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While North Americans have only begun to recognize that China has been implanting illegal “police stations” in several major cities in recent years, 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. The new open-source probe for the Jamestown Foundation by Canadian researcher Sze-Fung Lee finds these diaspora-outreach missions likely violate international law, and appear to be a strategic effort of the Chinese Communist Party to extend its influence into rural and regional parts of Canada — beyond major centres such as Toronto and Vancouver, where Chinese intelligence and United Front networks have already established deep influence in diaspora monitoring and federal election-interference operations ... CLICK HE...

... research sums up the chilling experiences of 25 Canadian community leaders from Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Falun Gong backgrounds. They found 85 percent of respondents reported direct threats against Canadian activists, deployed by Beijing’s proxies to intimidate and control these communities. Eighty percent noted coercive threats targeting family members in China, 70 percent identified political pressure, and 75 percent observed financial incentives swaying community members. Nearly half of respondents experienced harassment—including threatening phone calls and online abuse—at least monthly ... CLICK HERE for the full story

With the travel I’d done as a writer, translator and human rights activist in China, after returning to Vancouver, it took a full two years to advance through the RCMP’s hiring process and join the force’s E-Division as a Mandarin analyst. My patience came from a sense of duty. I wanted to serve the country that raised me as a permanent ward of the court —commonly known as a foster kid — but also to eventually resurface information collected from my involvement in Chinese dissident circles. My mission was patriotic and personal — to inform my fellow citizens of China’s Ministry of State Security’s (MSS) contribution to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political warfare against Canada, an effort I began online in 2018 under a pseudonym ... CLICK HERE for the full story

Canadian Mayoral candidate got clandestine financial support from community leaders mobilized by Chinese Consulate in 2022 and 2018: "Intelligence Assessment" A senior Canadian politician running to lead a provincial political party clandestinely met officials inside a Chinese Consulate in 2022, subsequently becoming China’s preferred candidate, and winning campaign support from Consulate proxies, a Top Secret CSIS document alleges. Details of the Consulate meeting are contained in a sweeping CSIS “Intelligence Assessment” dated October 31, 2022.  Without identifying candidates by name, it details Beijing’s efforts to influence leaders of Canadian parties – at the federal, provincial and municipal level – before and after recent elections ... CLICK HERE for the full story

The Bureau's second conversation with a Canadian intel expert probes political fundraising for Trudeau related to tycoons pursued by Chinese security agencies    ...  Okay, so let’s dive into this. This might be the most fruitful Fox Hunt case to grasp for Canadians wanting to understand questions like: was the Liberal Party of Canada infiltrated? I'm going to ask you that. But first here's what I know ... CLICK HERE for the full interview / conversation

Taiwan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu confirmed on Wednesday that his government has engaged with Canada’s government on Chinese interference threats, offering Taiwan’s hard-earned expertise from withstanding decades of Chinese subversion campaigns.    In addition to discussing Taiwan’s ongoing assistance to Canada and other nations that face similar Chinese interference operations, Wu’s press conference with international journalists covered issues ranging from China’s infiltration of organizations including the United Nations and World Health Organization, how industrialists in nations such as Germany could be pressuring their governments to maintain counter-productive trade relations with Beijing, and the risks of China and Russia collaborating in attacks on other nations ... CLICK HERE for the full story

  Brad West says he is stepping forward with allegations after CSIS and community sources alerted him on Chinese Communist Party threats   Mayor Brad West, arguably Beijing’s sharpest critic in Canadian politics, says he was provided evidence the Chinese Communist Party plotted to run a candidate against him in British Columbia’s 2022 municipal elections, and CSIS warned him that diplomats in China’s Vancouver Consulate were concerned West’s political trajectory could “represent a real threat to their aims and objectives.”   In an exclusive interview, the two-term Port Coquitlam mayor disclosed to The Bureau that CSIS is aware of posts on WeChat suggesting Beijing tried to unseat him in last year’s election.    While West doesn’t know how CSIS has assessed the case, he thinks Canadians need to know the details, in part to hold Ottawa’s feet to the fire as attention wanders from Beijing’s federal election interference, and the Trudeau Government remai...