A researcher with ties to China was recently escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg amidst an RCMP investigation into what’s being described as a possible “policy breach.”
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and an unknown number of her students from China were removed from Canada’s only level-4 lab on July 5, CBC News has learned. The students didn’t speak much English and kept to themselves in a group.
A Level 4 virology facility is a lab equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases. That makes the Arlington Street lab one of only a handful in North America capable of handling pathogens requiring the highest level of containment, such as Ebola.
Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was revoked, according to sources who work at the lab and do not want to be identified because they fear consequences for speaking out.
Sources say this comes several months after IT specialists for the NML entered Qiu’s office after-hours and replaced her computer. Her regular trips to China also started being denied.
h/t A Canadian
None of this surprises me.
As a student, I saw how the university system went from educating Canadians to becoming a finishing school for well-heeled Chinese. Some of them stay on and are hired for faculty positions and, therefore, become part of the system themselves.
I’ve long suspected that many of those students don’t come for just an education. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of them are sleeper agents, coming over for the purpose of infiltrating the system and engaging in espionage.
Consider this: how come Chinese students aren’t flocking to the “studies” departments?
What the Universities saw in Chinese students was MONEY….and LOTS N LOTS of it….Each and every department drooling to the point of excluding Canadian Students as they could easily charge 3-4 times the rate to the Chinese.
$$$$. Its ALWAYS about the money….
And without a doubt the Two great threats the Wwst faces are increasingly belligerant Islamic populations and CHINA. Both quite eligible (in my mind), for some not insignificant radiation therapy.
The main university in my city is a few km away from where I live. The apartment complex I live in has long been popular with students, which was one reason I chose that place while I was working on my first master’s degree.
Nowadays, it seems that the place is becoming a Chinese student resident as that appears to be the only sort of tenant moving in now. Again, it’s all about the loonies.
There, just like at the uni, Canadians are made to feel that the Chinese own the place and that we’re intruders.
Nonsense. Chinese are smarter, harder working, and far better at the sciences than the round-eyed Canadian natives, who are all swilling Labatts. You wouldn’t even HAVE a level-4 laboratory …if it weren’t for the Chinese. That’s the narrative … and I’m gonna stick with it. /sarc.
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Okay, now, everybody settle down. I’m pretty sure the
weaponised bio-agents “will balance themselves.”
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What’s taking so long? This was blatantly obvious, decades ago. Well, Kanadjians are Stupid.
As per comments 1:49, 2:56 am:
Let’s hope there is no retaliation for the expulsion.
The conflict with China has arrived; they chose it. They have chosen to wage war on the west, and the only choice is to submit or resist. The Chinese threat can not be wished away.
It is time for all western nations to keep Chinese nationals out of strategically sensitive scientific research facilities.
“It is time for all western nations to keep Chinese nationals out of strategically sensitive scientific research facilities”
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It won’t help, we have far too many Canadian round eyes who will sell us out to the Chinese.
Ex-prime minister, and known scumbag Jean Chretien is a fine example of a white, round eye that has sold the entire country out to the Chinese
Canada hands out citizenship like candy at a parade. Many ARE now Canadian nationals. Go visit Burnaby or Richmond and play spot the round-eye. Good luck.
Long past time. Maybe too late.
“Dr. Xiangguo Qiu accepting a Governor General’s Innovation Award at Rideau Hall in 2018.”
It tells you that our political leaders are babes in the woods when it comes to international espionage.
China could have “espionage agents” sitting in every Chinatown, urban suburb, to any town, village and dirtbag highway service station across Canada.
Canada has put itself in the position that China can flip a switch and shut Canada off anytime they want.
“Canada has put itself in the position that China can flip a switch and shut Canada off anytime they want.”
True. But it could work the other way too. We are just too craven to think of that option.
“But it could work the other way too.”
hmm, please elaborate……….
Despite what our bought-and-paid-for press would have us believe, China has the upper hand not because of our trade deficit, not because of our agricultural exports, and certainly not because of our dependence on PRC products in Canadian Tire – but rather, for the simple reason that the chi-comms have compromi$ed turdo and his decrepit power brokers to such an extent that effective counter-action isn’t an option.
But the reality is that Ci-comm mega billions are gobbling up Canadian real estate, farms, and commerce, and an uncompromised Canadian Government with fortitude (okay, stop laughing now) would not be without artillery.
“the chi-comms have compromi$ed turdo and his decrepit power brokers to such an extent that effective counter-action isn’t an option.”
Operation Sidewinder:
https://canadafreepress.com/2005/cover012605.htm
It started on Uncle Jean’s watch. Good ol Screwface. They knew back in the ’90s, and did nothing.
China could have “espionage agents” sitting in every Chinatown, urban suburb, to any town, village and dirtbag highway service station across Canada.
I suspect that many university students would be doing that, too. Many industrial firms have farmed out their R & D to academe, making their trade secrets easily accessible to anyone thinking of filching them.
If it was straight espionage, those students could be booted out of the country. That’s where anchor babies become a valuable tactic. A chicomm student could be stealing secrets and shipping them back to Beijing while, at the same time, arranging to give birth in this country. The kid would then be, legally, a citizen and it would be difficult to deport the mother. If nothing else, the media would have a field day with it.
I know of a certain chicomm student who tried that stunt. She was well-placed in a certain research group, particularly since she was academically brilliant. She first shacked up with one of her fellow countrymen and then married him, giving birth to their daughter soon after that.
Eventually, she got a tenured position at a certain other university and is engaged in research on a subject that Beijing would likely be interested in.
We’re not only educating our future overlords, we’re giving them the means by which they can not only rule us but rob us blind in the process.
Oddly enough, when I was a grad student at UBC nearly 40 years ago, we had two visiting scholars from China. One of my colleagues, who was right-wing, expressed his misgivings about their presence, expressing concern that this would leave us open to industrial espionage.
Of course, his ideas where ignored and his predictions came true.
Many products on grocery shelves say product of Canada, but they get away with it because the food source is shipped to China from Canada for processing. A good example is 90% of canned apple juice which uses Canadian apples but is canned in China.
Western civilization has for the last 40 or 50 years been operating under the assumption that all other cultures are as benign and tolerant as our own.
Ooops.
I don’t know about “western civilization” per say, but do wonder what Justin Trudeau and ilk admire so much about the Death Vans, and the genocidal persecution of the Falun Gong, among others.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/execution-vans-organ-harvesting-business-as-usual-in-china/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-china-rights/china-is-harvesting-organs-from-falun-gong-members-finds-expert-panel-idUSKCN1TI236
Search “Canada-China Business Council,” “Power Corporation,” “Demarais family,” or any combination thereof and regale yourself on tails of how deeply wedded the wealthy, Liberal-friendly, business interests of this country are to China. Trudeau has been told to do nothing to risk these relationships, to the detriment of our country.
The idea that Qiu found a cure for Ebola is laughable. Her white male “colleague” assuredly did all the actual work. Qiu’s contributions most likely included:
1. Writing up the results in a Chinese parody of English that had to be substantially rewritten by her colleague to be even readable, never mind publishable.
2. Having an affair with him to keep his yap shut, and so she could cry harassment if he lost his nerve. (Her “husband” is another spy handpicked by Beijing. There is no real affection there.)
3. Forwarding results to the Chinese embassy, so her comrades could get on with developing a weaponizable strain of Ebola for use in future biological warfare against the west, against which the treatment is ineffective—and to which Mongoloids (including Han Chinese) are immune but will kill a Caucasoid or Negroid in days of not hours.
Chinamen only do their own research when Chinamen have no other options. Generally, that is in areas of genetics that few western researchers will touch on obvious ethical grounds, such as genetically modifying babies and plagues. Chinamen are not known for being frequently troubled by ethical concerns.
To be fair Ralphie is pretty busy chasing Nazis to be worried about the Chinese.
Please do not disturb the Keystone Kop at work….
And I’m sure CSIS employs an large number of Chinese immigrants. And likely large numbers of Russians, Arabs, and all our potential enemies,
We had a herd of Chinese scientists in a lab I worked in about 20 years ago. They not only wanted protocols of analysis we performed but also anything we were working on that was not published. The only thing that upset the sensitive was that one had porn as a screensaver that was visible from the hallway.
I also remember when people were concerned that samples sent to Winnipeg may be stolen. The guy in charge was very reassuring as he divulged which courier was used. I felt safer.
Back about 20 years ago, I worked for a large Canadian darling tech giant. We had a Chinese woman working in our group who was very respectful, nice and hard working, but… One day I got fed up when I noticed that every time I tried to print something (back when printing was a thing), my print job was buried in a queue behind 30 other people and our gigantic printer was out of paper again. After this happened for the 5th time, I wrote a program to track the userid, pages printed, and filename of everything that was printed on our floor. I let it run for a week and noticed that our sweet little Chinese girl was printing 1000s up on 1000s of pages of our code base. I thought, ok, she must be printing out the code to learn it. But this made no sense to me since it’s such an absurd thing to do. The code base for our subsystem was at least a million lines of code. The only way to peruse our own code base was using an editor that allowed for indexed searching and hyperlinks to things like variable and class definitions and usage. It would be nearly impossible to learn the code on paper. I also noticed she was not only printing out the code for our subsystem, but all of the other subsystems. Millions of lines of code.. more than any human could read on paper.
I speculated at the time that she was probably dropping off thick envelopes of printed code to her Embassy for social credit… I used to openly joke that YL had printed out another 1000 pages of code, her family was safe for another month. I did bring it up with my boss, but I have no idea what if anything was done about it. She was for sure doing corporate espionage. Company went bankrupt shortly after that.
The Chinese way of doing business. They are notorious for signing up letters of intent to buy assets or companies without any intention of closing, doing lots of due diligence to learn as much information as they can, and then walking away from the deal. I would highly recommend that if you ever find yourself in a situation where a Chinese bidder is involved, you either walk away or get a massive non-refundable deposit.
They also have people in law firms and other consultants (often ones that specialize in IT/IP) throughout Canada as well doing god knows what. Lots of businesses and governments are very naïve/willfully blind about this stuff.
When I read the post my first thought was “No way! Trudeau has taken a page out of Trump’s book and is actually fighting back?” Does he have the balls to arrest/detain Chinese spies and gain a pawn in the showdown with China? Did somebody within his cloistered circle actually have the brains to strategically show China we can play hardball? I don’t believe it.
The modified ebola plague that selectively kills round eyes,will issue forth from a Canadian Lab.
Cause “Genocide”.