Interesting: This is one of the biggest geopolitical mysteries of the year: why did China just save the world economy?
Who Exactly Does Mark Carney Work For?
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
50 years after his death, the father of Communist China still inspires” was recently published by the French-language arm of the CBC.
It documents Chinese Mao fanatics who gathered in Shaoshan (Mao’s hometown) to publicly revere and remember the architect of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, which combined claimed the lives of between 40 and 80 million people.
Given the adoration of the people who are the focus of the coverage, the story strikes an undeniably nostalgic, positive tone — which has left many upset — and Conservative MPs were quick to pick up on the story, condemning the state broadcaster for such flagrant pro-Mao/pro-China propaganda.
They know which side their bread is buttered on.
It’s Probably Nothing
Sensitive F-35 fighter jet technology was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong this summer, sparking an inquiry on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key components of the highly classified weapon system.
A shipment of F-35 parts bound for the United States for repairs was rerouted as it transited the Pacific Ocean from Australia, according to three people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. The Pentagon confirmed the disappearance of some components.
The parts, which an intermediary was transporting on behalf of F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin, instead wound up in Hong Kong. It’s not clear why the equipment was rerouted or who has possession of it now.
The incident, which has not been previously reported, triggered an ongoing series of briefings for congressional staff on key national security committees. State Department and Pentagon officials first briefed staff in June, according to the people, and multiple additional briefings are expected in the coming weeks.
The shipment included one of the jet’s canopies, which covers the cockpit and contains stealth technology that only the U.S. and its allies have access to, according to two of the people. An adversary could study the parts and potentially reverse-engineer the prized technology if it had one of the canopies.
Somebody out there has a life sentence in their future.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
Art Of Coincidence: The only one of the first three filings in Canada’s new foreign-influence registry involving a Chinese principal has disappeared from public view, with officials blaming an unresolved technical failure that has prevented the record from being restored.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
A former senior Canadian defence official suing the federal government over a dismissal her lawyer links to Mark Carney’s pivot toward China is pointing to the government’s newly disclosed military engagement with Beijing — and to what she calls growing public recognition that Canada’s partnership with China has impeded trade talks with Washington.
Raquel Garbers was the principal architect of the small team that drafted Canada’s 2024 defence policy, Our North, Strong and Free. On Oct. 15, 2025, she published an opinion piece warning that Ottawa’s increasingly anti-American rhetoric was dividing the Western alliance and benefiting Beijing and Moscow.
Those hostile states — principally China — had been waging a covert war against Canada and the United States for about a decade, Garbers wrote. Two days later, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand was in Beijing describing China as a strategic partner. Four weeks after that, Garbers was told her position was being eliminated.
Reward your friends: A Year Later, No One Has Been Charged With Running the Superlab
Let’s Check In On Our New Strategic Partners
US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro just stunned the nation, announcing a massive fraud-scam center bust run by Chinese and southeast Asian criminal enterprises EXTRACTING American dollars on a major scale.The earnings are around $12 BILLION PER YEAR from “unwitting victims” in America 🤯
“The people doing the looting are creating FACTORIES to facilitate their con…primary in Southeast Asia. THEY KNOW we’re coming for them. They’re staffed with human trafficked labor.”
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
New World Order: How our new strategic partner – China – behaves, ladies and gentlemen. So happy to hear we’re reopening defense collaboration with them.
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Settle yourselves, peasants. You’re on a need-to-know basis.
Canada’s military reopened a formal channel to China’s People’s Liberation Army last Friday for the first time in eight years, and Canadians have learned of it only from Beijing.
China’s defence ministry says Canada and China revived their formal Defence Coordination Dialogue on September 4.
Canadians have learned of the meeting not from their own government, but from a terse statement issued by Beijing.
Update, from @RealAndyLeeShow;
Do read this piece from Global Times on our latest defence meeting with China. “Realizing the reunification of the motherland at an early date is the true way out for Taiwan.” Is that our official position?
Strategic Partnership
This is the time at SDA when those things that never made sense, start making sense.
Who benefits most from a destabilized, quasi-communist basket case on America's northern border?
China. https://t.co/Z6g2c6zEps
— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 3, 2026
More on this: Why Would Carney Be Selling Out Canada to the Chi-Coms? (h/t roaddog)
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
Carney announced Monday that Dominic Barton, the former Canadian ambassador to China and a well-known name in corporate Canada, will chair the board of directors for Invest in Canada.
Much of Barton’s career was spent at McKinsey and Co., a global consultancy firm. Barton is also the chair of mining giant Rio Tinto and LeapFrog Investments.
@scoopercooper – Hopefully the Conservatives that probed Barton’s links to PRC state owned enterprises consider the implications on this appointment. Doesn’t dispel the notion I’ve been following on where the influence lies in Carneyland. Barton’s colleague over in UK is already investigated in PRC influence allegations.
"It was under his watch at McKinsey that so many of the problems… festered." — @PekingMike (@nytimes) on former Canadian ambassador to China, Dominic Barton. At 8/11pm with @ae_clarke (@CarletonSPPA), @jaimanchin (@StrategyCorp) & @spaikin | Producer: @harrisonlowman #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XFmRLrO9cK
— The Rundown (@therundowntvo) December 1, 2022
“Their sudden downfall left the country’s top military command with only two members”
The PLA is in deep disarray.
Xi has purged virtually all senior generals, particularly from the rocket forces. A report by US intelligence indicated that corruption was so bad that some missiles were filled with water instead of rocket fuel
https://t.co/W9vFvSHRcH— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) August 28, 2026
The link to Reuters is paywalled, but South China News has more.
“I want half a million dollars.”
“Ms. Christine Li (National Executive, Chinese Canadian National Council): I’m Christine Li, and I will be presenting on behalf of the Chinese Canadian National Council.”
@scoopercooper: Public records on Apollo Chung (also known as Paul Chung) contain no detailed information about his childhood, family background, schooling, or early adulthood. Available reporting and official listings begin with his work as a political staffer in the early 2020s.
More on the mess.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
What he meant to say is that his top donors at the Canada China Business Council already own him https://t.co/DXE4prMEPM pic.twitter.com/wslGvJKeCX
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) August 23, 2026
Fang Bang
If I ever wrote a spy novel about a Chinese agent who sleeps her way into California’s top political circles, I’d totally name her ‘Fang Fang’.
The Swalwell affair just got awkwarder.
The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.
The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.
They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.
Unlike unpredicated “assessments,” a predicated investigation allows agents to use advanced and intrusive methods like electronic surveillance or informants.
The files provide significant new details about the long-rumored relationship between Fang and Swalwell […]
The FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships at his offices in exchange for campaign contributions. The FBI identified Fang “Christine” Fang, a Chinese national, as the alleged facilitator of this exchange and alleged she employed conduits to route illegal donations.
Update: Sam Cooper has a summary up
Strange Happenings in London, Ontario
From Sam Cooper:
Four former Western University students at the center of a sprawling firearms and explosives investigation now face 19 new charges alleging possession of TNT and three other explosive substances, prohibited magazines and silencers, while one of the accused allegedly accessed data that could be used with computerized systems to make and traffic guns.
The allegations are contained in an amended list of charges filed Tuesday, August 11, with the Ontario Court of Justice and reported by CBC News and the London Free Press, adding charges to an already unusual case that began with an overnight break-in call inside Western University’s engineering complex in January.
The four accused—Jerry Tong, 27; Zekun “Alex” Wang, 26; Fei “Frank” Han, 25; and Feiyang “Astrid” Ji, 21—now face 31 separate counts, some jointly and others individually.
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It’s Probably Nothing
Strange happenings in Paraguay:
Harry Chun Tak Yeh, a Hong Kong-born Canadian who became an early Bitcoin investor and later founded Quantum Fintech Group, was found dead at about 4:30 a.m. on August 7, his body at the foot of the tower, naked and covered by a black plastic bag, according to Paraguayan reporting citing police interviews.
What investigators found upstairs was equally suggestive.
Police and forensic investigators entered a 30th-floor space used by Yeh and found doors open and the interior in considerable disorder. Police Director Francisco Ávalos reported that objects were strewn across the floor and some electrical cables appeared to have been ripped out. The head of the homicide unit, Abel Cantero, said evidence gathered from both units was turned over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Massive scandal brewing here… Liberal MP Shaun Chen is resigning because he’s unable to travel from Scarborough to Ottawa to represent his constituents. Yet, he visited China twice this year and was rubbing elbows with CCP propagandists…but wait, there’s more. Allegedly, he was voting in the HoC from China.
I want to be hopeful this gets the attention and scrutiny this deserves but judging by the Liberals’ track record for thwarting accountability and legacy media bias, I doubt this will go beyond the online world.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Liberal MP called home for health reasons.
Lilley with Sam Cooper: The CCP Wants a Say in Who Leads Canadian Parties