Pinky swear: “We are willing to sign no-spy agreements with governments, including the UK government, to commit ourselves to making our equipment meet the no-spy, no-backdoors standard,” Huawei chairman Liang Hua told reporters in London via an interpreter.

There. I said it.

Silent Invasion, Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking book about China’s covert influence on Australian society, has been both applauded as an overdue exposé and criticized as an exaggeration of the problem. But when he finished the book, he received some unwanted validation of its central thesis: three Australian publishers declined to publish it, citing fear of retribution from Beijing or its allies.
 
Hamilton, a professor of public ethics at Canberra’s Charles Sturt University and former executive director of progressive think-tank The Australia Institute, eventually found a willing publisher, and now is working on a sequel dealing with similar issues in North America. What he’s discovered so far makes him very concerned for Canada. He spoke with the National Post during a visit to Toronto.

AP;

As a nasty diplomatic feud deepens between the two countries over the tech company, involving arrests and execution orders, it hasn’t gone unnoticed that Huawei’s bright red fan-shaped logo is plastered prominently on the set of “Hockey Night in Canada.” TV hosts regularly remind the 1.8 million weekly viewers that program segments are “presented by Huawei smartphones.”

Financial Post;

If the Canadian housing market crumbles, Costa said, the banks will be the ones “holding the bag.”
 
“We think the housing sector is the poster child for all the problems and imbalances we see in Canada today,” Costa said. “It’s pretty clear to us that the financial sector … when the economic cycle turns, are the ones that take the most hits.”
 
Costa would not speak about individual names Crescat is shorting, offering only that the firm has positions in “all the big liquid ones.”
 
Costa is also concerned that, according to his figures, 80 per cent of Canada’s non-financial stocks are not cash flow positive. Those numbers are in stark contrast to the economy reaching full employment.

h/t Buddy

Continued… John McCallum has resigned as ambassador to China at the request of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. […] the move comes after the former ambassador was quoted in StarMetro Vancouver on Friday as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States drops an extradition request against a Huawei executive detained in Canada.

“McCallum’s remarks, made exclusively to Chinese-language reporters …”

Chinese ambassador accuses Canada of ‘white supremacy’ in Huawei case

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Halls of Macadamia;

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but the Feds dropped charges against these folks… because they feel they’re capable of murdering Crown witnesses? Just spitballin’ here, but that seems like a terrible precedent.

Thirteen Canadians have been detained in China since the high-profile arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on Dec. 1, according to a Canadian government official.
 
A Global Affairs Canada spokesperson, Guillaume Bérubé, confirmed the detentions in a statement to The Globe and Mail. Until Thursday, only three Canadians – Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor and Sarah McIver – were publicly known to have been detained in China since Canada’s arrest of Ms. Meng, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s chief financial officer. They were picked up after China promised retaliation for Ms. Meng’s arrest.
 
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of 13 Canadian citizens having been detained in China, excluding Hong Kong, since December 1, 2018. Of those, we can confirm that at least eight have been released,” Mr. Bérubé said in an e-mail.

But don’t you worry, assures the Globe and Mail. It’s all completely normal.

According to a government official who was not authorized to speak publicly, a total of about 200 Canadians have been detained in China for a variety of alleged infractions and continue to face ongoing legal proceedings, and many of them are out on bail or serving probation. The source said the number of detained Canadians has remained relatively stable, without a marked increase or decrease in recent years.
 
For comparison, the source said almost 900 Canadians are detained in the United States.

For “comparison”, mind you.

This is what you are facing when you deal with any Chinese Corporation,
 
“All organizations and citizens must support, assist with, and collaborate in national intelligence work, and guard the national intelligence work secrets they are privy to.” (Article 7 of China’s National Intelligence Law)

h/t rd