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
Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and incompetence has a long tail…
Royal Navy spy drones used by Britain’s elite special forces secretly sent data to China, The Telegraph can reveal.
The cameras on the K3 Scout surveillance drones had components made in China which were secretly transmitting information to a device in the country.
The Royal Marines have been using the £12m fleet since March and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was forced to remove all internet connectivity from the cameras after discovering the breach.
The revelation raises fears that Beijing has been attempting to spy on Britain’s military after years of security warnings about the threat from the country.
The drones were supplied by a major British defence contractor, Kraken Technology Group, which sourced the cameras from a third party who had given assurances about their security.[…]
A defence source familiar with the matter told The Telegraph that the K3 drones made up part of a future defence package offered by the UK to secure the freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
The source said that preparations for Britain’s plans in the Gulf had been conducted on the drones, adding: “This is major failure to check origins of components and we have lost confidence in the platform.”
There are also concerns that the surveillance drones have been near highly sensitive meetings between senior special forces staff, and that cameras remained active even when the drones were switched off.
Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa
On July 14, 2014, a Facebook account belonging to Biwei Zhang, the woman now accused of spying inside NATO’s military command and of membership in a criminal organization, published a photograph of Justin Trudeau speaking from a stage at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, in a ballroom holding several hundred guests seated at banquet tables, phones raised toward the podium.
Five years later, applying for a job in the federal public service, Zhang — by then a university student in Toronto, having come to Canada from China — wrote that she had volunteered on an election campaign for the Liberal Party of Canada. She did not say which one.
Zhang has been held in Belgium since late July, after an investigating judge placed a Canadian national under arrest on charges of espionage and participation in a criminal organization. Belgian investigators have not said which country she is accused of spying for, but Reuters named China, citing government sources. The allegations have not been tested in court, and she is appealing her continued detention.
She has been identified through online profiles by numerous outlets, and a federal source told the Canadian Press this week that officials in Canada are proceeding on the basis that the suspect is Zhang.
The case has raised substantial questions about how she was screened under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government. Court records, as The Bureau first reported, show Zhang was found to have committed fraud in an application to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), a finding upheld by the Federal Court eleven months before she took up her post at allied command — one of several markers visible in the public record and in her own online profile.
Jody Thomas, the former national security adviser to Justin Trudeau, told CTV News that Zhang’s case raises a lot of questions and that what was known at the time of her vetting has to be explored.
She said the government will have to do comprehensive “reverse engineering” to understand who Zhang truly is, pointing back to her first Canadian government job, in 2017.
But the July 2014 photographs analyzed by The Bureau pull that timeline back three years further, placing Zhang in proximity to the future Liberal prime minister Thomas would eventually serve — and to the Toronto fundraising networks Trudeau would later have to answer for, after accounts of sensitive CSIS investigations were leaked to The Globe and Mail and to this writer.
The Sanya Initiative
Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front’s Backchannel;
For more than a decade, former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, combatant commanders, Cabinet officials and members of Congress participated in a military dialogue organized with a Chinese group identified by congressional investigators as a front engaged in “intelligence collection” and “propaganda and perception management.” Some ended up on China’s payroll shortly after.
The Chinese Communist Party did not need to penetrate the Pentagon to gain access to America’s military leadership.
It built a private network around it. […]
The American participants included:
Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern CommandThe program was called the Sanya Initiative.
Its glossy brochures framed it as a peaceful exchange between retired American and Chinese generals. Photographs showed senior officers chatting in Hawaiian shirts, touring military institutions and sitting across from Chinese commanders in ornate meeting rooms.
But the initiative was not organized with an ordinary veterans’ association.
It was funded by the China-United States Exchange Foundation, or CUSEF, and conducted with the China Association for International Friendly Contact, or CAIFC.
Congressional investigators have described CAIFC as “a front organization” for the People’s Liberation Army’s former General Political Department.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission found that the group performed the dual roles of “intelligence collection” and “conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns.”
Emphasis mine. You can also read it on the X thread.
The Part I Like Best
About pot legalization is the way it diverted Canadian dealers from the dangerous criminal underground to open government regulated dispensaries.
Legally grown cannabis is flooding into Europe from Canada, enriching criminal gangs and helping turn Belgium into a “narco state”.
Farms legalised under Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, are supplying smugglers with high-strength marijuana to be shipped into some of the Continent’s major ports, a Telegraph investigation has found.
Record quantities of cannabis are flooding into the port of Antwerp in Belgium, with customs seizing 32 tons of cannabis in the last year alone – a 500 per cent increase from 2024.
The gangs smuggle the cannabis into Europe’s ports in 6m-long shipping containers sent from the docks of Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax and St John.
The smuggling operation is being driven by Chinese state-linked mafia networks which have proliferated in Canada’s countryside since Mr Trudeau legalised the drug eight years ago.
Demographics Is Destiny
In one-child China, she thrived. The unravelling came later.
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The question is clearly racist: Are Taxpayers Being Asked to Launder Canada’s ‘Vancouver Model’ Housing Bubble?
Margin Of Fraud
Address to the Nation, in progress: Trump is calling out China, hard. Documents have been released here.
Summary @WallStreetApeas;
– China acquired 220 million United States voter files including names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences and other data during the 2020 election
– 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in federal elections, the number is expected to be much higher because some blue states wouldn’t hand over their data
– Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation found evidence of fraud, including people signing forms in others’ names, submitting fraudulent registrations and receiving incentives
– CIA report confirms a Venezuelan plot to digitally rig elections in 2020 by altering vote totals undetectably
– Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and non-state actors have the capability to compromise election infrastructure
– US spy agencies discovered the China voter files leak compromise affecting 18 states but information was suppressed
– There are identified security flaws in electronic voting machines, ballot-counting systems, voter registration databases, poll books and election websites
Running For The Exit
I seriously doubt that China’s move to a gig economy has anything to do with too much saving and too little spending. It’s more of a response to the growing burden of mandated employee benefits, just like it is here.
His story is increasingly common in China, where tens of millions are shifting from formal employment into the gig economy as meagre unemployment insurance, record numbers of graduates and a shortage of jobs squeeze opportunities.
“The urgent priority is to make it easier for flexible workers to be included in the employee social security system,” said Nomura’s chief China economist Ting Lu, who estimates only tens of millions are fully enrolled.
“We need to reduce anxiety,” he said, “so that they save less and consume more.”
“German politicians have taken the 80-20 rule and confidently applied it backwards”
Patrick Boyle: The Real Reason European Cars Can’t Compete
Bananada
Foreign agents operating in Canada will not be compelled to disclose how much they’re paid under regulations finalized yesterday. Disclosing cash transactions was too “sensitive,” said Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, though such disclosure is mandatory in the United States: ‘We do not intend to publish specific dollar amounts.’
The Libranos: King Condo
BC Housing records for March 2026 say that Premier David Eby was briefed for a meeting with Vancouver condo marketer Bob Rennie, the industry leader who hosted a February 2026 fundraiser for Prime Minister Mark Carney — attended by at least 17 leading developers — that has now been cited in Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s call for an ethics investigation into the controversial multi-billion-dollar developer bailout that was announced four months after Eby’s planned meeting with Rennie was documented, The Bureau has learned.
The briefing note is logged in Eby’s premier’s office correspondence stream under the heading “Rennie Meeting.” It was opened in February 2026, the month Bob Rennie — the marketer the development industry calls its condo king — held “An Evening with Mark Carney” at his offices. The Elections Canada filing for that fundraiser lists 146 attendees who paid up to $1,775 each, among them at least 17 of the province’s leading developers and condo marketers, along with former BC Premier Christy Clark.
A number of the prominent developers in attendance hold unsold inventory in the Vancouver region’s glut — the same distressed stock Carney and Eby plan to address by purchasing condos with up to several billion in public funds.
Related: If you believe a ‘blind trust’ takes over the existing financial portfolio of someone like Carney, sells it ALL then purchases whatever new investments they like; you may be too stupid to be allowed to vote.
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Way too late for that: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it
Burton says Canada is a “bellwether” country in Beijing’s subversion of developed economies. Before Carney’s election, Canada was already the most deeply compromised member of the G7, and since January’s Canada-China strategic partnership was declared, the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in this country have expanded exponentially, Burton told me. “By exploiting Canadians’ natural anger over Washington’s betrayal, the CCP have successfully overseen a campaign of calculated deceit. It’s a classic deflection tactic: by keeping the public’s focus squarely on American betrayal, they effectively defuse and neutralize mainstream concerns about the PRC’s own escalating campaign of subversion, espionage, and transnational repression in Canada.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Angry Mortgage Podcast: Well, we thought the fuckery of the Cardi condo bailout couldn’t possibly be worse, but suddenly it’s just tilted into the crazy town. It’s just lost.
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