EU-funded projects abroad are being built by Chinese companies.
The tipping point
Foreign companies face a reckoning in China as the risks of staying are generating diminishing returns.
JF Books returns
The rise and fall of an independent bookstore and the fate of civil society in China.
Canada unanimously passes motion to reject China’s sovereignty claim over Taiwan
The unanimous passage of the motion demonstrates Canada’s bipartisan support for Taiwan and concerns about Beijing’s distortion of international law: MP Yves Perron.
Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
Iran has created a complex network to evade sanctions and finance its military and political activities, with China as a major partner.
Feckless CRTC failed to regulate PRC TV forced confessions: Nuttall
A former Toronto Star reporter finds regulators “seem to have deliberately obfuscated” duty to investigate forced confession broadcast.
China ‘compromised’ Canadian government networks and stole valuable info: spy agency
China-sponsored threat actors have infiltrated at least 20 networks associated with federal government: CSE.
Some Parliament Hill suspects in foreign interference named
“How can Canada have an election if Canadians don’t know whether the people they’re voting for have their best interest at heart, or if they’re serving a foreign master?” ~ Independent MP […]
Trudeau spars with MP Chong’s counsel on Chinese secret police targeting
Findings allegedly withheld from Trudeau align with PRC efforts to undermine candidates critical of Beijing. Exclusive analysis from Sam Cooper at The Bureau.
Canada’s ex-spy boss warns of ‘cognitive warfare’ tactics being used by China, Russia
A “whole-of-society manipulation” is the aim of advanced psychological warfare; China’s use of this strategy against Taiwan is a prime example.
China’s pension crisis sparks public outrage
With China set to revise its retirement age closer to western norms for the first time in 60 years, heated public reaction returns to deeper issues including unlimited state power.
China detains prominent artist, citizen journalist as crackdown on dissent escalates
When domestic challenges grow more serious, the dissident community pays the price, human rights advocates say.
Kneeling driver exposes poor working conditions and treatment
A conflict between a courier and a security guard sparks a wave of protest and a strange conflict resolution from state regulators to love, listen to, and follow the Party.
Wind’s voice, freedom’s choice
A landmark Chinese bookstore shuttered in Shanghai six years ago has found another life in Washington, D.C.
China denies discharging water downstream as floods wreak havoc in Thailand
Fears that dams cause or exacerbate unseasonal flooding prompt Chinese embassy in Bangkok to issue statement.


