Is China Losing Patience with Russia’s War?

China’s supposed peace overture is likely a product of its unease with how its junior partner in Eurasia has prosecuted the conflict.

For months, political observers have been confronted with growing evidence that the formerly durable consensus in the West around the need to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s war of territorial expansion is eroding. This developing trend has been met with both trepidation and jubilance, depending on the observer’s political affinities. The risks associated with drawing a potentially fallacious straight-line projection into the future notwithstanding, the trend is real, and no one can afford to ignore it.

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China considers sending 100 kamikaze drones to Russia

Secret handshake?

China is considering sending 100 kamikaze drones to Russia, it emerged as it published a peace plan to mark the anniversary of the Ukrainian invasion.

The 12-point statement, which called for a ceasefire and peace talks, is at odds with a report in German magazine Der Spiegel, which revealed a Chinese manufacturer is in talks to sell 100 drones capable of carrying 50kg worth of warheads to the Russian military.

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4 Canadian privacy regulators to undertake joint probe of TikTok

Canada is launching a joint federal and provincial investigation into short-video app TikTok over concerns about the Chinese-owned platform’s collection, use and disclosure of personal information, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said on Thursday.

The joint investigation involves the federal privacy regulator, as well as provincial counterparts in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec, according to a news release issued Thursday.

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We’re At The Point Of No Return.

The Trudeau government is actively obstructing efforts to shine a public light on Beijing’s interference at the core of Canada’s democratic processes. Why?

Here’s how bad it’s got. It was just another day in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “post-national” state, and the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs collapsed in chaos on Tuesday after the Liberals moved to hobble the committee’s ability to elicit documents related to Beijing’s clandestine interference in the 2021 federal election.

It was ugly. Here’s how ugly.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino have more than once insinuated that alarms about Beijing’s interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections are a ploy in a Trump-style strategy to undermine public confidence in the legitimacy of democratic election outcomes. That should show you just how badly Team Trudeau wants us all to shut up about what Beijing has been up to in Canada, and to stop asking how much Trudeau and his ministers know about it.

Something is terribly rotten within the Liberal Party.

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Chrystia Freeland wags finger at founders of naughty ChiCom bank operating in Canada

Chrystia Freeland rings national security alarm about founders of Canadian bank with suspected ties to China

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is raising national-security concerns about Wealth One Bank of Canada, telling three of its founding shareholders that they could be susceptible to Chinese government coercion, according to two sources.

The shareholders are also facing allegations from other Canadian financial institutions that they have engaged in money laundering, according to a letter sent by Ms. Freeland to the three individuals late last year.

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‘Political propaganda’: China clamps down on access to ChatGPT

Chinese regulators have reportedly clamped down on access to ChatGPT, as Chinese tech firms and universities push forward with developing domestic artificial intelligence bots.

ChatGPT, the popular discussion bot created by US-based OpenAI, is not officially available in China, where the government operates a comprehensive firewall and strict internet censorship. But many had been accessing it via VPNs, and some third-party developers had produced programs that gave some access to the service.

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U.S. Considers Release of Intelligence on China’s Potential Arms Transfer to Russia

The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. officials said.

The discussions on public disclosure come ahead of Friday’s United Nations Security Council meeting marking one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. It follows a number of closed-door appeals to China—coordinated among North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies—that culminated in a formal warning delivered over the weekend in Munich to Wang Yi, China’s senior foreign-policy official, by a number of western officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.

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After years of cozying up to China, Trudeau impotent in face of election interference

Any strong words Trudeau may mouth about China are to be taken with a very large grain of salt.

The most recent reports have revealed just how extensive China’s activities have become, and exposed the Trudeau government’s astonishing reluctance to treat them with the seriousness they deserve

Once established, it can take a long time to escape a bad reputation, as Canada has when it comes to China.

It’s been decades in the making, with successive prime ministers seized by the perceived gains to be had from the world’s most populous market. The current prime minister famously expressed his enthusiasm for the one-party state’s “basic dictatorship.”

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Trudeau launches lame attack on Opposition after being caught out on suspicious lack of response to ChiCom election interference & espionage activities

Political spin on election interference helps China undermine democracies: Trudeau

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says members of Parliament who put a political spin on foreign election interference are helping China undermine Canadians’ confidence in their democracy.

He says playing “political games” to get a partisan advantage will undermine people’s trust in their institutions, and will only assist the efforts of countries like Russia and China that attempt to make democracies unstable.

He told reporters today that Canadians must have trust in the electoral process, regardless of which political party is in power, and parties must work together on the issue.

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CSIS found specific Chinese interference in Canada’s election. What happened next?

We now know the Canadian Security Intelligence Service found there was an organized Chinese-government effort to interfere in Canada’s election in 2021. What we don’t know is whether anything has been done with that information.

It’s not a question of exposing CSIS’s spy-versus-spy world of clandestine surveillance and neutralizing threats with shadowy techniques.

The LPC is in Cahoots with the ChiComs no bones about it.

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ChiComs Recognized Trudeau As Useful Idiot & Worked To Defeat O’Toole: Insiders say Conservatives debated going public with election misinformation warnings in 2021

… Among the allegations were that if O’Toole formed government, he’d ban the popular social messaging app WeChat, and that his hawkish stance on the Chinese government would lead to an increase
in anti-Asian racism in Canada, accusing him of mirroring then-U.S. president Donald Trump who referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus.”

“O’Toole is like former US President Trump 2.0, completely inheriting his mantle,” reads one posting included in the memo.

“In fact, there are already signs that O’Toole is ‘on par’ with Trump.”

Trump? I wish!

More evidence that the LPC is a subsidiary of the CCP.

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Canadian military found Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic

The Canadian military found and retrieved Chinese monitoring buoys in the Arctic this past fall, a development whose public exposure adds another item to a list of pressing concerns about Beijing’s interventions in Canadian affairs, including interference in recent federal elections.

The buoys were spotted by the Canadian Armed Forces as part of Operation Limpid, a continuing effort to provide early detection of threats to Canada’s security. Earlier this month, the North American Aerospace Defence Command shot down a different Chinese surveillance device: a high-altitude balloon that traversed North America before it was destroyed.


The LPC and the corporate class must be getting greased pretty good by the ChiComs and Canada’s China class.

Junior seems always willing to kowtow to Beijing in order not to offend the CCP’s embedded 5th column.

There has to be a reason for it. What do they have on Junior & Co?

 

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What is this government doing to protect Canada’s sovereignty against China?

Canadians in every corner of this country need to be alarmed by the latest evidence that China has criminally interfered with, and attempted to influence the results of, Canada’s last two federal elections in 2019 and 2021.

But perhaps equally concerning is the Canadian government’s languid response to these shocking reports – compiled by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), but revealed in The Globe and Mail – which detail an extensive scheme meant to corrupt our elections and determine which political party forms Canada’s federal government, as well as the kind of power the elected government would be allowed to wield.

I would not be at all surprised if the ChiComs had dirt on Junior.

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Trudeau can’t ignore the dangers of China’s attempts to influence Canadian elections

Oh no you don’t, Prime Minister.

Bombshell revelations that suggest Chinese agents actively, fraudulently and successfully manipulated Canada’s electoral integrity in the last two federal elections cannot be dismissed with the standard Justin Trudeau nothing-to-see-here shrug.

The allegations, based on top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) reports viewed by the Globe, are too insidious, too detailed and too important to ignore.

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Trudeau deals with China’s alleged election tinkering by hunting whistleblower

Forget being outraged at allegations of China interfering in Canada’s last two elections, Justin Trudeau wants to know who in CSIS is leaking to the media. Trudeau isn’t overly concerned with the crime; he wants to find the person exposing his cover-up.

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