Category: Claws of the Panda

Protecting “Democracy”

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Sam Cooper- CSIS report says China infiltrated Provincial and Federal Party leadership races in 2022

Looking ahead to the impending federal election, there is evidence suggesting Pierre Poilievre was disfavored during the Conservatives’ 2022 leadership contest, owing to Beijing’s perception of him as hostile to Chinese interests. Meanwhile, Chinese media outlets have signaled Mark Carney was favored by Beijing’s networks in that recently concluded race, while Chrystia Freeland—Carney’s main opponent—was attacked on WeChat, a crucial vector of Chinese interference, according to The Bureau’s reporting yesterday.

It’s Probably Nothing

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The Bureau- Brookfield’s Deep Ties to Chinese Land, Loans, and Green Deals

A review of corporate documents reveals that Brookfield—the influential $900 billion Canadian investment fund from which Liberal Prime Minister-to-be Mark Carney stepped away from in order to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s leader—maintains over $3 billion in politically sensitive investments with Chinese state-linked real estate and energy companies, along with a substantial offshore banking presence. One of its major real estate ventures, a $750 million entry into high-end Shanghai commercial property in 2013, involved a Hong Kong tycoon affiliated with the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)—which the CIA labels a central “united front” entity of Beijing.

I Want A New Country

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Sylvain Charlebois- Canada keeps losing at geopolitics, and farmers pay the price

Canada has walked itself into an unnecessary trade war with the United States’ biggest geopolitical rival, China.

The consequences are clear: new retaliatory tariffs from China are directly targeting our farmers, affecting over $3-billion worth of agrifood commodities and products.

These measures are a direct response to Canada’s decision to impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in October, a move designed to align with U.S. trade policy and shield the North American auto sector from low-cost competition.

I Want A New Country

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Have they pulled Chinese booze off the shelves yet?

China fucked western CANADA late Friday with a 100% tariff on canola oil and peas.

Don’t think it’s serious Richardson last night late sent out a statement that they were pulling all bids for Canola effective immediately.

Cargill and all others will follow today.

All this to save a few electric car jobs that don’t even exist in eastern CANADA.

Were fucked and not a peep from any news outlet of the damage or liberal NDP politician.

@KenKluz – So much seed and chem is in our sheds, so we are stuck seeding canola, regardless what do you switch to as of rotation and other commodity prices. Far worse than 1970 or 1986

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

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Globe and Mail;

Early in his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met with Paul King Jin, a British Columbia businessman who would go on to become a central figure in the province’s money-laundering inquiry.
The existence of the meeting was confirmed by three sources with knowledge of the encounter.

Mr. Trudeau met Mr. Jin, who was among about a dozen people, in a conference room at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, a now-closed hotel near the Vancouver airport, one of the sources said.

Evidence of the meeting emerged amid the RCMP’s years-long efforts to investigate Mr. Jin for money laundering. He was a target of two police probes, one of them launched in 2015, and a second in 2017, which was among the biggest of its kind in modern Canadian history. It is not known precisely when the meeting took place, but it was during the year-and-a-half-period after Mr. Trudeau took office in November, 2015, and early 2017, the sources said.

Alongside Mr. Jin, who moved to Canada from China in 1989, was Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, a Chinese army veteran, one of the sources said. Mr. Yuan has had close ties to the Chinese government and has been photographed at social events with Chinese diplomats.

From the comments – “May as well start a file on carney now so you can release it in 2035.”

Three Chinese-American Soldiers Indicted

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The Bureau;

In a case underscoring the growing infiltration of U.S. military ranks by China’s intelligence networks and troubling trends involving the recruitment of first-generation Chinese Americans, federal prosecutors announced indictments Thursday against three soldiers—two active-duty and one former—for allegedly selling highly classified U.S. military secrets to buyers in China.

The Justice Department unsealed indictments alleging that Jian Zhao, a supply sergeant with oversight of $55 million in Army materials in Washington state, led an espionage scheme involving the sale of top-secret U.S. military intelligence to individuals in China, including explosive information on U.S. military readiness to fight a war against China. Much of the case appears to center on Beijing’s plans to take Taiwan by force—a concern of growing urgency for leaders in Washington, Taipei, and Tokyo—and how U.S.-led forces would respond, including what weapons systems and joint-command structures could be brought to bear against China’s strategy to surround Taiwan with naval vessels, bombard the island with rockets, and deploy amphibious landing forces.

Zhao is charged with conspiracy to obtain and transmit national defense information, bribery of a public official, and theft of government property. He allegedly sold data on High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and detailed documents concerning U.S. military readiness and exercises with an unidentified partner nation, which most likely refers to potential conflict scenarios involving Taiwan.

What’s The Problem With Decoupling?

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This piece by Julius Ruechel is so good I’m republishing in its entirety, but do go give him a repost.

The “Canada First” response to decoupling with the 🇺🇸 is totally ridiculous once you dig beneath the surface.

Around 20% of Canada’s GDP comes from trade with the USA. So, here’s the problem with “decoupling”

1. Even if the regulatory hurdles could be cleared, it would take many years to build pipelines to BC coast to ship to China. In the meantime, you’re looking at DEPRESSION levels of economic contraction as we decouple from the US.

2. And do you think the militant environmental groups would play nice if Canada starts building pipelines to the coast? Net result. Social unrest.

3. And now you’re just replacing dependency on America with dependency on China. Nice. Who would you rather be entangled with? You think China wouldn’t demand concessions once Canada’s economy becomes dependent on them? Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire…

In this scenario China can buy from anyone, but Canada would collapse if China stops buying from us once we turn them into our new biggest customer. But there’s one difference… China won’t be inviting us to statehood inside their Empire as equals.
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