immigration employees in Alberta noticed that many permanent residence applicants had the same addresses in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wang falsely used his own home in Richmond as an address for 114 of his clients who didn't live in Canada. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to CBSA figures, over 1,647 clients of New Can Consulting paid approximately $10 million for fraudulent services over a seven-year period from 2006-2013.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The consultants created fake patterns of Canadian residency to help their clients meet residency requirements for permanent residence and Canadian citizenship. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They had an elaborate scheme to obtain stamps in passports for fictitious travel dates. They also falsified employment information.</span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/harald-wuigk.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/harald-wuigk.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/harald-wuigk.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/harald-wuigk.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/harald-wuigk.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.4075091.1492581159!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/harald-wuigk.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.86747 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Harald Wuigk, CBSA's assistant director of criminal investigations, says the sentences send a 'serious message' of deterrence. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In updated figures supplied to the CBC, the CBSA alleges 373 of Wang's former customers obtained permanent residency under false pretenses. And more than 200 others may have lied in order to become Canadian citizens.</span></p><h2 style="font-size: 1.625rem; line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many deportation orders issued</span></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The CBSA says another 456 ex-clients remain under investigation, while 236 have "lost status through other processes," including voluntarily giving up their permanent residency or Canadian citizenship.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That brings the total number of people deported or facing possible deportation to more than 1,300.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So far, 71 removal orders have been issued, but some are pending appeals.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A total of 27 have been removed from Canada, according to the agency.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In an interview after the sentencing, Harald Wuigk, CBSA's assistant director of criminal investigations said it "sends a serious message … to persons who try to contravene Canada's border laws."</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">"This is a serious case and it involves the integrity of Canada's immigration system. The Canada border services agency takes these violations very seriously and takes great pains to investigate and recommend for prosecution such cases," he said.</span></p></div></div></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-57238058562560229452024-03-08T20:09:00.000-08:002024-03-08T20:32:05.096-08:00DOTS, DOTS, B.C. DOTS TO CONNECT<p><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large; text-transform: uppercase;"><b>DOTS, DOTS</b></span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-large; text-transform: uppercase;">, B.C. DOTS TO CONNECT</span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7580327405466415566" itemprop="description articleBody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 1.4; orphans: auto; position: relative; widows: auto; width: 597.778px;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-size: 18px; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; position: relative; widows: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Basi-Virk\The Legislature Raids</span>,Li Ka-Shing & PowerCorp</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4444px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Sunday, July 06, 2008</span></h3><h2 style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7580327405466415566" itemprop="description articleBody" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; orphans: auto; position: relative; text-transform: none; widows: auto; width: 597.778px;"></div></span></h2><div class="blogPost" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.4444px; font-style: italic;">The following presentation is lengthy but it's good. A reader has generously contributed this research on the connections between the players in VANOC and BCRail (an oversimplification on my part). The research is presented exactly as received, for the benefit of others. Send your comments. Very special thanks to the unknown person who gathered and sorted all this information for us. - BC Mary.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjksFSF9IMFXg30KQjOjK6iMQaEZHIqkepuAVAuBN4_7BOK9hkGct2M84ZSb3hpiYqwD3Y2ibf13TkQKuCKSNXbrhnclTK2EYS7JvJ34FZDvphdhNWt2DiHeZbHLzlJ8gFaugI0R7d2xandAXSWu4oS7yFjGcV0aCsLfcTabOrf4ADsXgcJCcrIRUpP3J8B" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjksFSF9IMFXg30KQjOjK6iMQaEZHIqkepuAVAuBN4_7BOK9hkGct2M84ZSb3hpiYqwD3Y2ibf13TkQKuCKSNXbrhnclTK2EYS7JvJ34FZDvphdhNWt2DiHeZbHLzlJ8gFaugI0R7d2xandAXSWu4oS7yFjGcV0aCsLfcTabOrf4ADsXgcJCcrIRUpP3J8B=w880-h660" width="880" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Li Ka-Shing</span></b><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwMctkX7kQfagv2j_ay6OqGFQaC-B2MgSsHF3gKzEsh2jQDbEQgrMo_aC2qsDgkE7rpXhrkeFdEGInDKmtWT8yge64CysWe2Oeb03TWh-inZJfJzq7M8MTiE1ITpGXqisYVsrR97j30wWjstkGbHFIIS_JzlnZF6ELrVOEQdAAGw7E3ofthkFbr0j0ziLk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="600" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwMctkX7kQfagv2j_ay6OqGFQaC-B2MgSsHF3gKzEsh2jQDbEQgrMo_aC2qsDgkE7rpXhrkeFdEGInDKmtWT8yge64CysWe2Oeb03TWh-inZJfJzq7M8MTiE1ITpGXqisYVsrR97j30wWjstkGbHFIIS_JzlnZF6ELrVOEQdAAGw7E3ofthkFbr0j0ziLk=w704-h500" width="704" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl4g6KFXzFGtQbl1KMO16mjkHhjYqKRvH7AQ4o54dxzOEDQ3UYqG1jx7_-xIKFBfh26STMOHC-DOo9XysZunQf2ChFZ2OtzZTkLLd9GXPJvUD5A0lrX8aGB0WZmPHsaH2psmmcPWgD4SjFbL2McM4DRWTJ-X88noa5aChvo4_EJz4AQ1gtDMfoDHa2Kjsq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="295" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgl4g6KFXzFGtQbl1KMO16mjkHhjYqKRvH7AQ4o54dxzOEDQ3UYqG1jx7_-xIKFBfh26STMOHC-DOo9XysZunQf2ChFZ2OtzZTkLLd9GXPJvUD5A0lrX8aGB0WZmPHsaH2psmmcPWgD4SjFbL2McM4DRWTJ-X88noa5aChvo4_EJz4AQ1gtDMfoDHa2Kjsq=w483-h640" width="483" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Terry Hui</b> with former Vancouver city planner <b>Larry</b></span><b><br style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="color: #666666;">Beasley</span></b></span><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><dl id="comments-block"><dd><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #993300;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold;">with links to the BC Rail deal.</span></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">June 12 2003</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span><br /></span><span>RE: Plundering BC: Olympics, <b>The Bid Corp</b>, and<b> Special Interests</b></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>1. Who's who in the Bid Corp? Some special members and their 'interests':</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Concord Pacific <b>(Li Ka-Shing and Hui family owned)</b>, developer of the </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">former Expo 86 lands (one-sixth of downtown Vancouver) is significantly </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">represented on the Bid Board with David McLean (Chairman of the Board and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">a Director of Concord Pacific Group Inc.) and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Kwok Tun-Li,</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Stanley (Former </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deputy Chairman for Concord Pacific).</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB1LyLiqwR27q3YZE7s7MKJAFNOuc3Ay34DSJXmRX6PqrHvhdovzhf33eckaMFJ5lZVx1AnliaNmvowVhyIuCifpYKyWRsLY99JN2q1E5jCAYmU_H26Ia3sVcpHvJ1apCyCsasC9r3Xd1Nx5Hgx874TXThh4tB3trTlrkZybCHUuMGrSTRnXPCV0Y_Nk44" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="885" data-original-width="540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB1LyLiqwR27q3YZE7s7MKJAFNOuc3Ay34DSJXmRX6PqrHvhdovzhf33eckaMFJ5lZVx1AnliaNmvowVhyIuCifpYKyWRsLY99JN2q1E5jCAYmU_H26Ia3sVcpHvJ1apCyCsasC9r3Xd1Nx5Hgx874TXThh4tB3trTlrkZybCHUuMGrSTRnXPCV0Y_Nk44=w389-h640" width="389" /></a></div></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">2. <b>David McLean </b>is also involved with the following business interests:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK8l9KicRmpJvg4fUgbLSx5BN0_fuBWcxJqDEt5et-wOaRX4Mxp7Ao4ofIh2u15OtVFXKtKqVkFbBDF_kTd995KjOVwAegKLXRNLIawu2T6vBQI_u6as2P_QAW-DlnEFs8H6u2u0MM-576_7s185BB7A28PzsUcrV65RogoGttW90JqemU00IYt2qgn7gv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiK8l9KicRmpJvg4fUgbLSx5BN0_fuBWcxJqDEt5et-wOaRX4Mxp7Ao4ofIh2u15OtVFXKtKqVkFbBDF_kTd995KjOVwAegKLXRNLIawu2T6vBQI_u6as2P_QAW-DlnEFs8H6u2u0MM-576_7s185BB7A28PzsUcrV65RogoGttW90JqemU00IYt2qgn7gv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCXuB2NCpu650ROyoEQR_G0fqmfB_nQiw19iseKckn3fRprVfRcFXmy8P5-1eaMrR9wxR69s58gHzu6X3ExeVyoIC2BsAsB8H_cghh6QRnWGTvLk-tk5_GQwGedbwVlJHidILNqToE6l63NLWtiwLcUnHuUWUbc_PmNgJleNZRJRAdPQdcUykJ6rFzvOto" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1024" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCXuB2NCpu650ROyoEQR_G0fqmfB_nQiw19iseKckn3fRprVfRcFXmy8P5-1eaMrR9wxR69s58gHzu6X3ExeVyoIC2BsAsB8H_cghh6QRnWGTvLk-tk5_GQwGedbwVlJHidILNqToE6l63NLWtiwLcUnHuUWUbc_PmNgJleNZRJRAdPQdcUykJ6rFzvOto=w594-h332" width="594" /></a></div></div></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">a) Founding Chairman of the <b>Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation</b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">b) Founder and Chairman,<b> Vancouver Film Studios</b> (another BC</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">government-funded private entity)</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">c) Chairman of the Board, <b>The McLean Group</b>, which has developed numerous </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">residential, office, retail and industrial properties</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">d) past Chair the<b> Canadian Chamber of Commerce</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">e) Director, <b>DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">f) Director, <b>Northwestel</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">g) Director, <b>CANAC Consultants Ltd.</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">h) Director, <b>Nu West Group</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">i) Founding Chairman of<b> Westech Information Systems</b>, the former </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">information systems arm of <b>B.C. Hydro</b>,<u> and led the company through </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>privatization</u> from its parent company</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">j) Former Chairman of the Board of<b> Coastland Wood Industries</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">*k)<u> One of twenty-two business delegation members led by Premier Gordon </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Campbell to attend 2002 <b>World Economic Forum.</b></span><br /></u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Mr. McLean is also involved with the following business interests:</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chair, <b>CN Rail </b>(frontrunner to purchase<u> the soon-to-be-privatized BC </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Rail)</u> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Founding Chairman of the <b>Vancouver Board of Trade Foundation</b> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Founder and Chairman, <b>Vancouver Film Studios</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chairman of the Board, <b>The McLean Group </b>(which has developed numerous </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">residential, office, retail and industrial properties)</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Director, <b>DeHavilland Aircraft of Canada</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Director, <b>Northwestel,</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Director, <b>CANAC Consultants Ltd</b>.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Director,<b> Nu West Group</b> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Founding Chairman of <b>Westech Information Systems </b>(<u>the former information </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>systems arm of B.C. Hydro, and led the company through privatization from </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>its parent company</u>). </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Former Chairman of the Board of <b>Coastland Wood Industries </b>Chair, <b>CN Rail</b>.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>3.<b> Stanley Tun-Li Kwok</b> and Bid Corp, reported as <b><u>'Mastermind of Expo '86'</u></b>, </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is also involved in a <b><u>multitude of multinational businesses:</u></b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>a) Principal,<b> Stanley Kwok Consultants Inc.</b></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiyfFJViSNe2W-JY9RTO4F8Q8Pg_Sw9AdAOgOAZXA9hHp-qUkunMDC1ZZpCysy0c7KzQz5XxWZv4cJu0lnnvRjzQIPcD7RanbkUAeIy64hntugweowx63KXbue75lsZWu11nqUXBX9AEYuSI418d3C616To59PagajNnGvPFtVj6io-rcSlAcHTV3MhIy3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiyfFJViSNe2W-JY9RTO4F8Q8Pg_Sw9AdAOgOAZXA9hHp-qUkunMDC1ZZpCysy0c7KzQz5XxWZv4cJu0lnnvRjzQIPcD7RanbkUAeIy64hntugweowx63KXbue75lsZWu11nqUXBX9AEYuSI418d3C616To59PagajNnGvPFtVj6io-rcSlAcHTV3MhIy3=w318-h318" width="318" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">b) Director, <b>Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited </b>(The Cheung Kong Group, owned </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">principally by <b><u>Li ka-Shing </u></b>operates in 41 countries and employs over </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">163,000 staff worldwide)</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">c) Development Consultant for the <b>South East Shore of False Creek</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">d) Director of <b>Omnipoint Corporation</b>,<b> priceline.com Incorporated</b>, <b>VoiceStream </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Wireless Corporation</b>,<b> Western Wireless Corporation,</b> <b>Global Crossing Ltd</b>.<b>, </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Breakaway Solutions Inc.</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">d) Director, <b>Amara International Investment Corporation</b> (a Vancouver-based </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">private company specializing in real estate investment and in locating Chinese</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> partnerships for projects).</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">e) Director,<b> CTC Bank of Canada</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">f) Director, <b>Husky Energy Inc.</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">g) Principal, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Stanley Kwok</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> & Associates</b>,(<u>worked on the <b>Concord Pacific </b></u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u><b>development</b> on the former Expo lands on the north shore of the Creek)</u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">h) Joint Venture Partner with <b>TYBA Group Inc</b> and <b>Dong Ah Construction </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Industrial </b>of Seoul, South Korea in the Crystal Project , a CAN$200 </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">million development in suburban Vancouver that also includes 55,000 square </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">feet of office space, a 210,000 square-foot retail area, a 22,500 </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">square-foot conference center and a 218-unit residential complex.</span><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikVmpz8O3G01GmRY4ABBAdDIn4PAvHcjWPKk181EWXF2zdy99t6i2BO3Er_EF8_6Zx_00D0hCuLkhrnCs3uGaTyvzfdIOmJW1H1qOAGt1PxPCuHUR49AMntPhpuD2u2zs-pJwrgb-H6svQ6Edz40D_V8owlyFrmgRfm__PD-bVteCgv9oJiu7_lGWod0Lj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2731" data-original-width="4096" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikVmpz8O3G01GmRY4ABBAdDIn4PAvHcjWPKk181EWXF2zdy99t6i2BO3Er_EF8_6Zx_00D0hCuLkhrnCs3uGaTyvzfdIOmJW1H1qOAGt1PxPCuHUR49AMntPhpuD2u2zs-pJwrgb-H6svQ6Edz40D_V8owlyFrmgRfm__PD-bVteCgv9oJiu7_lGWod0Lj=w568-h378" width="568" /></a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">i) Former Director,<b> BC Hydro</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">j) Director,<b> Bank of Montreal </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-Vancouver hosted Expo'86, an international event not unlike the scale of </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the proposed 2010 Winter Games. One and a half years later, then Premier </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bill Vander Zalm</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> concluded the sale of the Expo lands (<u><b>84- hectare site on </b></u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u><b>False Creek, representing one-sixth of downtown Vancouver</b></u>)<u> to<b> Li Ka-Shing </b></u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>(and the Hui family</b>) for a reported price of <b>$145 million</b> (said by many to </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">be far too low, especially considering the tens of millions of dollars the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">province spent to complete the environmental clean-up of the site). </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Subsequently, his company, <b>Concord Pacific Holdings</b>, redeveloped the site </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">into a multi-billion dollar downtown residential community. Bid Board </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Member, <b>Stanley Tun-Li Kwok</b> describes himself at one of his corporate </span></u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>websites as <b>'Mastermind of Expo '86'.</b></u><b>|</b></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNftCsvJ2JEXVnJjEqHFldDIETOHotUF0ZUlaoJASH01ZbutBHaJZQW3vOWdiH534bwUMXgeUIxUmu5EiEXBLBpC-A41VN8bEIr4-XTkJMeFEnZvTUxcx3YxaB3SHaLVygVfjJyk5Y0z5a2_o-bC_tT02MzWmEgfo4WRJRCCXNqoety5idwGXGCxS3mrHA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="288" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNftCsvJ2JEXVnJjEqHFldDIETOHotUF0ZUlaoJASH01ZbutBHaJZQW3vOWdiH534bwUMXgeUIxUmu5EiEXBLBpC-A41VN8bEIr4-XTkJMeFEnZvTUxcx3YxaB3SHaLVygVfjJyk5Y0z5a2_o-bC_tT02MzWmEgfo4WRJRCCXNqoety5idwGXGCxS3mrHA=w431-h323" width="431" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-Mr. Kwok is Former Deputy Chairman for Concord Pacific (Bid Corp Director </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">David McLean is the current Chairman of the Board of Concord Pacific).</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-Concord Pacific is the owner of <b>Burcon International Developments Inc.</b>, </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">one of North America's leading real estate development, investment and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">management organizations with assets over C$1 billion and based in </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Vancouver, B.C.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Burcon is the controlling shareholder of <b>Oxford Properties Group Inc</b>. </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(owner of Marathon Realty).</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-<b>Mr. Kwok</b> is Principal, <b>Stanley Kwok Consultants Inc</b>. and Development </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consultant for the South East Shore of False Creek. He is also a Director </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of <b>Li Ka-Shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited</b> (The Cheung Kong Group </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">operates in 41 countries and employs over 163,000 staff worldwide with a </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">combined market capitalization of<b><u> HK$439 billion as at January 31, 2003).</u></b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Kwok is Director,<b> Amara International Investment Corporation</b> (a </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Vancouver-based private company <u>specializing in real estate investment and </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>in locating Asian partnerships for projects</u>). His additional Directorships </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">include: Li Ka-Shing's companies: <b>Omnipoint Corporation</b>, <b>priceline.com </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Incorporated, VoiceStream Wireless Corporation</b>, <b>Western Wireless </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Corporation</b>, <b>Global Crossing Ltd</b>., <b>Breakaway Solutions Inc</b>. and </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Husky </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Energy Inc.</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Husky Board Members also include: Stanley's wife <b>Eva, Terry</b></span><b><br /></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Hui, </b>President and CEO of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Concord Pacific Group Inc.</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, Martin Glynn President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of <b>HSBC Bank</b> and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Victor Li,</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> son of Li Ka-shing, Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of <b>Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Canada</b>). Bank Director positions include: <b>Bank of Montreal</b> and<b> CTC Bank </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>of Canada</b>. Additionally, he is a Joint Venture Partner with <b>TYBA Group Inc </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and <b>Dong Ah Construction Industrial of Seoul</b>, South Korea in the <b>Crystal </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Project </b>, a CAN$200 million development in suburban Vancouver that also </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">includes 55,000 square feet of office space, a 210,000 square-foot retail </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">area, a 22,500 square-foot conference center and a 218-unit residential </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">complex.</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijRJJRt_CTMAGZVR28x8EBBzZ4DR099aoYjKdve_uZxEqlwKweq2z5HcZ6AW2U68pLIb37vNtp8Izw8P3j86rVk2W5mGPNUq8kGwXpw711TixlNvI14UpFoGWKbcA4ubdqnDO7rp9gapU5J39cNIujS86T8rXbd9-IO0o1oGEmspN7o6hLbaxrcWCeBiP4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2666" data-original-width="4094" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijRJJRt_CTMAGZVR28x8EBBzZ4DR099aoYjKdve_uZxEqlwKweq2z5HcZ6AW2U68pLIb37vNtp8Izw8P3j86rVk2W5mGPNUq8kGwXpw711TixlNvI14UpFoGWKbcA4ubdqnDO7rp9gapU5J39cNIujS86T8rXbd9-IO0o1oGEmspN7o6hLbaxrcWCeBiP4=w477-h310" width="477" /></a></div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">As noted, Concord Pacific, Li Ka-Shing and Hui family owned, is</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">significantly represented on the Bid Board with </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>David McLean</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Chairman </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of the Board and a Director of Concord Pacific Group Inc.) and <b>Stanley </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Kwok Tun-li </b>(Former Deputy Chairman for Concord Pacific).</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBTSCMJ8x4r1uqTNzZK7hBgVVzKHHA9w7FjeGcFkkB-5sv1xTfaMXJYrujDdcwR23h90u4PRZ3yNoy1zx9n2UZoXIdgk3mNXeGBIG46_dKZMRJhhYbdj7_9o1iufuKmEvjJ1aVCK6VBPu9GVrl2JmM_Ufra_Ys4X7faZ1XjNL_ZWeaQEuON4Oxr4U6CuSn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBTSCMJ8x4r1uqTNzZK7hBgVVzKHHA9w7FjeGcFkkB-5sv1xTfaMXJYrujDdcwR23h90u4PRZ3yNoy1zx9n2UZoXIdgk3mNXeGBIG46_dKZMRJhhYbdj7_9o1iufuKmEvjJ1aVCK6VBPu9GVrl2JmM_Ufra_Ys4X7faZ1XjNL_ZWeaQEuON4Oxr4U6CuSn=w479-h268" width="479" /></a></div><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Other Bid Corp directors and their interests:</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>HSBC</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (<u>of which Li Ka-shing is a Principal and Director)</u> is aptly</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">represented on the Bid Board by <b>Eric Major, </b>Director, <b>HSBC Capital </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>(Canada) Inc</b>. and <b>Milton Wong</b>, Chair, <b>HSBC Asset Management Canada Ltd.</b> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(responsible for assets of $4 billion at HSBC). HSBC purchased M.K. Wong & </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Associates to form <b>HSBC Asset Management Canada Ltd.</b> <b>Merrill Lynch Canada </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(reportedly owned by Thomas Fung, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Fairchild Group</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">) is represented on the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bid Board by <b>Guy Savard,</b> Vice-Chair & Chair, </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Quebec Operations, Merrill </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lynch Canada Inc. Merrill Lynch International</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> is owned by <b><u>Li </u></b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>Ka-shing and Thomas Fung</u></b>. Bid Board Member, <b>Ms.</b> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>France Chrétien-Desmarais</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is daughter of the Honourable </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Jean Chretien</b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">, Prime Minister of Canada.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPqa8aldMHXc5JWLY9JYLANv9jbxNCbWPdXQ-DDAjia0i62YMIPcLgh15I-nkZzOFr35PuvDnnKez40KYu54mQx1oT4kdj3xDcKJUTYP_TVCHgC9QnvQD4FW8TFfYpZt9ycsLhrg9uaRr0Z5BRcv7LySGqNtHVH_QmHXgeUep5TXssgNKoo_03BSM7bgW2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1024" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPqa8aldMHXc5JWLY9JYLANv9jbxNCbWPdXQ-DDAjia0i62YMIPcLgh15I-nkZzOFr35PuvDnnKez40KYu54mQx1oT4kdj3xDcKJUTYP_TVCHgC9QnvQD4FW8TFfYpZt9ycsLhrg9uaRr0Z5BRcv7LySGqNtHVH_QmHXgeUep5TXssgNKoo_03BSM7bgW2=w405-h290" width="405" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Mr. Chretien, was from 1986 to 1990<u> a Senior Advisor with Gordon Capital </u></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Corporation in Montreal.</u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-<b>Gordon Capital </b>is principally owned by <b>Richard Li</b> (Li Ka-Shing's son) </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gordon Capital owns </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>HSBC Securities</b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaMXxqDrw6uhmjt1xs-AENu7xgh8L7g0rhSxjL3jPFaFYAPZp7Md4914kiVnD2RTZkc3huAM6sb8FZWbNmFcfMzAbXfvFUMkDiQ-2MppCso9wwmQkfQv5cRsI5ZQ0nF0GlwifGlQ7CjYRuzu-yicgt2rvwHHjcGV65J2QYoq5Tvh_3XfuHG22o_pgWg9DE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaMXxqDrw6uhmjt1xs-AENu7xgh8L7g0rhSxjL3jPFaFYAPZp7Md4914kiVnD2RTZkc3huAM6sb8FZWbNmFcfMzAbXfvFUMkDiQ-2MppCso9wwmQkfQv5cRsI5ZQ0nF0GlwifGlQ7CjYRuzu-yicgt2rvwHHjcGV65J2QYoq5Tvh_3XfuHG22o_pgWg9DE=w400-h267" width="400" /></a></div></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">-Ms. Chretien-Desmarais husband is <b>Andre Desmarais</b>, President and Co-Chief </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Executive Officer of the family-owned <b><u>Power Corporation of Canada</u></b>. </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Power Corporation of Canada is a diversified management and holding </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">company. <u>Power Corporation of Canada has holdings in leading financial </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">services and the communications sector.</span></u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Through its European-based affiliate<b> Pargesa group</b>, Power Corporation </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">holds significant positions in major<u> media, energy, water, waste services, </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>and specialty minerals companies.</u> Power Corporation also has diversified </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">interests in China.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-<b>Power Financial Corporation</b> is a diversified management and holding </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">company with interests in the financial services industry in North </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">America. Including: <u>Great-West Lifeco Inc</u>.: <u>The Great-West Life Assurance </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Company, London Life Insurance Company, Great-West Life & Annuity </span></u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Insurance Company. Investors Group Inc.</u> is one of Canada's leading </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">financial services companies with over $41.6 billion in assets under </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">management and a network of 3,400 consultants.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-<b>Mackenzie Financial Corporation</b> is an integrated financial services </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">company whose core business is the management of mutual funds in Canada, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">with $33.4 billion in assets under management, and distribution </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">relationship with over 37,000 independent financial advisers. </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Pargesa </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Holding S.A.</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> holds significant positions in a selected number of large </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">companies based in Europe. These companies operate in strategic industries </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">including <u>media, energy, public utilities and specialty minerals.</u></span><u><br /></u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-<b>Gesca Ltée</b> holds a 100 per cent interest in the <u>Montreal daily newspaper </u></span></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">La Presse and six other daily newspapers in the province of Quebec and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ontario.</span></u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-<u><b>Power Corporation of Canada</b> is a partner with<b> Li Ka-Shing in CITIC </b></u></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u><b>Pacific Limited </b>(China's largest diversified Hong Kong-traded company.</u> Its </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">activities are concentrated in four main areas: infrastructure, trading </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and distribution, real estate and industrial manufacturing). Mr. Desmarais </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is a Director and/or Member of the Board of: <u>Great-West Lifeco Inc., </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Investors Group Inc., London Insurance Group Inc., Pargesa Holding S.A.,</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Groupe Bruxelles-Lambert S.A., Bertelsmann A.G. Mr Desmarais is also a </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Director of CITIC Pacific Ltd. and Bombardier Inc.</span></u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-In addition, Mr. Desmarais is <u>Chairman of the<b> Canada China Business </b></u></span></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Council</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">; Member of the</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> International Advisory Council of CITIC</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">; Member of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Trilateral Commission</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">; Member of the </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chairman's International Advisory </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Council of the Americas Society</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">; Member of the </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Business Council on </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">National Issues </span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and Member of diverse foundations and trusts in Canada and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">a Member of the </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Advisers </span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(The CECIA advises the Chief Executive from an international </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">perspective on strategic issues pertinent to the long-term development of</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hong Kong).</span></u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>- Ms. Chretien Desmarais' husband <b>Andre </b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Desmarais</b></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b>is a Director of <b>Bombardier Inc.</b></span><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs9_OR8T_aMNb-lEzeIc2rmqGk1_as_6H7GCdI6_JWf5BDnLCFz928tIARMy_H-8qPFtukxAYGpBuHAjWOzaYF50AXBZdl8_0S3S3zBRmpR7AsdBw6CBBQHsUUsVEG4tuEomV0h7xMIzeS7pBzK-4MtVsoXUxjJvN6iaiQTYM3AaMihH0_W67HWammNZei" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="450" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs9_OR8T_aMNb-lEzeIc2rmqGk1_as_6H7GCdI6_JWf5BDnLCFz928tIARMy_H-8qPFtukxAYGpBuHAjWOzaYF50AXBZdl8_0S3S3zBRmpR7AsdBw6CBBQHsUUsVEG4tuEomV0h7xMIzeS7pBzK-4MtVsoXUxjJvN6iaiQTYM3AaMihH0_W67HWammNZei=w281-h420" width="281" /></a></div><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">-Also on the 2010 Games Bid Board is Mr. Laurent Beaudoin, Chair,</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bombardier Inc. Bombardier stands to gain significantly from their supply </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of the $1.5 billion to $2 billion Vancouver/Richmond Rapid Transit line </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">proposed by the 2010 Bid Corp.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>5. Bid Corp and the Sea to Sky Corridor:</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>The ski resort industry stands to make significant profits from the 2010 </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Winter Games.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-<b>Intrawest</b> is represented on the Bid Board by <b>Doug Forseth</b>, Senior VP, </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Operations, </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains. TAL Global Asset Management </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(owned by CIBC) </span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is the largest institutional shareholder of Intrawest </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(reportedly 15%). Li- Ka-shing is the largest shareholder </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(maximum allowable 10%) of CIBC. CIBC owns Wood Gundy. </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Intrawest is the leading developer and operator of village-centered </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">destination resorts </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>across North America</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. Intrawest owns or is involved in<u> </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">14 mountain resorts in North America and Europe along with two </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">warm-weather resorts in the U.S.</span></u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-The company also has an interest in <b>Alpine Helicopters Ltd</b>., owner of </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Canadian Mountain Holidays</u>, the largest heli-skiing operation in the world </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and <u>Compagnie des Alpes</u>, the largest ski operator in the world in terms of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">skier visits (13 million in 2000/2001).</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Intrawest also has land on which to build 20,000 more units. Intrawest </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">holdings include <u>ski resorts, residential communities, retail, hotels and </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>lodges.</u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-The Bid Corp. has identified rental costs payable to Intrawest for</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">facility usage during the Winter Games at $10 million to $30 million. In a</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ddition to</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Concert Properties</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">' real estate development interest in other </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ski resorts and Intrawest's vast resort holdings, other Bid Board members </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">are<u> intimately involved in the ski resort industry,</u> including:</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>a) <b>Kerrin Lee-Gartner</b> (listed as Canadian Olympic Athlete - Alpine Skiing) </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is Principlal, Kerrin Lee-Gartner's</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Snow Creek Lodge </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and Principal, </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fernie </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Alpine Resort</span></b><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">b) </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Nancy Greene Raine</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (listed as Director of Skiing, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sun Peaks Resort; </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Canadian Olympic Athlete - Alpine Skiing) is Principal, Nancy Greene's </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Cahilty Lodge</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sun Peaks,</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> BC; President, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>NGR Resort Consultants Inc.</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">; </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Proponent with husband </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Al Raine </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Melvin Creek/Cayoosh</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, $500 million </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">four-season ski resort (90 minute drive from Whistler). <u>Al Raine was </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>responsible for the planning of Whistler.</u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Mr. <b>Caleb Chan </b>(along with brother <b>Tom Chan</b>) has considerable businesses </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">assets in British Columbia and abroad. Of particular note are the holdings </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">in Vancouver, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Furry Creek, Whistler</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, etc. directly impacted by the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2010Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games:</span></span></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvqcbgWJ1gnRibdoevDFhu943Z3xzQB-twHwWc48BrWoR0Nyvq5Uv0MrRwtnn5U-ifBcKad7x_Jyr1rqo-CYPnCa4KJPFYB5VAeiEriMDzNA9UKbfIe2OsjwKZBipVoL1MYYk_Pya96KIG0IjOzIacrzi1yZpHmcVXlQf5yWlvCJTOMj5fSYvvmCrEK12W" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvqcbgWJ1gnRibdoevDFhu943Z3xzQB-twHwWc48BrWoR0Nyvq5Uv0MrRwtnn5U-ifBcKad7x_Jyr1rqo-CYPnCa4KJPFYB5VAeiEriMDzNA9UKbfIe2OsjwKZBipVoL1MYYk_Pya96KIG0IjOzIacrzi1yZpHmcVXlQf5yWlvCJTOMj5fSYvvmCrEK12W=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Chan serves as:</span></span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">a) President & Chairman, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Burrard International</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">b) President & Chairman,</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> The International Land Group</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, San Francisco</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">c) Director,</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> UBC Properties Trust</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">d) Director, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Belkorp Industries Inc</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. - Through several companies active in </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, and Oregon, the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Belkorp Group</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">owns and operates: an extensive portfolio of properties comprising </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">approximately ,500 residential apartment suites, five industrial sites, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Big Sky Golf</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, an award-winning course, conveniently located <u>near </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Whistler in the Pemberton Valley of British Columbia.</u> In addition, the </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Belkorp Group invests in various long-term business opportunities as a </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">merchant banker. Its holdings include significant interests in </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Rogers </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sugar Income Fund</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Canadian Hotel Income Properties Real Estate</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Investment Trust (CHIP REIT)</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, an integrated hotel real estate investment </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">trust focused on mid-market and upscale full-service hotels. CHIP REIT </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">currently owns or manages 38 hotels with approximately 8,400 rooms. The </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Belkorp Group owns and operates four businesses in the pulp and paper </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">production industry: </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Newstech BC </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">reprocesses 165,000 tonnes of used </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">newsprint annually at its ISO9002 production facilities in Coquitlam,</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">British Columbia, producing recycled pulp for the newsprint industry;</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Wastech Service</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>s</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> one of the largest privately-owned solid waste management </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">companies in British Columbia, handles approximately 600,000 tonnes per </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">annum of municipal waste at three transfer stations in Greater Vancouver </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and operates a landfill at Cache Creek for the GVRD ; Belkin Paper Stock </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">brokers waste paper from suppliers in Western Canada and the U.S. to mills </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">which use recycled fiber. This company also has established a newsprint </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">roll splitting and rewinding operation in Coquitlam. </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Waste-Not Recycling and Disposal</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, located in Richmond, British Columbia, provides recycling and waste removal services </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">for the residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors of the Greater Vancouver, British Columbia region.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>e) Director, Board of Trustees, <b>Canadian Hotel Income Properties</b></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>f) Principal,<b> GolfBC Properties</b>: Kelowna: <b>The Okanagan Golf Club</b>, <b>The Bear </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">at </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Okanagan Golf Club</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Quail </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">at </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Okanagan Golf Club</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gallagher's Canyon </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Golf & Country Club</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">,</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> The Pinnacle Course</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> at Gallagher's Canyon Whistler:</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Nicklaus North Golf Course</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> & </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Crystal Lodge Furry Creek</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">: </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Furry Creek Golf & </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Country Club</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Vancouver: </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Mayfair Lakes</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Richmond) & </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Burrard Golf & Tennis </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(at Burrard & Alberni, Vancouver) Vancouver Island: </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Arbutus Ridge Golf &</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Country Club </span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(Cobble Hill) & </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Olympic View Golf Club</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Victoria) Other </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">GolfBC properties:</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Burrard Golf & Tennis & The Crystal Lodge</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, Whistler</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>g) Principal,<b> CRC Developments Ltd</b>.( The company owns golf course </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">residential developments)</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>h) Principal, <b>Gallagher's Canyon Land Development Ltd.</b></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>i) <b>Nicklaus North</b>, in Whistler, B.C. and Arbutus Ridge on Vancouver Island </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">are two examples of communities CRC has developed.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>j) Currently in the planning stages is the development of a new community </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">at the</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Olympic View Golf Course</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> in the Victoria area on Vancouver Island.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>k) <b>Goldenwood Townhouse Project</b>, Whistler, BC.</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>l) member of the advisory board of the <b><u>Asia Pacific Initiative </u></b>in Vancouver</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>m) Director, <b><u>B.C. Housing Management Corporation</u></b></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>n) Director, <b>Land Planning Committee of the Loma Linda University </b></span></span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Development Corporation</span><br /></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>Perhaps this is a good time to re-visit the $billion question:</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>6. The Toronto 2008 Bid:<b> Connections or Coincidences?</b></span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Li’s<b> Concord Pacific's City Place </b>is a 44-acre development site in</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">downtown Toronto, on which 5.5 million square feet of residential and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">commercial space are to be built.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Li Ka-Shing also holds an exclusive right to use the CN Tower </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">for a period of 35 years (obtained for $2 billion CDN). </span><b><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Financier Robert</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fung, was appointed by Prime Minister (and former business partner) Jean </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chretien to Chair the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Task Force on </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">behalf of the Government of Canada, the Province of Ontario and the City </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of Toronto.</span></u></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The new corporation was to involve construction of large-scale </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">infrastructure projects that would permanently improve Toronto's </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">waterfront, as well as support the city's bid for the 2008 Olympics.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-His report detailed a strategic business plan for the $12 billon renewal, </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">development and financing of Toronto's waterfront. <u>Fung was afterward </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>appointed as Chair of the <b>Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation.</b></u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-<b>Robert A. Fung</b> is Deputy Chairman of<b> Yorkton Financial Incorporated</b>. From </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1980 to 1997, he was the vice-chairman and a director of</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Gordon Capital </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Corporation.</b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14.4444px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib08ZXDcCeyJo6zxn5B02g9xgR75eQOg5BKjPnEx48AvuRhmFBRowV61aJjkpPAyKH-kHuwx41rULyaXmRyoIpTP5Q4wTh5HYYsz1aOnV5zzNYx5N34YVDmghKkPuHZdQrKPKXs9sAcIxAyhDMdPU5I50K-0HWPSRhbo4AH3DDRGmVPzCsyHfZX4vvsdBd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib08ZXDcCeyJo6zxn5B02g9xgR75eQOg5BKjPnEx48AvuRhmFBRowV61aJjkpPAyKH-kHuwx41rULyaXmRyoIpTP5Q4wTh5HYYsz1aOnV5zzNYx5N34YVDmghKkPuHZdQrKPKXs9sAcIxAyhDMdPU5I50K-0HWPSRhbo4AH3DDRGmVPzCsyHfZX4vvsdBd=w371-h247" width="371" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>-Upon leaving Gordon Capital, he joined<b> Capital West </b>where he was a senior </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">partner. From 1967 to 1978, he was vice-president and a director of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Dominion Securities Limited</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> with responsibilities for its investment </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">activities in China and the Middle East.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-He began his career in the investment industry in 1964 with <b>Wood Gundy. </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He is Chairman of</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Crystallex International Corporation,</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>SMART Toronto</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> as </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">well as a director of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Canada's <u>Export Development Corporation</u></b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Asia </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pacific Foundation of Canada</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>GLOBE Foundation of Canada</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, and </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">StockHouse</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Media Corporation.</span></b><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-He was a member of the <b>Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Committee on </b></span></span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, as well as a member of the </span><b><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Government </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of Canada's Department of Industry International Trade and Agriculture </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Team Canada Inc</span></u></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>Advisory Board</u></b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, which provided advice to the Government</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">of Canada in setting strategic direction and performance objectives for</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>Canada's International Business Development.</u></b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-He was also deputy-chairman of high-tech brokerage<b> Yorkton Securities Inc. </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and Executive Chairman of </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Crystallex International Corp.</b></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Fung's son <b>Robert Fung Jr.</b> worked as a developer on <u><b>Vancouver's False Creek</b> </u></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>development with</u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u> Concord Pacific Group Inc.</u><br /></b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Fung's university roommate, long-time friend <b>Paul Martin</b>, <i>prime minister </i></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>in waiting,</i> was a former senior executive with </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Power Corp.</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> and </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Consolidated Bathurst</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. Martin served as CEO of both </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>CSL Inc</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. and </span><b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Canada </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Steamship Lines</span></b><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">. <u>Martin eventually purchased Canada Steamship Lines from </u></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>Power Corp. for $180 million.</u></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>7. Who benefits the most from the 2010 Winter Games and the associated </span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">mega projects?</span><br /></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">RAV:</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgutSX0jR-zfENvt5IOrCYjoWLZENAfJdYToo1n5juWrzd0ui-ZnwPLrPqM3YSyBzp7XHwCE5oKTKuQOtfIXIeO5p5R3Gg2pmYKgszL8YIJb7rT4nJbDWgaNNMLkKflesi-7XAZwNVDabhge2BXxlnNzjcnwDBs60HUDrl8ny-I0lxOnK6ydXflBR7G5jeH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgutSX0jR-zfENvt5IOrCYjoWLZENAfJdYToo1n5juWrzd0ui-ZnwPLrPqM3YSyBzp7XHwCE5oKTKuQOtfIXIeO5p5R3Gg2pmYKgszL8YIJb7rT4nJbDWgaNNMLkKflesi-7XAZwNVDabhge2BXxlnNzjcnwDBs60HUDrl8ny-I0lxOnK6ydXflBR7G5jeH" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgutSX0jR-zfENvt5IOrCYjoWLZENAfJdYToo1n5juWrzd0ui-ZnwPLrPqM3YSyBzp7XHwCE5oKTKuQOtfIXIeO5p5R3Gg2pmYKgszL8YIJb7rT4nJbDWgaNNMLkKflesi-7XAZwNVDabhge2BXxlnNzjcnwDBs60HUDrl8ny-I0lxOnK6ydXflBR7G5jeH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8eJLFpkT8I8ZTGvUOJq9bgu87PY4c66FIj4mUNi3qEX6y2QGwYHn0W9I4YAiGVhDcNz6qarVZK-ROBoZZOu5-LVqUBgWcblQLIdV-JGZ20CRkuZrbem-a4WDrC9Zy2P__anuBYl1AvJb5-qGNAz3swosq0U1LDDD7RWFiUaXpC12Lhn4AXB9aOgJb4q4_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="430" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8eJLFpkT8I8ZTGvUOJq9bgu87PY4c66FIj4mUNi3qEX6y2QGwYHn0W9I4YAiGVhDcNz6qarVZK-ROBoZZOu5-LVqUBgWcblQLIdV-JGZ20CRkuZrbem-a4WDrC9Zy2P__anuBYl1AvJb5-qGNAz3swosq0U1LDDD7RWFiUaXpC12Lhn4AXB9aOgJb4q4_" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></span></span></dd><dd style="font-size: 14.4444px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></dd><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Bombardier </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">is <u>highly represented on the Bid Corp and stands to pick up a </u></span><u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">multi-billion contract for the proposed Vancouver/Richmond line.</span><br /></u><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-Original Bid Society Member, Arthur Griffiths, was Chair of Public</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consultation, Rapid Transit Project 2000, charged with the public-view</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">task of addressing our rapid transit needs.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>Convention Centre:</span></span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-Bid Board Members are on the Convention Centre Expansion Task Force Chair </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Peter Armstrong and Rick Antonson, Member & Spokesperson, Convention </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Centre Expansion Task Force who are the ones that have told us how badly </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">we need the expansion, irrespective of the Winter Games.</span><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-The three approved Convention Centre Expansion bidders were <b>C<u>oncert</u></b></span></span><b><u><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Properties, Concord Pacific and Marathon Realty.</span></u></b><br /><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><br /></span><span>-2010 Bid Board Members: <b>Jack Poole, David Podmore and Ken Georgetti </b></span></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">proposed to build the</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> Convention Centre,</b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> inclusive of a casino, almost a </span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">decade ago.</span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><b>Sea To Sky Highway</b> as well.</span></span></span></span></dl></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-3806784723846585512024-03-07T16:50:00.000-08:002024-03-07T16:51:06.027-08:00 Jordan Peterson Speech On China's Coming Credit Scoring In The West<p><span style="font-family: georgia; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-size: calc(var(--font-size-14) + var(--font_size_body_offset, 0px)); font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); letter-spacing: var(--letter-spacing-14); line-height: var(--line-height-20); margin-top: var(--size-8); padding-left: 109.197px; padding-right: 109.197px; text-align: center; width: 509.588px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: THE BUREAU INVESTIGATES </span><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">TORONTO METHOD </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">MORTGAGE LEAKS</span></span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The whistleblower, a Canadian business school graduate, was staggered by the suspicious home loans he discovered in 2022 when he joined a mortgage approval team in a small HSBC branch on the outskirts of Toronto. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He knew of suspicions surrounding Chinese capital in British Columbia real estate, but had never witnessed shady lending while working at an HSBC branch in Campbell River, a bucolic town on the coast of Vancouver Island.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When he arrived at HSBC’s bank in Aurora, an affluent suburb north of Toronto, he discovered explosive growth in home loans to Chinese diaspora buyers during the Covid-19 pandemic.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chinese migrants living across Toronto were obtaining mortgages from <b>HSBC </b>while supposedly earning extravagant salaries from remote-work jobs in China. In one example, an Ontario casino worker that owned three homes also claimed to earn $345,000 in 2020 analyzing data remotely for a Beijing company. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before joining HSBC Canada, the whistleblower had studied fake-income mortgage frauds for his Business Masters degree at Vancouver Island University. After arriving at Aurora in February 2022, while digging into the branch’s loan books and interrogating his colleagues, he discovered mind-blowing assessments.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since 2015, the whistleblower concluded, <u>more than 10 Toronto-area HSBC branches had issued at least $500-million in home loans to diaspora buyers claiming exaggerated incomes or non-existent jobs in China. </u></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These foreign-income scams spiked during the pandemic, the whistleblower believed, because borrowers could somewhat plausibly claim to be working remotely in other countries while riding out Covid-19 in Canada.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While a small bank of Aurora’s size was expected to issue about $23-million in residential loans every year, this branch had shovelled out $88-million in mortgages in 2020, according to the whistleblower, and over $50-million in 2021.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The whistleblower, whom </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> is calling D.M., emigrated to Canada as an international student from India, making him a minority among mostly Chinese-Canadian co-workers at the Aurora branch. </span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">As D.M. probed his colleagues, his belief gained conviction, that HSBC Canada and other Canadian banks including </span><a href="https://betterdwelling.com/cibc-kills-foreign-income-program-makes-buying-canadian-real-estate-harder/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">CIBC</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> had systemic problems with highly questionable mortgages issued to diaspora buyers with unverified sources of wealth in China.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Losing sleep, in April 2022, D.M. sent an audacious email to senior bank executives: “I am going to reveal potential mortgage fraud at HSBC Bank Canada and possibly some employees benefited from the fraud, financially pocketing thousands of dollars, which I call the proceeds of crime.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">D.M.’s explosive four-page complaint triggered an internal investigation that led to some reforms at HSBC Canada according to internal emails obtained by </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau.</em></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But more than a year later, D.M. was so dissatisfied with the bank’s response that he risked sharing his story and numerous internal documents for an unprecedented journalistic investigation into Canada’s housing affordability crisis.</span></p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“I found out a huge mortgage fraud showing borrowers with exaggerated income from one specific country, China, pretending to be working remotely,” D.M. informed </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> in June 2023. “I believe the housing prices in Toronto are linked to this, because this is about income verification in banks, which is supposed to moderate demand.”</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> asked HSBC Canada to review emailed information for this story and provide an appropriate manager for an interview regarding D.M. 's records and allegations.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I won’t have anyone to speak with you directly,” <b>Sharon Wilks</b>, Head of Communications, responded. “But for context: As a global bank, HSBC is at the forefront of efforts to identify, prevent and deter financial crime … We will not do business with individuals or entities we believe are engaged in illicit conduct.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wilks added that HSBC Canada “can and do regularly exit relationships with clients whose activities we deem too risky.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau’s</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> seven-month investigation into D.M.’s allegations suggests HSBC Canada and other Canadian banks could have issued many billions of dollars in questionable mortgages to Chinese diaspora buyers, and a significant cause of Canada’s real estate bubble is hundreds of billions in illicit fund transfers from China into Canada, and bank lending that amplifies its impacts, especially in Toronto and Vancouver home prices.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“There are thousands of these cases, large scale,” D.M. said in an interview. “Hardworking Canadians are denied mortgages and these Chinese residents forge documents and get mortgages approved, heating up the already hot Ontario real estate markets.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“These people don’t have steady jobs or income in Canada,” he said, “but what they are doing is scams to </span><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">launder money</a><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">,</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and get mortgages using fake documents.”</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau’s </em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">investigation included asking seven prominent Canadian experts to assess some of D.M.’s documents, allegations and conclusions.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This investigation suggests D.M. 's calculation is plausible, that the Aurora branch and other Toronto-area HSBC branches have issued at least $500-million in questionable Chinese income loans since 2015.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But D.M’s findings could also change the public’s understanding of housing affordability in <u>Toronto</u> and<u> Vancouver, a politically explosive issue expected to frame Canada’s upcoming federal election. </u></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">This is because, according to the academics and criminologists that reviewed D.M.’s documents with</span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> The Bureau, </em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">his evidence fits into FINTRAC’s much </span><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">broader examinations </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">of suspicious real estate and banking transactions.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 2023, the anti-money laundering watchdog published a ground-breaking study into 48,000 Chinese diaspora banking transactions.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">FINTRAC found that during the Covid-19 pandemic, because Canadian casinos were closed, Chinese underground banking schemes </span><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">evolved,</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> flooding electronic fund transfers from Hong Kong into Canadian bank accounts that served like corridors for murky real estate transactions. </span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau’</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">s analysis also finds that what D.M. discovered in Toronto banks, finally sheds light on mysterious capital flows discovered by a prominent Canadian academic in 2015, in a study of Vancouver land titles and mortgages.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">That </span><a href="https://macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/andy-yan-the-analyst-who-exposed-vancouvers-real-estate-disaster/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">examination</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> of $525-million worth of real estate purchases in a six-month period found 66 percent of buyers in several affluent neighbourhoods were recent Chinese diaspora migrants, and most mortgages went to buyers with little or no income in Canada.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Similarly, what D.M. found in his probe of pandemic-era loans could be called the evolving “Toronto Method” of an underground banking system<u> discovered first in Vancouver,</u> and </span><a href="https://cullencommission.ca/files/reports/CullenCommission-FinalReport-Full.pdf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">found to be</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> laundering a stunning $1.2-billion in cash from Mainland China through <u>British Columbia government casinos</u> in 2014.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">This system of shadowy transfers was dubbed the </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4658157/fentanyl-vancouver-real-estate-billion-money-laundering-police-study/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“Vancouver Model”</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> by an Australian professor, and brings together transnational organized crime, affluent Chinese nationals seeking to export their wealth abroad, and Canadian casinos, banks and real estate, in transactions that evade policing because the pivotal </span><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/national/exclusive-how-b-c-casinos-are-used-to-launder-millions-in-drug-cash" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">cash exchanges</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> are done off the books by professional money launderers serving the global Chinese diaspora.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to FINTRAC’s 2023 study of 48,000 pandemic-era transactions, this evolving Vancouver Model network “simultaneously facilitates money laundering and the circumvention of Chinese currency controls”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“As a result of the temporary closures of Canadian </span><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/national/exclusive-how-b-c-casinos-are-used-to-launder-millions-in-drug-cash" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">casinos</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> due to the COVID-19 pandemic, professional money launderers began to diversify their money laundering methods,” FINTRAC’s study says.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“During this time, FINTRAC observed a rise in money laundering typologies involving transferring large sums of funds to Canada from foreign money services businesses, often located in China, notably Hong Kong, and the laundering of the funds primarily through <u>the <b>real estate</b>, securities, automotive and legal professions.”</u></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These wire transfers from China were routed into bank accounts of “multiple, unrelated individuals in Canada,” that served as “money mules” in byzantine networks involving <u>Canada-based <b>real estate developers, real estate agents</b>, mortgage brokers and banks.</u></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These Chinese diaspora bank account owners often claimed they were students, homemakers, office managers, or unemployed, FINTRAC reported.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They sometimes used their accounts to send bank drafts to others in Canada for home purchases, or served as “straw buyers” for offshore investors.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“Mortgage payments are sourced from incoming funds from China,” </span><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">FINTRAC’s </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_secondary, var(--print_secondary_on_web_bg_color, var(--print_secondary, var(--color-secondary)))); font-size: calc(var(--font-size-14) + var(--font_size_body_offset, 0px)); font-weight: var(--font-weight-regular); letter-spacing: var(--letter-spacing-14); line-height: var(--line-height-20); margin-top: var(--size-8); padding-left: 109.197px; padding-right: 109.197px; text-align: center; width: 509.588px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">FINTRAC’s 2023 Project Athena alert on Chinese money laundering schemes using Canadian banks and real estate.</span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/operation/ml-rec-eng" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">FINTRAC’s study</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> doesn’t say that Canadian banks knowingly issued fake-income mortgages to Chinese diaspora buyers in Toronto. </span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But in an interview, D.M. said banking staff are trained to guard against fraud, and the loan application packages he reviewed in Aurora beggared belief.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The bank found out that one lady works in a casino part-time but got a $1.4 million mortgage showing over $300,000 annual income,” he said. “Plus she takes money as benefits from the government, for her two kids.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In other examples, an HSBC mortgage client claimed to earn $700,000 annually for remote work in China, while simultaneously living in Canada and paying off a $10,000 student loan. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another woman who owned homes in Aurora, Markham and Scarborough, worked part-time as a hairdresser while also claiming to earn $536,280 at a “Business Manager” job in Guangzhou. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Canadian workers have been put out of the real estate market by people working as a hairdresser that own a couple homes,” D.M. said in an interview.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“How is that fair?”</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; 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--tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The most shocking case reviewed by </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, shows that one woman that owns at least four Toronto properties opened her HSBC Aurora bank account in 2013, claiming to be a “Homemaker with no annual income.” </span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But her Toronto account soon received incredible amounts of wire transfers from HSBC China accounts, and paid out “high value cheques” to third parties for real estate purchases.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This case suggests “Toronto Method” shadow banking described in FINTRAC’s 2023 study has been seeping into Toronto real estate for about a decade.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And yet in 2020, this same woman applied for another HSBC Canada mortgage, claiming to earn $763,000 remotely from her job in China.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">This evidence from the HSBC whistleblower complements the seminal investigations of Simon Fraser University academic Andy Yan, who examined sales from August 2014 to February 2015 in several communities on Vancouver’s westside. The average home price in Yan’s study </span><a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/bc-news/vancouver-real-estate-a-buyers-market-for-mainland-china-study-4628682" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">was $3-million.</a></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Looking back at his Vancouver findings in comparison to D.M.’s Toronto banking documents, Yan told </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> “I think this helps affirm some of my early work that I did, almost nine years ago.”</span></span></p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“This goes to the core of our banking system,” he said, “and how are we verifying identities and how are we verifying incomes.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">In Yan’s </span><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/nothing-racist-about-metro-housing-study-experts-say" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">controversial</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> study the vast majority of mortgages went to buyers listing their occupation as home-maker, followed by </span><a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/student-flipped-point-grey-property-for-1-16-million-profit-research-for-ndp-critic-david-eby-shows" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">students,</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and managers. HSBC and CIBC were the dominant lenders.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Unlike the HSBC whistleblower, Yan had no access to internal banking data regarding the purported origin of funds behind these mortgages taken by Chinese diaspora buyers. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">But in an interview, Yan said what he found most interesting back in 2015, was suspicions that Chinese migrants were often buying homes with </span><a href="https://www.ice.gov/partnerships-centers/bcsc/faq" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">bulk cash, </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">weren’t accurate. The truth was more </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4658158/fentanyl-kingpins-canada-big-circle-boys/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">complex</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and seems to be clarified by D.M.’s mortgage findings in Toronto.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">“It's about that global flow of capital, and how it's multiplied by Canada’s mortgage and lending system,” Yan said. “Because you have to remember, one of the biggest conclusions about my study was that it wasn't bags of cash that were being used to purchase Vancouver homes outright. They were </span><a href="https://cullencommission.ca/files/Dirty_Money_Report_Part_2.pdf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">loans</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> being used. So now, I’m thinking, this is where my study connects up to what you have discovered in Toronto.”</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The interesting story here,” Yan added, “is what happens in Toronto real estate may not repeat Vancouver, but it perhaps rhymes.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Probably the most famous Chinese property owner from Yan’s 2015 study areas is Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.</b> In 2009 her family bought a home in Vancouver’s Dunbar neighborhood for $2.73 million, land titles show. In 1998, ten years before Vancouver Model transactions started to surge in Vancouver real estate, the home was sold for $370,000. The home is now valued at almost $6-million.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://summit.sfu.ca/item/37923" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Ashleigh Rhea Gonzales</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, a former RCMP data scientist who recently published a criminology </span><a href="https://summit.sfu.ca/item/37923" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">thesis </a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><b>finding Chinese diaspora underground banking causes significantly more money laundering into Canada’s real estate than previously estimated</b>, said that D.M.’s findings resemble her own Vancouver Model research.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“This whistleblower’s allegations of widespread mortgage fraud at HSBC Canada align with some of the first-hand accounts from staff of some Canadian financial institutions that I have come across in my research on money laundering in British Columbia,” Gonzales said.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://summit.sfu.ca/item/37923" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Gonzales</a><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, who worked for RCMP’s anti-gang unit in British Columbia until 2023, says she found reports of mortgage fraud accelerated “during the uptick in the Canadian housing bubble after the Vancouver 2010 Olympics,” and continued to surge from 2015 to 2018.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">With all this considered, and comparing data sources in this story with previous evidence confirmed in British Columbia’s </span><a href="https://cullencommission.ca/files/reports/CullenCommission-FinalReport-Full.pdf" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Cullen Commission, </a><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau </em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">estimates that from 2014 to 2023, well over $200-Billion in Vancouver Model and Toronto Method funds could have poured through underground diaspora networks and Canadian financial institutions into Toronto and </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4658157/fentanyl-vancouver-real-estate-billion-money-laundering-police-study/" rel="" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; text-decoration-line: none;">Vancouver’s real estate.</a></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">A federal official not authorized to comment publicly also examined D.M.’s banking leaks for </span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau,</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> and called this information “explosive.”</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The official said money laundering is increasing in Canada, and D.M.’s belief that <u>Chinese-income mortgage fraud has boosted home prices in Toronto is true,</u> but also should apply for Vancouver and Montreal real estate prices. The official noted that other nations require tax agencies to verify incomes for mortgages, which isn’t the case in Canada.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It matters for our next generation because of the impact on the housing market,” the official said. </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Queen’s University professor <b>Christian Leuprecht </b>– editor of</span><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> Dirty Money</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">, a new academic text that probes how Ottawa’s weak regulation has “turned the Canadian federation into a destination of choice for global financial crime” – also reviewed some of D.M. 's leaks.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It’s not a new problem, but you’re taking it to the next level,” Leuprecht said.</span></p><blockquote style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-left: var(--size-4) solid var(--background_pop); font-size: 19px; margin: var(--size-20) 0; padding: 0px;"><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-left: var(--size-20);"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Why does this matter? Because organized crime isn’t just laundering their ill-gotten gains, like any good business person, when they buy real estate, they generate a down payment, then get a mortgage for the rest. Why buy one property when you can buy four?”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJvoTIAlC78-fi_dsP4M7c0EsIYEHvMEGIFg67o1wnxcD3mZ8ZsvZ88mqFPof9u8rmp3b_6RrkCZdfRTqx65fZDDaiC4qG1v1miapeKSva5Lm79YaJYS1-dtNoayAdq5AyF4gyd0Nl8ZDZ95O5gfjOcFDT_-1wnuzLdoPAYZ0RRZOXKp4PVgU3lqF74J4U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJvoTIAlC78-fi_dsP4M7c0EsIYEHvMEGIFg67o1wnxcD3mZ8ZsvZ88mqFPof9u8rmp3b_6RrkCZdfRTqx65fZDDaiC4qG1v1miapeKSva5Lm79YaJYS1-dtNoayAdq5AyF4gyd0Nl8ZDZ95O5gfjOcFDT_-1wnuzLdoPAYZ0RRZOXKp4PVgU3lqF74J4U=w619-h412" width="619" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p></blockquote><h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Do you know how many mortgage frauds we have in our books?”</span><div class="header-anchor-widget offset-top" id="§do-you-know-how-many-mortgage-frauds-we-have-in-our-books" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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--tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><em style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Bureau’s</em><span style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> review of HSBC Canada emails and D.M.’s text messages, shows he came to believe numerous employees at the Aurora branch had direct knowledge of faked Chinese income mortgages, and a veteran manager with oversight of more than 10 Greater Toronto branches knew about broad and questionable mortgage lending for Chinese diaspora clients.</span></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Months after D.M. blew the whistle internally he exchanged texts with another employee, identifying colleagues that they believed had knowledge of diaspora mortgage scams.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The texts suggest D.M. believed HSBC Canada and other Canadian banks continued to hold vast amounts of suspicious foreign income mortgages, which could cause systemic loan quality risks if Toronto’s real estate prices decline.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Do you know how many mortgage frauds we have in our books,” D.M. texted to his colleague. “It’s insane.” </span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She told me,” the colleague replied, referring to an HSBC branch manager.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“She was like, if you do come, you gotta be prepared for the mortgage payout.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“These people showed fake income and got mortgage,” D.M. continued. “Now interest rate is high, they can’t cope.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Other branches did the same thing too,” his co-worker replied. “I heard there’s a lot.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 var(--size-20) 0;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Absolutely,” D.M. texted. “All branches engaged in it.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“This is like the unspoken secret,” his co-worker concluded. “I’m pretty sure other banks have it too. My Aunt have no income and got a mortgage for 700k. They just need a Covenanter from China.”</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;">Toronto recently voted in Chinese/Canadian </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;">Olivia Chow as </span><span style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;">Mayor. Chow seeks more real estate and developers in her city, the claim being more affordable housing. This resonated in Trudeau's government and finance minister Freeland into supporting same, a distinct political </span><span style="color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;">move.<br />Questions arose about Chows financial backing during the election.<br /></span><span style="color: #191919; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="color: #191919; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Two prominent community groups aligned with the Chinese government — including one that allegedly hosted a Chinese police station in Ontario — “went all out” to support Chow’s push to be mayor, supplying numerous volunteers to the effort, a letter from one of the groups claims. <br /></span></p><p data-async="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A<strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"> </strong>post on WeChat from <a auto-tracked="true" data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Felicity Guo", "target_url": "https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/ctfqba.com/?p=1230__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!G9dloG48YocjicIC0ZH1rUU61nFuenaE7cFXtGAhpTd5AueFZtap_xCKLCI0yfIuZ73mPyZof4CI0GoRfZXooPSjb-8%24", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/ctfqba.com/?p=1230__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!G9dloG48YocjicIC0ZH1rUU61nFuenaE7cFXtGAhpTd5AueFZtap_xCKLCI0yfIuZ73mPyZof4CI0GoRfZXooPSjb-8%24" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919;"><b>Felicity Guo</b></a>, deputy secretary general of the Canada Toronto Fuqing Business Association (CTFBA), one of the two groups, urged followers to back Chow. The message was accompanied by a photo of Guo, Chow and another woman.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The mayor-elect’s staff said that Chow never requested the two groups’ help, nor did they ask if she wanted it.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkhpD7EHxBeAt3EluQYYywFhiaCNCsQNR3n-GFV9GQ99fp14MFB9Rbh9T7_8BpIVX91hZL45vwnqf0N25rgdXmpn0NafUrY3dwSSHlULuU4J_7iDVe9Bik2OFTuiV97t0sDAD4Yo8neBgnN9vR-n5hMVGoI8-dz5K55cVTFnR17Rj_GYkMMgUr-MasvCxa" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="564" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkhpD7EHxBeAt3EluQYYywFhiaCNCsQNR3n-GFV9GQ99fp14MFB9Rbh9T7_8BpIVX91hZL45vwnqf0N25rgdXmpn0NafUrY3dwSSHlULuU4J_7iDVe9Bik2OFTuiV97t0sDAD4Yo8neBgnN9vR-n5hMVGoI8-dz5K55cVTFnR17Rj_GYkMMgUr-MasvCxa" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a auto-tracked="true" data-evt-typ="click" data-evt-val="{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "Felicity Guo", "target_url": "https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/ctfqba.com/?p=1230__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!G9dloG48YocjicIC0ZH1rUU61nFuenaE7cFXtGAhpTd5AueFZtap_xCKLCI0yfIuZ73mPyZof4CI0GoRfZXooPSjb-8%24", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}" data-evt="click" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/ctfqba.com/?p=1230__;!!MtWvt2UVEQ!G9dloG48YocjicIC0ZH1rUU61nFuenaE7cFXtGAhpTd5AueFZtap_xCKLCI0yfIuZ73mPyZof4CI0GoRfZXooPSjb-8%24" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919;">Felicity Guo</a><u>,</u> left</span><p></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: var(--print_on_web_bg_color, var(--color-primary)); line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeHPhT0LoMM1_dBfve0TSO1On_2QXeX0eyILMBcDmzlUglXv5wSjXb4NLH9f3djRh7gy-H1kY7Nac_-pY_Ddb22glxIvpAOKMbp3qfHWmrY8pnHjtm2ecGiC34qBrEjMD1ImQlkQHplskuJ9-naoPhm9P7dLId9b3GS0LRh7E0EiPmAxHZWTGlZc2gKdz3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="1020" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeHPhT0LoMM1_dBfve0TSO1On_2QXeX0eyILMBcDmzlUglXv5wSjXb4NLH9f3djRh7gy-H1kY7Nac_-pY_Ddb22glxIvpAOKMbp3qfHWmrY8pnHjtm2ecGiC34qBrEjMD1ImQlkQHplskuJ9-naoPhm9P7dLId9b3GS0LRh7E0EiPmAxHZWTGlZc2gKdz3=w637-h359" width="637" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;"><br />Vancouver also has their first Chinese Mayor,</span><span style="color: #3c4043;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ken Sim</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 19px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTNhi4XPxt20EmNv_G0S0VMtQptPVd0xdNBY5Tv1ub8wZm-AaLpudCjvtdIA6Wk6WirhM9oGzLP9GnEc8KGZd4LpXpwAXZEUydTsAQRKbZyZqZmjvO9MeFkoU60tZrEWaEYagptjXqEzCYhskqGMkGVnOjAmgCzz7cL6csVA3geELQO-yTZzKbFDHJ7Fqk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1279" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTNhi4XPxt20EmNv_G0S0VMtQptPVd0xdNBY5Tv1ub8wZm-AaLpudCjvtdIA6Wk6WirhM9oGzLP9GnEc8KGZd4LpXpwAXZEUydTsAQRKbZyZqZmjvO9MeFkoU60tZrEWaEYagptjXqEzCYhskqGMkGVnOjAmgCzz7cL6csVA3geELQO-yTZzKbFDHJ7Fqk=w628-h354" width="628" /></a></div></span><span style="color: #545454;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim flatly rejected the claim that Chinese interference may have helped him win the mayor's race.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="367" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/E8F7-6Ydaew" width="442" youtube-src-id="E8F7-6Ydaew"></iframe></div><br /></span></span><p></p></div></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-37437181407437952882024-03-02T11:07:00.000-08:002024-03-02T11:33:41.227-08:00 Realtors from Vancouver target of angry messages, after listing $12.8M Penticton Okanagan home<p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #231f20; font-size: 2.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> Realtors from </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-size: 2.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">Vancouver</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #231f20; font-size: 2.125rem; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> target of angry messages,</span><span style="font-size: 2.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; color: #231f20;"> after listing</span><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> $12.8M </span></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 34px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;"><b>Penticton </b></span></span><b style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: 2.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="color: red;">Okanagan home</span></b></p><div class="c-byline l-article__byline" id="article-byline" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; display: flex; font-family: roboto, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; padding: 0px 0px 24px;"><div class="c-byline__images c-byline__images--single" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-shrink: 0; margin-right: 16px;"></div><div class="c-byline__text" style="align-self: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center;"><div class="c-byline__attribution" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.25rem;"><br /></div><div class="c-byline__datesWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="c-byline__dates" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><div class="c-byline__date c-byline__date--pubDate" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-details); display: flex; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> April 26, 2021 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9wRZJ0id__02TZ4cvUwjl4gscMZcxlujcNIph7FJSlzKPopKQK3UhmYY7jfAi5K_VfzSrCw43pIDPGrAjQ-48zqQxZcNYfihe1GJzAu7QN6ghQh7VB9ohKrC_0LhCCO7A9g-U8klM1MWj_EiJwmZNHDxVKlZvletrqxSXlly9Utb6fu9wHO7cFiQRLF3v" style="margin-left: 1em; 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letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size: 1.125rem;">Two Vancouver Realtors said they’ve been targeted by angry </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: normal;"><span><span style="color: #231f20; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">messages</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 1.125rem;"> after</span><br /><span style="font-size: 1.125rem;"> marketing a luxury $12.8-million lakefront home in Penticton, B.C.</span></span></span></span></figcaption></div></figure><div class="l-article__story l-main__story" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"><article aria-label="Article text" class="l-article__text js-story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75rem; word-break: break-word;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="font-size: 1.125rem; height: 1px; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; transition-property: opacity; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The three-storey, 6,300 sq. ft. home, located at 587 Vancouver Ave., is described as “an exquisite lakefront architectural masterpiece with unparalleled levels of luxury.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">The seller, who lives at the property full-time, enlisted Vancouver-based </span></span><b style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">Oakwyn Realty</b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> to sell his luxury home.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj94xbzEvT44mYVQY_nTqzmQzlY63hboX5Fhdmn07DpSsNs2064OI_kosEaccUEvAJTlztnCE96X4jRIcEFe4BHm3dGCHQhwt0PfulQkqVnDcGEVbPdBOTXaT9mhoERj8w7fDi03kRUFwDDkHS2lz5Qvh9YwkaRXJCamyKAojEkNXdrkswLgFtthWsCx76x" style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1707" height="702" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj94xbzEvT44mYVQY_nTqzmQzlY63hboX5Fhdmn07DpSsNs2064OI_kosEaccUEvAJTlztnCE96X4jRIcEFe4BHm3dGCHQhwt0PfulQkqVnDcGEVbPdBOTXaT9mhoERj8w7fDi03kRUFwDDkHS2lz5Qvh9YwkaRXJCamyKAojEkNXdrkswLgFtthWsCx76x=w468-h702" width="468" /></a><br /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">Promotional Video</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="295" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4mj9eQcYtEQ" width="355" youtube-src-id="4mj9eQcYtEQ"></iframe></span></span><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;">https://blog.oakwyn.com/oakwynathome/<br /></span></span><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Moved to Kelowna June 27, 2023 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXew9jKReUW_AYg6llYccsVt_AhWkTGgbJMdyJbUl3QwD6Sp4ASGQlfrdN6BSCsr1wz9GS3UKw9m1ZEk8Rd7u_ZrapEzQLtNZOUpfjnMuKCkDj8sXAz26yGkBpkSPULDfD8jkzmAr7sojMGniG1bELcYxHLsr9RWq4T8_BdapXo0axryN69lSj_QIXctwY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXew9jKReUW_AYg6llYccsVt_AhWkTGgbJMdyJbUl3QwD6Sp4ASGQlfrdN6BSCsr1wz9GS3UKw9m1ZEk8Rd7u_ZrapEzQLtNZOUpfjnMuKCkDj8sXAz26yGkBpkSPULDfD8jkzmAr7sojMGniG1bELcYxHLsr9RWq4T8_BdapXo0axryN69lSj_QIXctwY" width="320" /></a></div></span></div></span></div><p></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="readmore" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Matthew Zhang</b>, who works for the real estate firm and is Chinese-Canadian, said he and his partner <b>Kevin Chen </b>noticed online comments after the property was featured in a Vancouver online news site called Daily Hive.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqRFakTqkYoqxatGUskXawRf6FElfIXzJXJH6SWOe4l-wnkNNDsKTVLLjfzyx9o-G4MNtP_IbxoJvii9C06-T__HwIhFepEnB-b_G8jttg0d61c3HjfT4dAAnBvdalThGbBSawPkQFQWNvcnW4MarPHD2YWJ4oLqzNBTiLIBRmjGd3ozENXilSXT2Qm2UY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqRFakTqkYoqxatGUskXawRf6FElfIXzJXJH6SWOe4l-wnkNNDsKTVLLjfzyx9o-G4MNtP_IbxoJvii9C06-T__HwIhFepEnB-b_G8jttg0d61c3HjfT4dAAnBvdalThGbBSawPkQFQWNvcnW4MarPHD2YWJ4oLqzNBTiLIBRmjGd3ozENXilSXT2Qm2UY" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Realtors Kevin Chen and Matt Zhang listed this $12.8 million luxury home in Penticton, B.C. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="334" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Y4WE5aI-aw" width="402" youtube-src-id="_Y4WE5aI-aw"></iframe></div><br /></span></span></figcaption><figcaption class="c-figure__caption c-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">“The majority of it was like ‘take your dirty money back to Communist China, we don’t want your criminal laundered money here, get out of our town, you are not welcome here nor the country’,” he told Global News.</span></figcaption></div></figure></div><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2:10</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hidden Hate: The rise of anti-Asian racism in B.C.</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The derogatory comments culminated in a private email sent to Chen, which read, in part:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We do not appreciate you bringing dirty laundered money to our little town. 12 million dollars for a house. You must be mad the email said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“You are pushing local people out, people who have grown up here can no longer afford to live here… Kevin Chen, you are not welcome in this province or country. Please leave. Please take your dirty laundered money and with your greed back to China.”</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="readmore" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chen, ethnic Chinese, was born in Taiwan, then the family emigrated to Vancouver as a child. Zhang also moved to B.C. from China when he was just a child with his family.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I grew up in Vancouver, we moved here when I was less than one year old, I consider Vancouver my home, I am Canadian, and honestly, it’s been around. It’s not like it’s a new thing,” he said.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><figure class="c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="c-figure__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;"><div class="c-figure__imageWrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="There is over $1,000,000 worth of marble in this home, over $1,000,000 of custom furniture, and the Gaganeau & La Cornue kitchen is worth over $500,000." class="c-figure__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 1200px,(min-width: 520px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all" data-srcset="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=450 450w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=720 720w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all 1200w," height="667" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 1200px,(min-width: 520px) 720px,450px" src="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all" srcset="https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=450 450w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=720 720w,https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kitchen-2.jpg?quality=85&strip=all 1200w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="1000" /><a class="c-figure__expand c-figure__overlay" data-trackaction="image | open" href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7811704/vancouver-realtors-racist-threatening-messages-okanagan-home/" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: block; inset: 0px; outline: none; pointer-events: all; position: absolute; text-decoration-line: none; z-index: 100;" title="View image in full screen"><span class="sr-only" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">View image in full screen</span></span></a></div><figcaption class="c-figure__caption c-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is over $1,000,000 worth of marble in this home, over $1,000,000 of custom furniture, and the Gaganeau & La Cornue kitchen is worth over $500,000. </span></span></figcaption></div></figure></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zhang said it’s frustrating when two Chinese men sell luxury property.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We are kind of used to it. Being younger Chinese guys in the real estate world, we expect this a lot. People automatically assume things,” he said.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay" data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_7785376_65e36b8aea1cd" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="7785376" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/7785376/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_7785376_65e36b8aea1cd" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; left: 319.995px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 179.992px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); width: 639.991px;"><img alt="Click to play video: 'Hidden Hate: Fear in Vancouver’s Chinatown community'" class="c-video__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" data-srcset="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," height="360" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" src="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/1ti2emy8fb-5c350utn9g/WEB_0422_ANTI_ASIAN_HATE_2.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; font-size: 0.875rem; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1:23</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hidden Hate: Fear in Vancouver’s Chinatown community</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It’s a bit comical how ignorant and how uneducated some Canadians are.”</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="readmore" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zhang said they reported the threatening and racist email to Penticton RCMP, who are investigating, but Zhang believes the perpetrator used a fake email and name while using a VPN to bounce off different servers around the world, which will make the suspect difficult to track down.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Global News has reached out to Penticton RCMP for comment.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay" data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="2" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_7765628_65e36b8aeb2c1" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="7765628" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/7765628/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_7765628_65e36b8aeb2c1" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; left: 319.995px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 179.992px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); width: 639.991px;"><img alt="Click to play video: 'More Asian British Columbians coming forward to tell stories of hostility and racist treatment'" class="c-video__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" data-srcset="https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," height="360" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" src="https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" srcset="https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/pd4ydz2v7g-oi0nia3880/NH_MORE_RACIST_INCIDENTS.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; font-size: 0.875rem; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1:55</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">More Asian British Columbians coming forward to tell stories of hostility and racist treatment</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I feel like there are a lot of closet Canadian racists that were scared to speak up prior to COVID, and given the circumstances now with the economic social-class differences, a lot of people did lose their jobs during COVID, that it is easy to blame others. The easy thing is point at the Asian people,” he said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zhang added that the property’s location and price tag has also fuelled pushback from some local residents.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“With this home being so expensive in an area that is quite peaceful, quite quiet, a very small town, I think it’s created hatred towards Chinese people.”</span></p><section aria-label="More on Canada" class="l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--text l-inlineStories--sophi" data-sophi-feature="article-canada" id="sophi_article_widget" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 32px 0px;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="background-color: var(--theme-color-background-infobox); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><div class="c-infoBox__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-300-100); font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; margin-bottom: 16px; text-transform: uppercase;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zhang encourages people to REPORT anti-CHINESE racism.</span></span></div></div></div></section><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">The $12.8 million home, listed in fall 2020, remains</span><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> </span><a href="https://www.587vancouver.com/about" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">on the market.</span><br /><br /><b>https://www.facebook.com/aspacdevelopmentsltd/videos/465067584646807</b></a></span></p></article></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-61227547975311250902024-02-27T09:34:00.000-08:002024-03-02T11:10:59.429-08:00Canadian Tribunal Rules to Deport Woman Over Ties to Chinese Foreign Interference Body<p> </p><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-size: 45px; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Canadian Tribunal Rules to Deport Woman</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Over Ties to Chinese</span> </span><span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Foreign Interference BodyOn NYC</span></span></span></h1><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> January 29, 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTYdFcPh6wA4z9eUm_MNAhQ5pw01HtSGb6d7vWgC_6xGojXid1v8iAqwDkfG6QbpGfRfjWSd1qLb0CR2EyzKaThFL6EJyD2zsleuzJ4JZvWBXO4sEpmpnCRtG-ukrp4T8ajybBUg0NLWopJ_Qxzu4Db74m2wZxEhl3FJkWSHuxAvR-ZbRcU8Mwc-KGvPO2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTYdFcPh6wA4z9eUm_MNAhQ5pw01HtSGb6d7vWgC_6xGojXid1v8iAqwDkfG6QbpGfRfjWSd1qLb0CR2EyzKaThFL6EJyD2zsleuzJ4JZvWBXO4sEpmpnCRtG-ukrp4T8ajybBUg0NLWopJ_Qxzu4Db74m2wZxEhl3FJkWSHuxAvR-ZbRcU8Mwc-KGvPO2=s16000" /></a></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Canadian authorities have issued a deportation order against a Chinese woman on the grounds she was part of Beijing’s<span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/foreign-interference" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">foreign interference</a><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> </span><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">program.</span></span></h1><h1 class="sm:title-bold font-source my-2 text-[25px] font-medium leading-[30px] sm:text-[45px] sm:font-bold sm:leading-[54px]" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-variation-settings: "wght" 650, "opsz" 40; line-height: 54px; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><span><div class="l-article__story l-main__story" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"><article aria-label="Article text" class="l-article__text js-story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.75rem; word-break: break-word;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; height: 1px; transition-property: opacity; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></span></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/immigration-refugee-board/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Immigration and Refugee Board</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ruled that </span>Jing Zhang<span style="font-weight: 400;"> had worked for the </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/overseas-chinese-affairs-office" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Overseas Chinese Affairs Office</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OCAO), which it said conducts espionage in Canada.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB85e-s4FSw-_9TU8ImKN1OHhOAGN2cM4D6ixKcWNqCY8TaDlJaFJGucurjwt9zWmaK2-dCAsR_ySFxD0l9UkZggh8ES8daKwypADuO2p5vvpGzpppU3XaVT65vNl5e2jlnTIv97D71NAdxGB9oTPDT4VvHjNgW1zHvMUj9YZSpyvFrbaIBw6MXAQ_hyzx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="2048" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiB85e-s4FSw-_9TU8ImKN1OHhOAGN2cM4D6ixKcWNqCY8TaDlJaFJGucurjwt9zWmaK2-dCAsR_ySFxD0l9UkZggh8ES8daKwypADuO2p5vvpGzpppU3XaVT65vNl5e2jlnTIv97D71NAdxGB9oTPDT4VvHjNgW1zHvMUj9YZSpyvFrbaIBw6MXAQ_hyzx=w640-h392" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While immigration officials did not argue that Zhang committed espionage, the Refugee Board found that as an 11-year OCAO employee, she had contributed to its efforts to pressure the Chinese diaspora.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to the 32-page decision, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) uses the OCAO to silence dissent overseas.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The organization “was and remains involved in espionage against the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/peoples-republic-of-china/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">PRC</a>‘s targeted individuals and groups in Canada,” the IRB added.</span></p><blockquote class="c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="background-color: var(--theme-color-background-infobox); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The OCAO conducting espionage, surveillance or covert monitoring of Chinese and ethnic Chinese dissidents or minorities in Canada is against Canada, and contrary to its security interests.”</span></p></div></div></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The decision to deport Zhang for security reasons was handed down on Aug. 28 but only recently released publicly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Vancouver lawyer who represented Zhang could not be reached for comment.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Asked whether Zhang had been deported since the ruling was issued six months ago, the Canada Border Services Agency said it did not comment on cases.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="background-color: white; 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color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">0:43</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Foreign interference inquiry begins with question of what information to make public</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">An <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10247144/foreign-interference-inquiry-india-allegations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">inquiry</a> was scheduled to begin in Ottawa on Monday into foreign interference in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.</span></p><div class="c-textSignup" style="background-color: var(--theme-color-background-articleReadmore); border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Okanagan's breaking news <a class="c-textSignup__link" data-micromodal-trigger="newsletter-signup" data-trackable="true" data-trackaction="article | newsletter signup text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-mainRed); cursor: pointer; outline: none;">sent to your email as it happens.</a></span></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The commission was sparked by allegations of widespread meddling by China, but also has a mandate to examine the actions of Russia and “other foreign states or non-state actors.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But elections are only part of a broader national security threat: the bullying of Canadians by overseas governments, particularly China.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Activists targeted by Beijing have faced <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9961032/foreign-interference-china-canada-rcmp-investigation-death-b-c-operation-fox-hunt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">harassment, intimidation</a> and extortion, and their extended families in China have been threatened.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The OCAO is one of several groups the Communist Party has tasked to eliminate “potential threats and rival discourses” that challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The evidence establishes that a key role of the OCAO has been intelligence gathering on dissidents and ethnic minorities external to China,” the IRB wrote.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">During Zhang’s hearing, the CBSA argued the OCAO had infiltrated Chinese communities in Canada to suppress opponents, among them Taiwanese, ethnic Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners and Canadian citizens of Chinese descent.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="background-color: white; 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display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3:32</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chinese Canadians targeted by Chinese Communist Party</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The OCAO has “engaged in covert action and intelligence against them, manipulating them,” the immigration enforcement agency alleged.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Its aim is “managing the overseas Chinese community’s behaviour” through incentives, disincentives and surveillance, which amounts to espionage, according to the CBSA.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">From 2008 to 2019, Zhang was employed by the OCAO in Yangzhou, first as director of public relations, and later as director of overseas liaison, the IRB said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She travelled abroad on business up to four times a year, and engaged with “target groups” both inside China and in the diaspora, the ruling said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Her target populations included students, prominent individuals, government personnel and groups, and business persons,” it added.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Her activities and target populations demonstrate that she was fulfilling the objectives of the OCAO and its implementation of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">qiaouw</em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><u><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Qiaouw</em> means programming pride for the "Moherland" influencing overseas Chinese, and makes use of Marxist-Leninist tactics that exploit person-to-person relationships to expose and neutralize critics of the Communist Party, according to the IRB</u>.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="background-color: white; 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margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She denied being a member of OCAO but the IRB ruled she was, and had knowingly participated in its activities and supported its goals.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The hearings were held virtually from Vancouver.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another former OCAO employee, <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8537707/canadian-government-report-china-espionage-manipulation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Yong Zhang</a>, was deemed inadmissible to Canada in 2022 based on a similar finding.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In 2018, OCAO became part of China’s United Front Work Department, which federal officials say has been operating in Canada.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-size: large; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Communist Party uses the UFWD to “to stifle criticism and manipulate Canadian communities,” <a href="https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlmntry-bndrs/20230629/31-en.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: large; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span color="var(--theme-color-text-main)" style="background-color: white; 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color: white;">Hong Kong diaspora group</span><span style="color: #191919;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-weight: bold;"> pulls out of foreign interference inquiry</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> citing 'grave concerns'</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: georgia;">Feb 21 2024</span></p><header aria-label="Beginning of Article" class="article-header article-header--story" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "PT Serif", "PT Serif-fb", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: content-start / content-end; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 1.5rem; width: 563.997px;"><div class="article-header__detail" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><figure class="featured-image" data-aqa="featured-image" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 1rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><picture class="featured-image__ratio" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><img alt="Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue." class="featured-image__image type:primaryImage" height="750" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Marie-Jose%CC%81e-Hogue-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=TPe-KL7VKjxJPfhah2RLqg" srcset="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Marie-Josée-Hogue-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216&sig=TPe-KL7VKjxJPfhah2RLqg,
https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Marie-Josée-Hogue-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=576&h=432&sig=mw8UzYwFmOg2D9FhQkwBDA 2x" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1000" /></picture><figcaption class="featured-image__caption image-caption" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Roboto, Roboto-fb, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.2188; margin-top: 0.5rem;"><span class="caption" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Trudeau appointee commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue listens to counsel at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions, in Ottawa on Monday, January 29, 2024.</span></figcaption></figure></div></header><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #191919; font-family: "PT Serif", "PT Serif-fb", Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: content-start / content-end;"><h2 class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: "PT Sans", "PT Sans-fb", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2rem; height: 1px; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 1rem -1px 0.5rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Article content</h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">OTTAWA — The Canadian Friends of Hong Kong, a non-partisan diaspora group, announced on Tuesday that its members will not take part in the public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s elections, citing “grave concerns regarding the objectivity and the security integrity” of the inquiry.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"><br />“Specifically, we denounce the granting of full standing to MPs <b>Han Dong</b> and <b>Michael Chan,</b> and intervener standing to Senator <b>Yuen Pau Woo</b>, by Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue,” the group’s press release stated.<br /><br /></p><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story" style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column: content-start / content-end;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">The group said it is worried about the type of documents these individuals may have access to with a full or intervening status and what they may do with that information.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">“Even if documents are heavily redacted, just the titles of the documents, if seen by our adversaries, will give them a target as they will know what to look for,” the press release stated.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">Ivy Li, a member of the CFHK, said the group doesn’t want to give up the “map” on how they defend themselves, how they conduct their research and who their contacts are for fear of repercussions, not only for the group but for national security.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">“Every single word is a piece of information and there are people who are good at analyzing this information, so it can pose a threat to those involved and their families and business partners back in China,” she said.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">She says the group fears the inquiry itself might be targeted as a tool for foreign interference which could prove “detrimental” for Canada.</p></section><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story" style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column: content-start / content-end;"><div class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Article content</div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">Access to these sensitive documents offered through full or intervening standing puts diaspora group members and their families in danger, said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a board member for the China Strategic Risks Institute and senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue and her senior policy advisory team don’t “have China experience” nor do they “have a deep understanding of what the Chinese diaspora groups are going through,” she said.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">McCuaig-Johnston said the commission will offer support to Dong, Chan, and Woo but “it is not very reassuring that there is no similar support for the diaspora that are being intimidated.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">“Withdrawing standing from these three individuals would go a long way to satisfy the concerns of these diaspora groups,” said <b>McCuaig-Johnston</b>. “In this case, this organization didn’t go in asking for standing because they had so many reservations at the outset so now there are just giving reasons for not participating in the process.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">McCuaig-Johnston also notes that a year is a tight deadline to cover such a “complex issue” and hear from all diaspora groups.</p></section><section class="article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story" style="box-sizing: inherit; grid-column: content-start / content-end;"><div class="visually-hidden" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; width: 1px;">Article content</div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">The inquiry is looking into possible foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. The first part of the inquiry will focus on alleged interference by China, Russia and other foreign actors and the impact it may have had on the last two federal elections. The second part of the inquiry will look at the federal departments and agencies’ ability “to permit the Government of Canada to detect, deter and counter such interference,” according to the commission’s website.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">Court hearings started on Jan. 29, with an interim report expected for May 3. The final report is due on Dec. 31.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; max-width: 100%;">The CFHK is the second group to withdraw from the independent inquiry after the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) withdrew on Jan. 31. It also stated disappointment in the commissioner for giving full standing to Dong, Chan and Woo.</p></section></section>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-3419154543688902702024-02-18T13:18:00.000-08:002024-02-18T13:18:48.051-08:00Canadian Tribunal Rules to Deport Woman Over Ties to Chinese Foreign Interference Body<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 45px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9;">Canadian Tribunal Rules</span></b><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #262626;"> to Deport Woman Over Ties to</span><b style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Chinese Foreign Interference Body</span></b></span></p><div class="mx-auto max-w-[600px] theme-app-hidden my-4 flex items-center justify-between" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); 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font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;" target="_blank">immigration tribunal</a><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"> has decided to deport a Chinese woman due to her work for a Beijing foreign interference agency. The ruling follows a 2022 federal court finding that exposed the agency’s involvement in espionage against Canada.</span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="post_content" data-post-content="true" id="post_content" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.42; padding-bottom: 1.5rem; padding-top: 1.5rem;"><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzDreP621DYq_Ent-pfErY1JQKA-gpfikQCuauFurGkgvuzkBBsAogIeO761tkWD3VAjXdAAExbLlCseb73_CXZnjOyloORaZdbrxC-ziDHQ70eDHiLoJMV1YNA4vHaixLvnNR5PH5erfNB1VG2RwSuaAjNsoz-uLgZacvI4UXoEWAFIIakyNc-AeLD6H5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="847" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzDreP621DYq_Ent-pfErY1JQKA-gpfikQCuauFurGkgvuzkBBsAogIeO761tkWD3VAjXdAAExbLlCseb73_CXZnjOyloORaZdbrxC-ziDHQ70eDHiLoJMV1YNA4vHaixLvnNR5PH5erfNB1VG2RwSuaAjNsoz-uLgZacvI4UXoEWAFIIakyNc-AeLD6H5=w570-h383" width="570" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="386" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UmlgHqv6vGQ" width="464" youtube-src-id="UmlgHqv6vGQ"></iframe></div></div><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">The Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) ruled that</span><b style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> Jing Zhang </b><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">had worked for the </span><a class="health-article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/focus/ocao" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.01em;" target="_blank">Overseas Chinese Affairs Office</a><span style="color: rgb(47 47 47/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> (OCAO). The OCAO is the external office of the United Front Work Department, an agency known for its involvement in foreign interference activities for the Chinese regime.</span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRHseBQhhA1l_LYuFbxPh9Y_GbF7HwYdy6RSmNzJ02sYqPxrS2xEi_9sjAiYqZC7B2yPA2TVpmEebCg9q25onRzud3ukrZkCbiouG8yV6Em7bYg_m6eepp9FJ3VtiX5OF0M3t6eJTlz2N2MKNyjlL3Qq5HtiLcQBRNg3KQ66RNEvunt7yyG7iiyFb0YjJh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="900" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRHseBQhhA1l_LYuFbxPh9Y_GbF7HwYdy6RSmNzJ02sYqPxrS2xEi_9sjAiYqZC7B2yPA2TVpmEebCg9q25onRzud3ukrZkCbiouG8yV6Em7bYg_m6eepp9FJ3VtiX5OF0M3t6eJTlz2N2MKNyjlL3Qq5HtiLcQBRNg3KQ66RNEvunt7yyG7iiyFb0YjJh=w776-h476" width="776" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As first reported by <a class="health-article-hover-class" href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10253816/foreign-interference-overseas-chinese-affairs-office/" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Global News</a>, the IRB did not accuse Ms. Zhang of committing espionage, but found that she had, during her 11-year employment at the OCAO, contributed to the communist regime’s efforts in transnational repression of overseas Chinese diaspora.</span></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ms. Zhang was employed by the OCAO in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, from 2008 to 2019. Initially, she served as the director of public relations and later took on the role of director of overseas liaison, as stated by the IRB.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ms. Zhang, who holds a law degree, denied being a member of OCAO, despite the IRB’s ruling that she was and that she had knowingly participated in its activities and supported its goals, as reported by Global News. She attributed allegations of her involvement with OCAO to errors in translation, and argued that Canadian authorities had issued her multiple visas without any issues.</span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ms. Zhang could not be contacted for comment. The Epoch Times reached out to IRB for comment, but didn’t hear back by publication time.</span><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 1.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Infiltrating Canadian Communities</span></h2><span style="font-family: georgia;">During Ms. Zhang’s hearing, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) said that the OCAO had infiltrated Chinese-Canadian communities with the aim of suppressing various ethnic and religious groups, including Falun Gong practitioners, Taiwanese, Uyghurs, and Canadian citizens of Chinese descent. Af</span><a class="in_article_related_stories_link_0" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/foreign-interference-inquiry-about-to-start-after-decades-of-dismissed-warnings-5572022?ea_src=author_manual&ea_med=related_stories" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><div class="text-sm sm:text-base" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; 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--tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The OCAO has “engaged in covert action and intelligence against them, manipulating them,” the CBSA stated.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ms. Zhang travelled abroad for business purposes up to four times a year, engaging with “target groups” both within China and in the diaspora, according to the ruling.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Her target populations included students, prominent individuals, government personnel and groups, and business persons,” it stated.</span></p><div class="shortcode post-related-videos mptracked" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; 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box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="vjs-setting-menu-value" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;"></div></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The IRB noted that Ms. Zhang’s actions and choice of target groups indicate that she was advancing the objectives of the OCAO, employing a tactic referred to as “qiaowu.” According to the IRB’s definition, qiaowu is a Marxist-Leninist strategy that exploits interpersonal relationships to counteract critics of the Communist Party.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The IRB’s decision on Ms. Zhang’s deportation was issued in August 2023, but was only recently made public. Her hearing was held virtually from Vancouver.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The CBSA declined to provide details of Ms. Zhang’s deportation status, citing the need to protect individual privacy.</span></p><div class="my-5" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.25rem auto; max-width: 600px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) does not provide comments or details on specific individual cases as an individual’s border and immigration information is considered private and protected by the Privacy Act,” CBSA spokesperson Karine Martel said in an email statement to The Epoch Times.</span><h2 style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: 1.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 2.375rem; margin: 3rem 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">OCAO</span></h2><span style="font-family: georgia;">In <a class="health-article-hover-class" href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/federal-court-affirms-chinas-overseas-agency-in-canada-engaged-in-espionage-4298066" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">a decision</a> made in January 2022, a federal court concluded that the OCAO was engaged in espionage activities contrary to Canada’s interests. The IRB further affirmed this, stating in its ruling that the OCAO “was and remains involved in espionage against the PRC’s targeted individuals and groups in Canada.”</span></div><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another former OCAO employee, Yong Zhang, was deemed inadmissible to Canada in 2022.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In August 2015, the OCAO spearheaded the establishment of “overseas Chinese service centres,” which have the stated focus of providing community services to the Chinese diaspora. In 2016, two Quebec-based overseas Chinese community service centres entered into agreement with the OCAO.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">These organizations, the Centre Sino-Québec de la Rive-Sud (CSQRS) and its sister organization in Montreal, the Service à la famille chinoise du Grand Montréal (SFCGM), became the focus of an RCMP investigation last year. Shortly after the police announced its probe, the RCMP said they’ve received over a dozen “serious tips” in relation to these organizations’ connection to alleged Chinese secret police stations in Canada.</span></p><p style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 600px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A public inquiry, officially launched on Jan. 29, is set to investigate foreign interference in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections, primarily attributed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the past year, the CCP and its affiliated individuals and entities have been accused of intimidating and targeting Canadian politicians and citizens.</span></p></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-64010226346155809322024-02-13T22:32:00.000-08:002024-02-13T22:32:32.552-08:00How do China's deadly drugs get into Canada?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nYkk38QmLv4" width="320" youtube-src-id="nYkk38QmLv4"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OqylDWcrwAE" width="320" youtube-src-id="OqylDWcrwAE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><h1 id="MainContentTitle" style="color: #263238; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: verdana; font-size: 2rem;">How do </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana; font-size: 2rem;">China's deadly drugs</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: 2rem; font-weight: normal;"> get into Canada?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Feb 13 2024</span></span><br /></span><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The opioid crisis and record-setting death counts caused by <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/Fentanyl-making-a-killing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">fentanyl flooding into Canada</a> could get worse because of a growing diplomatic dispute with China, sources have informed Global News.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Canadian law enforcement agencies have found that fentanyl and its chemical precursors are mostly produced in southern China factories and sent to North America via shipping containers, and in the mail.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lobc2_VIvlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="lobc2_VIvlY"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u3ytrfnIRfI" width="320" youtube-src-id="u3ytrfnIRfI"></iframe></span></div><p></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In public, Canada’s federal government claims there is co-operation with China in the fight against fentanyl. It isn’t politically feasible for Ottawa to openly criticize Beijing on the opioid crisis, especially as the two governments pursue deeper trade ties.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But behind the scenes, sources say frustration is growing over China’s inaction.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“This is a very hot issue diplomatically right now,” a source with knowledge of international policing said.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The situation has gone from bad to worse, after Canada recently turned down China’s request to insert a new police liaison officer in China’s Vancouver consulate.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“It’s a huge fight with China right now, and if you anger the Chinese they won’t work with you,” said a source, who could not be identified. “The fentanyl coming into Canada is going to get worse. Nothing will happen because we have to satisfy what they (the Chinese government) want.”</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Responding to questions from Global News following the G20 summit on Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau maintained that China is cooperating with Canada on the fentanyl crisis.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“China has been actually working with Canadian officials and Canadian law enforcement over the past months, to take measures on the flow of fentanyl into Canada. There is, obviously as you say, more to do, we recognize that this is a crisis that is continuing in Canada and indeed getting worse,” Trudeau said.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What China wants, is freedom in B.C. to pursue alleged corruption suspects and financial fugitives, including a suspect accused of absconding with about $1 billion from a Beijing company. The suspect is laundering the money in Vancouver real estate, a source said, and using Vancouver as a hub to launder dirty money around the world.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;">China’s request to send a police liaison to Vancouver was rejected by Canada’s department of Global Affairs because of national security concerns, according to a source.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The concern is the police liaison could have worked for China’s Ministry of State Security, which is the non-military agency responsible for China’s counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence and political security operations.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“There are cases where people come to Canada working for the Ministry of State Security,” a source said.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is not known what triggered Canada’s suspicion in this case, but reportedly, the so-called Five Eyes intelligence countries, including Canada, Australia, and the U.S., have recently increased information sharing on China’s alleged foreign influence, investment and spying campaigns.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Global News requested interviews with Global Affairs officials regarding the diplomatic dispute but the requests were declined.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A brief prepared statement did not address or refute the alleged case.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Canadian and Chinese authorities continue to work together on law enforcement and legal-judicial issues, including fentanyl and opioids,” Global Affairs spokesman Guillaume Bérubé wrote.</span></p><div class="l-longform-article__div l-longform-article__content l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 64px; 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line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">19:53</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mothers losing children to fentanyl overdoses speak out on small community in crisis</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Global News repeatedly contacted officials in China’s embassies in Ottawa and Vancouver to ask questions for this story, but was unable to obtain responses.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In an interview, Conservative critic for foreign affairs Erin O’Toole said “We have people dying. And if they are slow to crack down on production facilities that are perpetuating this horrible drug … the very fact that China might be dragging its feet on investigating and shutting down production facilities in Mainland China, is deeply concerning. And we should raise it at the highest level.”</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And regarding the allegation that China is seeking diplomatic concessions from Canada in order to crack down on fentanyl exports, O’Toole said: “There should be no diplomatic quid pro quo. There are lives at stake here.”</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, Senator Vern White, a former Ottawa police chief, said Canada should take punitive trade actions if China will not act to stem fentanyl arriving in North America from state-regulated factories in China.</span></p><blockquote class="l-longform-article__blockquote l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto 64px; max-width: 680px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 679.992px;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“China has shown no willingness to stop this,” White said in an interview. White said his colleagues in the United States tell him they are concerned about fentanyl from China flowing south through B.C.</span></p><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Imagine if we were producing fentanyl in factories and sending it into the U.S.,” White said.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="l-longform-article__blockquote l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto 64px; max-width: 680px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 679.992px;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;">It is not just China’s lack of action on fentanyl imports that is hindering Canadian efforts to crack down on illicit opioid supply. Police experts interviewed by Global News say that Canada doesn’t have the human resources or aggressive policing strategies needed to mount complicated transnational organized crime investigations.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="l-longform-article__blockquote l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto 64px; max-width: 680px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 679.992px;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;">Veterans in drug-trafficking investigations say that Canadian privacy and court procedure time limits also tend to severely limit pursuit of international criminals in Canada, in comparison to investigations by United States and Australian federal police.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="l-longform-article__blockquote l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto 64px; max-width: 680px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 679.992px;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px;">Sources have said that Canadian police must file hundreds of pages of evidence in order to get phone intercepts for suspected drug kingpins approved by judges. But in the U.S., they say, such processes require much less paperwork and a more practical standard of evidence.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Australia and United States federal forces also have anti-drug trafficking policing operations in China that the RCMP lacks, sources said.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As a result of these weaknesses, U.S. investigators and officials are expressing frustration with the limits of Canadian law enforcement, and concern about the growing reach of Chinese organized crime in B.C., an official confirmed to Global News. And the U.S. has established a significant number of federal law and drug enforcement officers in the U.S.’s Vancouver consulate, multiple sources confirmed.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lOZLzOl1EzE" width="320" youtube-src-id="lOZLzOl1EzE"></iframe></span></div><p></p><div class="l-longform-article__div l-longform-article__content l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 64px; width: 1543.83px;"><div class="c-video c-video--longform l-longform-article__content c-video--wide l-longform-article__content--wide l-longform-article__content--inner c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="2" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_4709957_65cc58e76ccf4" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="4709957" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/4709957/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_4709957_65cc58e76ccf4" data-iframe-receiver="" style="background-attachment: initial; 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line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2:01</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Growing calls for public inquiry into deadly fentanyl</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Christine Duhaime<span style="font-weight: 400;">, an anti-money laundering lawyer in Vancouver, said she recognizes the United States government is increasingly watching Chinese criminal networks in B.C.<br /></span></span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“With the fentanyl crisis, and Vancouver being ground zero with imports from China paid with Bitcoin from unregulated exchanges, the U.S. government is concerned about Vancouver,” Duhaime said. “The fact that Vancouver has emerged as a safe haven for proceeds of crime is even more concerning.”</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tension between China and Canada over police agents is not a new phenomenon.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the most famous case, agents claiming to be Chinese businessmen falsely obtained visas to enter B.C., and conducted covert operations in Richmond in pursuit of China’s most-wanted criminal, Lai Changxing. Lai was a billionaire smuggler and organized crime associate with ties to drug-trafficking and police and military officials in southern China, court records and sources say.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When a bribery and corruption case escalated in China, Lai fled to Hong Kong, and gained entry to Canada under immigrant investor status. He was a prolific VIP gambler in Richmond, associated to notorious loan sharks, and <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/Big-Circle-Boys/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Big Circle Boys</a> associates in British Columbia and Ontario, court records allege.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a 12-year legal and diplomatic battle over China’s efforts to extradite Lai, a deal was struck in which China promised that Lai would not be executed if he was returned to face prosecution. He was sent to China in 2011 and imprisoned.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There are conflicting reports in China about Lai’s current condition.</span></p><p class="l-longform-article__p l-longform-article__content l-longform-article__content--narrow " style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25008px; margin: 0px auto 32px; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px; width: 679.992px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“In accordance with the legal terms/parameters of Mr. Lai’s return to China, as outlined in the Federal Court Decision of 2011, as well as diplomatic assurances received at the time, Canadian officials have been monitoring Mr. Lai’s situation, pursuant to the assurances provided and in cooperation with Chinese officials,” Global Affairs stated, in response to questions about Lai’s health.</span></p></h1>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-71533744643697354782024-02-04T11:27:00.000-08:002024-02-04T11:32:48.254-08:00Centennial of anti-Chinese immigration law coincides with campaign against proposed registry of foreign agents<p><span style="color: #020202; font-family: verdana; font-size: 45px;"><b style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Centennial of anti-Chinese immigration law</b><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #020202; font-family: verdana; font-size: 45px;">coincides with campaign against <b>proposed registry </b>of foreign agents</span></p><article class="post-13328 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-business category-news tag-ally-wang tag-canadian-friends-of-hong-kong tag-chinese-canadians-goto-vote-association tag-chinese-communist-party tag-chinese-immigration-act tag-ivan-pak tag-ivy-li tag-ottawa tag-peoples-party-of-canada tag-phoenix-tv tag-richmond tag-stop-anti-asian-hate-crimes-advocacy-group-association-of-canada tag-victor-oh tag-yuen-pau-woo" id="post-13328" style="height: auto;"><div class="eltd-post-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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font-family: georgia; font-size: 18pt;">Attempts to link the proposed registry of foreign agents with the centennial of a discriminatory law <b>plays into the hands of the Chinese government</b>, says a human rights advocate.</span></p><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13333" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 899px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13333" class="wp-image-13333" decoding="async" height="526" sizes="(max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px" src="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--1024x606.png" srcset="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--1024x606.png 1024w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--300x178.png 300w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--768x455.png 768w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--1536x909.png 1536w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--1200x710.png 1200w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Arya-Woo-Oh-Chan-Ke--600x355.png 600w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="889" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-13333" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #7e7c7c; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">SENATORS YUEN PAU WOO (LEFT) AND VICTOR OH, WITH ONTARIO POLITICIANS MICHAEL CHAN AND VINCENT KE, APPLAUDING TRUDEAU LIBERAL BACKBENCHER CHANDRA ARYA ON JUNE 24 AT PARLIAMENT HILL</span></p><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-13333" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #7e7c7c; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://thebreaker.news/2023/06/" itemprop="url" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #1d1c1d; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.165, 0.84, 0.44, 1) 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">JUNE 24, 2023</a><br /></p></div><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">A rally took place at Parliament Hill and the Supreme Court on June 24. 2023</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Ivy Li </b>of the Canadian Friends of Hong Kong said that the senators are using public money and resources, and their official platform, to “serve a foreign dictatorship’s interest.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7_ISYUd046q_0I-XZmxtzWd1rYhAv3wTvR_nItpwiuvwCTMdJ_WYAoOD8dQ4Md7gJkRs6L2TOtA-HyuswXRVGidNX11jUbJZ-y8EmHBLUCrwAvXPibbYvlArLwwHlTP4NLCRax-K7e31vqdwcuEkvqWV58PRJnnlYwGZ-FQhpoXF4rml-BKzKBRevHZvk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1920" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7_ISYUd046q_0I-XZmxtzWd1rYhAv3wTvR_nItpwiuvwCTMdJ_WYAoOD8dQ4Md7gJkRs6L2TOtA-HyuswXRVGidNX11jUbJZ-y8EmHBLUCrwAvXPibbYvlArLwwHlTP4NLCRax-K7e31vqdwcuEkvqWV58PRJnnlYwGZ-FQhpoXF4rml-BKzKBRevHZvk=w694-h388" width="694" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The goal is very obvious,” Li said. “The Exclusion Act, of course, is a terrible, racist history that all Canadians should know and all of us should remember that something like that actually has happened in Canada. Using that to say that what we are doing today can be the repeat of that, and take it totally out of context, is the common strategy of [the Chinese Communist Party’s] racist card and victimhood card.”<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Woo also helped draft the April-launched e-petition against such a registry. Sponsored by backbench Liberal MP <b>Chandra Arya</b> (Nepean), the e-petition’s initiator is Coquitlam activist Ally Wang. With three weeks to go, it has more than 2,400 supporters, exceeding the 500 minimum for presentation to the House of Commons.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tNhspZuPMvGm92zlD-IELRHDqUYCXzwcibS_tuds51Swe8NKqb1xue2egibllFcRj95Ctt7gIML-oqHYrzFX039iMP5Q0WfCl3-oK5PXrxwe-Zqrm1MNGkFbh5puG4yV4G5BG5_RqU9Mc8Z1TTY3ynC-5pWWBTcfMolTY-pZAwobZbPTNrgwzMPR4cnW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="200" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2tNhspZuPMvGm92zlD-IELRHDqUYCXzwcibS_tuds51Swe8NKqb1xue2egibllFcRj95Ctt7gIML-oqHYrzFX039iMP5Q0WfCl3-oK5PXrxwe-Zqrm1MNGkFbh5puG4yV4G5BG5_RqU9Mc8Z1TTY3ynC-5pWWBTcfMolTY-pZAwobZbPTNrgwzMPR4cnW=w327-h534" width="327" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 2021, Wang co-founded the Stop Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Advocacy Group Association of Canada (SAAHCAG) and the Chinese Canadians Goto Vote Association (CCGVA). During the 2021 federal election, supporters of the latter group helped Liberal Parm Bains upset Kenny Chiu, the Conservative incumbent who originally proposed the foreign agents registry and voted to condemn China for committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_13334" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 897px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13334" class="wp-image-13334" decoding="async" height="499" sizes="(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px" src="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-1024x576.png" srcset="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-1024x576.png 1024w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-300x169.png 300w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-768x432.png 768w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-1536x864.png 1536w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-1200x675.png 1200w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Weng-Guoning-600x337.png 600w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="887" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-13334" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #7e7c7c; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">COQUITLAM ACTIVIST <b>ALLY WANG </b>(LEFT) AND TORONTO UNITED FRONT LEADER WENG GUONING ON PARLIAMENT HILL JUNE 24 </span></p></div><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At a news conference on March 16, Woo said the 1923 law was the result of “groupthink” and rejected a reporter’s suggestion that he is cozy with the Chinese government.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Think about all the other Chinese people who don’t have my privilege or my protections,” Woo said. “Are they going to be accused of being fifth columnists, because of the views they hold? Are we going to have a foreign influence registry, that’s going to use the views that one holds as the litmus test of being a foreign agent?”</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wang was featured in a March 21 report by pro-Beijing Phoenix TV about leaks from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleging <b>Tong Xiaoling</b>, China’s former top diplomat in Vancouver, meddled in Canadian elections to help candidates friendly to China. Wang said that memorial activities would help fight systemic racism against not only Chinese, but Indigenous, African and Muslim communities, “because we all face the same white supremacy.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9ux-No6k3zb2qek5a7rpLZQ0Yn2CSllsJHqK3XaUdPafsriHhSbulxaSgO-MsaNzAwuapZIntqA0Ya2vOPTdUezO-cXp3b1axJDfHswaaod9CrxdrkFWLaC_04p_BHP8jarm9Dz2rxxNwWxDZZ4VWe43RDadh4gHD72nHuzC44Yp5xXIbPhJtk0C6fhI2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9ux-No6k3zb2qek5a7rpLZQ0Yn2CSllsJHqK3XaUdPafsriHhSbulxaSgO-MsaNzAwuapZIntqA0Ya2vOPTdUezO-cXp3b1axJDfHswaaod9CrxdrkFWLaC_04p_BHP8jarm9Dz2rxxNwWxDZZ4VWe43RDadh4gHD72nHuzC44Yp5xXIbPhJtk0C6fhI2=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Li said such a message stokes resentment and fear between ethnic communities.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“If we want a multicultural society to succeed, we have to be very aware of these kinds of divide and control tactics, from regimes like the CCP, like Russia,” she said.</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wang, who traveled to Ottawa, said she was unavailable for an interview, but referred a reporter to <b>Ivan Pak</b>, who co-founded the two associations and is also in Ottawa. Pak, who ran for the People’s Party of Canada in Richmond Centre in 2019, said he supports Wang’s petition because he does not want the Chinese-Canadian community to “become collateral damage.”<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv8v443ciwQ9OgNqgKU3NOH-bLKXHYqnvzZopwBi2R6bGhgaHoUwQsMulDjTywx9XsC7XToj0rlUn3u7IG4uLIWdz2B7F4YJ2ojrzIHvGkcQxwf3JFjyvRwiEUSRtuFl6_tt2n-Hy14tKX9dxAYnWktEyXItaKnCRqShRdqr6hE-md-1rbMhI4eOaU_DQS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="439" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv8v443ciwQ9OgNqgKU3NOH-bLKXHYqnvzZopwBi2R6bGhgaHoUwQsMulDjTywx9XsC7XToj0rlUn3u7IG4uLIWdz2B7F4YJ2ojrzIHvGkcQxwf3JFjyvRwiEUSRtuFl6_tt2n-Hy14tKX9dxAYnWktEyXItaKnCRqShRdqr6hE-md-1rbMhI4eOaU_DQS=w413-h536" width="413" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“I personally doubt about whether this registry is going to help,” Pak said.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pak describes himself as “pretty much anti-CCP,” but admits some of the groups involved in commemorating the centennial and opposing the foreign agents registry have deep ties to the Chinese government and businessmen in Mainland China.</span></span></p><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13336" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-13336" class="wp-image-13336" decoding="async" height="779" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px" src="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_D07FEE242779-1.jpeg" srcset="https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_D07FEE242779-1.jpeg 768w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_D07FEE242779-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://thebreaker.news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_D07FEE242779-1-600x800.jpeg 600w" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="584" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-13336" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #7e7c7c; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 15px 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">WECHAT AD FOR THE MAY 3 LECTURE BY ALLY WANG, WHO IS BEHIND AN E-PETITION AGAINST A FOREIGN AGENTS REGISTRY.</span></p></div><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; 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margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Some of them, they are not pro-CCP, but pro-China,” Pak said. “They want a strong China, they feel proud to have a strong China.”</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">However, a WeChat notice from the organizing committee of the rally tried to distance the event from the e-petition campaign. It asked participants not to raise the Chinese national flag, sing the Chinese national anthem or shout pro-China slogans.</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pak said SAAHCAG raised around $17,000<b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </b>in January at a Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel banquet in memory of the 1923 law. He also said SAAHCAG paid for his and Wang’s airfare to Ottawa, but not accommodation.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The organization is the recipient of federal and B.C. government grants that he Pak says are separate from the petition. The $24,400 from Employment and Social Development Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program is a year-long project to promote volunteerism, mentoring, social participation and inclusion, and expand awareness of elder abuse, including financial abuse.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In April, the B.C. government announced $5,000 for SAAHCAG’s 123 Anti-Discrimination Exhibition, which is billed as “in memory of those affected by the Chinese Immigration Act.”</span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SAAHCAG now counts 15 directors, including unsuccessful 2022 Vancouver city council candidates <b>May He </b>of Progress Vancouver and Morning Lee of the NPA. During last fall’s campaign, Lee was in damage control after a so-called Chinese blessing video starring impoverished African children was found on the YouTube account for Lee’s real estate company.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbOZTtk7hx22nte5YJwVUCWehQC1Vl1sgH4URI3j9WjtTUcMYKZ47YeMtkdzE-9mxBNS0-x_IGsaauFhZUw773NZA-KqALXHp2aPpu9U7kc4F4m8PoxRxdwqWgDuTTQk5uz0QlfMIBg1DcRKUVM5JQ0FKTiOvMu-u46RmBo9a1BpWGi7YJbDMX1pDtPoue" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbOZTtk7hx22nte5YJwVUCWehQC1Vl1sgH4URI3j9WjtTUcMYKZ47YeMtkdzE-9mxBNS0-x_IGsaauFhZUw773NZA-KqALXHp2aPpu9U7kc4F4m8PoxRxdwqWgDuTTQk5uz0QlfMIBg1DcRKUVM5JQ0FKTiOvMu-u46RmBo9a1BpWGi7YJbDMX1pDtPoue=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SAAHCAG and CCGV supporters include <u>Richmond’s Wenzhou Friendship Society,</u> which is under an RCMP national security investigation for allegedly hosting an illegal Chinese police station.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="404" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aEMbVC_ehJw" width="486" youtube-src-id="aEMbVC_ehJw"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wang’s promotional campaign for the e-petition included a lecture via Zoom for seniors involved in the Mississauga, Ont.-based Chinese Age-well Research and Education (CARE). An ad for the May 3 event featuring Wag said “this project is supported by the Government of Canada.”<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">However, two departments that granted funds to CARE said it wasn’t.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Department of Canadian Heritage said it provided CARE $4,000 last September to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II. The $25,000 from ESDC’s New Horizons for Seniors program ended March 27, more than a month before the presentation.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Given this, the organization is not able to claim that this event is related to funding received through the New Horizons for Seniors Program,” said <b>Natalie Huneault</b>, a communications manager with ESDC. “Of note, an event of this nature would not be allowable under the terms and conditions of the NHSP, and is not an eligible activity.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ1iHz1WqjdLI72rT-ZFEWk99KG6VEYd-_0E1GYCg6q9HmON-hOBbUzDf-gw9jZD1MPr4zRX0X-64ay-2KTlLwO-2Q-HkekIs0pSZeEX7_EP0chaX5lv3mpNw9T75n3jKhaUXwdvhwe2jB-mzc3WkRvKvtMDGRQwguqGtjUs6P5FXQ6c7Vx9bSN_4XhbY4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ1iHz1WqjdLI72rT-ZFEWk99KG6VEYd-_0E1GYCg6q9HmON-hOBbUzDf-gw9jZD1MPr4zRX0X-64ay-2KTlLwO-2Q-HkekIs0pSZeEX7_EP0chaX5lv3mpNw9T75n3jKhaUXwdvhwe2jB-mzc3WkRvKvtMDGRQwguqGtjUs6P5FXQ6c7Vx9bSN_4XhbY4=w660-h371" width="660" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; margin: 15px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CARE founder <b>Weiguo Zhang,</b> a University of Toronto sociology professor, did not explain why the ad said the May 3 lecture was federally sponsored. An April 23 hybrid symposium, that also included Wang, was supported by ESDC, he said by email.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtC6ft94rSMtwddyOf_Zkbn_B5EpVMjRMi4i1p_uPSdtPzuVnSlJnJtdKFaRWf4ap1_koOa_YPVPwML0vx7QBBHpZn_68FtT9sgsNsqALVpbBdZ2t0T2CiFwpsJSXNfzV-nxdtnBkXX1TnSca8Uz2BNGRpQ60DjxsPeDEu_Z79O-6I9key5scMmhY5wjbE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtC6ft94rSMtwddyOf_Zkbn_B5EpVMjRMi4i1p_uPSdtPzuVnSlJnJtdKFaRWf4ap1_koOa_YPVPwML0vx7QBBHpZn_68FtT9sgsNsqALVpbBdZ2t0T2CiFwpsJSXNfzV-nxdtnBkXX1TnSca8Uz2BNGRpQ60DjxsPeDEu_Z79O-6I9key5scMmhY5wjbE=w461-h461" width="461" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><h1 class="title details-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 37.1px; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Richmond resident starts petition</span></span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">against foreign influence registry</span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h1 class="title details-title" style="background-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: initial; color: #333333; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">But another group thinks playing the race card to deflect criticism of Chinese interference is ‘alarming’</span></span></h1><div class="byline-area" style="background-color: initial; 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display: table-cell; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><br /></div></div><figure class="figure details-file" id="file-3144603" style="background-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px; position: relative;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; padding: 8px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Screenshot of Ally Wang's video encouraging Chinese Canadians to vote.</span></figcaption></figure><div id="tts" style="background-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><a aria-labelledby="tts-label" class="ga clearfix mt-2 mb-2 noparams" data-ga-action="Play" data-ga-category="TextToSpeech" data-ga-label="Richmond resident starts petition against foreign influence registry" href="https://www.vmcdn.ca/files/texttospeech/6892693-397a046d-6140-448e-8c94-b2fb4e30d9b8.mp3" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c72026; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span class="pull-left ic ic-play" style="background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url("https://www.vmcdn.ca/files/ui/icons/play.svg"); background-position: 60% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 45%; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 54px; vertical-align: middle; width: 54px;"></span><div class="pull-left" id="tts-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; padding: 10px 0px 0px 15px;"><span id="tts-label" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Listen to this article</span><div class="section-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f6f6f;">00:05:07</div></div></span></a></div><div class="details-body clearfix" data-words="711" id="details-body" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.6;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Activists of Chinese ethnicity are at odds about whether Canada should keep a record of people advocating on behalf of foreign governments.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ally Wang, an advocate against anti-Asian racism in Richmond, launched a petition to the Canadian government last week claiming that starting a foreign interference registry is a “misleading” way to pinpoint sources of foreign influence.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wang had <a href="https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/justice-finally-served-on-richmond-racist-cafe-incident-couple-advocates-6082254" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c72026;" target="_blank">led protests during the trial of a racist incident at Steveston’s Rocanini Coffee Roasters</a>, and her video encouraging Chinese Canadians to vote briefly <a href="https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/videos-encouraging-chinese-canadians-to-vote-go-viral-4301630" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c72026;" target="_blank">went viral in 2021</a>. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The petition is a response to the Canadian government’s potential plan to implement a foreign influence transparency registry. The consultation period for the merits of the plan began last month, where community members are asked to <a class="ga ga-ext" data-ga-action="OutboundLink" data-ga-category="OutboundLink" data-ga-label="https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/frgn-ntrfrnc/cc-en.aspx" href="https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/frgn-ntrfrnc/cc-en.aspx?utm_source=richmond%20news&utm_campaign=richmond%20news%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral" rel="noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c72026;" target="_blank">answer a six-question anonymous survey</a> before May 9, 2023.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“It is difficult to distinguish between positive and malign foreign influence, which goes well beyond agents who are acting for foreign governments,” reads the petition, adding that broadly defining foreign influence can infringe on charter rights and stifle commercial and societal connections.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The petition also argues that the registry would pose a “serious harassment and stigmatization risk for racialized communities” and potentially discourage vulnerable communities from civic engagement and public service.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">However, it doesn’t appear to be completely against the registry.</span></p><div class="widget widget-wysiwyg theme-blue widget-inject widget-inject-centre widget-injected" data-id="817955" data-min="" data-per="30" data-widget="6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%;"><div class="section-items section-wysiwyg clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="outstream" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="mia-outstream-721_onscreen mia-outstream" id="mia-outstream-721_onscreen" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; line-height: 0; max-height: 0px; transition: max-height 0.7s ease 0s; width: 645px; will-change: max-height;"></div><div data-id="Y9mVZsB19YkdPwxJi0Uls7HzdZwmaIDWzzC5UBktYJmsztaE0oAa" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 1 100%;"><div class="orp-player-wrapper orp-aspectRateFixed orp-player-ipm orp-player-ipm-hidden orp-defaultTag orp-notMobile orp-force-hide-player" style="background-color: #d9d9d9; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 640px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;"></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“… if a registry is necessary, it should apply to all countries equally and be based on specific arrangements such as monetary payment between individuals or organizations and a foreign state, rather than on hypothetical or presumed arrangements,” reads the petition.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It adds that only those lobbying government officials and politicians should be registered and the registry should not be based on “country of origin, ethnicity, business and civil society affiliations, and most importantly, on one’s views.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So far, 748 signatures have been recorded with 302 from B.C.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Race card can’t be used as a shield against wrongdoing</span></b></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, the Chinese Canadian Concern Group on CCP’s Human Rights Violations, a group made up of immigrants from Hong Kong, is cautioning against shying away from the investigations based on racism allegations.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="404" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9u1zY4ZRxQE" width="485" youtube-src-id="9u1zY4ZRxQE"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has often used racism as a shield to deflect criticism of its human rights violations.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Some even equate the discrimination and persecution experienced by Chinese and Japanese Canadians in the past with the call to investigate and prevent China infiltration and interference today, including some historians, which is truly alarming,” reads their open letter to <b>David Johnston</b>, the Liberal appointed special rapporteur investigating foreign interference in Canada’s recent federal elections.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFFVV5XXJgRcVBREBHFuc00XSSoQcYnjvtS1Z2bkYxj5GOG6Hie7e21_f5TDaShDUXwhCmTwU8yFjTrPGnSMLse6eQ_HBq_6Cj9czkO17f_Ly46_8MtA8W2ZYjvlGdRrptEKhFagEXZLIlxhIIsDy7AzDGrY4srxaGGgo1NKcApOQP2kVyH6A_v8nRwif_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="616" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFFVV5XXJgRcVBREBHFuc00XSSoQcYnjvtS1Z2bkYxj5GOG6Hie7e21_f5TDaShDUXwhCmTwU8yFjTrPGnSMLse6eQ_HBq_6Cj9czkO17f_Ly46_8MtA8W2ZYjvlGdRrptEKhFagEXZLIlxhIIsDy7AzDGrY4srxaGGgo1NKcApOQP2kVyH6A_v8nRwif_=w378-h458" width="378" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Members of the concern group, including Richmond’s Victor Ho and Bill Chu, have lived in Canada for an average of 25 years.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The letter lists a variety of infiltration tactics by the Chinese Communist Party, including mobilization efforts through Chinese Canadian community organizations, manipulation of Canadian Chinese-language media, censorship and propaganda on Chinese social media such as WeChat, and connections with local politicians and influential figures.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Richmond, former Steveston-Richmond East MP <b>Kenny Chiu </b>has claimed that he lost his seat due to a misinformation campaign, while the Wenzhou Friendship Society on Hazelbridge Way is currently under investigation for being an alleged “overseas Chinese police station.” Two protests have been held outside the location after it was suspected to have interfered in Canadian politics.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibF1c4uU71Noo7_lALMv9PB-Zr-PpTFICaweTBvXw4B6v6YyaSvzNn6-KX6mhxz0wxtlaT8WlPOtD73XS_Q1WPAPbRzbfHbEppQkexMFSyR9qIzp1bW3dBLrWbnOeofTpIYGK_4YIkBqIopFTJx5a9rUuPlEex_lq9YHoVoskDa5A6qlSSriOgdTGfw267" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibF1c4uU71Noo7_lALMv9PB-Zr-PpTFICaweTBvXw4B6v6YyaSvzNn6-KX6mhxz0wxtlaT8WlPOtD73XS_Q1WPAPbRzbfHbEppQkexMFSyR9qIzp1bW3dBLrWbnOeofTpIYGK_4YIkBqIopFTJx5a9rUuPlEex_lq9YHoVoskDa5A6qlSSriOgdTGfw267=w572-h429" width="572" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The government cannot ignore foreign interference for fear of being accused of ‘racism,’” reads the letter.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Conversely, those who claim to be community leaders and use ‘racism’ as a smokescreen to deflect the CCP’s human rights violations and other atrocities should ask themselves if their actions and words would call the Chinese-Canadian community’s loyalty into question more than having a transparent and accountable investigation process.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The foreign influence registry petition is by no means Wang’s first foray into online advocacy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 2021, Wang signed a petition in support of retired judge<b> Bill Yee. </b>Yee was removed from the B.C. Chinese-Canadian Community Advisory Committee after he gave an interview on Cantonese radio where <i>he dismissed allegations of the Xinjiang genocide <b>as lies</b>.</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJr0RSQaj3DaTgmthkNfZS0yZ2RLggJzIQ7tVLJBHi_AfoRGvFy-NsQ7Gn2cbyzMEOZBHyq2AT4rw8eQjcGE-42TsLaDN9wmfpv-OSdXHAV3FEII4Rxg3Gl4-OSSO1QKH-DweDaZCuIuyR9NbPjGIDk5JsS5jg-6siyF14S58bmlex92Qc4BcXK0DD05v6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="780" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJr0RSQaj3DaTgmthkNfZS0yZ2RLggJzIQ7tVLJBHi_AfoRGvFy-NsQ7Gn2cbyzMEOZBHyq2AT4rw8eQjcGE-42TsLaDN9wmfpv-OSdXHAV3FEII4Rxg3Gl4-OSSO1QKH-DweDaZCuIuyR9NbPjGIDk5JsS5jg-6siyF14S58bmlex92Qc4BcXK0DD05v6=w634-h357" width="634" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She also penned an article claiming the backlash on B.C. senator<b> Yuen Pau Woo,</b> who opposed to labelling China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide, was motivated by racism.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQxCKyd3k1J2_8Bhyv4e72a7I6fD3wGjhzg2LxDggQlyN--jRQRAmlpZqjAQ45mH3ic5RPWA40sjxDTSmz6n5HUBNlHkazVgccwM_vHskwEpK89c56fTmrE-xUQemvE1YqyxdaY6u9sqAuEefWv-4-vB4Gd-tsQ69LfO8dEAXY_z43rrP6NYBkxcVA5IZG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="450" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQxCKyd3k1J2_8Bhyv4e72a7I6fD3wGjhzg2LxDggQlyN--jRQRAmlpZqjAQ45mH3ic5RPWA40sjxDTSmz6n5HUBNlHkazVgccwM_vHskwEpK89c56fTmrE-xUQemvE1YqyxdaY6u9sqAuEefWv-4-vB4Gd-tsQ69LfO8dEAXY_z43rrP6NYBkxcVA5IZG=w648-h432" width="648" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Regarding the foreign influence registry, Senator Woo <u>has compared the investigation into China interference in Canada to the Chinese Exclusion Act</u> a hundred years ago.<br /><br />Clearly the race card has been played and seeks to be conflated in this matter through agitation.</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Two completely different unrelated purposes.</span></p></div></div></div></div></article>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-72249686786877608762024-02-03T13:36:00.000-08:002024-02-03T13:36:58.222-08:00The Liberal Party of Canada is allowing security to slip in favour of Communist China<p><span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="color: white;">The Liberal Party of Canada</span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">is allowing security to slip</span><span style="background-color: #b4a7d6; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"> in favour of<b> Communist China</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Feb 3 2024</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="404" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ljq-ZGtShiA" width="485" youtube-src-id="ljq-ZGtShiA"></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><h1 class="single-article-title entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.9px; line-height: 43px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">China’s offensive on Canada,</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;"> in plain sight</span></span></h1><div class="single-article-excerpt" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Terry Glavin: Huawei is a key weapon in Beijing’s global economic and political ambitions. The Liberals are playing a dangerous game pretending otherwise.</span></p></div><div class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-bottom: 25px;"><p class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3b3b3b; display: flex; flex-direction: column; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 9px; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="authors-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><span class="article-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="updated" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span><time class="published entry-date" content="2019-05-17T15:34:46+00:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box;">May 17, 2019</time></span></span></p></div><div class="featured-image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="featured-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" class="landscape" src="https://macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/18559363-810x445-1558121576.jpg" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><p class="top-image-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 8px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Trudeau speaks with Hu Chunhua, Politburo Member of the Communist Party of China and Party Secretary of Guangdong Province before a meeting in his office on Parliament Hill on May 10, 2016. </span></p></div></div><div class="single-article-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 30px;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s been on the front pages and at the top of the nightly newscasts for months. Diplomatic relations between China and Canada have collapsed. Beijing has arbitrarily imprisoned Canadian diplomat-on-leave Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor, embargoed Canadian canola and pork exports, and threatened more pain to come. And China and the United States are at the brink of an all-out trade war.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There’s the shadowy role the Chinese telecom giant Huawei is playing in everything, and all the exotica about digital espionage, mass surveillance and the coming “internet of things” we’re supposed to sort out, and what it all might mean for Canada’s national security. It’s a lot to digest. It doesn’t help, either, that every day the saga seems to take another dramatic twist.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But the big thing that’s getting in the way of a clear understanding of what’s going on and the stakes in play, is that the whole story is occluded by an enormous amount of what is known in the vernacular as bullshit. It’s especially disturbing that a major source of the stuff is <u>Team Trudeau in Ottawa</u>. We’ll get into all that in a bit.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Straight away, it will be useful to stand back in order to get a better look at the fictions, public-relations dodges and outright lies that are making it difficult to see what is happening, in plain sight, in front of our very noses.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">First off, by apprehending Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last December, Canada was not foolishly allowing itself to be drawn in to a mere trade fight between U.S. president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping. What’s going on here truly is a big deal. It has grave implications for Canadian sovereignty. Technology is the main theatre of contest in the new global struggle for economic domination, and the way events unfold in the Huawei standoff, and in the Trump-Xi trade talks, will determine the kind of world we’ll be living in for years and years to come.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">There is something approaching bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress that the United States should be taking a very hard line with China on matters related to trade, the theft of American intellectual property, cyber-espionage, cyber-sabotage and so on. If you think Trump talks tough on China, you should listen to ranking Democrat <b>Elizabeth Warren</b> some time. When rightwing nationalist theoretician Steve Bannon and liberal free-trade evangelist Thomas Friedman are on the same side of an issue, you should sit up and take notice.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoY3V6OSTgrfBlBM8gGh9Ua7o5kbIERNlOUwTD5izLFzuB0RI57IUL2E1m8Qp4iHjsADlXYSRFMJVox1t3M6LbK0I6EqxHoxyhdgTGAIy3SsOgZ8gQ3_2yHHQJSUsiRMtNzxBMhbau2ZzNIVp8Xke4G9AOElnTmWzogc0-g7KcUQLA9vQ84A-AJ_Htl4Kl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="1486" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoY3V6OSTgrfBlBM8gGh9Ua7o5kbIERNlOUwTD5izLFzuB0RI57IUL2E1m8Qp4iHjsADlXYSRFMJVox1t3M6LbK0I6EqxHoxyhdgTGAIy3SsOgZ8gQ3_2yHHQJSUsiRMtNzxBMhbau2ZzNIVp8Xke4G9AOElnTmWzogc0-g7KcUQLA9vQ84A-AJ_Htl4Kl=w543-h362" width="543" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On Huawei, specifically, the U.S. Commerce Department has only now blacklisted the shadowy Shenzhen telecom behemoth and 70 affiliated companies, meaning they’re all effectively banned from buying gear from U.S. suppliers without federal approval. But eight years ago, it was the Obama administration that was targeting Huawei, freezing out the company from Homeland Security operations.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s commonplace to hear that the Trump administration is pressuring Canada to follow the American lead and keep Huawei out of emerging fifth-generation (5G) internet connectivity technologies. But eight years ago, it was the Obama administration that was trying to convince Canada to quarantine Huawei.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s true that by hinting that charges against Meng Wanzhou might be dropped if she could be used as a bargain chip in trade talks with Beijing, Trump stupidly muddled the Justice Department’s case against her on charges of bank fraud and evading Iran sanctions. But the Justice Department warrant for Meng was drawn up last August, and there is no evidence that the Trump White House was even aware of it when the arrest warrant for Meng was executed in December at Vancouver International Airport.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Huawei has been under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. State Department for sanctions-busting in Iran since at least 2011, and all along, U.S. intelligence agencies have also fingered Huawei as a spy threat. <u>But Trudeau didn’t listen when Canada was warned eight years ago.</u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Now, Huawei is embedded in 10 Canadian universities and two of Canada’s largest telecoms (Bell and Telus).</b> Huawei employs more than 1,000 people across the country, and over the past several years the company has poured roughly half a billion dollars into research and development initiatives. Huawei has also established itself as a lavish spender in Canada’s opinion-making and policy-shaping circles, devoting enormous resources to public-relations, lobbying, image-polishing and corporate spin.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A “benefactor” member of the Canada-China Business Council, Huawei has cultivated the habit of filling senior corporate positions with veteran insiders from both the Liberal and Conservatives parties. The company has lately taken on the Canadian wing of the public-relations giant Hill+Knowlton Strategies to sell itself as a trustworthy corporate citizen. It also brought in Daniel Moulton and Chad Rogers, Ontario Liberal and Conservative party insiders, respectively, who registered earlier this year to lobby for Huawei. <b>Morgan Elliott</b>, a senior official from the Liberal governments of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, is now Huawei’s vice-president for government affairs. Alykhan Velshi, formerly a senior aide to Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, was hired on as vice-president of corporate affairs. Other Huawei recruits include former journalist and Martin-Chretien era speechwriter Scott Feschuk, and Martin’s former director of communications, Scott Reid. The two run a communications and speechwriting firm.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLcBulq1fBml-_cZ94FQJ3oIemF5DIKeN0gari4FeLM_9K70h_dLXxbi7S4GXZRYNR0gQllkJys20HBMt3D16-r3vxMho2J_KQkMOYUzosdIMnl8_lccRn77gXXkF-V0CYm9YWLqBksT7Zvk9DuT9qxHkLDH3S93413En_mZ5tjNQaDcpGUyXpFKBQu1jW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLcBulq1fBml-_cZ94FQJ3oIemF5DIKeN0gari4FeLM_9K70h_dLXxbi7S4GXZRYNR0gQllkJys20HBMt3D16-r3vxMho2J_KQkMOYUzosdIMnl8_lccRn77gXXkF-V0CYm9YWLqBksT7Zvk9DuT9qxHkLDH3S93413En_mZ5tjNQaDcpGUyXpFKBQu1jW=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><u>Huawei also holds centre stage in Canada’s hallowed television pastime: Hockey Night in Canada.</u> More than a million of us tune in every week, and more during the playoffs. Thanks to a deal with the Rogers telecom that lasts until at least 2020, Huawei is Hockey Night in Canada’s presenting sponsor.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s gotten so that Ottawa can’t bring itself to admit that Huawei should not be permitted to bid in Canada’s 2020 5G spectrum auction, even though everybody knows Huawei is a threat to Canada’s national security. Three former Canadian intelligence chiefs have said so, publicly. Six U.S. intelligence agencies have said so. Among Canada’s Five Eyes security and intelligence partners, the U.S. and Australia have said so, New Zealand has shut the 5G door on Huawei, and while British Telecom has frozen Huawei out the United Kingdom has yet to formally bar Huawei from its 5G system. But Taiwan has shut Huawei out, and so has Japan, and so has Poland. Even Vietnam won’t allow Huawei in.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Harper’s Conservative government kept Huawei at arms length with a national-security exception governing bids to develop a federal communications network. Three years ago, two Chinese employees of Huawei had their immigration applications rejected and were barred from entering Canada after an intelligence assessment determined that they were spies.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Privy Council Office has partitioned cabinet’s deliberations on Huawei behind a highly secretive review of the national security implications involved in 5G technologies that has drawn in several federal agencies, including <u>the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development department, and the Communications Security Establishment.</u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Public Safety Minister <b>Ralph Goodale</b> and his officials have gone backwards and forwards over whether a decision on Huawei and 5G will be made before the federal election in October. Finance Minister <b>Bill Morneau</b> has weighed in with a less than confidence-building caveat about the national-security review, to the effect that a decision on Huawei’s 5G role would have to be “balanced” against economic considerations.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4qml10VJpTPrhAjAfm7fwYHZB4yDr5ytyRVWyi-443IrXQxpaIlOOH91miP1zKlbk2fdvkyWD4tpXpcviBbyxu4Jk3l-rjlBfpZ-a2X0_jzgcfI4BZpb5nq73HXpCpmvO89gLTx1RrMjseSCTdn674R61nH9OiXGxufUKpAmXa9QgqLM3VPUSXXUVFPTo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4qml10VJpTPrhAjAfm7fwYHZB4yDr5ytyRVWyi-443IrXQxpaIlOOH91miP1zKlbk2fdvkyWD4tpXpcviBbyxu4Jk3l-rjlBfpZ-a2X0_jzgcfI4BZpb5nq73HXpCpmvO89gLTx1RrMjseSCTdn674R61nH9OiXGxufUKpAmXa9QgqLM3VPUSXXUVFPTo=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLD-osD0aM0lIxKEJRWc_yR3vjDGbSokDHiPlq5UAGPs26oM92ALRXO8fy3MWFPUQHzn7iz5TFx-973c8ow37WRTqa_C_MsBWKbSULhHD0LdSU1JHnKefIVbP-MTjnjvvhcwup33Eu3taeG7uOKvDpGjL5JhrpPhoRARVObnYl_1DNQfhJlZ6Iceja8Xwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLD-osD0aM0lIxKEJRWc_yR3vjDGbSokDHiPlq5UAGPs26oM92ALRXO8fy3MWFPUQHzn7iz5TFx-973c8ow37WRTqa_C_MsBWKbSULhHD0LdSU1JHnKefIVbP-MTjnjvvhcwup33Eu3taeG7uOKvDpGjL5JhrpPhoRARVObnYl_1DNQfhJlZ6Iceja8Xwg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This matters, because for all intents and purposes Huawei is a key strategic weapon in Beijing’s global economic and political ambitions—Chinese President <b>Xi </b>himself has said as much. Huawei is one of Xi’s “national champion” corporations. The threat Huawei poses is not merely from backdoor mystery spyware subterfuge of the kind Taiwanese and Dutch government agencies have detected in Huawei gear.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6i_XxVKW4tW7gzUeH7Lito77XcQ5oZRdu9tw6xP-bOk56024Ik0Xmc61RsseolgfGfL4jcZXg9O0yORcsdbjRw7JgZ9kKHeyOhAH7f4ZghTd4oZzjG0apwAdJpQ7hRN_5z9eYZEyIsw3wskAaKTx9UbHFqJJepKnT0NiSXZnVVd8BLeWy238Ddv1xnHqM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1043" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6i_XxVKW4tW7gzUeH7Lito77XcQ5oZRdu9tw6xP-bOk56024Ik0Xmc61RsseolgfGfL4jcZXg9O0yORcsdbjRw7JgZ9kKHeyOhAH7f4ZghTd4oZzjG0apwAdJpQ7hRN_5z9eYZEyIsw3wskAaKTx9UbHFqJJepKnT0NiSXZnVVd8BLeWy238Ddv1xnHqM=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Canada, it’s commonplace to read that Huawei is a privately-owned company, or an employee-owned company, and so it’s not beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. Not even the Chinese propaganda press peddles that line anymore, but “the myth of Huawei’s employee ownership seems to persist outside of China,” according to an analysis published last month by <b>Christopher Balding </b>of Vietnam’s Fullbright University and Donald C. Clarke of George Washington’s law school.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz2PDW_kTkCvcYuc4Fuk7-OQGM51Vm4H44OVOCujEeMmsH3l7ksNPdetrjxtAHSsRMjvfF0dClg4lDpiTF2A0SssTWKfjdU2z5tpurDNrZyBaNY8N3buFn5dANU_iz2NUlANhKrRdBGRyXL9bwb5TSMaRI4FRi6jRSO2Y5RxPmc0HlMjKeug7MjvBnNrXm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="817" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiz2PDW_kTkCvcYuc4Fuk7-OQGM51Vm4H44OVOCujEeMmsH3l7ksNPdetrjxtAHSsRMjvfF0dClg4lDpiTF2A0SssTWKfjdU2z5tpurDNrZyBaNY8N3buFn5dANU_iz2NUlANhKrRdBGRyXL9bwb5TSMaRI4FRi6jRSO2Y5RxPmc0HlMjKeug7MjvBnNrXm=w625-h383" width="625" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires Chinese companies to “support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work.” Huawei’s big boss, the former People’s Liberation Army officer Ren Zhengfei, said there’s nothing to be concerned about. If asked, he says, he would never turn any Huawei data over to China’s intelligence agencies. What the Balding-Clarke findings show is that it wouldn’t be Ren’s call anyway. He owns only one per cent of the holding company that owns Huawei.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ninety-nine per cent of the Huawei holding company is owned by a “trade union committee.” There are no independent trade unions in China. They report directly to Beijing, and trade union members have no rights to their unions’ assets. All companies of any size in China are in any case required by law to integrate a Communist Party committee into their management and decision-making structures. “Huawei may be deemed effectively state-owned,” Balding and Clarke conclude.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So what would a Canadian 5G green light for Huawei portend for the future?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> Apart from China, the national governments of Pakistan, Kenya, Ecuador, the Philippines, Serbia and other countries have rushed in engaging Huawei to develop integrated surveillance systems involving thousands of security cameras for facial recognition technology linked to data banks of personal information, and connected to China.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Imagine everything from your internet-search histories and bank statements to your medical files, travel history, employment records and biometric data, all readily available to police agencies, the intelligence services and the military via “digital clouds” allowing for the synthesis of data from public services, health care, education, transportation and “social safety” departments.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Imagine a brave new Canada run along those lines. Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei recently offered this reverie to one of the dozens of television crews recently invited in the course of the company’s global <u>“charm offensive”</u> to Huawei’s outlandish headquarters and campus in Shenzhen: <u>“There’s an issue of strikes. In the future, you use robots. They don’t strike. All they need is batteries.”</u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Charming.<br /></span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 35px;"></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now imagine the entire Canadian 5G system vulnerable to Beijing’s data-mining and manipulation and sabotage, owing to a structural chain of command that runs up through someone like <b>Ren Zhengfei </b>and through the Huawei “trade union committee” and Huawei’s Communist Party committee and on up to the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBiVhVvlFmWfgPLWwCQgv3P7mDHVx_yWQRr_KLUhEj3TcbpuxzwLR9PDPqJV857kIwS4mJR0_r27pbf0Yk40-6wpNh8P-GBET_lk14qyMJI2HCdCwd06pcUrmuaqJkvV42_zCvZuIl10LeOkRf4l7wJY3FVx3w9YK-bsc91Ih_qjlLDZmRwDj6OH933USC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="780" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBiVhVvlFmWfgPLWwCQgv3P7mDHVx_yWQRr_KLUhEj3TcbpuxzwLR9PDPqJV857kIwS4mJR0_r27pbf0Yk40-6wpNh8P-GBET_lk14qyMJI2HCdCwd06pcUrmuaqJkvV42_zCvZuIl10LeOkRf4l7wJY3FVx3w9YK-bsc91Ih_qjlLDZmRwDj6OH933USC=w734-h413" width="734" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But maybe that’s just what the future looks like when we allow our imaginations to get the better of us.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Instead, we could just<u> look at what Huawei is doing in the present, in Xinjiang, where more than a million Uyghur Muslims have been shut away in concentration camps, </u>and the Uyghur people are being made into human guinea pigs in a nightmarish surveillance and thought-control experiment. Just last week, Huawei began working on a new pilot project with China’s notorious Public Security Bureau, the lead agency for population control, to open up “a new era of smart policing and help build a safer, smarter society.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1z6hcfV8BI8h3fkOHzX5ZinmNKTJNlVmXWoOU7eG4HjdVfLbKUCWfTjjTrWuxwRP3b-98bWZCbHi4aAmfn3hnBjfezFzywmlMIM9oYC53rLQgY6AYLKDTutPM1RKYaVxFQHrVlfkpIHgyIrL2bfZgc8mAvXZ97BDN2gjEpZOBcCOQFalUnLMblpDfFp8S" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="770" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1z6hcfV8BI8h3fkOHzX5ZinmNKTJNlVmXWoOU7eG4HjdVfLbKUCWfTjjTrWuxwRP3b-98bWZCbHi4aAmfn3hnBjfezFzywmlMIM9oYC53rLQgY6AYLKDTutPM1RKYaVxFQHrVlfkpIHgyIrL2bfZgc8mAvXZ97BDN2gjEpZOBcCOQFalUnLMblpDfFp8S=w640-h426" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1z6hcfV8BI8h3fkOHzX5ZinmNKTJNlVmXWoOU7eG4HjdVfLbKUCWfTjjTrWuxwRP3b-98bWZCbHi4aAmfn3hnBjfezFzywmlMIM9oYC53rLQgY6AYLKDTutPM1RKYaVxFQHrVlfkpIHgyIrL2bfZgc8mAvXZ97BDN2gjEpZOBcCOQFalUnLMblpDfFp8S" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiq-Wa2UyAl2Dfah83q_Kv32N1nuNw2dXl1Woi_lPvT-IC-kAMnyEdE9p_gqe0WpS-JScWiyl7PMe_1lodsoC2j0GfYDSG4MO8UT8KN-E7Lp7gBvG4x_zygWdatl82W5gX05VCr_XS3Lxs9WyXzoKckPjsgmzX9XE9IHb5eVxgMCZNTal-d-C-dXyqPB8_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="636" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiq-Wa2UyAl2Dfah83q_Kv32N1nuNw2dXl1Woi_lPvT-IC-kAMnyEdE9p_gqe0WpS-JScWiyl7PMe_1lodsoC2j0GfYDSG4MO8UT8KN-E7Lp7gBvG4x_zygWdatl82W5gX05VCr_XS3Lxs9WyXzoKckPjsgmzX9XE9IHb5eVxgMCZNTal-d-C-dXyqPB8_=w640-h384" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiq-Wa2UyAl2Dfah83q_Kv32N1nuNw2dXl1Woi_lPvT-IC-kAMnyEdE9p_gqe0WpS-JScWiyl7PMe_1lodsoC2j0GfYDSG4MO8UT8KN-E7Lp7gBvG4x_zygWdatl82W5gX05VCr_XS3Lxs9WyXzoKckPjsgmzX9XE9IHb5eVxgMCZNTal-d-C-dXyqPB8_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3qIcJ4TOTSuxm4iv2IF47uJez8EuD7lrnVTugLf_BO1UrgC-MKG0BPubJYocmjSZBXa7UjJB-TLBp6VM3yrlGyDiX90exOzd-QgVyJXsJXQbUICxNe97h-XJ9oQIln1zn9ZbD3PsGd9F-Q5xEqHC3KTcsn8S0QzE8kRcVGPHHoVjitq_kLNCbCm61INO0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1200" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3qIcJ4TOTSuxm4iv2IF47uJez8EuD7lrnVTugLf_BO1UrgC-MKG0BPubJYocmjSZBXa7UjJB-TLBp6VM3yrlGyDiX90exOzd-QgVyJXsJXQbUICxNe97h-XJ9oQIln1zn9ZbD3PsGd9F-Q5xEqHC3KTcsn8S0QzE8kRcVGPHHoVjitq_kLNCbCm61INO0=w646-h387" width="646" /></a></div></div></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What Xi Jinping is betting on is that the more he turns the screws on us, the more likely it is that we’ll come down on Huawei’s side, on Beijing’s side. In Ottawa, the Chinese embassy claims that the real reason Canadians are furious at the moment isn’t because of Beijing’s thuggish hostage-taking and trade blackmail, it’s because of “white supremacy.” Ambassador Lu Shaye further insists that Chinese Canadians should be expected to side with Huawei, and the rest of us must be sensitive to the feelings of Canada’s Chinese minority.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Awkwardly for Lu, last month a survey by the Innovative Research Group and the Canada Committee 100 Society showed that while he wants Ottawa to intervene in Meng’s extradition case, tell the Americans to go pound sand and allow <b>Meng Wanzhou</b> to return to Shenzhen, only one in nine of British Columbia’s Chinese Canadians agree with him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For the time being, <u>Meng is living in high style and the comfor</u>t<u> of her very own $15 million mansion in Vancouver’s posh Shaughnessy enclave</u>, just two doors away from the official residence of the United States’ Vancouver consul-general.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLzx2WSQR2rcwjDEWU4vh1EKAAfchbE15REyOtrXHXZYLzEl8NJTj3TLp-N4y8NtrnGEYBCHBrAHvcLjdsrUJghq3BkSYKYvhncGnYZSIR7VB-yr2tXt49UGLOjI6I1Md4NbG6m2S1kEbYQs2EizSmwWUDchvLOTc2tVmpgKvFf5AT8UlofU1rhlODpTvl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="2000" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLzx2WSQR2rcwjDEWU4vh1EKAAfchbE15REyOtrXHXZYLzEl8NJTj3TLp-N4y8NtrnGEYBCHBrAHvcLjdsrUJghq3BkSYKYvhncGnYZSIR7VB-yr2tXt49UGLOjI6I1Md4NbG6m2S1kEbYQs2EizSmwWUDchvLOTc2tVmpgKvFf5AT8UlofU1rhlODpTvl=w675-h445" width="675" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRdYSoOTP_1ud5ggWtnm6WOzStg1gDoXOIpyjsxrjuC54JQYqB5IZ95XWr8DAq8uT9hUCy8Z--Om8qgV38SFhH1OSgR4FDojX3BP6sMM8jB5Y1-49Lz0ynMAV8Iyame5Awdfherlg4sg4caCXhgHvUchLqYvBM5PQcN9ol5nbGyqvGR8aWegMh_OdN_ofK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="768" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRdYSoOTP_1ud5ggWtnm6WOzStg1gDoXOIpyjsxrjuC54JQYqB5IZ95XWr8DAq8uT9hUCy8Z--Om8qgV38SFhH1OSgR4FDojX3BP6sMM8jB5Y1-49Lz0ynMAV8Iyame5Awdfherlg4sg4caCXhgHvUchLqYvBM5PQcN9ol5nbGyqvGR8aWegMh_OdN_ofK=w484-h484" width="484" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One should expect a Chinese ambassador to equivocate and propagandize and lie through his teeth. But why is the Trudeau government being rather less than straight with us about all this?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For a quarter of a century, the defining foreign-policy feature of the Liberal Party brand has been a delusional myth of its own uniquely China-savvy sophistication. With everything that has happened since the rise of Xi Jinping, and the kidnapping of Kovrig and Spavor, it’s not like the Liberals are going to say, well, sorry, we’ve been wrong about China from the beginning, now we’ve put Canada’s sovereignty and our national security in grave peril, and by the way, please vote for us in October.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In Liberal business circles, it used to be considered a mark of distinction to know senior Chinese Communist Party officials by their first names, and to be seen with all the right people in Guangzhou and Shenzhen and Hubei and Shanghai. But after everything that has happened, it’s no longer possible to make the case that Canada’s interests are best served by having cabinet ministers, corporate executives and diplomats jetting off to China to swan around with the Politburo’s creepy casino-racket billionaires. It just doesn’t work anymore.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It’s no longer possible to pretend there’s even a trace of respectability in the annual diplomatic rituals of junketeering through the Central Committee’s dirty-money nomenklatura for the purposes of reducing Canada’s foreign-trade and oil-price reliance on the grubby, war-monging Americans. So the Trudeau government is in a bit of a bind.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One day, Beijing’s canola embargo is just a “scientific-based disagreement,” and Trudeau is telling everyone that he intends to<u> “continue to work with China"</u> to resolve it. The next day, Trudeau is calling Beijing’s shredding of Canadian canola export contracts a case of blowback from the U.S.-China trade quarrels, “an excuse to prolong what is fundamentally a conflict, not even with Canada, but between the two largest economies in the world.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is, in the language of common speech, bullshit.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It is also a dangerous game to play. What’s at stake is how liberal democracies like Canada will survive an historic, world-changing technological and economic conflict with China and its subservient police-state allies. The analysis being put about by the Prime Minister’s Office, that it’s all merely a passing spat between the competing hegemons of the United States and the Peoples Republic, <u>is tantamount to a political case for Canada choosing Beijing’s side.</u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px 30px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And that’s exactly what Beijing wants.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-26625803406000403722024-02-02T23:58:00.000-08:002024-02-02T23:58:29.586-08:00Triads & the secret war taking over the US<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><span style="background-color: #8e7cc3;">Triads & the secret war </span><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-weight: bold;">taking over the US</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Feb 2 2024</span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzZF9krC34M" width="320" youtube-src-id="tzZF9krC34M"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kx8z0aiCMeA" width="320" youtube-src-id="Kx8z0aiCMeA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B_J1n2ibJXw" width="320" youtube-src-id="B_J1n2ibJXw"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EFwxnz3XVyU" width="320" youtube-src-id="EFwxnz3XVyU"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p><header class="css-bxp3sd euiyums1" style="border: 0px; 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font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font: inherit; height: 704.85px; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">A major war in the Indo-Pacific is probably more likely now than at any other time since World War II.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The most probable spark is a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. President Xi Jinping of China has said unifying Taiwan with mainland China “<a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/xi-china-will-never-renounce-right-use-force-over-taiwan-2022-10-16/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">must be achieved</a>.” His Communist Party regime has become sufficiently strong — militarily, economically and industrially — to take Taiwan and directly challenge the United States for regional supremacy.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The United States has vital strategic interests at stake. A successful Chinese invasion of Taiwan would punch a hole in the U.S. and allied chain of defenses in the region, seriously undermining America’s strategic position in the Western Pacific, and would probably cut off U.S. access to world-leading semiconductors and other critical components manufactured in Taiwan. As president, Joe Biden has stated repeatedly that he <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/biden-taiwan-defense-china.html" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">would defend Taiwan</a>.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">But leaders in Washington also need to avoid stumbling carelessly into a war with China because it would be unlike anything ever faced by Americans. U.S. citizens have grown accustomed to sending their military off to fight far from home. But China is a different kind of foe — a military, economic and technological power capable of making a war felt in the American homeland.</span></p></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font: inherit; height: 1289.73px; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">As <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://strategicforum.com.au/about-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">a career strategic analyst</a> and defense planner, including for Australia’s Defense Department, I have spent decades studying how a war could start, how it would play out and the military and nonmilitary operations that China is prepared to conduct. I am convinced that the challenges facing the United States are serious, and its citizens need to become better aware of them.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The military scenario alone is daunting: China would probably launch a lightning air, sea and cyber assault to <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=parameters" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">seize control of key strategic targets</a> on Taiwan within hours, before the United States and its allies could intervene. Taiwan is slightly bigger than the state of Maryland; if you recall how quickly Afghanistan and Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021, you start to realize that the takeover of Taiwan could happen relatively quickly. China also has <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/01/2002488689/-1/-1/1/2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">more than 1,350 ballistic and cruise missiles</a> poised to strike U.S. and allied forces in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and American-held territories in the Western Pacific. Then there’s the sheer difficulty the United States would face waging war thousands of miles across the Pacific against an adversary that has the <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://media.defense.gov/2021/Nov/03/2002885874/-1/-1/0/2021-CMPR-FINAL.PDF" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">world’s largest navy and Asia’s biggest air force</a>.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Despite this, U.S. military planners would prefer to fight a conventional war. But the Chinese are prepared to wage a much broader type of warfare that would reach deep into American society.</span></p><div style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Over the past decade, China has <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-china-watcher/2021/03/11/beijings-visions-of-american-decline-492064" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">increasingly viewed</a> the United States as mired in political and social crises. Mr. Xi, who likes to say that “<a class="css-yywogo" href="https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/china-xi-jinping-getting-unprecedented-third-term-what-should-world-expect" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">the East is rising while the West is declining</a>,” evidently feels that America’s greatest weakness is on its home front. And I believe he is ready to exploit this with a multipronged campaign to divide Americans and undermine and exhaust their will to engage in a prolonged conflict — what China’s military calls <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2670&context=parameters" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">enemy disintegration</a>.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Over the past two decades, China has built formidable <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/article/magic_weapons.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">political warfare</a> and cyber warfare capabilities designed to penetrate, manipulate and disrupt the United States and allied governments, media organizations, businesses and civil society. If war were to break out, China can be expected to use this to disrupt communications and spread fake news and other disinformation. The aim would be to foster confusion, division and distrust and hinder decision making. China might compound this with electronic and probably some physical attacks on satellites or related infrastructure.</span></p></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font: inherit; height: 1019.78px; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">These operations would most likely be accompanied by <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.boozallen.com/insights/cyber/chinas-cyberattack-strategy-explained.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">cyber offensives</a> to disrupt electricity, gas, water, transport, health care and other public services. China has demonstrated its <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/04/01/what-are-china-s-cyber-capabilities-and-intentions-pub-78734" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">capabilities</a> already, including in <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-cyber-assault-taiwan-60-minutes-2022-10-09/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">Taiwan</a>, where it has waged disinformation campaigns, and in serious hacking incidents in <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0227/Exclusive-Cyberattack-leaves-natural-gas-pipelines-vulnerable-to-sabotage" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">the</a> <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-breach-federal-governments-personnel-office/2015/06/04/889c0e52-0af7-11e5-95fd-d580f1c5d44e_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">United</a> <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/china-state-backed-hackers-compromised-6-us-state-governments-report.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">States</a>. Mr. Xi has championed China’s political warfare capabilities as a “magic weapon.”</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">China could also weaponize its <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/opinion/china-us-shipping-security.html" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" title="">dominance of supply chains and shipping</a>. The impact on Americans would be profound.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The U.S. economy is heavily dependent on Chinese resources and manufactured goods, including <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-china/u-s-military-comes-to-grips-with-over-reliance-on-chinese-imports-idUSKCN1MC275" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">many with military applications</a>, and American consumers rely on moderately priced Chinese-made imports for <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/23/business/china-tariffs-trump-trade-walmart-retail/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">everything from electronics to furniture to shoes.</a> The bulk of these goods is transported aboard ships along sea lanes increasingly controlled by Chinese commercial interests that are ultimately answerable to China’s party-state. A war would halt this trade (as well as American and allied shipments to China).</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">U.S. supplies of many products could soon run low, paralyzing a vast range of businesses. It could take months to restore trade, and emergency rationing of some items would be needed. Inflation and unemployment would surge, especially in the period in which the economy is repurposed for the war effort, which might include some automobile manufacturers switching to building aircraft or food-processing companies converting to production of priority pharmaceuticals. Stock exchanges in the United States and other countries might temporarily halt trading because of the enormous economic uncertainties.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The United States might be forced to confront the shocking realization that the industrial muscle instrumental in victories like that in World War II — President Franklin Roosevelt’s concept of America as <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/arsenal-democracy#:~:text=It%20is%20generally%20agreed%20that,his%20Fireside%20Chat%20radio%20broadcasts" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">“the arsenal of democracy”</a> — has <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/pentagon-dod-actions-spark-concern-if-us-military-equipped-for-war?sref=B3uFyqJT" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">withered</a> and been surpassed by China.</span></p></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn" style="border: 0px; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font: inherit; height: 1064.77px; margin: 0px auto 1rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1200px;"><div class="css-53u6y8" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px calc(50% - 300px); max-width: 600px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">China is now the dominant global industrial power by many measures. In 2004 <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2023-02-12/the-us-domain-awareness-gap-goes-way-beyond-chinese-balloons?sref=B3uFyqJT" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">U.S. manufacturing output</a> was more than twice China’s; in 2021, China’s output was double that of the United States. China produces more <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202301/28/WS63d4e343a31057c47ebab90f.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">ships</a>, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/448874/china-share-in-worldwide-crude-steel-production/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">steel</a> and <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.androidauthority.com/70-percent-us-smartphones-made-in-china-1146888/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">smartphones</a> than any other country and is a world leader in the production of chemicals, metals, heavy industrial equipment and electronics — the basic building blocks of a military-industrial economy.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Critically, the United States is <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/pentagon-dod-actions-spark-concern-if-us-military-equipped-for-war?sref=B3uFyqJT" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">no longer able</a> to outproduce China in advanced weapons and other supplies needed in a war, which the current one in Ukraine has made clear. Provision of military hardware to Kyiv has <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/05/09/lockheed-aiming-to-double-javelin-production-seeks-supply-chain-crank-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">depleted American stocks</a> of some <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/17/politics/us-weapon-stocks-ukraine/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">key military systems</a>. Rebuilding them could take <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/05/09/lockheed-aiming-to-double-javelin-production-seeks-supply-chain-crank-up/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">years</a>. Yet the war in Ukraine is relatively small-scale compared with the likely demands of a major war in the Indo-Pacific.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">So what needs to be done?</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">On the military front, the United States should accelerate <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/11/12/air-bases-are-at-risk-without-the-agile-combat-employment-approach/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-signal-editorial,#326891); text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="">programs already underway</a> to strengthen and disperse American forces in the Western Pacific to make them less vulnerable to attacks by China. At home, a concerted effort must be made to find ways to better protect U.S. traditional and social media against Chinese disinformation. Supply chains of some critical goods and services need to be reconfigured to shift production to the United States or allied nations, and the United States must pursue a longer-term strategic drive to restore its dominance in global manufacturing.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Building a stronger deterrence by addressing such weaknesses is the best means of averting war. But this will take time. Until then, it is important for Washington to avoid provocations and maintain a civil discourse with Beijing.</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-content-secondary,#363636); font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 599.99px;"><span style="background-color: white;">The high-altitude balloon that drifted across the United States this month was seen by many Americans as a shocking Chinese breach of U.S. sovereignty. It may turn out to be child’s play compared with the havoc China could wreak on the American homeland in a war.</span></p></div></div></section></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /></span><br /></p>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-2783868656857670482024-02-02T18:46:00.000-08:002024-02-02T18:47:24.715-08:00More in depth information about the Darrien Gap and military aged Chinese men<p><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;">More in depth information</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"> about the Darrien Gap</span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"> and <u>military aged</u></span><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;"> Chinese men</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lets smarten up, we have been fooled, its an Invasion...<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jan 2 2024</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="377" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wOxksFHAHRU" width="454" youtube-src-id="wOxksFHAHRU"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-44879874200116817872024-01-31T11:42:00.000-08:002024-01-31T11:42:30.073-08:00Reporter says he filmed thousands of military-age Chinese men heading toward US in migrant groups<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C1QTMI9kAkU" width="320" youtube-src-id="C1QTMI9kAkU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WlpR9Qn5in0" width="320" youtube-src-id="WlpR9Qn5in0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oQqfjvlUsWI" width="320" youtube-src-id="oQqfjvlUsWI"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><h1 class="headline speakable" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 58px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: red; color: #222222;">Reporter says he filmed thousands</span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">of military-age Chinese men</span></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #222222;"> heading toward US </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: #222222;">in migrant groups</span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="article-meta article-meta-upper" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1232px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="sub-headline speakable" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1232px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">US sees surge of Chinese nationals crossing southern border compared to 2022</h2></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="article-date" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published <time style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">April 19, 2023</time></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="article-date" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><p class="speakable" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A reporter released new video that appears to show hundreds of military-aged Chinese men in Panama heading toward the U.S. border.</p><p class="speakable" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muckraker.com founder Anthony Rubin said on "<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/fox-friends-first" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Fox & Friends First</a>" Wednesday that every day, multiple times a day, groups of men are lining up and getting on buses to continue their journeys.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubin described why these individuals are taking this route to get into the United States.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This would be for people who can't fly into the U.S. directly. So what they do is they get on a flight, and they fly into some South American country. Then from there, they would go to Colombia, they would go across the jungle, pop out in Panama, and then they would head up to the United States. But this is going to be for people that can't fly into the U.S. directly. … You'd rather just fly into the U.S. and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/illegal-immigrants" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">overstay your visa.</a> This is for people that don't have that access for whatever reason." </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegal-immigration-costs-us-taxpayers-151-billion-year-study-finds" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #20124d;">ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION NOW COSTS US TAXPAYERS </span><span style="color: red;">$151 BILLION</span><span style="color: #20124d;"> A YEAR, NEW STUDY FINDS</span></u></span></a></p><div class="image-ct inline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="m" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><source height="192" media="(max-width: 767px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/343/192/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/686/384/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="343"></source><source height="378" media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/672/378/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/1344/756/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="672"></source><source height="523" media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/931/523/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/1862/1046/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="931"></source><source height="405" media="(min-width: 1280px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/720/405/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/1440/810/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 2x" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="720"></source><img alt="Migrants Venezuela border security" height="675" src="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/03/1200/675/migrantselpaso.jpg?ve=1&tl=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 719.993px;" width="1200" /></picture></div><div class="info" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 29, 2023: Border Patrol agents encounter over 1,000 migrants in El Paso, Texas</span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Customs and Border Protection)</span></p></div></div></div><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubin said it's fair to be concerned about the groups showing up at the Darien Gap at the Panama-Colombia border. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said many of the people he filmed "do not want their faces on camera." </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Either they are foreign actors that are coming over here for nefarious reasons. … or number two, these are people that are afraid of some sort of retribution by the Communist Chinese Party.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If it's number two, well then what does that mean? That means that these people are going to be beholden to the Communist Chinese Party once they're here. Oh, you're in the United States. Okay, well, we're going to threaten your friends and family back home in China unless you do X, Y, and Z.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Either way, it's very dangerous. You can't allow this to just continue and have all these people cross the border. I mean, it just will not work."</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/china" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Chinese nationals</u></a> are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into the U.S. in unprecedented numbers this year, with the first few months of FY 2023 already eclipsing the total for 2022.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinese-illegal-immigrants-crossing-us-unprecedented-numbers" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: background 0s ease 0s, all 0.25s ease 0s, all 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The U.S. Customs and Border Protection</a> (CBP) reports that just under 2,000 Chinese nationals crossed the border in FY 2022, but the first few months of FY 2023 have already seen 4,300 encounters, according to federal data.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Biden administration saw 1.7 million migrant encounters in 2021, followed by 2.3 million encounters in 2022. More are expected in 2023. According to Wall Street Journal, 2,200 migrants from China came through the Darien Gap from January to March of this year, compared to 71 in the same time frame last year.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"There are people from over 100 countries that are popping up here. And you would ask yourself why they're coming here," Rubin added.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said many of the migrants are seeking "a better life" but his trip to the Darien Gap left him with concerns about America's national security</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="339" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pIVmUDKHPI0" width="408" youtube-src-id="pIVmUDKHPI0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="338" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Eyc6GPF24U" width="406" youtube-src-id="1Eyc6GPF24U"></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p></span></time></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-57077766301577973552024-01-30T20:35:00.000-08:002024-01-30T20:39:45.666-08:00U.S. revives Cold War submarine spy program to counter China<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: 2.8rem; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;">U.S. revives Cold War</span><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><b> submarine spy program</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 2.8rem; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: center;">to counter China</span></span></p><article class="special-report special-report-article-container first" id="article-usa-china-tech-surveillance-1" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 2rem;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1140px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="row d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="dek-container" itemprop="articleBody" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-left: 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><p class="dek no-photo" itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b6a6b; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 2rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgebmMCbJN1GcgTwbV98cdGDLnEaUuINlHWjtdqkVVZx-O2M2-4-W_FUq7nubB4wfLn-bbawPFbafzybojXlQOFgbk8rG-vshUicJkp0icljbtVDKqW2UXku9GutQNYPceyjmYwqdKwu4BMVDdmruko7BE4j1XuLKyUcKGSkPeCUGgrnV8_mv4_YYd-Za4B" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgebmMCbJN1GcgTwbV98cdGDLnEaUuINlHWjtdqkVVZx-O2M2-4-W_FUq7nubB4wfLn-bbawPFbafzybojXlQOFgbk8rG-vshUicJkp0icljbtVDKqW2UXku9GutQNYPceyjmYwqdKwu4BMVDdmruko7BE4j1XuLKyUcKGSkPeCUGgrnV8_mv4_YYd-Za4B=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /><br />The U.S. Navy is carrying out the biggest overhaul of its top-secret undersea surveillance network since the 1950s as China’s naval power surges and new technologies are fast reshaping maritime warfare. Beijing has similar plans of its own.</span><p></p></div></div><div class="row d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="meta-container" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; font-size: 0.8rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 2rem; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p class="time" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); box-sizing: border-box; color: #aaaaaa; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5rem;"><time datetime="2023-09-21T11:00:00+00:00" itemprop="datePublished" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Sept. 21, 2023</time></p></span></div></div></div><div class="story-content-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333;"><div class="container" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1140px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="article-row row d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p class="article-paragraph dropcap" id="paragraph-0" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On a windswept island 50 miles north of Seattle sits a U.S. Navy monitoring station. For years, it was kept busy tracking whale movements and measuring rising sea temperatures. Last October, the Navy gave the unit a new name that better reflects its current mission: Theater Undersea Surveillance Command.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-1" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The renaming of the spy station at the Whidbey Island facility is a nod to a much larger U.S. military project, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans: conducting the biggest reconstruction of America’s anti-submarine spy program since the end of the Cold War.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-2" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The revival of the multibillion-dollar effort, known as the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS), comes as China has ramped up military exercises around Taiwan, heightening concerns about a potential conflict over the democratically ruled territory, which Beijing wants brought under its control.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-3" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The IUSS revamp project has not previously been reported. It involves modernizing America’s existing network of underwater acoustic spy cables and retrofitting a fleet of surveillance ships with cutting-edge sensors and subsea microphones, moves aimed at boosting the military’s ability to spy on its foes. The United States has agreed to sell Australia similar technology to help bolster allied defenses in the Pacific region.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-4" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The most innovative change in the Navy’s ocean reconnaissance system is an investment in new technologies to miniaturize and globalize traditional maritime surveillance tools. The original network of fixed spy cables, which lie in secret locations on the ocean floor, was designed to spy on Soviet submarines seven decades ago, the three people said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-5" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Navy’s plan includes deploying a fleet of unmanned sea drones to listen for enemy craft; placing portable “underwater satellite” sensors on the seafloor to scan for submarines; using satellites to locate ships by tracking their radio frequencies; and utilizing artificial intelligence software to analyze maritime spy data in a fraction of the time human analysts would usually take.</span></p><figure class="media-item image large col-md-12" id="S1YH0ERXPU_0" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; margin: 2rem 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_01.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 1110.01px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Chinese navy's nuclear-powered submarine Long March 11 takes part in a naval parade off the eastern port city of Qingdao on April 23, 2019. The Pentagon says China is building advanced nuclear-powered subs that are quieter and harder to detect than previous models. </span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-7" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The existence of the IUSS was only made public in 1991 at the end of the Cold War, and the details of its operations remain top secret, the three people said. The three spoke about the classified program on condition of anonymity.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-8" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Reuters was able to piece together details of the unit’s plans through interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the effort, including two current Navy staffers working on maritime surveillance, advisors to the Navy and defense contractors involved in the projects.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-9" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The news agency also reviewed hundreds of Navy contracts. That examination identified at least 30 deals linked to the surveillance program signed over the last three years with defense giants as well as a string of startups working on unmanned sea drones and AI processing. A Reuters review of ship-tracking data and satellite imagery also revealed new details about the Navy’s secretive underwater cable laying.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-10" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The IUSS is led by Captain Stephany Moore, a veteran Navy intelligence officer. The program operates under the command of the Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet, headed by Rear Admiral Richard Seif.</span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="97USMJ5812_1" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_04.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Richard Seif, now a rear admiral and commander of Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet, speaks at a 2017 event in Hawaii. The force is leading a U.S. effort to modernize America’s network of underwater acoustic spy cables as tensions with China rise in the Pacific Theater. </span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moore and Seif declined interview requests. In response to questions from Reuters, a spokesperson for the Submarine Force U.S. Pacific Fleet said the Navy could not discuss specifics related to its undersea surveillance system for “operational security reasons.”</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-13" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The systems have and will experience growth and recapitalization as subsea technologies are developed and as defense priorities are updated,” the spokesperson said in a statement.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-14" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the U.S. 5th Fleet, which is based in the Middle East and has led U.S. sea drone trials, told Reuters the Navy is improving surveillance from “space to seabed” with the aim of painting the clearest-ever picture of global activity at sea.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-15" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China, meanwhile, is working on its own maritime spy program, known as the Great Underwater Wall, two U.S. Navy sources told Reuters.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-16" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That system, already under construction, consists of cables fitted with sonar listening sensors laid along the seafloor in the South China Sea, a tense arena due to territorial disputes between Beijing and its neighbors. China is also building a fleet of underwater and surface sea drones to scour for enemy submarines, the two people said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-17" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Chinese push extends far into the Pacific. The state-run China Academy of Sciences said in 2018 it was operating two underwater sensors: one in Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on earth; the other near Yap, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia. Though China says these sensors are used for scientific purposes, they could detect submarine movements near the U.S. naval base on Guam, a Pacific island territory, the Navy sources said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-18" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China’s Ministry of Defense did not respond to requests for comment about any aspect of this story. China’s Foreign Ministry declined to comment.</span></p><div class="styled-box styled-item graphic article-paragraph px-0 mb-0" id="HPMI4JX1VY_2" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 2rem; max-width: 58.3333%; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><p class="article-paragraph map-hed" id="paragraph-20" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 0.5rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">U.S.-China Naval Competition</span></p><p class="article-paragraph map-chatter" id="paragraph-21" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Indo-Pacific has become the main arena for military competition between the United States and China. Beijing’s increased aggression towards U.S. ally Taiwan, its territorial disputes with neighbors, and its opposition to the long-standing American naval presence in the region, which China views as provocative, have increased friction between the two superpowers.</span></p><div class="interactive" id="naval" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="647px" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CHINA-TECH/SURVEILLANCE/zjvqennbkvx/index.html?initialWidth=665&childId=naval&parentTitle=U.S.%20revives%20Cold%20War%20submarine%20spy%20program%20to%20counter%20China&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Finvestigates%2Fspecial-report%2Fusa-china-tech-surveillance%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="100%"></iframe></span></div></div><p class="article-paragraph caption mb-4" id="paragraph-24" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sources: Natural Earth; Military.com; U.S. Naval Forces Korea; GlobalSecurity.org; Reuters reporting</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-25" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy’s surveillance push is driven by three main factors, according to the three people with direct knowledge of the plans. First is the meteoric rise of China as a sea power and the potential for its vessels to attack Taiwan or sabotage critical undersea infrastructure, including oil pipelines and fiber-optic internet cables.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-26" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Second is Ukraine’s success in employing new maritime warfare tactics in its counteroffensive against invading Russian forces; Ukraine has used relatively cheap unmanned sea vehicles to strike enemy ships and bridges. This development has exposed the vulnerability of large surface vessels to drone attacks, and the need for the U.S. Navy to master this technology for its own offensive operations, as well as learn ways to defend against it. That, in turn, could heighten the importance of submarine warfare in any conflict with China, the three people said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-27" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Finally, rapid technological change, including more sensitive underwater sensors, artificial intelligence and sea drones, is fueling a surveillance arms race between Beijing and Washington.</span></p><div class="styled-box styled-item duo-full picture-box d-flex flex-column flex-lg-row" id="duo-id" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal !important; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 30px;"><figure class="media-item image popup-gallery-item col-12 col-lg-6" id="7NHQWS1URX_6" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; flex: 0 0 50%; margin: 2rem 0px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 540.001px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 393.136px; position: relative; width: 510.019px;"><picture style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><source media="(max-width: 575px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14-sm.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14-xl.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14-lg.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 576px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14-md.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_14.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 510.019px;" /></span></picture></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy owns a handful of Triton solar-powered drones that can operate on and below the ocean’s surface. Autonomous vessels promise to upend naval warfare. The drone’s manufacturer, Mississippi-based Ocean Aero, is courting military orders. Ocean Aero/Handout via REUTERS.</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="media-item image popup-gallery-item col-12 col-lg-6" id="GHW1ZO25TY_7" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; flex: 0 0 50%; margin: 2rem 0px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 540.001px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 393.136px; position: relative; width: 510.019px;"><picture style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><source media="(max-width: 575px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10-sm.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 1200px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 992px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10-xl.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 768px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10-lg.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><source media="(min-width: 576px)" srcset="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10-md.jpg?v=594322200923" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></source><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_10.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 510.019px;" /></span></picture></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">San Francisco-based Saildrone, a maker of unmanned sailboats, was founded to collect data on marine life and measure impacts of climate change in remote places like the Arctic. Now military customers, including the U.S. Navy, have come calling. Saildrone/Handout via REUTERS.</span></figcaption></figure></div><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-32" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">U.S. upgrades are long overdue and moving too slowly because the Pentagon remains focused on building huge warships and submarines, Brent Sadler, a former U.S. Navy submarine officer, told Reuters.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-33" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“We have to invest faster in next-generation capabilities. We're losing the lead, and the Chinese are rapidly catching up,” said Sadler, now a naval warfare fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-34" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy and Department of Defense did not respond to requests for comment about the pace at which the Navy is adopting new technologies.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-35" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="icon" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_16.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph article-subhead" id="paragraph-36" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: #358f8c; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 1.6rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sense of urgency</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-37" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">America’s underwater espionage program was launched in the 1950s with a submarine detection system known as the Sound Surveillance System. That consisted of so-called hydrophone cables – a type of subsea microphone – laid on the seabed. The name changed to the IUSS in 1985. That’s when the fixed cables were supplemented with technology known as the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), long vertical sonar arrays dragged below Navy ships to listen for enemy submarines lingering in the depths.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-38" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At its peak in the 1980s, the IUSS comprised thousands of Navy sailors and analyzed data from ships and undersea cables at 31 different processing facilities. Tracking Soviet vessels was central to the original mission, according to declassified Navy documents.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-39" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With the breakup of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the IUSS was scaled back. Increasingly its analysts were tasked with monitoring marine life and offshore earthquakes.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-40" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today, just two surveillance sites remain: the facility located within the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington State, and another at the Dam Neck naval station in Virginia Beach, Virginia.</span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="M0UDNKDDU1_11" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_11.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The 2022 renaming of a U.S. Navy listening post on Whidbey Island near Seattle signals a larger Pentagon effort to upgrade America’s undersea surveillance capabilities as China’s naval power grows. </span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-42" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Once dubbed Naval Ocean Processing Facilities, they were rechristened Theater Undersea Surveillance Commands last year. The new name is “more fitting of the expansive coverage of our mission,” Jon Nelson, commanding officer at the Whidbey Island unit, said <a class="article-link" href="https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3177017/nopf-whidbey-island-changes-name-to-theater-undersea-surveillance-command-pacif/" id="article-link-0" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">at a name-changing ceremony</a> in October 2022.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-43" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China’s rise as a naval rival, and Ukraine’s effective harassment of Russia's Black Sea fleet with drones, have renewed the U.S. military’s focus on ocean surveillance in a fast-changing maritime environment, according to Phillip Sawyer, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral and former head of the submarine forces in the Pacific.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-44" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“It has given us a sense of urgency that perhaps was lacking in the ’90s and the early 2000s,” said Sawyer, now the Undersea Warfare Chair at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.</span></p><aside class="related-container col-md-6 col-lg-4" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 2rem; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="related-header component-header" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; 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padding-left: 0px;">Inspired by Ukraine war, Taiwan launches drone blitz to counter China</p></span></a></li></ol></div></aside><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-50" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Adding to that urgency: the need to protect subsea internet cables crisscrossing the ocean floor, a global network that carries 99% of transcontinental internet traffic. These cables are the heart of <a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-cables/" id="article-link-1" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a>an intensifying competition between the United States and China to control advanced technologies, <a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-cables/" id="article-link-2" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">Reuters reported in March</a>.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-51" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In February, <a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fear-dark-taiwan-sees-wartime-frailty-communication-links-with-world-2023-03-15/" id="article-link-3" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fear-dark-taiwan-sees-wartime-frailty-communication-links-with-world-2023-03-15/" id="article-link-4" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">two undersea internet cables were cut</a> that connected Taiwan with the Matsu Islands, a cluster of isles governed by Taiwan that sit close to the Chinese mainland. It took weeks to restore internet service fully to some 14,000 island residents. Taiwanese authorities said at the time they suspected two Chinese vessels were to blame, but provided no direct evidence and stopped short of calling it a deliberate act.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-52" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China did not comment on the incident at the time. China’s defense and foreign ministries did not respond to fresh requests for comment about it.</span></p><figure class="media-item image large col-md-12" id="JMYIAHSBZF_17" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; margin: 2rem 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_02.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 1110.01px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Washington is betting that unmanned surveillance vessels can reduce the likelihood of potentially explosive confrontations such as this run-in with China on March 8, 2009. A U.S. surveillance ship, the USNS Impeccable, was harassed by five Chinese vessels as it conducted routine operations in international waters in the South China Sea, according to the Pentagon. This photo, shot from the USNS Impeccable, shows two Chinese trawlers blocking its way. </span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-54" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In May, the Quad – an alliance between Australia, Japan, India and the United States – said the four countries would partner to protect and build undersea high-speed fiber-optic cables in the Indo-Pacific.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-55" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both the Chinese and U.S. navies regularly carry out military exercises around American ally Taiwan as military analysts study how any potential conflict over the island could play out.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-56" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Although U.S. warships and submarines are widely considered technically superior, China has the largest navy in the world, comprising around 340 ships and submarines, according to the <a class="article-link" href="https://www.defense.gov/CMPR/" id="article-link-5" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">Pentagon’s 2022 report</a> on China’s military. China is building more advanced nuclear-powered submarines that are quieter and harder to detect, the report said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-57" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="icon" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_16.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph article-subhead" id="paragraph-58" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: #358f8c; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 1.6rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ships going dark</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-59" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The jewel of the U.S. subsea surveillance operations remains the global network of listening cables first laid during the Cold War, still the best subsea spying infrastructure in the world, according to two Navy sources with direct knowledge of the system.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-60" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Those cables were instrumental in solving the mystery surrounding the privately-owned <a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/search-intensifies-titanic-sub-with-only-hours-oxygen-left-2023-06-22/#:~:text=June%2022%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20A,day%20search%20for%20the%20vessel." id="article-link-6" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">Titan submersible that imploded in June</a>, killing five people on a voyage to view the century-old wreckage of the Titanic, the sources said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-61" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy said in a statement that it had assisted in the search for the Titan after an analysis of acoustic data detected “an anomaly consistent with an implosion.” The Navy did not respond to questions from Reuters about how it had obtained the acoustic data.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-62" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Over the last three years, some of this cable network has been expanded and replaced with advanced cables fitted with state-of-the-art hydrophones and sensors to more accurately pinpoint the location of enemy vessels, the two people said.</span></p><div class="styled-box styled-item graphic article-paragraph px-0" id="6QKSB421RQ_20" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 2rem; max-width: 58.3333%; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><p class="article-paragraph map-hed" id="paragraph-64" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 0.5rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy’s Undersea Surveillance System</span></p><p class="article-paragraph map-chatter" id="paragraph-65" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The United States is expanding and upgrading its anti-submarine surveillance capabilities as tensions rise with China. The listening network, shown here in a 2017 U.S. Navy document, began with the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS): long cables fitted with underwater microphones laid on the ocean floor in the 1950s to listen for Soviet submarines. SOSUS has since been supplemented with additional listening cables, known as the Fixed Distributed System (FDS). Data collected by underwater sensors placed in secret locations is routed to onshore processing centers, where it is analyzed to pinpoint enemy vessels.</span></p><div class="interactive" id="patrol" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="625px" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CHINA-TECH/SURVEILLANCE/lbpgojjeepq/index.html?initialWidth=665&childId=patrol&parentTitle=U.S.%20revives%20Cold%20War%20submarine%20spy%20program%20to%20counter%20China&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Finvestigates%2Fspecial-report%2Fusa-china-tech-surveillance%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="100%"></iframe></span></div><p class="article-paragraph caption" id="paragraph-67" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 387.898px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Source: U.S. Navy</span></p></div><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-69" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Much of this work has been carried out by the 40-year-old USNS Zeus, the first and only operational cable ship specifically built for the U.S. Navy, the people said. Assisting are the CS Dependable and CS Decisive, two cable ships owned by the private U.S. firm SubCom, they said. SubCom has become a key player in the tech war with China, <a class="article-link" href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/us-china-tech-subcom/" id="article-link-7" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">Reuters reported in July</a>.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-70" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To keep the locations of U.S. underwater spy cables secret, these three ships have been masking their locations, known in the shipping industry as “going dark,” according to the two Navy sources and a Reuters analysis of ship tracking data.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-71" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Commercial ships are required under international law to keep their identification transponders switched on to prevent collisions and help authorities fight maritime crimes. But nations can secure exemptions for some private vessels, particularly those working on national security projects, according to London-based maritime lawyer Stephen Askins.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-72" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Between Jan. 1, 2022, and August 22 of this year, the CS Dependable and the CS Decisive were not transmitting identification signals for 60% and 57% of the days they spent at sea, respectively, according to data on LSEG’s Eikon terminal.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-73" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">SubCom and the U.S. Department of Defense did not respond to requests for comment about any exemption for SubCom vessels.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-74" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The second element of the original U.S. subsea spy program is a fleet of five large catamaran-style ships equipped with the SURTASS system, the cables fitted with sonar listening gear and dragged through the ocean.</span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="AJXXUA4BYH_23" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_03.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The ocean surveillance ship USNS Able is shown in Yokosuka, Japan, in 2016. Some military analysts say the U.S. Navy is not moving fast enough to deploy next-generation spy technologies such as sea drones, AI and mobile listening sensors. </span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-76" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In February 2020, the Navy awarded Lockheed Martin <a class="article-link" href="https://www.highergov.com/contract-opportunity/surtass-towed-array-program-award-notice-n00039-snote-0b34c475-s-9322d/" id="article-link-8" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">a $287 million contract</a> to produce new advanced towed sonar arrays for these ships. The first of these new cables was delivered last year, according to two Navy sources.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-77" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lockheed Martin did not respond to a request for comment.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-78" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now the Navy is building new miniaturized, mobile versions that can be deployed undetected, the sources said. These modules, known as Expeditionary SURTASS, or SURTASS-E, can be placed in cargo containers loaded onto any flat-decked vessel, allowing commercial ships to carry out surveillance for the Navy, two sources with knowledge of the project said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-79" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Over the last three years, the Navy has been testing the system from an offshore supply vessel in the Atlantic, and it has since been used in active operations in secret locations, the sources said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-80" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In May, the U.S. State Department said in a statement that it had approved the sale of <a class="article-link" href="https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/australia-surveillance-towed-array-sensor-system-expeditionary-surtass" id="article-link-9" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">a $207 million SURTASS-E system</a> to the government of Australia.<a class="article-link" href="https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/australia-surveillance-towed-array-sensor-system-expeditionary-surtass" id="article-link-10" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-81" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An Australian Defense spokesperson told Reuters it was investing in new undersea surveillance capabilities to protect critical infrastructure and monitor evolving subsea threats.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-82" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Japan also operates a fleet of three ocean surveillance ships, fitted with U.S. SURTASS cables, the two U.S. Navy sources said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-83" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Japan’s navy, known as the Maritime Self-Defense Force, said in a statement that it was coordinating with its allies to counter China’s increased naval threat; it declined to comment specifically on surveillance operations.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-84" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><figure class="media-item image text-width col-12 col-md-9 col-lg-7 offset-lg-1" id="icon" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin: 2rem 0px 2rem 237.495px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_16.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 635.007px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph article-subhead" id="paragraph-85" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; color: #358f8c; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 1.6rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sea drones with sharp ears</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-86" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Navy is experimenting with new ways to listen for subs in areas where its warships are closely monitored by China, including the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, two sources with knowledge of those efforts said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-87" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This means using stealthier methods such as sending out small, unmanned sea drones fitted with infrared cameras and underwater microphones, and dropping portable listening devices from commercial ships, the people said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-88" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One of the first successful attempts to make an autonomous subsea surveillance unit was the Transformational Reliable Acoustic Path System (TRAPS), developed by Leidos, a Virginia-based Fortune 500 defense firm, the people said. The Navy awarded Leidos <a class="article-link" href="https://www.leidos.com/insights/leidos-continues-submarine-detection-sonar-services-through-traps-award" id="article-link-11" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232039; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration-line: none;">a $73 million contract</a> to develop the system in 2019.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-89" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TRAPS consists of a processing box attached to deep ocean sensors. It is designed to sit on the seafloor and listen for submarines overhead, like an underwater satellite.</span></p><figure class="media-item image large col-md-12" id="DMNRTEC77H_26" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; margin: 2rem 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="media-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="d-block" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img class="img-fluid" itemprop="contentURL" src="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-china-tech-surveillance/usa-china-tech-surveillance_13.jpg?v=594322200923" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 1110.01px;" /></span></div></div><figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0.4rem;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy has purchased a submarine detection system known as TRAPS. Made by Virginia-based Leidos, these mobile units can be surreptitiously dropped to strategic locations on the ocean floor, where they listen for enemy subs moving above. Data from these units is relayed to military facilities via surface vessels and satellites. Leidos/Handout via REUTERS.</span></figcaption></figure><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-91" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These underwater spy units could be surreptitiously dropped off the side of a fishing vessel or tugboat in enemy territory, Chuck Fralick, Leidos’ chief technology officer and a retired Navy officer, told Reuters.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-92" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“You can get listening or surveillance capability pretty much anywhere in the world you want,” Fralick said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-93" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Navy has also been experimenting with small sea drones, including uncrewed sailboats and autonomous miniature submarines that cost $800,000 to $3 million to build – relatively small change in the world of defense systems.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-94" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These craft don’t yet carry weapons. But they can be fitted with high-definition cameras, underwater microphones, satellite uplinks and other spy gear, giving the Navy a low-cost means to expand its surveillance dramatically, Navy spokesman Hawkins said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-95" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the future, these vessels could be used to fire submarine-sinking torpedoes, drop underwater mines or set off decoy devices that make loud noises beneath the surface to confuse the enemy, two Navy sources said.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-96" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Navy did not respond to questions about arming sea drones.</span></p><div class="styled-box styled-item graphic article-paragraph px-0" id="THN0S05UMT_27" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 2rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 2rem; max-width: 58.3333%; padding: 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><p class="article-paragraph map-hed" id="paragraph-98" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 0.5rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Saildrone Voyager</span></p><p class="article-paragraph map-chatter" id="paragraph-99" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; float: none; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1rem; max-width: 700px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; text-align: center; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The U.S. Navy has begun purchasing a fleet of small, uncrewed vessels that can carry out maritime reconnaissance work, both on and below the surface. Saildrone, a San Francisco-based firm, says it has already supplied the Navy with 22 of its solar-powered autonomous boats, including the Voyager model.</span></p><div class="interactive" id="saildrone" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="604px" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CHINA-TECH/SURVEILLANCE/movajwwgqpa/index.html?initialWidth=665&childId=saildrone&parentTitle=U.S.%20revives%20Cold%20War%20submarine%20spy%20program%20to%20counter%20China&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Finvestigates%2Fspecial-report%2Fusa-china-tech-surveillance%2F" style="box-sizing: border-box;" width="100%"></iframe></span></div><p class="article-paragraph caption" id="paragraph-101" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 387.898px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Source: Saildrone</span></p></div><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-103" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Saildrone, a San Francisco-based firm founded in 2012 by British engineer Richard Jenkins, for years has been collecting data from its unmanned sailboats to track marine life movements and measure impacts of climate change.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-104" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now military customers are calling. In the past two years, Saildrone says it has supplied the U.S. Navy with 22 of its solar-powered boats, including the 33-foot Voyager, which can be equipped with a smart camera and a variety of sensors. The Navy confirmed that it has purchased Saildrones.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-105" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Though the Navy has yet to place large orders, Saildrone and other drone startups say they are each ready to supply hundreds of vessels a year.</span></p><p class="article-paragraph" id="paragraph-106" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 58.3333%; float: none; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: 237.495px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 58.3333%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 664.988px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Navy spokesperson Hawkins declined to say how many more uncrewed vessels the military might procure. But he said the sea drone industry was “on the cusp of a technological revolution.”</span></p></div></div></div></article>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-75945417101598228302024-01-30T20:16:00.000-08:002024-01-30T20:16:19.939-08:00Chinese government claims consultant caught spying for MI6<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> Chinese government</span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"> claims consultant caught</span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #333333;"> spying for MI6</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; font-family: "Nunito Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="meta_news" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i class="icon-calendar" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></i> <span class="date" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(119, 119, 119); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 0px;">12 January 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="338" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iKTozWzLp7g" width="406" youtube-src-id="iKTozWzLp7g"></iframe></div></span></div></div><div class="text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #666666; margin: 25px 0px 0px; max-width: 900px; min-height: 850px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">China’s escalating suspicions directed at foreign consultants has hit new heights, with the nation’s government having detain an advisor on allegations of spying. Chinese security officials claim that the unnamed professional was working for the British spy agency, MI6.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Ministry of State Security (MSS) is the principal civilian intelligence, security and secret police agency of China. It is responsible for the nation’s foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and the political security of the Chinese Communist Party.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the start of 2024, the MSS claimed that it had detained a foreign agent, who it named only as “Huang”. The agency did not release details around Huang’s full name, gender or nationality. However, the agency did note that the foreign national was the head of an overseas consulting firm – and stated that the foreign power they had allegedly been spying for was the UK.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Chinese government claims consultant caught spying for MI6" data-pagespeed-url-hash="991112334" height="462" src="https://www.consultancy.uk/illustrations/news/detail/2024-01-11-045058901-Chinese_government_claims_consultant_caught_spying_for_MI6.jpg" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; display: block; height: auto; margin: 20px auto; max-width: -webkit-fill-available; padding: 0px;" title="Chinese government claims consultant caught spying for MI6" width="900" /></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">According to the claims of MSS, Huang started working with MI6 – the UK ministry which deals with current affairs overseas, often referred to as secret intelligence service – in 2015. Huang is alleged to have taken on intelligence matters for MI6, with the British agency directing Huang to travel to China multiple times to collect intelligence, while identifying potential assets for it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Throughout this supposed relationship, the MSS also asserted that MI6 had provided Huang with training, as well as professional spying equipment, for the exchange of intelligence and communications. It added that this had enabled Huang to provide MI6 with 17 pieces of intelligence, including several “national secrets.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In accordance with the law, the MSS said Huang had been given access to consular visits from their home country throughout the investigation. The British government has not commented on the claims.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While it has not been confirmed which consulting firm Huang was heading up in China, the news comes at a time when tensions between the country and foreign advisory firms is spiralling. In March 2023, China’s state ramped up a clampdown on the world’s largest accounting and consulting firms, with the country’s finance ministry issuing <a href="https://www.consultancy.uk/firms/deloitte" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;" title="Deloitte">Deloitte</a> with a <a href="https://www.consultancy.asia/news/5122/china-suspends-deloittes-beijing-office-over-huarong-accounts" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">massive fine</a>, and barring it from operating in Beijing for three months.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, in April, media reports suggested that China’s police had made an unannounced visit to Bain & Company's office in <a href="https://www.consultancy.uk/news/34139/chinese-authorities-question-bain-company-staff-in-shanghai" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;">Shanghai</a>. On that occasion, officers were understood to have removed computers and phones from the firm’s office in the Chinese financial hub. Two weeks later, police visited the Shanghai office once again, to question employees.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Exactly what is fuelling this rising suspicion remains unclear. However, many of the world’s largest consulting firms have long and close relationships with the defence communities of the Western world’s key actors. KPMG for example, is regularly contracted by the <a href="https://www.consultancy.com.au/news/8521/kpmg-defends-itself-over-defence-misconduct-allegations" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">Australian defence department</a>, as does McKinsey & Company – which has <a href="https://www.consultancy.com.au/news/4184/defence-selects-mckinsey-to-review-welfare-system-for-veterans" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">also </a>been awarded upwards of $940 million worth of federal contracts by the US department of defense. Meanwhile, IT strategists such as CGI and PA Consulting regularly <a href="https://www.consultancy.uk/news/26156/cgi-supports-uk-ministry-of-defences-digitisation-of-healthcare" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-out 0s;">link up</a> with the UK’s MoD. With these links in mind, it could be the case that China’s authorities increasingly see foreign consultants as tied to state actors who they see as hostile.</span></p></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-62200890177191873932024-01-30T20:07:00.000-08:002024-01-30T20:07:03.465-08:00Court decision barring Chinese student sends message about espionage risk, experts say<p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: 2rem;">Court decision</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 2rem;"> barring Chinese student</span><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 2rem;"> sends message</span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 2rem;"> about espionage risk,</span></span><span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-size: 2rem;"> experts say</span></span></b></p><h2 class="deck" lang="en" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">CSIS seeking changes to law to allow it to warn universities of national security threats</span></h2><div class="byline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #545454; display: flex; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><figure class="imageMedia author-image full" style="display: inline; height: 40px; margin: 0px 0.5rem 0px 0px; min-width: 40px; padding: 0px; width: 40px;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: none; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"></div></figure><div class="bylineDetails" style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bullet"> </span><time class="timeStamp" datetime="2024-01-06T17:02:45.523Z" style="display: inline-block;">Posted: Jan 04, 2024 </time></span></div></div><div data-cy="storyWrapper" style="background-color: white;"><figure class="imageMedia leadmedia-story full" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin: 1rem 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="The University of Waterloo campus in Waterloo, Ontario on Thursday, June 29, 2023. " fetchpriority="high" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7074727.1704404674!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/ont-uwaterloo-stabbing-20230629.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A spokesperson for the University of Waterloo says the post-secondary institution is reviewing the language of the court's decision to help it assess applicants in future.</span></figcaption></figure><div class="story" style="color: #222222; line-height: 24px; margin-block: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 16px;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In a decision that could have ripple effects on universities across the country, a Federal Court judge has denied a Chinese resident permission to enter Canada, arguing the engineering student could be pressured by Beijing into spying.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The case centres on<b> Yuekang Li's</b> visa application to study at the University of Waterloo and take his knowledge back to China to improve its public health system. Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton ruled Li's proposal falls under the definition of "non-traditional" espionage.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCQvbPBeJBUbWhDvhNrhrotRpI14oFL-IcP5hOzW2kxTJHQdCl3RaE4m8PRrcMBiQsmPwrV_AbZ-l8WIgEtHqivd7xiHpA_oIuqhkjLzHwAwg5_uznPigqDKwNadOj33BfHuyATimS4zfoCBXIbrxqrNxjp7r_MDH2l-2KWFpbaac8071bI3Q6C0cREQ_n" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCQvbPBeJBUbWhDvhNrhrotRpI14oFL-IcP5hOzW2kxTJHQdCl3RaE4m8PRrcMBiQsmPwrV_AbZ-l8WIgEtHqivd7xiHpA_oIuqhkjLzHwAwg5_uznPigqDKwNadOj33BfHuyATimS4zfoCBXIbrxqrNxjp7r_MDH2l-2KWFpbaac8071bI3Q6C0cREQ_n=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"As hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive information in Canada or abroad, contrary to Canada's interests, the court's appreciation of what constitutes 'espionage' must evolve," he wrote in his December 22 decision, made public this week.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Margaret McCuaig-Johnston</b>, a board member with the China Strategic Risks Institute think-tank, said she expects to see more such rulings in future.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrjEhOIx9Oq5B-rdQOZuMPCHba9DMHwXkdbwhdtIHLwtscCanMVyjBh9NhArJIRl5ComSEKCWxYWUwYgogJMSD0ZeX5cKhN9O_6lfmeE-3syEMgqK9C5i94BDrtJwW2-O4nwSLvhL34SLi8zYqyDhKikD99bbKqxPTphSPw7ZlcwzwcIX4Zz10JEIpnD-q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="700" height="513" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrjEhOIx9Oq5B-rdQOZuMPCHba9DMHwXkdbwhdtIHLwtscCanMVyjBh9NhArJIRl5ComSEKCWxYWUwYgogJMSD0ZeX5cKhN9O_6lfmeE-3syEMgqK9C5i94BDrtJwW2-O4nwSLvhL34SLi8zYqyDhKikD99bbKqxPTphSPw7ZlcwzwcIX4Zz10JEIpnD-q=w342-h513" width="342" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><em><span style="font-weight: 700;">WATCH | Court says there are grounds to believe student may be recruited to spy: </span></em><span class="mediaEmbed"><div class="player-placeholder-ui-container player-df06e2fa-aa32-4ded-bb52-b4b379cea2ef" style="display: grid;"><div class="player-placeholder-video-ui" role="button" style="display: grid; grid-area: 1 / 1;" tabindex="0" title="Federal court bars Chinese student over espionage risk concerns"><div class="player-placeholder" style="grid-area: 1 / 1; padding-bottom: 404.994px;"></div><div class="player-placeholder-ui " style="grid-area: 1 / 1; height: auto; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 719.993px;"><div class="video-item video-card-overlay " style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 200px; position: relative; width: 719.993px;" title="Federal court bars Chinese student over espionage risk concerns"><div class="thumbnail-wrapper" style="background-color: black; height: auto; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 404.994px; position: relative; width: 719.993px;"><div class="thumbnail-container"><img alt="" class="thumbnail" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 260px) 4vw, (max-width: 510px) 50vw, (max-width: 630px) 66vw, (max-width: 880px) 88vw" src="https://thumbnails.cbc.ca/maven_legacy/thumbnails/379/931/ST_TUNNEY_CHINA_ESPIONAGE_clean.jpg?crop=1.777xh:h;*,*&downsize=510px:*510w" srcset="
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Experts say there could be more similar cases to come.</span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"[Canadian] visa officers in Beijing and likely in other cities in China have been given some guidance as to what to watch for, potential military connections with students and professors who want to come from China to Canada and work with our own professors," she said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"This is new and I think it's something then that universities themselves need to be watching, [to avoid] admitting students who may be a security risk." </span></p><div dir="ltr"><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-director-five-eyes-research-1.6998874" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="CSIS chief opens up about China's interest in Canadian universities"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CSIS chief opens up about China's interest in Canadian universities</span></span></a></li></ul><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-recruitment-program-talent-china-1.7039775" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="CSIS warns of Chinese recruitment campaign targeting Canadian government employees"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CSIS warns of Chinese recruitment campaign targeting Canadian government employees</span></span></a></li></ul></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">According to the decision, first reported on by the Globe and Mail, Li applied for a study permit in 2022 after the University of Waterloo accepted the PhD candidate into its mechanical and mechatronics engineering program. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">He was deemed inadmissible. A visa officer later stated he had multiple concerns with Li's application, citing his anticipated field of study while in Canada and China's use of students as "non-traditional collectors of information" to boost China's research into new technologies, including military tech.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The officer further noted that Mr. Li has a strong interest in microfluidics, a branch of micro/nanoscale science and technology, and that he indicated in his study plans that he wanted to dedicate his career to improving China's underdevelopment of the application of advances to point-of-care technology in the field of public health," says the Federal Court decision.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The visa officer, who was not named in the decision, pointed to China's strategic interest in certain high-tech industries, including biopharmaceuticals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The officer cited an article titled "Why is China Becoming a Microfluidics Superpower?" — which says microfluidic devices are important for new medical research — in support of his decision to reject Li.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Judge sided with visa officer</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Li asked a judge to review that ruling. He argued the officer went with an overly broad definition of "espionage" and relied on speculation, says the Federal Court decision.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Justice Crampton sided with the visa officer and said there are reasonable grounds to believe that Li may be recruited or coerced by the Chinese government as a spy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The judge pointed to Li 's studies at a Beijing university with ties to China's defence industry, the fact that Li's field of study could benefit China's biopharmaceutical industry and China's well-known history of targeting scientists and students.</span></p><div dir="ltr"><figure class="imageMedia image full" style="line-height: 0; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="placeholder" style="background: radial-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(203, 203, 203)) 0% 0% / cover no-repeat; margin-bottom: 1rem; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><img alt="Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service David Vigneault sits at a desk wearing a dark suit. He is a middle-aged white man and has a focused look on his face while adjusting an ear piece that acts as a translation aid. " loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 300px,(max-width: 460px) 460px,(max-width: 620px) 620px,(max-width: 780px) 780px,(max-width: 1180px) 1180px" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/special-committee-20230206.jpg" srcset="https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_300/special-committee-20230206.jpg 300w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_460/special-committee-20230206.jpg 460w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_620/special-committee-20230206.jpg 620w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/special-committee-20230206.jpg 780w,https://i.cbc.ca/1.6774033.1678404208!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_1180/special-committee-20230206.jpg 1180w" style="aspect-ratio: 1.50121 / 1; border: 0px; display: block; object-fit: cover; width: 719.993px;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #545454; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-block: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-inline: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) David Vigneault has raised the alarm over China stealing Canadian intellectual property and research. </span></figcaption></figure></div><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Dick Fadden</b>, former national security adviser to the prime minister, said the decision offers Canada a new tool to "get a grip" on a growing problem.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="3077" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibZPv52_pj3B5Hoq_75ZphnJb6KF1xyPpfQ20nP_dbahzTW7_okF1P-UjV2HfZka1opAKfIcJh3Espp4D4qwcaZSDbaQFa-lGeTboo-g3VKGiK_z4WzEDbmAk7yu4fO7QcrdQLhpXZEoSX9nlnTvlaJS3Kc0jurqQHaMjrDRgdekl13-8f2EkI-l3GgJqd=w640-h416" width="640" /></span></div><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Whether or not Mr Li is or could be a spy is neither here nor there. I think that it's beyond reasonable debate that the Chinese, both in Canada and in allied countries, have used universities as a means of acquiring intellectual property of use to their military," he said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The decision comes as concerns mount over China's interest in Canadian universities and research programs. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/your-globe/#following" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;">Canadian Security Intelligence Service</a> has been sounding the alarm publicly. Just last month, the spy agency's director David Vigneault warned in a speech that no one should underestimate China's efforts to steal Canadian research and meddle in its affairs.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"They are stealing the intellectual property of Canadian businesses, universities and governments – the very essence of our future prosperity," he said in a speech delivered at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"No one should be under any illusion about the breadth of [China's] efforts to infiltrate our political systems, our private sector, government institutions, universities and communities from coast to coast to coast. This is not just a Vancouver or Toronto issue. It's an all-of-Canada one."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fadden, a former CSIS director, said it's past time to consider sealing off some areas of study from foreign adversaries, including nuclear technologies, high-level optics and space research.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"We should promote bringing other country's students to this country as much as we should encourage Canadians to study abroad, but surely there must be a certain number of critical areas where we and our allies have decided we do not want to share with a strategic adversary," he said. "I think this judgment will make it easier to do this.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"I also hope we are not going to do it holus-bolus and start banning everybody. But I come back to my point about the ten or 15 critical areas, dual-use and military, where I think if you give individual visa officers and individual security officers the capacity to check people doubly in the context of these decisions and these areas, it is a good thing for Canada."</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Canada an easy target: China expert</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The federal government has introduced national security reviews for academics seeking federal funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and has promised to clamp down on Canadian universities collaborating with Chinese scientists, especially those with links to China's military.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"I still think we're behind," said Fadden. "Because we were very slow in coming to this. I think probably one of the biggest challenges that we face is to acknowledge that national security is no longer the sole purview of the federal government. You have to involve the provinces, you have to involve civil society and the private sector."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">McCuaig-Johnston said China has targeted Canada's campuses for years because "we are easy to get into."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"We don't want to be attracting military scientists to work in Canada, partnering with government funded programs to learn our innovations and use them for their own military applications," she said. "That's not very wise. And so, we need to close that back door."</span></p><div dir="ltr"><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-universities-research-waterloo-military-technology-1.5723846" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="Experts call on Canadian universities to close off China's access to sensitive research"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Experts call on Canadian universities to close off China's access to sensitive research</span></span></a></li></ul><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" flag="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-china-spy-teacher-dubious-1.6881248" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(216, 216, 216); color: #0550c8; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.25s linear 0s;" text="CBSA thought he might be a Chinese spy. A federal judge called the intelligence 'dubious'"><span class="similarLinkText" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CBSA thought he might be a Chinese spy. A federal judge called the intelligence 'dubious'</span></span></a></li></ul></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">David George-Cosh, a spokesperson for the University of Waterloo, said the university is reviewing the language of the court decision "as it contains helpful guidance on the government's interpretation of risk that will help us in assessing applicants in future."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Currently, CSIS is restricted to sharing classified intelligence only with the federal government. CSIS has long argued that its enabling law needs to be revised so it can better warn other institutions, including universities, businesses and Indigenous governments, of national security threats.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The federal government is in the midst of consulting on potential amendments to the CSIS Act. George-Cosh said Waterloo hopes an amended CSIS Act could "allow the service to share more information with institutions like universities ... so that we can more effectively evaluate our activities."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In a written statement, China's embassy in Ottawa said Beijing was opposed to espionage and that it wanted to work toward greater education cooperation with Canada, describing it as mutually beneficial. The embassy expressed hope that there would be an end to what it called "groundless accusations" against China.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"The Chinese side urges the Canadian side to stop stretching the national security concept and provide an equitable and conducive environment for Chinese students. China will take necessary measures to resolutely ensure the security and lawful rights and interests of Chinese students in Canada," the embassy said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fadden said China doesn't respect its own rhetoric on international scientific cooperation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"There's another principle involved here. In international relations it's called reciprocity — that if we allow them to do x, they should allow us to do x," he said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 28px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"If you look into what the Chinese allow, I think you'll find that very few westerners are allowed to study at Chinese universities looking into those 10 or 15 categories I'm looking at."</span></p></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-19204814592845739242024-01-30T19:51:00.000-08:002024-01-30T19:52:11.377-08:00US Navy sailor sentenced to only 27 months in prison for spying for the Chinese Communist Party<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 18px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1139.99px;"><h1 class="ruled" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #351c75; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">US Navy sailor sentenced </span></span><span style="background-color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: white;">to only 27 months in prison</span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;"> for spying for the Chinese</span><span style="background-color: #ffa400;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffa400; font-weight: normal;">Communist Party</span></span></span></h1></div></div><div class="row" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-size: 18px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1139.99px;"><div class="meta index-ok" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <li class="date" itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px 11px 0px 0px;">2024-01-14</li> </span></ul></div></div></div><div class="row pb-4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; padding-bottom: 1.5rem;"><div class="col-sm-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 66.6667%; max-width: 66.6667%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 759.994px;"><div class="item-articles" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="index-ok" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="img-frame img-preview content-img mb-3" itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="image" class="scale" itemprop="image" src="https://mr.cdn.ignitecdn.com/client_assets/lawenforcementtoday_com/media/picture/65a0/a0df/bd71/300a/ac08/e2d6/article_1.png?1705025758" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 730.012px;" /></span><div class="image-att-style p-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.5rem;"><div class="attribution small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.4px;"><div class="inner" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IiHDyRRxQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Naval fleet</a> by is licensed under <a href="https://lawenforcementtoday.com/us-navy-sailor-sentenced-to-only-27-months-in-prison-for-spying-for-the-chinese-communist-party" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">YouTube</a></span></div></div></div></div><div class="content-body <!-- PWMS ERROR: unexpected return -->" id="body-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="content" id="body-content-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If we had a legitimate criminal justice system, a US Navy sailor convicted of spying on the United States for China would be shot for treason. At the least, he would never see the outside of a federal prison for the rest of his life. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the Biden Justice Department, however, providing private US military information to our number one enemy in the world nets a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">whopping</em> 27-month jail sentence, according to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-navy-sailor-given-27-months-jail-sharing-military-data-with-china-2024-01-08/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Reuters</a>.</em> In comparison, grandparents who trespassed on US Capitol grounds have gotten a lot more prison time. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 549.995px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1744863048743977017" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1744863048743977017&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Flawenforcementtoday.com%2Fus-navy-sailor-sentenced-to-only-27-months-in-prison-for-spying-for-the-chinese-communist-party&sessionId=224949979e9581ca5dcfbaf094ad1acbc22739c6&theme=light&widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 712px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="X Post"></iframe></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-navy-sailor-sentenced-27-months-prison-transmitting-sensitive-us-military-information" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">statement</a>, the Department of Justice announced Petty Officer <b>Wenheng “Thomas” Zhao</b>, 26, pleaded guilty last October to conspiracy and receiving a bribe from China. The government showed Zhao accepted nearly $15,000 in bribes from a Chinese intelligence officer in exchange for unclassified information. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiN2tyDWrn21Qy-cVqGObts1sp_Xi92Z08P7VqJ1aIEBfA1AzPLtfsorPas5Ty03DaPA4IcO5U2rXVoqPxO4LFBATONIP1YIuEodG_2z63ZLQnRzaUkUtXQDo-ebLay95hR6Bo1cJb4Vub56zejqslBAvO3mGBQ0vG2lGVZOlI7yaeao9444NL3nApaTthg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiN2tyDWrn21Qy-cVqGObts1sp_Xi92Z08P7VqJ1aIEBfA1AzPLtfsorPas5Ty03DaPA4IcO5U2rXVoqPxO4LFBATONIP1YIuEodG_2z63ZLQnRzaUkUtXQDo-ebLay95hR6Bo1cJb4Vub56zejqslBAvO3mGBQ0vG2lGVZOlI7yaeao9444NL3nApaTthg=w1101-h620" width="1101" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Zhao, who had been subject to 20 years in prison, was also fined $5,500. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Mr. Zhao betrayed his solemn oath to defend his country and endangered those who serve in the U.S. military,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Today, he is being held to account for those crimes. The Justice Department is committed to combatting the Chinese government’s efforts to undermine our nation’s security and holding accountable those who violate our laws as part of those efforts.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Zhao betrayed his country and disgraced himself when he accepted bribes from an intelligence officer with the People’s Republic of China,” said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada for the Central District of California. “As a result, he has now been removed from the military and will serve time in federal prison. Today’s sentence shows that my office will swiftly act out to root out and punish those who seek to undermine our nation’s security.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Executive Assistant Director Larissa L. Knapp of the FBI’s National Security Branch said Zhao betrayed “the oath he took to our country” while putting “others at risk by providing sensitive U.S. information to a PRC [People’s Republic of China] intelligence official.” She said that China has failed to prevent US intelligence and law enforcement agencies “from apprehending and prosecuting the spies China recruits.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Zhao worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California, and held a US security clearance. He engaged in a scheme to “collect and transmit sensitive U.S. military information to the intelligence officer,” which was a “violation of his official duties,” the press release said. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the nine months between August 2021 and May 2023, Zhao received almost $15,000 over at least 14 payments from the intelligence officer. In exchange, Zhao was accused of collecting and transmitting sensitive, non-public information regarding US Navy operational security, military trainings and exercises, and critical infrastructure, the release continued. Zhao was accused of entering restricted military and naval installations to collect and record the information. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For example, Zhao provided plans for a “large-scale maritime training exercise in the Pacific theatre,” along with “operational orders and electronic diagrams and blueprints for a Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system” in Okinawa, Japan. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The release said Zhao “used sophisticated encrypted communication methods to transmit the information” and “destroyed evidence and concealed his relationship with the intelligence officer.” Zhao was accused of violating his official duties to safeguard such information and the oath he swore to protect the United States. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Mr. Zhao betrayed his oath to the United States and deserves to be held fully accountable for accepting bribes in exchange for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to an intelligence officer from the People’s Republic of China,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Angel Cruz of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Office of Special Projects. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“NCIS will continue to leverage its unique law enforcement and counterintelligence authorities to vigorously pursue those who attempt to compromise our national security information. We are grateful to the FBI and the Department of Justice for their substantial assistance to this lengthy investigation and greatly appreciate our continued partnership.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Department of Justice said the FBI Los Angeles Field Office’s Counterintelligence and Cyber Division and NCIS conducted the investigation, with assistance from IRS-Criminal Investigation, which also played an essential role in the case. </span></p></div><div class="py-3 text-center text-sm" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 1rem; padding-top: 1rem; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-76380676869039541592024-01-29T22:42:00.000-08:002024-01-29T22:42:10.479-08:00Woman deported over involvement in Chinese espionage<p><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: verdana; font-size: 2.125rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">Woman deported over </span><b style="background-color: #ffa400;">involvement in </b><b style="background-color: red;">Chinese espionage</b></span></p><figure class="l-article__featured " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><div class="c-figure__embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 832.006px;"><figcaption class="c-video__caption c-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-top: 16px;"><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> The long-awaited public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada's democratic processes is now underway in Ottawa, where allegations against China, are under scrutiny.</b></span></span></span></figcaption><figcaption class="c-video__caption c-caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-top: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jan 29 2024<br /></span><span class="c-caption__desc" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 0.875rem; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ML74HIMsXpQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="ML74HIMsXpQ"></iframe><span style="color: var(--theme-color-text-grey-500-200); font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; text-align: left;"> </span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 0.875rem; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KUwr3JRSZoI" width="320" youtube-src-id="KUwr3JRSZoI"></iframe></div><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">Canadian authorities have issued a deportation order against a Chinese woman on the grounds she was part of Beijing’s</span><span style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> </span><a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/foreign-interference" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">foreign interference</a><span style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;"> spy </span><span style="color: var(--theme-color-text-main); font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: 0.01563rem;">program.</span></span></figcaption></div></figure><div class="l-article__story l-main__story" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #231f20; letter-spacing: 0.51008px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px;"><article aria-label="Article text" class="l-article__text js-story-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 1.75rem; word-break: break-word;"><span style="height: 1px; transition-property: opacity; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net/70c8fc80" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 24px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 1px;" /></span></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/immigration-refugee-board/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Immigration and Refugee Board</a> ruled that <b>Jing Zhang</b> had worked for the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/overseas-chinese-affairs-office" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Overseas Chinese Affairs Office</a> (OCAO), which conducts espionage in Canada.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/24PfkxBMOmY" width="320" youtube-src-id="24PfkxBMOmY"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While immigration officials did not argue that Zhang committed espionage, the Refugee Board found that as an 11-year OCAO employee, she had contributed to its efforts <u>to pressure the Chinese diaspora.</u></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">According to the 32-page decision, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) uses the OCAO to silence dissent overseas.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The organization “was and remains involved in espionage against the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/peoples-republic-of-china/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">PRC</a>‘s targeted individuals and groups in Canada,” the IRB added.</span></p><blockquote class="c-blockquote l-article__blockquote" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #818080; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 24px; overflow: visible; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="c-infoBox__inner" style="background-color: var(--theme-color-background-infobox); border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid var(--theme-color-border-main); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 24px;"><p class="c-blockquote__content l-article__blockquoteContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-main); letter-spacing: 0.01563rem; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The OCAO conducting espionage, surveillance or covert monitoring of Chinese and ethnic Chinese dissidents or minorities in Canada is against Canada, and contrary to its security interests.”</span></p></div></div></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The decision to deport Zhang for security reasons was handed down on Aug. 28 but only recently released publicly.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Vancouver lawyer who represented Zhang could not be reached for comment.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Asked whether Zhang had been deported since the ruling was issued six months ago, the Canada Border Services Agency said it did not comment on cases.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="0" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10257004_65b88fbc11290" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10257004" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10257004/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10257004_65b88fbc11290" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; left: 319.995px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 179.992px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); width: 639.991px;"><img alt="Click to play video: 'Foreign interference inquiry begins with question of what information to make public'" class="c-video__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" data-srcset="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," height="360" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" src="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/kqzyshjcha-e5d1ij1jjf/ONLINE_STILL_FOREIGN_INTERFERENCE.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">0:43</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Foreign interference inquiry begins with question of what information to make public</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10247144/foreign-interference-inquiry-india-allegations/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">inquiry</a> was scheduled to begin in Ottawa on Monday into foreign interference in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections.</span></p><div class="c-textSignup" style="background-color: var(--theme-color-background-articleReadmore); border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; padding: 16px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Get the latest Okanagan news. <a class="c-textSignup__link" data-micromodal-trigger="newsletter-signup" data-trackable="true" data-trackaction="article | newsletter signup text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--theme-color-text-mainRed); cursor: pointer; outline: none;">Sent to your email, every day.</a></span></span></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The commission was sparked by allegations of widespread meddling by China, but also has a mandate to examine the actions of Russia and “other foreign states or non-state actors.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But elections are only part of a broader national security threat: the bullying of Canadians by overseas governments, particularly China.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Activists targeted by Beijing have faced <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9961032/foreign-interference-china-canada-rcmp-investigation-death-b-c-operation-fox-hunt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">harassment, intimidation</a> and extortion, and their extended families in China have been threatened.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The OCAO is one of several groups the Communist Party has tasked to eliminate “potential threats and rival discourses” that challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“The evidence establishes that a key role of the OCAO has been intelligence gathering on dissidents and ethnic minorities external to China,” the IRB wrote.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">During Zhang’s hearing, the CBSA argued the OCAO had infiltrated Chinese communities in Canada to suppress opponents, among them Taiwanese, ethnic Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners and Canadian citizens of Chinese descent.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="1" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_9602851_65b88fbc117fa" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="9602851" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/9602851/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_9602851_65b88fbc117fa" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><span class="c-video__placeholder" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; left: 319.995px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 179.992px; transform: translateX(-50%) translateY(-50%); width: 639.991px;"><img alt="Click to play video: 'Chinese Canadians targeted by Chinese Communist Party'" class="c-video__image" data-loaded="true" data-sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" data-src="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" data-srcset="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," height="360" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 1040px) 1040px,(min-width: 720px) 720px,450px" src="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all" srcset="https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=450#038;quality=70&strip=all 450w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=720#038;quality=70&strip=all 720w,https://i1.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/news/yoo09rwi4e-a2xkx4qqkg/230404-JEFF.jpg?w=1040#038;quality=70&strip=all 1040w," style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">3:32</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Chinese Canadians targeted by Chinese Communist Party</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The OCAO has “engaged in covert action and intelligence against them, manipulating them,” the immigration enforcement agency alleged.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Its aim is “managing the overseas Chinese community’s behaviour” through incentives, disincentives and surveillance, which amounts to espionage, according to the CBSA.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From 2008 to 2019, Zhang was employed by the OCAO in Yangzhou, first as director of public relations, and later as director of overseas liaison, the IRB said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She travelled abroad on business up to four times a year, and engaged with “target groups” both inside China and in the diaspora, the ruling said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Her target populations included students, prominent individuals, government personnel and groups, and business persons,” it added.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“Her activities and target populations demonstrate that she was fulfilling the objectives of the OCAO and its implementation of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>qiaouw</b></em>.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Qiaouw</b></em> is a Marxist-Leninist tactic that exploits person-to-person relationships to neutralize critics of the Communist Party, according to the IRB.</span></p><div class="l-article__part" data-shortcode="tp_video" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="c-video c-videoPlay " data-autoplay="" data-displayinline-featured="false" data-displayinline-listener-i-d="2" data-displayinline-player-id="miniplayer_10224774_65b88fbc12737" data-displayinline-ratio="16:9" data-displayinline-sticky="true" data-displayinline-type="video" data-displayinline-video-id="10224774" data-displayinline="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10224774/#autoplay&stickyiframe=miniplayer_10224774_65b88fbc12737" data-iframe-receiver="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; position: relative; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-video__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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display: block; height: 359.984px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.3s ease 0s; width: 639.991px;" width="640" /><span class="c-video__overlay" style="align-items: flex-end; background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847) 99.91%); bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; left: 0px; padding: 16px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 639.991px;"><div class="c-button c-video__icon c-videoPlay__icon c-button--mini" style="align-items: center; background-color: #ef2601; border-radius: 2px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: grid; gap: 8px; grid-auto-flow: column; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; outline: none; padding: 8px; pointer-events: none; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><svg class="c-icon c-button__icon" focusable="false"></svg></div><div class="c-video__data" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-left: 16px; min-width: 0px; padding: 4px 0px;"><time class="c-video__duration" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #aeacac; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">2:15</span></time><span class="c-video__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #f2f2f2; display: block; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Taiwan defies China, elects ‘troublemaker’ president</span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Zhang, who has a law degree, downplayed her role in the OCAO, blamed translation errors and argued Canada had given her multiple visas in the past without any problems.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She denied being a member of OCAO but the IRB ruled she was, and had knowingly participated in its activities and supported its goals.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The hearings were held virtually from Vancouver.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another former OCAO employee, <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/8537707/canadian-government-report-china-espionage-manipulation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Yong Zhang</a>, was deemed inadmissible to Canada in 2022 based on a similar finding.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In 2018, OCAO became part of China’s United Front Work Department, which federal officials allege has been operating in Canada.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Communist Party uses the UFWD to “to stifle criticism and manipulate Canadian communities,” <a href="https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/trnsprnc/brfng-mtrls/prlmntry-bndrs/20230629/31-en.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The RCMP has also been investigating so-called <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/9403212/wenzhou-friendship-charity-chinese-communist-party/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">police stations</a> that Chinese authorities allegedly set up in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal to conduct their operations.</span></p></article></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-67680834200378114002024-01-26T10:24:00.000-08:002024-01-26T11:54:36.037-08:00Brit piano player accidently exposes infamous ChiCom Spy on video while filming performance<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;">Brit piano player</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"> accidently exposes infamous ChiCom Spy</span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"> on video while</span><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">filming performance</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jan 26 2024</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7aeBj6DgRLc" width="320" youtube-src-id="7aeBj6DgRLc"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xeAruo1Ky-Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="xeAruo1Ky-Y"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YwFx9Xgjoq8" width="320" youtube-src-id="YwFx9Xgjoq8"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>https://chinawatchcanada.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-china-uses-spy-network-of-sex-cash.html<div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Christine Lee,</span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; color: #222526; font-family: verdana; font-size: 3.6rem;">How China uses spy network of ‘sex & cash </span><span style="background-color: #999999; color: #222526; font-family: verdana; font-size: 3.6rem;">to woo US & UK officials’ </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #222526; font-family: verdana; font-size: 3.6rem;">as ‘Communist agent’</span><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 3.6rem;"><span style="background-color: black;"> found at heart of Westminster</span></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><h1 class="article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Sept 11 2023</span></span></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><h1 class="article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><h1 class="article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 19.8px;"><h1 class="article__headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">The <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="1398" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/tag/united-states/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">United States</a> and the <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="1399" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/tag/united-kingdom/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">United Kingdom</a> are being infiltrated by Chinese spies who are using "sex and cash" to woo top officials, <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="1454" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Knewz.com</a> has learned.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">MI5 chiefs are sounding the alarm after a suspected Communist agent was found in the center of Westminster.<br /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-140706 lazyloaded" data-eio-rheight="628" data-eio-rwidth="1200" data-src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/Fang.jpg" decoding="async" height="628" src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/Fang.jpg" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153 153 153/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 4px;">Christine Fang is believed to have been a spy who had a sexual relationship with U.S. politician Eric Swalwell. </figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">The spies are believed to be using the tactics to steal secrets from Western countries.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">This week, an <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="2130" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/alaska-becomes-target-for-chinese-spying-tourists-suspected-of-gathering-intel-on-us-military-capabilities/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">alleged Chinese spy</a> was arrested while being accused of getting his hands on classified information. Officials believe the man received access to highly sensitive information in one of the biggest spy plots in Westminster.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">"This is a major escalation by China. We have never seen anything like this before," a Whitehall source told <em style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="2146" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-national-arrested-suspicion-china-spy-parliamentary-researcher-xrtbrw86m" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;" target="_blank">The Sunday Times</a></em>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><img alt="China President Xi Jinping" class="wp-image-74904 lazyloaded" data-eio-rheight="628" data-eio-rwidth="1200" data-src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13/Xi-Jinping.jpg" decoding="async" height="628" src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/13/Xi-Jinping.jpg" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153 153 153/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 4px;">China President Xi Jinping 's country has been accused of attempting to influence U.S. elections. </figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">Allegations of Chinese spies infiltrating the United Kingdom have been cited for some time now, and some say the recent findings might just be tip of the iceberg.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">The latest allegations add more speculation to <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="2697" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/joe-biden-chinese-balloons-remarks-first-time/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">Chinese maneuvers</a> after the country was found to have had secret police stations operating in Britian.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addressed Chinese premier Li Qiang that he has “significant concerns about Chinese interference in the UK’s parliamentary democracy” during a G20 summit.</p><div class="code-block code-block-5" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 8px 0px; padding-bottom: 1.125rem;"><div class="kargoad-Knewz_Desktop_InArticle_3" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: normal; height: auto;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-140707 lazyloaded" data-eio-rheight="628" data-eio-rwidth="1200" data-src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/lee.jpg" decoding="async" height="628" src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/lee.jpg" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /></span><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153 153 153/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 4px;">Christine Lee<span style="font-weight: 600;"> has been accused of trying to influence UK officials. </span></figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">UK Justice Secretary also warned that "China is an epoch-defining challenge" and that the country's government is taking claims of espionage "extremely seriously."</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">Allegations of Chinese spies in the United State and United Kingdom are nothing new. The U.S. previously sentenced Chinese spy Xu Yanjun to 20 years in prison for attempting to steal trade secrets within the country.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">Yanjun was convicted of trying to steal classified information from U.S. and French aviation and aerospace companies.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">The United States sounded the alarm that China was a spy threat, though Beijing called such allegations "pure fabrication."<br /><br /></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-140708 lazyloaded" data-eio-rheight="628" data-eio-rwidth="1200" data-src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/yanjun.jpg" decoding="async" height="628" src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/yanjun.jpg" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153 153 153/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 4px;">Xu Yanjun was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to steal U.S. trade secrets.</figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">Officials have also alleged that China has used a group of "honey trap" spies to lure U.S. and UK officials for sex. The network included beautiful women who joined LinkedIn and Facebook to connect with officials.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">It is believed the women would sleep with the officials and then <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="3614" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/microsoft-accuses-china-ai-election-interference/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">use their influence</a> over them to <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="3615" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/decision-to-shoot-down-balloon-addressed-by-kamala-harris/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">gain access to secret information</a> that would then be relayed back to China.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">According to <em style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;">The Sun</em>, the Chinese beauties would target not only top officials but also aides, staffers and interns.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">One former official, Ian Clement, formerly Boris Johnson's No. 2 when he was London Mayor, said he believes he was lured into sex with <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="3682" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/balloon-data-parts-spy-china-south-carolina/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">a Chinese spy</a> at one point. The alleged honey trap took place when he was in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-140709 lazyloaded" data-eio-rheight="628" data-eio-rwidth="1200" data-src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/lee2.jpg" decoding="async" height="628" src="https://knewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/11/lee2.jpg" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption" style="--tw-border-opacity: 1; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(153 153 153/var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-top: 4px;">Christine Lee was accused of trying to get information from former UK Labor Jeremy Corbyn. </figcaption></figure><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">American politician Eric Swalwell <a data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-54431953_33="4333" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-54431953_33="1" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-54431953_33="100" href="https://knewz.com/eric-swalwell-chinese-spy/" style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-text-opacity: 1; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; color: #221199; text-decoration-color: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: inherit;">was reported to have had a relationship</a> with suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang as well. Known as Fang Fang, the suspected Chinese spy is said to have had sex with two mayors and targeted other U.S. officials in order to gain influence and information.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 26px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then, in 2022, MI5 alerted Western leaders to </span>Christine Lee<span style="font-weight: normal;">, who was accused of trying to lure Labor MP Barry Gardiner and other top officials.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 26px;">The Chinese Embassy in London denied claims of espionage, saying, "We have no need and never seek to 'buy influence' in any foreign Parliament."</p><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></div></span></h1></div><br /><br /></div></div>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-27330115332221508722024-01-25T20:49:00.000-08:002024-01-25T20:49:36.008-08:00Public Brit celebrity pianist has YouTube channel taken down by the CCP<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: #999999;">Public Brit celebrity pianist</b><span style="background-color: #e06666;"> has YouTube channel</span><span style="background-color: #f1c232;"> taken down<b> by the CCP</b></span><br /></span><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oQL52kh9B6c" width="320" youtube-src-id="oQL52kh9B6c"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jan 25 2024</span>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2073984593594193476.post-64169585324694518082024-01-22T17:57:00.000-08:002024-01-22T23:24:29.380-08:00CCP demand piano player in a public place stop filming because they were in the background <p> </p><h1 class="font-semibold text-neutral-content-strong m-0 text-18 xs:text-24 mb-xs px-md xs:px-0 xs:mb-md" id="post-title-t3_19ch6vh" slot="title" style="color: var(--color-neutral-content-strong); line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">CCP demand piano player</span><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"> in a public</span></span></h1><h1 class="font-semibold text-neutral-content-strong m-0 text-18 xs:text-24 mb-xs px-md xs:px-0 xs:mb-md" id="post-title-t3_19ch6vh" slot="title" style="color: var(--color-neutral-content-strong); line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">place stop filming </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">because they </span></span></h1><h1 class="font-semibold text-neutral-content-strong m-0 text-18 xs:text-24 mb-xs px-md xs:px-0 xs:mb-md" id="post-title-t3_19ch6vh" slot="title" style="color: var(--color-neutral-content-strong); line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">were</span></span><span color="var(--color-neutral-content-strong)" style="background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: verdana;"> in the background</span></span></h1><h1 class="font-semibold text-neutral-content-strong m-0 text-18 xs:text-24 mb-xs px-md xs:px-0 xs:mb-md" id="post-title-t3_19ch6vh" slot="title" style="line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh was showing off his musical skills before a contingent of people waving Chinese flags demanded he stop filming.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> Mon, Jan 22, 2024<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/65iwnI2hjAA" width="320" youtube-src-id="65iwnI2hjAA"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dZ1BtQ6AEyM" width="320" youtube-src-id="dZ1BtQ6AEyM"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YAKTL0MEK34" width="320" youtube-src-id="YAKTL0MEK34"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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YouTuber Brendan Kavanagh posted a video on his DrKBoogieWoogie channel showing him tinkling the ivories at London's St Pancras International station as busy commuters ferried past.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16.7px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">But as the clip rolls a <a data-link-tracking="InArticle|Link" href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1858344/ww3-risks-prediction-global-conflicts" style="border: 0px; color: #ff000d; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transform: none;">number of people waving Chinese flags </a>can be seen in the background who eventually come over to the musician and tell him he is "not allowed" to film.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 16.7px; 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In a heated moment one of the group, who will not say if they are from China, shouts at Mr Kavanagh.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Officers from the Metropolitan Police can be seen discussing the incident with Mr Kavanagh but by the end of the video on his YouTube channel the musician has resumed playing the piano.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Speaking to Express.co.uk Mr Kavanagh said his video had encapsulated a clash of cultures for many people. Mr Kavanagh joked: “It’s almost created a diplomatic incident.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“It’s caught people’s imagination because I think it has so many contemporary and cultural issues that people are concerned about.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“If you watch the video they are constantly talking about ‘their rights’, and constantly telling me what I am not allowed to do.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I think a lot of people have got really angry with that. If the roles were reversed and I was over in China waving around Union Jacks and telling Chinese people what they couldn’t do, would that have been appropriate?”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-size: 16.7px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr Kavanagh added that group was trying to take his video of the incident down from social media.</span></p></div><div class="text-description" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16.7px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Reacting to how the Chinese flag carriers responded to Mr Kavanagh playing the piano, one person on the social media site X wrote: "If you go to a country, you respect that countries (sic) rules. If it's legal to film, it's legal to film."</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-size: 16.7px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another person asked: "How can someone be asked to stop filming in a public place? If you have any issues, just move away. Arrogant ladies."</span></p><p style="border: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; transform: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 16.7px; font-weight: 400;">Pointing out the physical situation, someone else noted: "They have the right to move their bodies with their own free will, piano is stationary."<br />................................................................................................................................................</span></span></span></p><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-weight: 400; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The ridiculously sensitive Communist Chinese are demanding that they are not to be filmed when they are away from China.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-weight: 400; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This happened yesterday in London UK in a public space. A fight almost broke out, then they had the nerve to call the local police to enforce their demands. One man, fixing to cause a fight, shouted at the top of his lungs at a piano player that he "touched" his friend then wanted to take a swing at the player after the player said he had a Communist flag , <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>claiming that was racist .....Total Madness!</span></div></div></h1>Conan Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934892885243271856noreply@blogger.com0