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h/t Scott
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Starmer Clears China’s “Mega-Embassy” Near Tower of London.
The approval comes in the wake of the Starmer government’s decision to wind down a counter-intelligence case alleging that two former China-based language teachers penetrated Westminster and passed sensitive political information on Conservative lawmakers pushing a tougher stance on Beijing—sending real-time reports up the chain toward senior Chinese intelligence, in an operation that reports alleged was tasked by a top Politburo figure close to President Xi Jinping.
Washington’s China hawks had already framed the collapse of that case as possibly linked to the mega-embassy approval, and characterized the embassy decision as a test of allied intelligence cohesion.
It’s kind of amazing the way Liberal politicians live up to my headlines, if I do say so myself.
Last week, the Prime Minister’s Office announced that Canada and the People’s Republic of China will enhance law enforcement cooperation on drug trafficking, transnational and cybercrime, and money laundering. On paper, this sounds reasonable. Fentanyl is devastating communities. Cybercrime drains billions. Organized crime adapts faster than borders.
But experience teaches me that cooperation with the PRC is never just technical, never apolitical, and never insulated from the priorities of the Chinese Communist Party. Canadians deserve to understand the risks.
In Canada, policing is constrained by courts, disclosure rules, independent prosecutors, and an entrenched—if imperfect—commitment to individual rights. In the PRC, law enforcement is an extension of state security. Its primary function is not public safety as Canadians understand it, but regime stability.
Well, to be fair, regime stability is important to Ottawa as well.
Related: Liberals are now claiming that CLIPS of bureaucrats testifying in Parliament are a “safety risk” to officials
We're getting another 2 million Chinese immigrants to solidify Liberal power forever. That's what this means. https://t.co/Ht6wefp2Ec
— Katewerk (@katewerk) January 18, 2026
@johnkonrad – They sold out to communism for less than half the price of one aircraft carrier
By the time Carney is finished with us, we’ll need a visa to enter the US.
Trump administration officials said on Friday that Canada would regret its decision to allow China to import up to 49,000 Chinese EVs, and that those cars would not be allowed to enter the United States. https://t.co/lyRyM40eOU
— Reuters China (@ReutersChina) January 17, 2026
Five Eyes, Four Eyes – whatever.
Anna Farrow- Mr. Carney goes to Beijing and lands a triple kowtow
In a Jan. 13 interview with The Hub, former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney told Harrison Lowman that, “what Mr. Carney is doing is uncomfortably like what foreign leaders used to do with Chinese emperors which is to come to China and bend the knee and profess your loyalty.” Carney was warned about the dangerous pitfalls, or in the spirit of the kowtow, faceplants, inherent in the enterprise.
More, however: The 100% tariffs on canola oil remain in place
Prediction: Chinese EV’s will be banned from being driven into the US
BREAKING: PM Carney confirms Canada-China trip is to further a "partnership" that sets us up for the "NEW WORLD ORDER"
Watch Premier Moe's SHOCKED face next to him pic.twitter.com/2PWcDbtxgK
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) January 15, 2026
Longer clip here.
China Daily’s take on Mark Carney’s visit: pic.twitter.com/uB3mdWKaix
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) January 15, 2026
[…] No progress on tariffs imposed on Canadian pork, canola, and seafood exports to China, according to @CTVNews
Serious question: Did PM Carney actually meet with China’s President Xi?
I haven’t seen any footage during this trip showing both leaders in the same room.
@RobertFife – China propaganda mouthpiece tells @MarkJCarney to be subservient to Beijing
Dan Knight- From “Biggest Threat” to Beijing Handshakes
HOLY CRAP 🤯 Michael Ma who just betrayed his constituents to join the Liberal Party, is now travelling with CARNEY to CHINA
Ma, born in Hong Kong, Vice Chair of the Canada China Legislative Association
You can’t even make this up, NOT GOOD @stevenchase pic.twitter.com/L0BXyIO0is
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 8, 2026
National Post- Carney to visit China to talk trade with Xi
It will be the first trip to China by a Canadian prime minister in nearly a decade, after a diplomatic row was sparked by Canada’s 2018 arrest of Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou on a US extradition warrant. Shortly after, China detained two Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and held them until a deal to release Meng was reached with US prosecutors in 2021.
18 tweet rant – because it’s important:
China imports ~4% of their crude from Venezuela.
I suspect most have zero clue what China owns in Canada, and I’m astonished and angered by the naivety of my fellow countrymen.
I’m not putting my elbows up – we deserve what we’ll be getting.
Why?
Because we’ve been wilfully ignorant and complacency has consequences.
Threadreader version here. h/t Prairie Putz
Following massive military sales from Washington to Taiwan and rapidly scaled defensive preparations from Japan, Beijing on Monday launched a sweeping show-of-force including live-fire activity around Taiwan.
The encirclement-style operation brought 89 Chinese military aircraft and 28 PLA Navy and coast guard vessels into the waters and skies around the island, one of the heaviest single-day tallies reported in more than a year.
Taiwan’s Presidential Office condemned the operation as a “unilateral provocation” that destabilizes regional peace, while stressing that Taiwan’s security agencies had “complete situational awareness” and had made preparations. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it activated an emergency response posture and conducted immediate readiness drills.
Beijing, for its part, framed the action as a warning—an operation the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command dubbed “Justice Mission 2025,” involving the army, navy, air force, and rocket force, with designated zones for live-fire activity and sea-and-airspace restrictions.
Foreign interference playground. https://t.co/Ddx07Mda8p
— Joe Tay 鄭敬基 (@joetay1212) December 12, 2025

3 days ago Michael Ma met with the Chinese ambassador.
Initially, @CPC_HQ the Conservative Party of Canada intended for Joe Tey to run in Markham–Unionville. Just imagine: if Joe Tey, rather than Michael Ma, had been the Conservative candidate in Markham–Unionville, we would now have a powerful, fearless voice standing against the Chinese Communist Party in Parliament. But suddenly, and without clear justification, the party moved Joe Tey to Don Valley North, a strongly Liberal-leaning riding, and handed his original Markham–Unionville riding to a spineless individual like Michael Ma.
Even worse: before Michael Ma was shifted from Don Valley North to Markham–Unionville, and before Joe Tay was finalized as the candidate in Don Valley North, the party completely ignored the extensive grassroots efforts of Sabrina Zuniga, an anti-CCP candidate, and simply parachuted in Michael Ma. As a result, Joe Tey ran a good campaign in Don Valley North, but it wasn’t enough, and the Conservatives lost the seat. Don Valley North has been heavily targeted by CCP interference. The former Liberal MP, Han Dong, was forced to resign from the Liberal caucus over allegations of receiving CCP support. Before selecting Michael Ma as the Conservative candidate, the party campaign team was warned, but they chose to ignore the warnings. CCP-friendly people were working behind the scenes to make sure Michael Ma became the final candidate. Why did we not have nomination elections in Don Valley North and Markham–Unionville ridings? This is deeply troubling.
According to Google AI: Michael Ma was “born in Hong Kong, has the Chinese birth name 馬榮錚 (pronounced Mǎ Róngzhēng in Mandarin or Ma4 Kiu4-wai5 in Cantonese Jyutping).”
Sam Cooper: Carney Floor Crosser Comes From a Riding Tainted by PRC Interference
All of our toothless laws go in the same direction.
Behind the hundreds of pages of civil filings reviewed by The Bureau lies a failure of governance as urgent as the unchecked advance of Latin cartels into Canadian cities — and as lethal as the synthetic opioids tied to the Surrey home.
British Columbia has been chasing the same house, and the same alleged transnational traffickers, through raids, affidavits and Charter of Rights battles since before fentanyl became a household word — and still has not managed to take the keys away.
The case documents explicitly point to a criminal-defence-friendly Supreme Court of Canada ruling — Stinchcombe, notoriously cited by police leaders — and to its role in undermining numerous major prosecutions involving networks tied to alleged narcoterror suspect Ryan Wedding and modern Canadian fentanyl-lab operators. One of those networks is the Wolfpack, a hybrid of Mexican cartels, Middle Eastern threat networks and biker gangs said to be supplied by Chinese Communist Party–linked criminal organizations and other Latin American cartel interests.
…a sweeping new investigation has revealed that Chinese diplomats in Canada have intensified and extended these missions — quietly staging more than 100 quickly mounted and dismantled “pop-up” consular events in 22 cities across 11 provinces since 2015, operating out of small, unofficial sites rather than accredited consulates.
Blacklock’s- RCMP Drone Fleet Too Risky
The Mounties misspent millions on China-made drones that are now compromised as “high security risks,” says an internal report. Replacing the Chinese fleet would cost taxpayers another $34 million, it said.