Do any other companies use this tactic? Why do we accept it?
“Use our services or products or expect severe repercussions”?
“Buy a BigMac or we’ll beat your kids” – McDonald’s
“Buy a TV or we’ll burn your house down” – SamsungIf Canada accepts this we are weak.
— Chris Minister of Smartarsery (@Lumberist) December 15, 2019
No, if Canada accepts this it’s because of the Chinese money flowing to members of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Owned directly by the Chinese government. https://t.co/4B2DFkcJzW
— Terry Glavin (@TerryGlavin) December 4, 2019
Not only is China failing to keep the revolt in Hong Kong out of the consciousness of the Chinese people, but protests now are taking inspiration from the Hong Kongers. And in the worst possible place: in Guangdong province, which is gargantuan and shares a common language with Hong Kong.
“China has the genomic sequence of every single person that’s been gene typed in the U.S., and they’re developing bioweapons that only affect Caucasians.”
You can fly to China for a scheduled heart transplant. Click here The Present Danger: America, China, and the Second Cold War (Podcast). I advise you first take a stiff drink.
In the 1990s, I represented a number of international fishing and timber and mining companies that did business with Russia. This was not so long after the fall of the Soviet Union and there were a bunch of large Russian companies — many of them formerly state-owned — looking to do deals with my clients, mostly American and Western European companies. My clients would set up long term deals with these Russian companies which nearly always went bad quickly because the Russian company would grab whatever money there was and walk away.
This would leave my clients dumbfounded at how the Russian company would so “irrationally” sacrifice so much money in the long term to grab a relatively small amount of money in the short term. I would find myself explaining the following to them:
You have to understand that for most Russian companies there is no long term. They are used to the Soviet Union where the rules and the laws constantly and unpredictably changed to their detriment. They do not believe they will be able to operate freely five years or even one year from now. So though you see them as having irrationally sacrificed massive long term gains for much smaller short term rewards, they see themselves as having quite rationally grabbed what they could while it was still there.
I am writing about this now because China today is feeling a lot like Russia in the 1990s. I am getting the sense that many Chinese companies are pessimistic about their futures and they are acting accordingly. Our China lawyers are seeing evidence of this everywhere.
Might Marc be on the mark?
US NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT – Generic Drugs tainted with poison and/or toxic levels of carcinogens are all coming from china. 90% of drugs Americans take are generic drugs 1/
— Kyle Bass (@Jkylebass) September 21, 2019
The FBI has arrested a Chinese government official as part of China’s massive scheme to illegally obtain American technology by recruiting experts in high-tech fields.
Zhongsan Liu was arrested after a lengthy investigation into his role in directing a Chinese government front group in New Jersey called the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP), the Justice Department said in a statement.
In related arrest: Canadian Exec Admits Sharing U.S. Navy Data with China
#Breaking Global News has learned that the Director General of an intelligence unit at RCMP HQ has been arrested and charged under the secrets act involving espionage by foreign powers. Sources tell Global News this was an extensive national security investigation #cdnnatsec
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) September 13, 2019
Just a hunch. Read the whole thread.
h/t PB
Not much, it seems.
Link fixed!
Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China
Last month, an acclaimed NML scientist — Xiangguo Qiu — was reportedly escorted out of the lab along with her husband, another biologist, and members of her research team. The agency said it was investigating an “administrative issue,” and had referred a possible policy breach to the RCMP. Little more has been said about the affair.
Reassuring.
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
Huawei Confirms $30 Billion Revenue Hit As Smartphone Sales Drop 40-60%.
Someone else gets it: “Much More Than a Trade War with China”
Amazing how many ‘experts’ think this is only a trade war or trade dispute with China. They then ramble on about this and that, uttering inane analysis, “This will only raise prices for Americans.” As if anyone needs a PhD in economics for this, and as if the policy makers are too blind to see the deer in the road.
This.
Is.
Not.
A.
Trade.
War.
The trade battles are subcomponents of a much larger campaign. We are overthrowing the Chinese government. They’ve waged wars on us for decades.
China warned Canada on Friday that it needs to be aware of the consequences of aiding the U.S. in a case involving the Chinese tech giant Huawei that is believed to have sparked the detentions of two Canadians in China.
Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang’s comments Friday came after U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for the release of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. […]
“We hope that the Canadian side can have a clear understanding of the consequences of endangering itself for the gains of the U.S. and take immediate actions to correct its mistakes so as to spare itself the suffering from growing damage,”
The accusations of Huawei stealing trade secrets from across the world are hitting a fever pitch, thanks to a new Wall Street Journal expose that blows open accusations of theft and stealing of trade secrets. The article includes insights from lawsuits, Huawei’s competitors and former employees. Allegations run the gamut against the company: from its business practices, to the science behind its 5G, all the way down to copying the text it used in its user manuals. […]
The United States is finally following in the footsteps of places like Australia and putting pressure on the company out of concern for national security. Just last week, the Trump administration unveiled measures to help cut Huawei off from American suppliers and stop it from doing business in the United States. The administration believes that the company takes its orders directly from Beijing and that its standing as the top telecom company in the world makes it a powerful tool for China’s authoritarian government.
Huawei writes the whole thing off as one big misunderstanding and says that it complies with laws in global markets: “We respect the integrity of intellectual property rights—for our own business, as well as peer, partner and competitor companies,” the company said.
The ChiComs are not our friends.
The security establishment gets it.
The ANZAC’s get it.
President Trump gets it.
Now Google and ARM are responding.
Waiting on Sasktel to remove Huawei devices from it’s fusion Internet service for rural customers and their Huawei mobile phones.