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Special RepORT theepochtimes.com To get our full 40-page details on B13. TRUTH and TRadITIOn weekly paper, see subscription GREG BAKER/AFP viA GEtty imAGEs Leaked Document: Calgary Mayor, Other Officials Target of Chinese Regime Influence

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Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, a number of Calgary city officials, several academics, and a former mayor of St. John’s are all on a list of targets that Chinese officials hope to influence to further the commu- nist regime’s interests. The list, disclosed in a leaked gov- ernment document recently obtained by The Epoch Times, reveals names spanning a wide range of sectors and countries in which the Chinese re- gime seeks to “cultivate talent.” The 2019 document was issued by the Foreign Affairs Office of the municipal government of Daqing, a city in northeastern China.

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DAvE CHAN/AFP/GEtty imAGEs; tHE CANADiAN PREss/JUstiN tANG A paramilitary police officer stands guard in Tiananmen Square in a file photo.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole. Communist China’s Silent How Chinese Data Trove on 2 Million War Against the West People, Including Canadians, Serves For decades, the CCP has been using ‘unrestricted warfare’ to weaken Beijing’s ‘Unrestricted allied Western nations, including Canada, from within Warfare’

Bowen Xiao & omid Ghoreishi consequences, are far-reaching. limited to propaganda warfare, JusTina wheaLe THE EPOCH TIMES Skirting the traditional, direct culture warfare, memetic war- THE EPOCH TIMES military confrontation offensives fare, front operations, political News Analysis that have become somewhat out- [Beijing is] infiltration, technological and News Analysis tealthily and with sweeping pre- dated in modern times, this un- telecommunications warfare, le- A Chinese database containing the cision, the Chinese Communist conventional strategy has become using attacks gal warfare, economic espionage, personal information of millions of Party (CCP) has been waging a central to the communist regime’s below the education espionage, cyberwar- people around the globe—includ- decades-long war against the West approach to warfare. threshold fare, and sanctions warfare. The ing at least 5,000 Canadians, among S to achieve world domination by The strategy is highlighted in regime employs all of these to them Prime Minister Justin Trudeau utilizing a military strategy known the 1999 book “Unrestricted War- that would varying degrees simultaneously and Conservative Party Leader Erin as “unrestricted warfare.” fare,” authored by two Chinese air prompt a in multiple sectors of society in O’Toole—was recently leaked to Unbeknown to most of the popu- force colonels—Qiao Liang and war-fighting order to undermine or influence Western media, offering a glimpse lation, the CCP has infiltrated al- Wang Xiangsui—and published the targeted country. into the regime’s effort to harvest most every major avenue of life in by the People’s Liberation Army, response. In 2014, Chinese state-sponsored data on targeted foreigners. countries like the United States and the armed forces of the CCP. The hackers infiltrated the computer Canada—leaving virtually no in- book, which has been translated Nick Carter, networks of Canada’s National Re- Continued on B3 Britain’s chief dustry untouched. While this threat into English, is based on the origi- of the defence staff search Council. The attack cost Can- has largely existed undetected, the nal army documents. ada hundreds of millions of dollars. effect it has had on the targeted Beijing uses an array of sub- nations, as well as its geopolitical versive tactics, including but not Continued on B3

CHARlottE CUtHBERtsoN/tHE EPoCH timEs ‘Generational Threat’: The Ties Between Canada’s Elite US Taking Unprecedented and Powerful and Beijing Steps to Counter Yao LianG & TanYa du much further than Party leaders THE EPOCH TIMES might have hoped.” Communist China U.S. Attorney General William Barr. The Chinese regime has an Commentary ambition to become the world’s Infographic: Joan deLaneY In this new era of direct U.S. For decades, high-level Canadi- number one global power, THE EPOCH TIMES confrontation of the CCP, an leaders, well-connected elite, Hamilton and Ohlberg write. speeches by several top U.S. offi- and powerful corporations have Its implementation strategy, Beijing’S News Analysis cials, including Secretary of State pushed for closer ties between they say, is to “target elites in In its efforts to counter the threat Mike Pompeo, National Security Canada and China. the West so that they either Space of an increasingly belligerent Bei- Adviser Robert O’Brien, and At- According to the 2020 book welcome China’s dominance inFluence jing regime, the United States has torney General William Barr “Hidden Hand” by scholars Clive or accede to its inevitability, over international been pulling out all the stops. A strongly lashed out at Beijing Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, rendering resistance futile.” Force slew of extensive measures in re- and its increasingly aggressive the Chinese Communist Party’s Canada has been one of the cent months to oppose the Chi- and hostile actions toward the “wide-ranging campaign of countries Beijing has targeted organizations nese Communist Party’s growing United States and the world. subverting institutions in for elite capture for decades. hostility signify a sea change in Western countries and winning Page B4 Washington’s China policy. Continued on B8 over their elites has advanced Continued on B6

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ABoUt tHIS SPEcIAL REPoRt Introduction We hope you enjoy this Epoch Times special report, dana Cheng bringing you the facts behind communist China’s influence hen I was growing up in China a few de- to influence politicians and elites in every field. It has and infiltration within Canada cades ago, we were told the communists gradually shaped mainstream opinion in the West in and exposing the true nature of were going to liberate the whole world. favour of the Chinese communist regime. the Chinese Communist Party. In the 1950s, the Chinese Communist The CCP uses Confucius Institutes and Chinese student Our regular 40-page weekly Party (CCP) directed the entire country organizations to influence the academic system in other paper consists of four sections Wto make quality steel. China would catch up with the countries, while stealing innovation and research ideas featuring Canadian & World United Kingdom in 5 years and America in 10 years. In- in their initial stages. News, Opinion, Mind & Body, Culture & Tradition, Life & stead, this movement brought the Chinese economy to The way the CCP handled the coronavirus outbreak Leisure, along with two pages near collapse and, in the three years from 1959 to 1962, clearly showed its true nature. It covered up information of crosswords and other 40 million people died due to famine. about the virus from the Chinese people until more and puzzles. Yet the CCP has never given up on the idea of catching up more cases were found in nearby countries among trav- As an independent newspaper, and taking over (or “liberating,” as it would say) the world. ellers from China. It does not care about its own people. we endeavour to cover Under Deng Xiaoping, China began doing business with Why should it care about people in other countries? important news and topics in the rest of the world and the door to China was opened Oct. 13 marked the 50th anniversary of the start an unbiased manner, with no wide. The CCP has been systematically infiltrating other of Canada’s diplomatic relations with the CCP. hidden agenda or spin, because countries ever since, and it has used its propaganda media In this special edition, we present a few aspects of we believe that truth and to influence public opinion in the West. how the CCP has targeted Canada, especially its elites. tradition are key to a healthy The regime seeks to muddle the concepts of the CCP Perhaps more important than understanding these democracy. and China, so that any criticism of the Party is said to details is understanding the nature of the CCP itself be a criticism of China and the Chinese people. In this and its threat to the world. How tHIS SPEcIAL REPoRt IS FUndEd way, the CCP takes advantage of people’s generosity and We’re also including an excerpt of the new book “How kindness toward the Chinese people. The CCP is not a the Spectre of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” This special report is funded by political party or regime in the normal sense. It does not published by The Epoch Times to shed light subscriptions and donations. represent the Chinese people; it is a small group that on how China replaced the Soviet Union as By subscribing or making a seized power illegitimately and holds onto it by tyranny. the primary threat to the free world. The donation, you can help us The CCP has stolen military technology from other West got China wrong for many reasons. continue to deliver truthful countries to build its own military, with the clear goal This special report also covers recent reporting free from influence by of global domination. unprecedented efforts by Canada’s al- any government, corporation, It developed the Thousand Talents Plan and many lies to counter the CCP threat. or political party. other such programs to bring advanced technology Every donation, big or small, from overseas to China, and it has gradually lured Dana Cheng grew up in Wuhan, Hubei helps us immensely in manufacturers and high-tech companies from Province, China. She earned her doctorate continuing to deliver the high- other nations to China. It has used its century- in physics in the United States. One of quality journalism that we’re known for. old “united front” strategy to infiltrate inter- the founders of The Epoch Times, she is national organizations and think tanks and currently senior editor of China news. To Donate, Visit: Donate.EpochTimes.ca

PUBLISHER Cindy Gu Leaked Document: Calgary Mayor, Other Officials EdItoRS Chrisy Trudeau, Cindy Chan, Target of Chinese Regime Influence Joan Delaney, Justina Wheale, Matthew Little, Omid Ghoreishi, THE CANADIAN PRESS/JEFF MCINTOSH Rahul Vaidyanath, and The CCP uses a strategy dubbed as Sandra Shields. Continued from b1 “using the countryside to surround Daqing’s Foreign Affairs Office states the cities,” note Hamilton and Ohl- Letters to the editor: in the document that it would start berg. This strategy originates from the [email protected] an initiative called the “100 overseas time before the CCP came to power Comments or tips: talent cultivation plan.” in China in 1949, when the Party re- [email protected] It’s a program found in many other treated to the countryside and sur- local governments in China, as well rounded the cities in its fight against as within the central government. the rival Nationalist Party. A 2019 report by the U.S.–China “This slogan should not be under- oFFIcES Economic and Security Review stood only in the literal sense; the idea Toronto Commission (USCC) listed several is to go to areas where the CCP’s ene- 344 Consumers Road national-level talent programs that mies are weak or not well represented, Toronto, ON M2J 1P8 have “recruited or repatriated tens of organize the population there, and Tel: 416.298.1933 thousands of individuals to China.” then use them to encircle the enemy’s Vancouver The same report stated that hun- strongholds,” the book says. 530 E Kent Ave S dreds of such programs exist at the Connections with these local politi- Vancouver, BC V5X 4V6 local government level as well. cians can then be leveraged to pres- Tel: 604.438.8183 In the leaked document, although sure national governments. Ottawa the Daqing office doesn’t explain In 2010, when Richard Fadden 60-A Larkspur Drive how it would carry out its plan or was head of the Canadian Secu- Ottawa, ON K2H 6L1 what the plan’s specific goals are, it rity Intelligence Service, he said Tel: 613.820.2580 Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi in a file photo. listed 129 “overseas” individuals it that a number of provincial and Edmonton wished to recruit. municipal politicians in Canada #205, 10123-157 Street The document contains only the the mayor’s office in St. John’s but China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” were suspected of being under the Edmonton, AB T5P 2T9 Tel: 780.428.8657 first name for some of those individu- didn’t hear back. “In this way, in addition to the of- influence of foreign governments. als, but each entry states the person’s The list has targets that span the ficial embassy and consulate, CCP Other security experts and China Calgary current or former job positions, ca- globe, including people in the foreign affairs agencies have added analysts also support that position. #3, 1916 30 Ave NE Calgary AB T2E 7B2 reer fields, and contact information. United States, New Zealand, Unit- a quasi-diplomatic organization that “The CCP will carefully identify Tel: 403.250.5942 The list consists of 19 people in ed Kingdom, Pakistan, Spain, and isn’t on the list of diplomatic envoys where the centres of political, eco- Canada, 13 of whom are based in the current mayor of the small city and isn’t regulated by foreign gov- nomic, and cultural power lie, and Calgary. Besides Nenshi, the list of Esbjerg in Denmark. The Epoch ernments,” he says. who are the most powerful people Published in 35 countries includes a number of other senior Times contacted the Esbjerg mayor According to Heng, the friendship in those areas,” Hamilton, a professor and 23 languages. city officials as well as an individual but received no reply. Two former city can be “co-opted” to perform of public ethics at Charles Sturt Uni- who at one point was in charge of the mayors of the Australian city of Perth tasks that further the CCP’s interests versity in Canberra, told The Epoch China initiative at Calgary Economic were also included. without being noticed. This includes Times in a previous interview. Development, a not-for-profit corpo- “united front work,” the CCP’s term “It will then attempt to create ration partly funded by the city and for efforts to influence people and a profile of each person and find other government partners. Other organizations overseas to promote a way to approach them to draw targets are academics, a University The CCP will carefully identify its agenda, Heng says. them into the CCP world.” of Calgary senior administrative of- where the centres of political, Hamilton said the CCP is very good SUBSCRIBE ficial, and senior executives with a CCP Influence at “disguising its operations,” hiding number of Calgary-based businesses. economic, and cultural power Scholars Clive Hamilton and Ma- behind ideas such as “people-to-peo- TODAY The City of Calgary is a sister city of lie, and who are the most reike Ohlberg write in their new book ple exchanges” or “win-win coopera- Daqing, also an energy hub. powerful people in those “Hidden Hand” that Chinese officials tion and building economic linkages.” A spokesperson for Nenshi told The use sister city arrangements to build “Mostly the elites themselves are Get the Epoch Times that the mayor was not areas. personal relationships. These can duped by this strategy, because the aware he was on any list. then be “weaponized” when a city CCP plays on their weaknesses. It ap- independent news “While Daqing has been one of Cal- Clive Hamilton plans activities that go against CCP peals to their desires and their hopes.” gary’s sister cities since 1985, Mayor academic and author positions, such as deals with Taiwan you won’t find Nenshi has had no personal contact or meetings with the Dalai Lama. With reporting by Cathy He anywhere else. with city officials,” Adam Noble-John- According to China commentator son, the mayor’s communications and Epoch Times contributor Heng PROvIDED TO THE EPOCH TIMES A section Subscribe and get the strategist, said in an email. He, the Chinese Communist Party The document also lists officials (CCP) dubs its city partnerships as of the list insights only The Epoch Times from the Atlantic provinces. In- “citizen diplomacy.” maintained by can provide, delivered to your cluded are former St. John’s mayor Heng says that the Chinese orga- the Daqing city door every week. Dennis O’Keefe as well as an official nization in charge of promoting ties government’s Foreign Affairs with Halifax Partnership—the city’s between Chinese and foreign cities— Read.EpochTimes.ca Office, partly public-private economic develop- the Chinese People’s Association for redacted 1-877-288-3115 ment organization. Friendship with Foreign Countries to protect The Epoch Times contacted Cal- (CPAFFC)—has senior Party officials identities. gary Economic Development and among its ranks and “is a proxy of OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 SPECIAL REPORT | B3

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The logo of social media video sharing app TikTok on Nov. 21, 2019. CHINA INFILTRATION Communist China’s Silent War Against the West

CONTINUED FROM B1 Canadian media, and influence discourse on One such avenue is its CCP-backed Confu- thousands of groups to carry out foreign polit- Canadian campuses in its favour. cius Institutes, which infiltrate and operate on ical influence operations, suppress dissident Canadian telecom giant Nortel, which filed The committee pointed out similar threats university and college campuses in Canada movements, gather intelligence, and facilitate for bankruptcy in 2009, was the subject of in its 2018 annual report, saying China is and other countries in order to boost the re- the transfer of other countries’ technology massive years-long IP theft by Chinese hack- conducting “espionage and foreign influence gime’s image. It also aims to push a foreign to China, according to a June report by the ers, according to the company’s former se- activities in Canada.” The report added that policy goal of making the regime not only an Australian Strategic Policy Institute. nior security adviser Brian Shields. Shields is China is among the most active foreign state economic superpower, but also a cultural one. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified convinced that the beneficiary of the IP theft actors trying to access Canadian government Other examples are more blatant, such as in 2018 that the bureau was attempting to M was Chinese telecom giant Huawei, AR networks and the communications a former chair of Harvard University’s chem- view the danger posed by China “as not just K W I LS which started to prosper in global O of federal government officials. istry department being recently indicted for a whole-of-government threat, but a whole- N / G markets around the same time E According to Conservative MP making false statements about funding he of-society threat on their end.” To counter T T Y

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In a recent speech, Britain’s E security threat the free world in the United States who was found guilty of United States must also employ a “whole- Chief of the Defence Staff S faces is ongoing efforts by the economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, of-society response.” General Sir Nick Carter said Chinese regime and other and conspiracy. U.S. officials have also begun to realize the Beijing is aiming to defeat the non-state actors to influence national security threats posed by Chinese West “using attacks below the elites and take over control of telecom giants Huawei and ZTE. In June, the threshold that would prompt a democratic institutions for their Federal Communications Commission (FCC) war-fighting response.” own purposes. Canada has not made a decision on whether formally designated Huawei and ZTE as na- to ban Huawei from its 5G networks. The Chinese regime, for example, The seal of the FBI. “There’s a need for a broader rec- tional security threats, thus banning access to has “harnessed technologies and ognition of the risk … a recognition money from the FCC’s US$8.3 billion a year tactics that have outpaced the evolution of of the fact that elites at every level are subject In the latter case, a man identified as 41-year- Universal Service Fund to buy or modify any international law to avoid their actions being to efforts at this kind of co-opting, whether old Hao Zhang was found to have attempted equipment or services produced or provided classified as conflict under the current defini- it’s school boards, small-town mayors, uni- to steal trade secrets from two U.S. companies by these two suppliers. tions of international law,” Carter said. versity presidents, individual members of “for the benefit of the People’s Republic of Chinese-owned TikTok, which has seen To counter this threat, Carter said the British Parliament—there’s a lot of attempt at this China,” according to the U.S. Justice Depart- meteoric growth in North America, was also Armed Forces have adopted a new “Integrat- kind of influence,” said Genuis, a member of ment. Zhang stole information specifically recently found to be secretly reading users’ ed Operating Concept.” The strategy, which the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an related to the performance of wireless devices. clipboard data, although the app now claims marks a significant shift in military thinking, international cross-party group of legislators, The Thousand Talents Plan, one of the more that it has fixed the issue. There are similar is a response to the advancing technology and in a recent interview. widely known CCP talent recruitment or “brain concerns about Zoom, as researchers with non-traditional tactics, such as disinforma- Liberal MP John McKay describes China gain” programs, encourages theft of intellec- the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab found tion campaigns, used by adversaries. as the “colonial power of the 21st century.” tual property from government institutions, that encryption keys were being transmitted A 2018 report on a workshop organized by “While this may not be a cold war, it is in according to the FBI. By offering competitive to servers in China. the Canadian Security Intelligence Service some respects an asymmetric war with a front salaries, state-of-the-art research facilities, and This summer, Washington announced that says Beijing is utilizing a “multi-dimensional on intellectual property, academics, trade, honorific titles, these programs lure talent from it is banning TikTok as well as Chinese social strategy to lift China to global dominance.” human rights, and pretty well the entire pano- overseas to China, “even if that means stealing media WeChat, citing national security con- “This strategy integrates aggressive diplo- ply of relational elements between one nation proprietary information or violating export cerns. TikTok is racing against time to sell its macy, asymmetrical economic agreements, and another as China asserts its colonial sta- controls to do so,” the bureau states. U.S. business to an American firm, while both technological innovations, as well as escalat- tus,” said McKay, chair of the Standing Com- The Globe and Mail said in an August report companies have launched legal challenges ing military expenditures,” the report says. mittee on Public Safety and National Security, that it has found at least 15 Canadian aca- on the ban. The Canadian parliamentary watchdog that in a parliamentary session in December 2019. demics who have taken part in the Thousand Meanwhile, Canada has not made a deci- oversees national security, the National Se- Talents Plan. These experts specialize in the sion on whether to ban Huawei from its 5G curity and Intelligence Committee of Parlia- Tactics fields of quantum computing, advanced elec- networks. Three of Canada’s five allies in the mentarians, said in its 2019 annual report that While some of Beijing’s tactics such as its long tronics and engineering, vaccines, chemistry, Five Eyes intelligence group—the United Beijing maintains “significant and sustained history of intellectual property theft and un- and artificial intelligence. States, Australia, and New Zealand—have foreign interference activities” in Canada. fair trade practices are more obvious, others One of the key organizations the CCP uses already banned Huawei from their 5G net- This includes targeting the diaspora, seek- that use what Chinese officials have called for influence operations abroad is the United works, while the U.K. has established a plan ing to corrupt political processes, manipulate “soft power” are harder to detect. Front Work Department. This unit coordinates to phase it out. How Chinese Data Trove on 2 Million People, Including Canadians, Serves Beijing’s ‘Unrestricted Warfare’

NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES CONTINUED FROM B1 to be used in a range of operations to further in the 1990s, which espouses using a series of the regime’s interests. unconventional tactics designed to accom- The list included influential Canadians in plish the objectives of war without engaging politics, technology, and trade, and even Files on 2.4 Million People in actual combat. children of politicians, including the Chinese company Shenzhen Zhenhua Data The ultimate goal of this strategy, Fleming 11-year-old daughter of Trudeau, accord- Technology amassed the database with files said, is to “destroy democracy [to prepare] for ing to The Globe and Mail. The Globe is part on 2.4 million people, compiled mostly from the takeover of Chinese communism globally.” of an international consortium of media open-source material such as social media Zhenhua’s majority owner, Wang Xuefeng, outlets that obtained the list. posts and online data but with a substantial a former IBM engineer, has previously posted The Zhenhua data leak provides but a small portion of information that was not publicly on Chinese social media about waging “hybrid window into the Chinese communist regime’s available. A reconstruction of about 10 per- warfare” by manipulating public opinion and extensive overall data-harvesting activities. cent of the database by Australian cybersecu- “psychological warfare,” according to ABC. “The scope is beyond most people’s com- rity firm Internet 2.0 revealed that it includes An unidentified Chinese hacker at an office in Shoebridge points out that the database Dongguan city, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. prehension,” said Casey Fleming, CEO of records on some 52,000 Americans, 35,000 includes profiles on children of powerful intelligence and security strategy firm Australians, 9,700 Britons, and 5,000 Cana- government or military. A representative of people such as politicians and business ex- BlackOps Partners. dians, according to ABC News. the company said Zhenhua’s customers are ecutives, allowing the regime to target these According to Fleming, the intelligence gath- “research organizations and business groups.” individuals through vulnerabilities found in ered in the database is used to support the Chi- Experts told The Epoch Times that such a their offspring. nese regime’s “unrestricted hybrid warfare” denial is unsurprising. “That’s a pretty disturbing potential use of operations. This includes espionage, covert The ultimate goal of unrestricted hybrid Shoebridge said the statement “cannot be data like that,” he said. overseas influence campaigns, and stealing warfare, Fleming said, is to ‘destroy taken at face value” given that Chinese laws At the same time, many of these children foreign innovation and military technology. democracy for the takeover of Chinese compel the country’s companies to assist may themselves become influential people Michael Shoebridge, director of defence, communism globally.’ Chinese security and intelligence agencies later in life. And so “the ability to exploit and strategy, and national security at the Austra- and require them to publicly deny doing so. influence those individuals is much greater lian Strategic Policy Institute think tank, lik- because you’ve got a much more comprehen- ened the database to a single plastic ball in a In response to The Guardian, Zhenhua Unrestricted Hybrid Warfare sive understanding of them over time,” he said. large ball pit. This dataset would be combined said that “there is no database of 2 million Unrestricted hybrid warfare refers to a strat- with data compiled by other Chinese entities people” and denied any links to the Chinese egy crafted by two Chinese air force colonels With files from Cathy He B4 | BY BOWEN XIAO OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 | B5

Current and former Chinese Communist Party officials The CCP’s Influence Over International Groups hold key positions in international organizations

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO) Zhang Tao, deputy managing director Ren Minghui, assistant director-general for communicable diseases Zhang previously was the deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China. He also worked in other high Ren worked for nearly three decades at the CCP’s Ministry of Health before positions at the bank including director-general of the Legal Affairs Department, director-general of joining the WHO. He was director-general for international cooperation at the International Department, and director-general of the Financial Survey and Statistics Department. the CCP’s National Health and Family Planning Commission.

WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO) WORLD BANK Wang Binying, deputy director-general, Brands and Designs Sector Yang Shaolin, managing director and World Bank Group chief administrative officer Wang worked at the CCP’s Ministry of Communication and Transportation, after Yang was the director-general for international economic and financial cooperation at the CCP’s which she joined the CCP’s State General Administration for Industry and Commerce. Ministry of Finance.

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION (WMO) WORLD BANK Wenjian Zhang, assistant secretary-general Hua Jingdong, vice president and treasurer Zhang previously was director-general of the CCP’s National Satellite Meteorological Center, Hua previously worked in China’s National Chemical Construction Corporation. The as well as deputy administrator of the CCP’s Meteorological Administration. Zhang was corporation’s parent company is China National Chemical Engineering Group Corp., a responsible for developing the 10-year plan of the Chinese Meteorological Satellite Program. state-owned enterprise.

UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK (AIIB) Jiang Duan, Asia-Pacific representative, consultative group of the Council Jin Liqun, president Jiang was previously a Chinese diplomat and minister of China’s mission to Jin previously spent nearly two decades at the CCP’s Ministry the United Nations in Geneva. of Finance, reaching the rank of vice-minister.

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU) ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK Zhao Houlin, secretary-general Zhang Wencai, director for China Before joining the ITU, Zhao was an engineer at the Design Institute of Zhang concurrently holds the position of director-general of the Department of the CCP’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. He assisted the International Economic and Financial Cooperation at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance. CCP in creating “telecommunication standards” and “national plans.” He has served at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance in various senior roles, including as the director-general of the Department of External Economic Cooperation.

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION (ICAO) ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) Liu Fang, secretary-general Liu held a number of key posts, including director and deputy director-general, at Chen Shixin, vice president for operations the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China over a 20-year period. Liu was Chen previously headed the Department of International Economic the chief negotiator for the CCP’s bilateral and multilateral transport agreements. and Financial Cooperation at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance.

UN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (UNIDO) ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Li Yong, director-general Cheng Zhijun, executive director for China Li was the vice-minister at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance as well as a Cheng was the deputy director-general of the Department of International member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. Economic and Financial Cooperation at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance. He also Li also was the first secretary of China’s mission to the United Nations. served as deputy director-general of the Finance Department in the same ministry.

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO) Qu Dongyu, director-general INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB) Qu was the CCP’s vice-minister of agriculture and rural affairs. He also was the vice Yi Gang, governor governor of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the vice president of the Chinese Gang concurrently serves as the governor of the People’s Bank of China. Previously, Academy of Agricultural Sciences. he served as the bank’s vice governor and as director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

UN DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS (UN DESA) NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK (NDB) Liu Zhenmin, under-secretary-general Zhu Xian, vice president and chief operating officer Liu was previously vice-minister for foreign affairs of China. He began his career Zhu previously worked at the CCP’s Ministry of Finance as director-general of at the CCP’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982. He also was the ambassador and the International Department. He also worked in other departments including permanent representative to the CCP’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva. external finance, World Bank operations, and sovereign debt management.

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ) NEW DEVELOPMENT BANK Xue Hanqin, vice president Liu Kun, governor Xue was the Chinese ambassador to the U.K. and the Netherlands. She was also a member of Chinese Liu represents the CCP on the NDB Board of Governors. He concurrently serves as the CCP’s delegations in treaty negotiations in fields of international law such as outer space, human rights, minister of finance. Previously, he served as director of the Budgetary Affairs Commission of the nuclear safety, law of the sea, international criminal law, and diplomatic privileges and immunities. National People’s Congress, vice-minister of finance, and vice governor of Guangdong Province.

UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM (UNEP) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) Liu Jian, UN environment chief scientist and acting director of the science division Yi Xiaozhun, deputy director-general Liu previously was the deputy director-general of the Bureau of Resources and Environment Yi was previously the CCP’s assistant minister and subsequently vice-minister of at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the CCP’s national academy for the natural sciences. commerce in charge of multilateral and regional trade negotiations and cooperation. He also served as a diplomat at the Chinese Embassy in the United States for more than four years.

UN HUMAN SETTLEMENTS PROGRAM (UN-HABITAT) WTO APPELLATE BODY Yang Rong, officer-in-charge, regional programs division Zhao Hong, member Yang was the director-general of the Department of Building Energy Efficiency and Science & Zhao previously was vice president of the Chinese Academy of International Technology at the CCP’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. He also served as the Trade and Economic Cooperation, a research institution under the CCP’s deputy permanent representative of the CCP’s mission to UN-Habitat. Ministry of Commerce. She had been commissioner for trade negotiations at the Department for WTO Affairs at the CCP’s Ministry of Commerce.

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD) INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) Wu Guoqi, associate vice president, Corporate Services Department Yang Dazhu, deputy director-general and head of technical cooperation Wu previously worked for the CCP’s Ministry of Finance in various positions, Yang was previously the CCP’s director-general for international including chief of the G20/BRICS Division. cooperation at the China Atomic Energy Authority. He had also been the minister-counsellor of the Permanent Mission of China to the IAEA.

WORLD TOURISM ORGANIZATION (UNWTO) Zhu Shanzhong, executive director ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS (OPCW) Zhu was previously vice chairman of the CCP’s National Tourism Administration, Chen Kai, director of external relations which has since been dissolved. As vice chairman, he oversaw the composition and Chen previously held posts at the CCP’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was also China’s editing of key tourism documents such as the Mid- & Long-Term Planning of Inbound deputy permanent representative to the OPCW. He also served as vice president and Tourism in China and the 12th Five-Year Plan of Tourism Information Construction. secretary-general of the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association.

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COMMENTARY The Ties Between Beijing and Canada’s Elite and Powerful

CP PHOTO AP PHOTO/NG HAN GUAN CONTINUED FROM B1 André Desmarais was a board member of Quebec Premier Philippe CITIC Pacific, a subsidiary of CITIC, from Couillard attends a signing We’re seeing the results of this now, as Ottawa 1997 to 2014. During this period, Power ceremony between Canadian continues to dally in responding to Beijing’s Corp. bought stakes in CITIC Pacific. companies and their Chinese hostilities as it holds Canadians Michael Kovrig Power Corp. also has 13.9 percent owner- counterparts in Beijing on and Michael Spavor hostage, blocks Canadian ship in China Asset Management, an affili- Oct. 29, 2014. Couillard imports, persecutes Chinese people, and creates ate of CITIC. Mackenzie Financial Corpora- said that he wouldn’t raise the issue of human rights instability on the world stage. tion, an indirect subsidiary of Power Corp., during his trip. has a 13.9 percent stake in China Asset Man- Setting a Course agement as well. In 1970, the government of Prime Minister CITIC has included many CCP “prince- Pierre Trudeau became one of the first West- lings”—children of Party leaders—in its ern governments to establish diplomatic rela- leadership ranks, including Wang Jun, who tions with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the son of one of the CCP’s eight elders, as the ruler of China. Canada’s recognition of and Bo Xicheng, the brother of Bo Xilai and the regime paved the way for other Western son of Bo Yibo, one of the Party’s most senior countries to follow suit and for the CCP to join political figures. international bodies such as the United Nations. Paul Desmarais Sr. and André first met Establishing relations with communist China Rong during a business mission to China and bringing it into the United Nations was one at the invitation of Prime Minister Pierre of Trudeau’s primary foreign policy objectives Trudeau, according to La Presse. Before after he became prime minister in 1968. Power Corp. bought a stake in CITIC, the While on a visit to Moscow to attend a propa- Desmarais-Rong relationship had resulted ganda conference in 1952, long before becoming in another joint venture in 1986: an invest- prime minister, Trudeau, then a political activist ment in a pulp mill in British Columbia. from Quebec, reportedly told the wife of the U.S. For the 10 years as the prime 1994, bringing along premiers, foreign affairs in Canada’s China policy, with Harper more chargé d’affaires that he was a communist and ‘Expanding the Relationship’ minister, I met the president of officials, and some 400 business executives. vocally calling out Beijing’s human rights a Catholic and had come to Moscow to criticize Former prime minister Mulroney, who has China 17 times, so I was close The delegation signed $9 billion in trade deals violations. He also refused to go to the 2008 the United States and praise the Soviet Union, provided professional services to Power to China. while in China. Beijing Olympics, which angered the CCP. according to the 2013 book “The Truth About Corp. on different occasions, also sat on Ahead of the trip, Chrétien and other of- However, in the later years of his tenure, his

Trudeau” by Bob Plamondon. THE CANADIAN PRESS the board of CITIC after leaving office. -Ac FORMER PRIME MININSTER JEAN ficials said they would be using the visit to government began to ease its tone on China. Referring to the episode, columnist and author Brian Mulroney all served as advisory board cording to a Globe article, Paul Desmarais CHRÉTIEN discuss the issue of human rights. But that Manthorpe writes in “Claws of the Panda” Prime Minister in interview with Chinese state-owned Mark Milke wrote in Maclean’s that Trudeau members of Power Corp. after leaving office. Sr. was one of Mulroney’s two main mentors media CGTN issue was put aside, a Maclean’s article notes. that behind this warming up in tone was “a “may not have actually been a communist in Former prime minister Paul Martin was Pierre Trudeau as a young man. Power Corp. regularly used “We do not practise megaphone diplomacy, major lobby operation mounted using the shakes hands 1952 but his remarks revealed an inclination president of one of the company’s subsid- with Chairman Mulroney as a labour lawyer. but we do not practise doormat diplomacy CCP’s agents of influence in business and even then to skip over the brutality of commu- iaries, Canada Steamship Lines, and later Mao Zedong in According to the 2014 book “Engaging either,” a senior Foreign Affairs Department academia to get the Harper government to nist countries.” bought it with a partner in the 1980s. Beijing on Oct. China,” after a 1986 official visit to China official told Maclean’s at the time. change its attitude toward China.” Trudeau had travelled to China in 1949 as a In 2019, Chrétien said Canada’s justice 13, 1973. as prime minister, Mulroney wrote, “Much The article notes that the closest Chrétien After the Liberal Party won the 2015 fed- young man, and again in 1960 on a trip spon- minister should use his authority to stop remains to be done in expanding the re- came to discussing the issue was in a meeting eral election, it almost immediately began sored by the regime. He chronicled the latter the extradition of Huawei executive Meng Canadians lationship but persistent work by succes- with Chinese premier Li Peng. a policy of seeking closer ties with China, at trip with co-author Jacques Hébert in their book Wanzhou, who was arrested in Vancouver Michael sive Canadian prime ministers, principally “Chretien raised the issue so briefly that a one point even considering an extradition “Two Innocents in Red China.” in December 2018 on a U.S. extradition re- Kovrig (L) Pierre Trudeau, is clearly paying off.” Chinese foreign affairs ministry official later treaty with the regime. The government also During their visit, the two witnessed scenes quest. Mulroney advised that Chrétien and and Michael Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square insisted it had not come up at all, and Nova spent money on public relations initiatives of one of the darkest periods of the communist André Desmarais be sent to China on behalf Spavor, who massacre, when much of the Western Scotia Premier John Savage, who was at the to warm up Canadians to having closer ties regime, the Great Leap Forward, as noted in of Canada to negotiate the release of two have been in world shunned diplomatic ties with Bei- meeting, did not initially recall any mention with China. an article in The Globe and Mail. During this Canadians arrested by Beijing in retaliation captivity in jing, Mulroney told Zhu Rongji, China’s vice of the subject,” the article says. Trudeau visited China in 2016 and 2017, China since period, lasting from 1958 to 1962, Chairman for Meng’s arrest. In a reversal of position, December premier at the time, that Canada “would The approach of sidelining human rights pursuing preliminary talks toward a free Mao Zedong wanted to quickly bring industrial- Mulroney said this year he regrets making 2018. be prepared to fully engage with China in in favour of business interests has been far trade agreement, despite a $50 billion im- ization to China and forced farmers to produce the suggestion, telling the Globe that Can- the years ahead” but would need to be cau- too common a theme among many politi- balance in trade between the two countries steel rather than crops, with those deemed not ada should rethink its relations with China. tious because of Canadians’ concerns about cal leaders. in China’s favour. The talks failed in 2017 due complying facing torture and even death. The Several other prominent Canadian politi- Chengdu accounts of the involvement of Bo human rights. During a trip to China in 2014, then-Liberal to the Chinese side not wanting to entertain Great Leap Forward led to a devastating famine cians, including former cabinet ministers, and Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, in the murder of a Mulroney played a key role in forging a Quebec premier Philippe Couillard said he Trudeau’s request to consider progressive that killed tens of millions of people. have also worked for Power Corp. British businessman. partnership between Desmarais and en- would not be bringing up the issue of human values in the deal.

In their book, however, Trudeau and Hébert Another influential executive at the Bo was part of a faction loyal to former trepreneur Peter Munk to invest in gold AP PHOTO/ANDREW WONG, POOL rights, saying, “you have to listen to the point The same year, Canada committed hun- write, “We are convinced that we are witness- company was Maurice Strong, who later Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, a rival of cur- deposits in China in 1994, a year after the of view of your hosts on these questions.” dreds of millions of dollars in investment ing the beginning of an industrial revolution.” worked as the under-secretary-general of rent leader Xi Jinping. According to some end of his prime ministership. During a trip After leading another delegation to China in in Beijing’s prestige-building initiative, the During his official visit to China as prime minis- the United Nations. Strong is the nephew of accounts, Bo and some other officials in -Ji to China, Munk was impressed that Mul- 2018, during which he signed 40 agreements Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, ter in 1973, where he met with Mao and Premier prominent pro-communist reporter Anna ang’s faction had been plotting to overthrow roney was able to arrange a dinner with Zhu worth $262 million, Couillard said he didn’t meant to rival other multilateral develop- Zhou Enlai, Trudeau praised the regime for its Louise Strong. According to the Epoch Xi, and this was one of the main reasons Bo Rongji, then head of China’s central bank, want to “defeat” the purpose of the mission ment banks such as the World Bank. governance, saying the system it had developed Times series “How the Spectre of Commu- was removed from power. without whom they wouldn’t be able to get with “misguided comments.” He said others Despite a clause in the United States-Mexi- “in comparison with all previous Chinese social nism Is Ruling Our World,” Maurice Strong Both Bo and wife Gu were heavily in- access to China’s gold deposits. shouldn’t “dictate to China how they govern co-Canada Agreement (USMCA) preventing systems, is striving to provide human dignity and was deeply influenced by his aunt and de- volved in—and profiting from—the state- “This is a good example of how Brian [Mul- themselves internally.” member countries from forming free trade equality of opportunity for the Chinese people.” scribed himself as “a socialist in ideology sanctioned harvesting of organs from Falun roney] uses his connections and contacts Former Progressive Conservative deputy deals with “non-market” economies—a clear Trudeau’s comment came at a time when Mao and a capitalist in methodology.” Dafa prisoners of conscience. and turns them into international business prime minister Jean Charest, who was pre- reference to China—Trudeau said in 2018 that was in the middle of his disastrous and bloody After retirement, Strong moved to Beijing, Chrétien once called Bo an “old friend,” opportunities for the companies he’s in- mier of Quebec from 2003 to 2012, criticized Ottawa intends to pursue deeper trade ties Cultural Revolution, which resulted in an es- where he lived for the rest of his life. In a and he was called “one of our key bridges” volved with,” Munk told the Globe. the Harper government in 2014 for not pursu- with the Chinese communist regime. timated death toll ranging from hundreds of 2010 interview with the Guardian, he said by Sergio Marchi, a former Liberal trade ing trade ties more aggressively with China. The Liberal government was criticized by thousands to 20 million, with millions of Chi- he still maintained some cooperation with minister and a past president of the CCBC, ‘Pro-Beijing Turn’ Charest is now providing consulting ser- the opposition and U.S. politicians for allow- nese suffering from torture and humiliation, the United Nations “in particular to China according to The Globe and Mail. Under the leadership of Chrétien, Canada vices to Huawei to help the company in ing the takeover of two security-sensitive seizure of property, and the destruction of the and that region.” Behind some of the most The relationship between Bo and the busi- became much more pro-Beijing. Meng’s extradition case and in its bid to be high-tech companies by Chinese companies. economy and traditional culture. Power Corp. is a founding member of the aggressive lobbying efforts for ness community is rooted in the close ties Chrétien once told the Chinese state- involved in Canada’s 5G network. The for- One was Norsat, a Vancouver-based satellite At Beijing’s insistence, Trudeau refused to is- Canada China Business Council (CCBC), stronger Canada-China ties is he had with the Desmarais family. owned news network CGTN that he visited mer premier, as well as Eddie Goldenberg, communications firm, and the other was ITF sue permits to allow Taiwan to take part in the which was spearheaded by Paul Desmarais The Globe reported last year that Bo’s China “many, many” times when he was Prime Minister Jean Chrétien former senior political advisor to Chrétien, Technologies, a Montreal-based laser tech- meets with Chinese leader Jiang 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, even though Sr. The business mogul once remarked that a handful of big corporations son, Bo Guagua, is working for Power prime minister. were among several Canadian politicians nology company. with extensive business Zemin before their bilateral talks in the team was recognized by the International Mao was one of the four historical figures Corp. But the ties go all the way back to “For the 10 years as the prime minister, I Shanghai on Oct. 20, 2001. whose name was in a dossier of key Cana- In 2016, Trudeau’s attendance at cash-for- Olympic Committee (IOC). To refuse entry to he respected most. operations in China, many of the time of Paul Desmarais Sr. and Bo Xi- met the president of China 17 times, so I was dian influencers Beijing provided to Huawei access events became a source of contro- a country recognized by the IOC was unprec- them based in Quebec. lai’s father. According to the Globe, Bo’s close to China,” Chrétien told CGTN. The to advance its interests in Canada, accord- versy after it was revealed that some of the edented and met with strong objections by the Canada China Business Council father, Bo Yibo, at that time vice-premier Chinese leader during Chrétien’s tenure was ing to the Globe, which obtained a copy of guests had ties to the Beijing regime. One of United States. The CCBC advocates for strong relations of the CCP, visited Paul Desmarais Sr. in Jiang Zemin, who came to power following the dossier. the guests was Zhang Bin, an adviser to the Trudeau’s admiration for the CCP had long- with China and has counted among its the 1970s while en route to Washington the Tiananmen Square massacre, as the During Chrétien’s tenure, Canada with- Chinese regime. The event was held at the term implications and set in motion decades ranks former politicians or individuals who to lay the groundwork for U.S. President previous leader, Zhao Ziyang, was deemed drew its support for a U.N. resolution cen- mansion of Benson Wong, president of the of China-appeasing policies. went on to become politicians. Richard Nixon’s trip to China. too sympathetic to the protest movement. suring China for human rights abuses in Toronto Chinese Chamber of Commerce. In 2013, when his son Justin Trudeau, then the Paul Desmarais Sr. was the founding chair Shortly after Bo became China’s com- Jiang went on to launch a brutal campaign of 1997. Instead, any talk of human rights was The cost of attendance was $1,500 per person. leader of the Liberal Party seeking to become the of CCBC. His son André is an honourary merce minister in 2004, Power Corp. was persecution against the traditional medita- Two men chat next to the offices reserved for private meetings, where Chinese Zhang, together with a partner, donated $1 next prime minister, was asked which country chair of the organization, and the current one of the first foreign companies receiving tion discipline Falun Dafa in 1999. of CITIC Pacific in Hong Kong in a representatives simply brushed off the issue. million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Founda- he admired most, he said: “There’s a level of chair is André’s son, Olivier. designation to buy and sell yuan-denomi- After the 1989 Tiananmen Square mas- file photo. Power Corp. bought a The year 1997 was also a key year for tion and the University of Montreal Faculty admiration I actually have for China. Their basic CCBC, formerly called the Canada China nated shares on Chinese stock exchanges, sacre, Chrétien was one of the first world significant stake in CITIC Pacific, Power Corp.’s foray into CITIC, as that was of Law, where Pierre Trudeau had taught. dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn Trade Council, was founded in 1978 by eight the Globe notes. leaders to bring China out of isolation, re- a subsidiary of CITIC, in 1997, when it acquired a significant stake in the Also in attendance at one of the events their economy around on a dime.” major Canadian corporations and the Chi- booting relations with Beijing after the West and André Desmarais was a board company’s subsidiary CITIC Pacific and was Liu Meng, chairman of the Yangtze nese state-owned company CITIC. CITIC-Power Corp. Ties had shunned the regime for its killing of member of the subsidiary from André Desmarais became a board member River International Chamber of Commerce 1997 to 2014. Corporate Ties Half of the Canadian founding members— EW AN CITIC Group Corporation, the only China- unarmed protesters. of the subsidiary. and a member of the CCP, according to the DR GERE R/G Behind some of the most aggressive lobbying namely Power Corp., BMO Financial ET based founding member of the CCBC, is Chrétien made a trade visit to China in Chrétien also supported China’s ad- Globe. Another attendee was Shenglin Xian, TY IM efforts for stronger Canada-China ties is a hand- Group, Bombardier, and SNC-Laval- A one of the Chinese entities that Power Corp. mission to the World Trade Organization, founder of Wealth One Bank of Canada, who G E ful of big corporations with extensive business in—are based in Montreal. The oth- S has deep ties with. The company is a state- which was instrumental in enriching the at the time was waiting for approval from operations in China. er founding members are Barrick owned investment company established regime’s coffers. federal regulators to start his bank opera- The Montreal-based Power Corporation, a Gold Corp., Export Development to bring in Western investment to China. Martin, who succeeded Chrétien as prime tion in Canada. multibillion-dollar financial services company, Canada, Manulife Financial, and According to “Hidden Hand,” Paul Des- minister, maintained his predecessor’s China The Liberal government has yet to rule has been described as “the premier gatekeep- Sun Life Financial, the latter based marais Sr. was the main force behind policy. During a 2005 trip by Chinese leader out including Chinese telecom giant Hua- er of [Canada’s] formal relations with China” by in Montreal until 1978. bringing CITIC into the CCBC, “and thus Hu Jintao to Canada, Martin and Hu agreed wei’s equipment in Canada’s 5G networks, author Jonathan Manthorpe in his 2019 book The book “Claws of the Panda” into the most senior levels of Canada’s to build a “strategic partnership” between despite security concerns from the intel- “Claws of the Panda.” says the founding CCBC members business elite.” the two countries. ligence community and the United States, In 1968, the company came under the control “became a persuasive lobby for en- CITIC was founded with the personal ap- Some of the biggest orders for Martin’s which has warned it would limit intelligence of Paul Desmarais Sr. and was run by his sons hanced relations with China, for which the proval of Deng Xiaoping, the paramount shipbuilding business before he became sharing with Canada if it allowed Huawei in Paul Jr. and André serving as co-CEOs until last benefits of trade were held to be of para- André Desmarais, son leader of the Chinese regime after Mao’s prime minister came from China. Accord- the country’s 5G. year, when they announced they were stepping mount concern.” of Power Corp. founder death. Its founder, Rong Yiren, later a vice- PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP IMAGES VIA GETTY ing to an article published in the Walrus, in According to scholar Hamilton, untangling down from their roles as CEOs but staying on as The Canada-China business community Paul Desmarais Sr. president of the People’s Republic of China, 1995 his Canada Steamship Lines company the CCP’s influence in Canada is a 10-year chairman and deputy chairman respectively. has strong links with a once-powerful Chi- was known as “the red capitalist.” commissioned three new self-unloader struggle, as “the influence of the CCP runs Some of Canada’s most influential people nese official, Bo Xilai. According to the 2019 book “Chinese vessels from the Chinese state-owned Ji- very deep in Canadian institutions.” have links to Power Corp., including four for- Bo was a rising star of the CCP until he Spies,” the leadership of CITIC “is known angnan shipyards. If our leaders want to seriously put the in- mer prime ministers. was removed from his post as Party chief to harbour within its ranks a large number terests of Canadians first rather than those of Former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s daugh- of the megacity of Chongqing after a scan- o Chinese secret agents. “Hidden Hand” Resuming Close Ties a few among the business elite, they should ter is married to André Desmarais. Chrétien, dal involving Chongqing official Wang -Li adds that the company has close links with When Stephen Harper became prime minis- make the effort to start today—and achieve Pierre Trudeau, and former prime minister jun. Wang gave the American Consulate in the People’s Liberation Army. ter in 2006, there was a considerable change it much sooner than 10 years. B8 | SPECIAL REPORT OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 | B9 ‘Generational Threat’: US Taking Unprecedented Steps to Counter Communist China

As Washington pushes back against an increasingly hostile Beijing, a number of countries a Marxist-Leninist regime, saying that “it’s counterintelligence investigation that ties a “transnational criminal organization” and investigation into Beijing’s handling of the this ideology that informs [Chinese leader back to China every 10 hours.” eliminate sovereign immunity for CCP of- COVID-19 outbreak that allowed it to spread are also taking action against the threat posed by the regime Xi Jinping’s] decades-long desire for global Wray has called the Chinese regime “the ficials—which would allow them to be tried around the world, and didn’t back down in hegemony of Chinese communism.” greatest long-term threat” to the United States. in U.S. court for criminal prosecution. the face of the CCP’s threats; and the U.K. is

ERIC BARADAT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES He asked democracies to work together to The China Task Force, made up of House If the legislation passes, it would add the planning to phase out Huawei equipment CONTINUED FROM B1 and India, which, along with the United defend against the expansive threats posed Republicans, released a report on Sept. 30 CCP to the Department of Justice’s Top Inter- from the country’s 5G networks. States, form the so-called Quad alliance. by the CCP, calling it a choice “between that they described as a “comprehensive national Criminal Organizations Target list. Measures similar to those taken by the “The days of American passivity and naivety “This is not a rivalry between the United freedom and tyranny.” blueprint” to counter a range of threats In its first-ever report on security threats United States or other countries to counter regarding the People’s Republic of China States and China—this is for the soul of the 2,000 “We, the freedom-loving nations of the posed by the CCP. The report made more to the United States released on Oct. 6, the Beijing are not in the works in Canada, are over,” O’Brien said in a speech in June world,” Pompeo told Japan’s public broad- INVESTIGATIONS world, must induce China to change ... in than 400 recommendations to respond to Department of Homeland Security iden- despite the fact that Canada faces the same about the CCP’s ideology and global ambi- caster NHK. “This is about whether this more creative and assertive ways, because the regime’s malign actions against the tified Beijing as a state actor that poses a situation. Canada still hasn’t made a deci- The FBI currently tions, noting that “the Chinese Communist will be a world that operates [as] a rules- has more than Beijing’s actions threaten our people and United States and the free world, dubbing “significant threat.” Among a list of con- sion on whether to exclude Huawei equip- Party does not equal China or her people.” based international order system, or one 2,000 active inves- our prosperity,” he said. the CCP a “generational threat.” cerns were disinformation campaigns, dip- ment from its 5G networks, making it the Because the CCP threat is worldwide, that’s dominated by a coercive totalitarian tigations that trace Internal U.S. counteractions have also “Now the greatest challenge for this gen- lomatic pressure, and counterfeit medical only member of the Five Eye intelligence Pompeo has been working to create a bloc, regime like the one in China.” back to the Chinese ramped up. FBI Director Chris Wray eration is the Chinese Communist Party. products exported to the United States. alliance that hasn’t yet done so. what he has termed “a new grouping of like- He called on the group to collaborate Communist Party. said in July that the bureau currently has It is a generational struggle. And this is a As Washington pushes back against Our infographic below takes a look at minded nations—a new alliance of democ- against what he called Beijing’s “exploita- more than 2,000 active investigations that generational document that will guide the the CCP for its technology theft, human some of the key actions the United States racies,” to stand together against the regime. tion, corruption, and coercion.” trace back to the CCP, marking a roughly Congress for many years to come,” said the rights violations, and military aggres- and other countries have taken against As part of building such an alliance— The FBI headquarters 5G—he has met with officials in Europe In his groundbreaking speech in Cali- 1,300 percent increase in economic es- task force’s chair Rep. Michael McCaul. sion, a number of other countries are the Chinese regime. as well as persuading countries to avoid in Washington and Israel. On Oct. 6 in Tokyo, he met with fornia in July, Pompeo said it needs to be pionage probes with links to the Chinese On Oct. 1, Republican Rep. Scott Perry also taking action to counter the regime. Chinese telecom giant Huawei for their on April 3, 2019. his counterparts from Japan, Australia, recognized that the CCP is fundamentally regime. He said the bureau opens “a new introduced a bill to designate the CCP as For example, Australia called for an With files from Bowen Xiao

World Actions Against Beijing’s Threats US has taken the most actions by far in recent months against threats posed by the Chinese regime

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A Hikvision camera at a shopping The logos of TikTok and WeChat. The Huawei logo. NYPD officer Baimadajie Angwang. The Department of Justice People move items in bags from A sign for Wall Street in New York. U.S. Navy fighter jets in South U.S. Secretary of State Xi Jinping inaugurates a Confucius mall in Beijing. sign in Washington. the Chinese Consulate in Houston. China Sea in October 2019. Mike Pompeo. Institute in Australia in 2010. US Takes Action on US Takes Action on US Slaps New Export US Cracks Down US Targets US Closes Chinese US May Delist Chinese US Strengthens US Holds CCP Global Actions on Chinese Companies, Chinese Companies, Rules on China on Chinese Espionage CCP Members Consulate, Sanctions Companies From Presence in Accountable Huawei, Confucius State Media State Media Chinese Officials Stock Exchanges Indo-Pacific for Pandemic Institutes Washington has labelled Continued In April, the U.S. Com- U.S. federal prosecutors Washington, on national In an unprecedented move Washington announced The United States said Several lawmakers have In July, British Prime Min- nine Chinese state-owned added to the list because of their merce Department announced new China- security grounds, has this summer, the United in August a proposal to in July that China has no proposed bills targeting ister Boris Johnson said he outlets, including CGTN and People’s links to the Chinese military or released new export control rules to related espionage cases almost banned anyone “who is or has been States ordered the Chinese Consu- delist Chinese companies from U.S. legal grounds for most of its mari- Beijing’s role in the pandemic. In July, plans to phase out Huawei equipment Daily, as foreign missions, identifying human rights abuses. prevent efforts by entities in China every week in the last few months. a member of or affiliated with the late in Houston to close, with Secre- stock exchanges if they fail to com- time claims in the South China Sea. six Republican senators jointly intro- from the country’s 5G networks. them as propaganda organs of the In April, the Federal Communications to acquire U.S. technology that could Some notable examples include the Communist or any other totalitar- tary of State Mike Pompeo accusing ply with U.S. securities laws and In August, the Pentagon warned duced a bill allowing affected Ameri- The United States, Australia, New Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Commission (FCC) threatened to bar aid the Chinese military. The rules arrest of a New York City police officer ian party” from immigrating to the the facility of being a “hub of spying investor protection requirements. Beijing over its ballistic missile cans to file lawsuits against the Chi- Zealand, Czech Republic, Denmark, U.S. Senate has also introduced a bill four Chinese state-controlled telecom require U.S. companies to obtain accused of spying for the Chinese United States, with two categories and intellectual property theft.” In a report by the President’s launches in the South China Sea, nese government in U.S. courts. Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania, to limit Chinese state media journal- firms—China Telecom, China Unicom, licences to sell certain items—includ- Consulate; five Chinese nationals of exceptions covering involuntary In September, the United States Working Group on Financial Mar- saying it has destabilized the situ- The states of Missouri and Mis- Japan, and Sweden have all banned ists’ presence in the United States. and Pacific Networks Corp. and its sub- ing semiconductor equipment and charged with hacking more than 100 membership and past membership. said it now requires senior Chinese kets, the U.S. Treasury recom- ation in the region. The U.S. Navy sissippi as well as individuals and Huawei from their networks. In August, Washington designated sidiary ComNet—from operating in sensors—to companies in China that companies and entities worldwide; a Members of the CCP and its affili- diplomats to get State Department mended that companies from stated that its guided-missile businesses in multiple states Huawei was also ousted from the the Confucius Institute U.S. Center the United States unless they can show support the military, even if the items Chinese researcher at the University ated organizations are expected to approval before visiting U.S. univer- China and other countries that do destroyer USS Mustin conducted including Florida, Texas, California, heart of the European Union after as a foreign mission of the CCP. On they are free of influence from Beijing. are indicated to be for civilian use. of California, Los Angeles, charged be affected most by the new pol- sity campuses or holding cultural not comply with U.S. auditing and “routine operations in the waters” and Pennsylvania have filed law- competitor Nokia won two major Sept. 1, Secretary of State Mike In June, the FCC designated Huawei In May, the United States blocked with destroying evidence (a hard icy, as the CCP is the world’s largest events with more than 50 people accounting standards be delisted near the Paracel Islands to ensure a suits against Beijing, seeking tril- Belgian 5G contracts. Pompeo said he is hopeful the Bei- and ZTE as national security threats, Huawei from buying semiconduc- drive) to hamper an FBI investigation communist party. outside mission grounds. from U.S. stock exchanges start- “Free and Open Indo-Pacific.” lions of dollars in compensation. EU members have been stepping up jing-controlled Confucius Institutes as both are subject to Chinese law, tors from global chipmakers that into whether he had transferred sen- As of the week of Sept. 8, U.S. In June, the State Department ing on Jan. 1, 2022. On Oct. 7, Defence Secretary On Sept. 22, President Don- scrutiny of high-risk vendors. This sub- will be gone from U.S. university which obligates them to cooperate are made with U.S. technology. This sitive software or data to China; a for- authorities had revoked more than imposed visa restrictions on certain The U.S. Senate had passed a Mark Esper said the Pentagon ald Trump told the U.N. General jects Huawei’s governance and tech- campuses by the end of the year. with Beijing’s intelligence agencies. action cut off supplies to Huawei mer CIA officer arrested for allegedly 1,000 visas of Chinese nationals over CCP officials deemed responsible for bipartisan bill in May to force plans to have more than 500 Navy Assembly that the world “must hold nology to critical examination and is In February, U.S. prosecutors The same month, the Pentagon and closed a loophole that the com- spying for China for a decade; a NASA military links, following a proclamation undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. Chinese companies listed on U.S. ships in its fleet by 2045 to counter China accountable for their actions” likely to lead other European operators charged Huawei with conspiracy named 20 Chinese companies that pany had been exploiting after being researcher arrested and accused of issued in May by President Donald In July, the department imposed stock exchanges to open their China’s growing military ambitions that led to the global pandemic. to strip it from their networks. to steal trade secrets. are either owned or controlled by the placed on the U.S. entity list last year. hiding his funding from China; and a Trump. The proclamation was to limit sanctions and visa restrictions on audit books to U.S. regulators or and other threats. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Beijing’s Confucius Institutes (CIs) Hundreds of Chinese companies Chinese military. These companies In September, Washington former chair of Harvard University’s Beijing’s ability to leverage Chinese Chinese officials linked to rights face delisting. The United States has also taken said in May that China did every- have also faced backlash in several and government entities, including include mobile operators China imposed export restrictions on Chi- chemistry department indicted for graduate students and researchers abuses in Xinjiang, and also imposed The bill would require companies a series of moves to strengthen thing it could “to make sure the countries for alleged efforts to advance Huawei and 114 of its non-U.S. affili- Mobile and China Telecom, rail car na’s biggest chipmaker, Semiconduc- making false statements about fund- to steal U.S. technology, intellectual visa restrictions on certain employ- to certify that “they are not owned relations with Taiwan, including world didn’t learn in a timely fash- the authoritarian regime’s agenda. ates, have been placed on the Com- manufacturer CRRC, and video sur- tor Manufacturing International Corp. ing he received from China. property, and information to develop ees of Chinese technology compa- or controlled by a foreign govern- stepped-up arms sales and sup- ion” about the virus outbreak. Since McMaster University closed merce Department’s “entity list,” veillance manufacturer Hikvision. and its subsidiaries, over concerns FBI Director Chris Wray said in June advanced military capabilities. nies, including Huawei, that aid the ment,” according to U.S. Rep. John port for the island’s participation in “China behaved like authoritarian its CI in 2013, more than 50 other meaning that American firms need In August, the White House about its alleged connections to the that the bureau had more than 2,000 On Oct. 1, lawmakers introduced regime in rights abuses. In August, Kennedy who sponsored the bill. international forums, such as the regimes do, attempted to conceal universities in other parts of Canada, to obtain special licences in order to issued executive orders to ban We- Chinese military, requiring U.S. firms active investigations connected to the a bill to designate the CCP a “trans- the U.S. Treasury Department Speaking about the bill on the Sen- WHO and the United Nations. and hide and confuse,” Pompeo the United States, Australia, Ger- do business with them. Dozens Chat and TikTok from the United to apply for a licence to export certain CCP. He said the bureau opens “a new national criminal organization” and imposed sanctions on Hong Kong ate floor in May, Kennedy said he told ABC. many, France, Sweden, Netherlands, of the Chinese companies were States if they are not sold by their products to that company. counterintelligence investigation that eliminate sovereign immunity for and Chinese officials for undermining wanted “China to play by the rules.” Belgium, and Denmark have severed Continued Chinese-owned parent companies. ties back to China every 10 hours.” Chinese officials. the city’s autonomy and freedoms. their ties with the program.

Japanese soldiers train on A paramilitary police officer Riot police chase demonstrators Police violently detain a Falun Gong Indian Prime Minister Australian Foreign Minister Lena Hallengren, Zdenek Hrib, European Commission President British Foreign Secretary a beach by the South China Sea. stands guard in Beijing in May. in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. adherent in Beijing in 2000. Narendra Modi. Marise Payne. Swedish minister of health. mayor of Prague. Ursula von der Leyen. Dominic Raab. Global Actions to Global Actions to Hold Global Actions to Global Actions on India Toughens Australia Criticizes Sweden Closes All Czech Republic EU Adopts New UK Makes a U-Turn Counter China CCP Accountable Support Freedom Human Rights in China Stance on China Beijing’s Handling Confucius Institutes Politicians Slam Strategy on China on Huawei in Indo-Pacific for Pandemic in Hong Kong of Pandemic Beijing In July, India and the All 194 WHO In July, the U.K. began In June, 50 U.N. experts India toughened its The Australian govern- Sweden has closed all of The Czech Senate The European Union British Prime Minis- United States held a joint member states have offering a path to citizen- called for decisive stance on China fol- ment has been one of its Confucius Institutes adopted a resolution adopted a new strate- ter Boris Johnson has military exercise in the Indian Ocean. unanimously adopted a resolution ship to eligible Hongkongers follow- measures to protect fundamental lowing deadly clashes at its dis- the most forceful critics of Bei- (CIs), making it the first country criticizing Beijing for sending gic stance on China in March 2019, made a U-turn on his decision The U.S Navy says its presence was to investigate the international ing the passing of Beijing’s draco- freedoms in China. puted border in the Himalayas in jing for its mishandling of the pan- in Europe to close all of its CIs and a letter with a threatening labelling the country as a “systemic regarding Huawei, and now plans to “provide security throughout the response to the pandemic. nian national security law for Hong In July, marking 21 years mid-June, when 20 Indian sol- demic, including pushing for the associated classrooms, which are tone to former Senate speaker rival.” The following month, an EU- to phase out use of the Chinese region while building partnerships Lawmakers in many countries, Kong on June 30. Canada has also since the start of the persecution diers were killed by Chinese establishment of an independent controlled and funded by the Jaroslav Kubera. The letter from wide framework for the screening tech giant’s technology in the with friends and allies.” including opposition MPs in started accepting Hong Kong pro- of Falun Gong adherents by the troops. Since then, Indian politi- inquiry into the virus outbreak, Chinese regime. the Chinese Embassy said his of foreign direct investments (FDI) country’s 5G networks. The two countries are part of Canada, have pushed their democracy activists as refugees. CCP, over 640 lawmakers from 32 cians, traders, and ordinary citi- which has garnered the support of Though billed as Chinese lan- planned trip to Taiwan would entered into force, under the ration- Several British MPs have openly a four-member forum dubbed the governments to revisit their China In response to Beijing’s measures, countries including Canada signed zens have initiated campaigns to over 100 countries. guage and cultural centres, the create “complications for Czech ale that an FDI in one member state criticized Beijing in the past year. Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, policy as well in light of the CCP’s multiple countries, including Can- a joint statement calling on the boycott Chinese products. Australia has also made signifi- institutes have drawn mounting companies trading with China.” could pose risks to other member In June, MP Daniel Kawczynski or Quad, along with Japan and handling of the pandemic. ada, have suspended their extradi- Party to immediately stop the per- The Indian government has also cant changes to its foreign invest- international criticism over their The current Senate speaker, states or the whole union. expressed concerns about the con- Australia. In April, over 200 China experts tion agreements with Hong Kong. secution. U.S. Secretary of State banned 118 Chinese phone applica- ment laws. The changes were role in stifling free speech and pro- Milos Vystrcil, visited Taiwan at On June 17, the European Com- sequences of Britain losing its claim Quad nations have vowed to and politicians from around the In May, the United States and Mike Pompeo and Alberta Premier tions, including TikTok and WeChat. driven in part by concerns that moting Chinese propaganda and the end of August despite threats mission issued a white paper setting over the Chagos Islands. “If Mauri- step up coordination to keep the world, including several Canadian U.K. had already called on the Jason Kenney issued similar state- In April, the Indian government financially distressed Austral- influence in academic institutions. from China. He said, “I am inclined forth its policy of preventing foreign tius manages to grab these islands Indo-Pacific open and free, coun- MPs, signed an open letter United Nations to take action ments. The Inter-Parliamentary enacted stricter rules on invest- ian assets were being targeted by Multiple Swedish cities have also to uphold morals and values investors, especially from China, off us, they will lease these islands tering what Washington has expressing concern over the against Beijing’s clampdown on Alliance on China also called for an ments from companies based in foreign takeovers, particularly by ended their sister-city agreements instead of counting money.” from using government subsidies to to the Chinese,” he said, noting that called China’s “exploitation, cor- Chinese regime’s coverup of the freedoms in Hong Kong. And the end to the persecution. countries that share a land border China, as a result of the pandemic. with Chinese cities in the past year. Prague Mayor Zdenek Hrib, outbid rivals for European assets. China would then extend its influ- ruption and coercion” of smaller pandemic, saying that its rule by United States, U.K., Canada, and In October, 39 nations called with India, requiring those invest- In mid-June, Australian Foreign In April, the federal health min- who called Beijing an “unrelia- In April, the European External ence in the Indian Ocean. states in the region. fear endangers not only Chinese Australia expressed “deep con- on China to respect the human ments to first obtain its approval. Minister Marise Payne called out ister told Parliament that Sweden ble business partner” last Decem- Action Service issued a report on MP Tom Tugendhat condemned Also in July, the United States, citizens but also the world. cern” over the proposed security rights of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and The trade ministry said the aim Russia and China for spreading dis- would push for the EU to support an ber, signed a sister-city agreement COVID-19 disinformation, in which Beijing’s mishandling of the virus Australia, and Japan held joint Legal action against the Beijing law in a joint statement. Hongkongers, and a coalition of was to curb “opportunistic” take- information about the pandemic. “international, independent inves- with Taipei in January. it noted “evidence of a coordinated outbreak, saying the regime naval exercises in the Philippine regime for its handling of the virus In June, Washington announced over 150 groups in some 90 cit- overs and acquisitions of Indian On July 1, Prime Minister Scott tigation” to look into the origin and The friendship between the Czech push by official Chinese sources “relies on a toxic brew of lies and Sea. Warships from the three outbreak has been launched in an end to exports of U.S.-ori- ies around the world held rallies companies under financial dis- Morrison announced 270 bil- the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Republic and Taiwan dates back to deflect any blame for the out- fear to maintain power and con- countries joined forces in a show several countries, including the gin defence equipment to Hong to protest the Chinese regime’s tress due to the pandemic. lion Australian dollars in addi- A December 2019 Pew Research to the 1990s, when former Czech break” and said there is “signifi- trol over its people, and this is of strength as Beijing reportedly United States, India, Israel, Egypt, Kong. Two months later, the United human rights abuses as it cele- Recently, Indian media reported tional spending on defence over Center poll showed that 70 per- president Vaclav Havel in 1995 told cant evidence of covert Chinese why it has hidden the truth from continued live-fire drills in the Turkey, Argentina, and Nigeria. States suspended or terminated brated its 71st year of rule. that the government is considering the next decade to address eco- cent of respondents in Sweden hold the U.N. General Assembly to offer operations on social media” that the moment the virus first hit.” South China Sea in the region. three bilateral agreements with In July 2019, a coalition of 22 banning Chinese tech giants Hua- nomic and strategic uncertainty unfavourable views of China. Taiwan a seat in the United Nations. for example sought to praise Chi- A poll conducted in July showed Hong Kong covering extradition countries asked China to end its mass wei and ZTE from providing equip- in part due to tensions between na’s handling of the crisis while that British voters supported and tax exemptions. detentions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. ment to the country’s state-run tel- China and the United States. attacking the United States. a tougher stance on China. ecommunications companies. B10 | SPECIAL REPORT OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020

Special editorial SerieS How the Spectre of Communism Is Ruling Our World

Editor’s note: To help readers understand the objective and some of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe have disintegrated, the spectre strategies and tactics the Chinese Communist Party uses to influence, control, of communism has not disappeared. On the contrary, this evil spectre is already and subvert Western countries including Canada, we are including in our special ruling our world, and humanity must not harbour a mistaken sense of optimism. edition an excerpt from the book “How the Spectre of Communism is Ruling Communist China has replaced the Soviet Union as the primary threat to the free Our World,” published by The Epoch Times. The book explains that although the world, building up its strength in a bid for global hegemony.

communist regimes; in Eastern European coun- including human values and human dignity. Introduction tries, communist ideology and customs still exert After establishing massive dictatorships in the a significant influence; and in African and South Soviet Union and China, communism came to he collapse of the communist regimes American countries, socialism is practised un- rule billions of people and caused more than An excerpt in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe der the banner of democracy and republicanism. 100 million unnatural deaths in less than a cen- from the marked the end of a 50-year Cold War Then there are the nations of Western Europe and tury. In its overt attempts at world revolution, introduction to “How the T between the capitalist and communist North America, which have become host to com- the communist bloc brought the world to the Spectre of camps in the West and the East. At the time, munist influences without people even realizing it. brink of nuclear war; meanwhile, leftist thinkers Communism many were optimistic, believing that commu- Communism breeds war, famine, slaughter, and activists have promoted the deliberate and is Ruling Our nism had become a relic of the past. and tyranny. These in themselves are terrifying widespread destruction of the family, social or- World.” The sad truth, however, is that a transmogri- enough, but the damage dealt by communism der, and traditional morality. fied communist ideology has taken hold and en- goes far beyond this. It has become increasingly What is the nature of communism? What is trenched itself around the world. In China, North clear that, unlike any other system in history, its objective? Why does it take mankind as its Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam, there are outright communism declares war on humanity itself — enemy? How can we escape it? The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Ambitions The Aim of United Front Work: Disintegrating the Free World From Within

On Dec. 18, 2018, the Chinese Communist and businesspeople; academicians and agents in those nations in order to further When this doesn’t work, the regime uses Party (CCP) celebrated the 40th anniversa- members of think tanks; overseas Chinese spread communist ideology. threats and intimidation to exploit their ry of China’s so-called reform and opening leaders, businessmen, and students; the The CCP uses the same tactics on those in fears or mistakes, effectively blackmailing up. It awarded the China Reform Friendship movie and entertainment industries; and the financial sector and a number of other them into assisting the Party. In some cases, Medal to 10 influential foreigners to “thank overseas dissidents. industries. Business people and entrepre- the CCP has even provided transplant or- the international community for support- neurs are treated as kings and given busi- gans obtained by killing to buy off influen- ing China’s reform.” The 10 included Juan Politicians and Businesspeople ness incentives. In return, they become the tial figures in need of a transplant. Antonio Samaranch, former president of CCP’s voice for lobbying their governments The resources the CCP is able to bring the International Olympic Committee, The USCC report says the CCP regards and influencing their countries’ financial to bear to infiltrate other countries defy which had selected China to host the 2008 its United Front as an important tool to and economic policies. In the U.S.–China the imagination, and the facts uncovered Olympics Games; and Robert Lawrence strengthen domestic and international sup- trade war, the CCP had frequent contact at present are only the tip of the iceberg. Kuhn, an American businessman who lent port for the Party. This includes buying off with Wall Street tycoons. Many top finan- People in all walks of life, especially in poli- his name as author of a fawning biography Western politicians. Through persuasion, cial companies and international corpora- tics and business, have become the CCP’s of former CCP head Jiang Zemin. temptation, and relationship-building, the tions do business in China. To help expand pawns in its unrestricted warfare cam- Over the past few decades, countless poli- CCP maintains close ties with many high- their business there, these companies hire paign. Almost all countries in the world ticians and celebrities have acted as accom- level officials in Western governments. The numerous children of high-ranking Chi- have begun to feel the CCP’s global ambi- plices to the CCP’s “united front” tactics. Party treats these politicians as its “state trea- nese officials, called “princelings.” In turn, tions and its evil, unrestricted means. Mao labelled the United Front Work De- sures,” giving them lavish gifts and confer- these princelings act as the Party’s eyes, The above is an abbreviated excerpt of partment (UFWD) as one of the CCP’s ring upon them titles such as “old friends of ears, and voice in those companies. Chapter 18: The Chinese Communist Party’s “three magic treasures.” Western govern- China.” Among them are current and former Global Ambitions, 3. Unrestricted Warfare ments have been deceived and suffered United Nations secretaries general, heads of Academic Circles and Think Tanks With Chinese Communist Characteristics, losses by these tactics, but some are begin- state, high-ranking government officials, se- b. The Aim of United Front Work: ning to wake up, and a number of investi- nior government advisers, heads of interna- Many think tanks in the West directly shape Disintegrating the Free World From Within. gative reports about the United Front have tional organizations, famous academics and their country’s policies and strategy toward been published. think-tank scholars, and media consortium China; therefore, the CCP pays them special To read all 18 chapters online, A 2018 report by the U.S.–China Economic tycoons. All these people in the United Front attention. The CCP exerts control over think go to theepochtimes.com and Security Review Commission (USCC) network are expected to voice their support tanks via financial sponsorship. It has titled “China’s Overseas United Front for the CCP at crucial moments. bribed, controlled, or influenced almost all Work” outlines the CCP’s overseas United .... think tanks related to China. The Chinese The 36 Strategies Front work structure and operations, in- tech giant Huawei has provided financial cluding how the Party uses various types of Local politicians are also targets of the support to think tanks in Washington, who to Destroy Mankind governmental and non-governmental orga- United Front. These include community then write positive reports about Huawei, nizations for its United Front work and the leaders, city council members, mayors, according to a 2018 Washington Post report. implications for the United States and other state senators, and others. The usual ap- .... Western countries. The report states, “This proach is to donate to local politicians elevation of the importance of United Front through Chinese organizations or mer- To make things worse, over the past sev- work has resulted in an increased number chants, who are invited to visit China, eral decades, Western humanities scholars of UFWD officials assigned to top CCP and where they receive bribes. Their family and sociologists have been heavily influ- government posts, adding roughly 40,000 businesses get special treatment in Chi- enced by strains of communist ideology. new UFWD cadres.” na. Cases of sexual entrapment, known With a small amount of CCP influence, The think tank Global Public Policy Insti- as “honey traps,” often involve blackmail, they can go from merely supporting leftist tute published a report in 2018 detailing the and the CCP regularly uses this tactic. ideology to embracing the Party’s rule. activities of CCP’s United Front in Europe. Chen Yonglin, a former officer at the .... The Hoover Institution at Stanford Univer- Chinese Consulate in Sydney, Austra- This is a must-read for every freedom- sity released a detailed report on the same lia, who defected in 2005, told The Epoch Unrestricted Warfare loving individual. The book reveals the topic on Nov. 29, 2018. The report states: Times that the United Front had infil- ways in which the communist spectre “China’s influence activities have moved trated the Australian government and The core of unrestricted warfare is about has burrowed into the minds of today’s beyond their traditional United Front fo- had corrupted officials. Chen said: “The mobilizing evil people to destroy human- people. It charts communism’s global cus on diaspora communities to target a amount of private bribery for the officials kind step by step. The CCP is highly skilled advance and explains how this spectre far broader range of sectors in Western so- far surpassed political donations. Espe- at tempting people to go against morality cieties, ranging from think tanks, universi- cially those higher-ranking officials, the and their own conscience, and those who has embedded itself in nearly every facet ties, and media to state, local, and national bribes were huge. … Another aspect of do so often end up as either passive in the of today’s society — from education to the government institutions. China seeks to bribery is the all-expenses-paid trips to face of the regime’s abuses, or active par- judicial system — and the path humanity promote views sympathetic to the Chinese China, where officials are treated as kings. ticipants. Therefore, for influential figures must take to escape its grip. Government, policies, society, and culture; This includes prostitution paid for by Chi- in the political, economic, military, media, To read the full book, visit suppress alternative views; and co-opt key cultural, technological, educational, and nese companies. Many officials changed ept.ms/communism American players to support China’s foreign their stances after returning from China.” other fields, the CCP uses all means to dis- policy goals and economic interests.” With its strong financial backing, the cover their weaknesses—whether vested To order a hard copy of the book, visit The CCP’s United Front primarily targets CCP has paid communist and leftist poli- interests or desires—and uses them to make EpochShop.com the following actors in the West: politicians ticians around the world to become its people willingly collaborate with the Party. reject TRUTH and TRADITION the chINeSe commuNISt party The Chinese Communist Party’s cover-up led to a pandemic that now threatens the lives of people around the globe. See through the deception, and keep yourself and your family truly informed. Let’s reject the CCP. Sign thE pEtition today! RejectCCP.com OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 SPECIAL REPORT | B11

ExclusivE China Had COVID-Like Patients Months Before Official Timeline Internal CCP documents show patients in Wuhan had symptoms as early as September 2019, but authorities didn’t disclose it to the world

Hung Sung-Jun/getty ImageS EvA Fu exhibiting symptoms on Oct. 1, 2019, A health professional in a unit set up for CCP virus the epoch times including coughing fits without an patients in Lima, Peru, on Feb. 27, 2020. apparent cause, and coughed up series of leaked docu- white phlegm, a sign of respiratory ments shows that patients infection, according to the hospital’s in China with symptoms clinical description. The patient was similar to COVID-19 were transferred from another facility Ahospitalized months before the re- shortly before his death on Nov. 3. gime’s official timeline, throwing Three other patients at the same into question when exactly the CCP hospital also had difficulty breath- virus began spreading in Wuhan, ing before they died. Their CT scans China’s epidemic ground zero. showed blurred markings in their At least one patient with COVID- lungs—patterns that match the le- 19-like symptoms was treated in sions on some COVID-19 patients. September 2019, according to hos- The files also identified at least pital data obtained by The Epoch 40 other suspected COVID-19 Times from a trusted source who patients across eight hospitals, has access to government docu- the earliest one being 67-year-old ments. Dozens more were hospi- Xiao Niangui, who began exhibit- talized over the following month. ing symptoms on Sept. 25, 2019, Wuhan hospitals also reported by The Epoch Times, a national details of the earliest 10 suspected Sean Lin, former lab director of and was hospitalized at the Wu- several deaths in October 2019 investigation team set up by the cases at each medical agency rated the viral disease branch at the han Puren Jiang’an Hospital. due to severe pneumonia, lung central government stated that it tier two or above (three is the high- Walter Reed Army Institute of Wuhan has 205 health facilities infection, and other symptoms wished to trace early cases of the est); and pneumonia deaths with Research, told The Epoch Times. at the community and township similar to those experienced by disease. It asked local authorities for COVID-19-like symptoms. “This should have been done a level and 66 designated hospitals COVID-19 patients. data from all Wuhan medical insti- The letter stated that nine long time ago,” he said, calling for treating COVID-19 patients, The city’s health commission tutions over the period from Oct. 1 hospitals that received the most the delayed inquiry “ridiculous.” city officials said in March. only publicly announced an out- to Dec. 10, 2019. The data requested COVID-19 patients in the city China’s lack of transparency has break of a novel form of pneumo- included information on patients were key to the investigation. Suspected Virus Patients been heavily criticized by foreign nia on Dec. 31, 2019—after social who visited fever clinics in the vicin- The Epoch Times had access to The obtained records showed nine government officials. The regime media posts by whistleblower ity of the Huanan Seafood Market, a part of the records in response to deaths due to COVID-19-like con- consistently refused to allow in ex- doctors had gone viral. wet market that the officials initially the inquiry, those from 11 hospitals. ditions at three hospitals. perts from the United States and the In a letter dated Feb. 19 obtained identified as the outbreak origin; Despite the collected data, the Five were severe pneumonia pa- World Health Organization (WHO) Wuhan outbreak control task tients who died between November to study the outbreak in the country. force told media on Feb. 26 that and December 2019 at the Wuhan On Feb. 12, an official from the U.S. the earliest documented patient No. 6 Hospital, one of the hospitals Centers for Disease Control and Pre- was a person surnamed Chen named in the inquiry letter. The Wu- vention said the agency was still un- who fell ill on Dec. 8, 2019. han Hospital of Traditional Chinese able to access “direct data” about the It’s unclear whether authorities Medicine, a tertiary hospital, had outbreak and “continue to be hope- conducted any inquiries into ear- three deaths in October. Wuhan ful that we’ll be invited to do that.” ly cases prior to February. No. 8 Hospital recorded one death. In a media interview released To some critics, the investigation Patients died within a period of on May 1, a WHO representative appeared rather narrow and came several days to about four weeks in China also said China has ex- Screenshot of a leaked document showing details of a patient with too late. “For such a massive after their first symptoms appeared. cluded the organization’s experts COVID-like symptoms at Wuhan No. 6 Hospital, on Feb. 21, 2020. Part of the respiratory disease to break out Xu Zhenqian, for example, was from the country’s virus probe. information is redacted by The Epoch Times to protect the patient’s privacy. in the area, how come they didn’t hospitalized at Wuhan No. 6 ProvIded to tHe ePocH tImeS track down all other hospitals?” hospital. The 82-year-old started With reporting by Nicole Hao

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TRUTH AND TRADITION B12 | SPECIAL REPORT OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 Canada Beware the Steely Claws of the Chinese Regime

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Commentary The Calgary Zoo is sending panda bears Er Shun and Da Mao, originally slated to remain through 2024, home to China. I say “home” because pan- das are never sold to zoos. China leases pandas out in order to control their scarcity and to ensure China is the sole supplier of bamboo, pandas’ principal source of energy (about 18 kg a day each). Given the five-fold profit China stood to make on a deal at the height of the pan- demic to provide Canada with 130 mil- lion N95 masks—though failing to deliver most—I hate to think what that bamboo is costing the zoo. Seems I’m not alone in my anger at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for tak- ing advantage of Canada’s vulnerability in a dire situation for which the CCP is largely responsible. An Angus Reid poll released in May tells us that Canadians’ views of China are in “apparent free fall,” with only 14 percent holding a favourable view of that country. Only 12 percent of us want closer trade ties with China, only 14 percent ap- prove of telecom giant Huawei’s involve- ment in Canada’s 5G wireless network, and 75 percent prefer that human rights and the rule of law dominate our dealings with Xi Jinping’s regime rather than economic inter- ests. These numbers are a dramatic plunge The Joseph McCarthy saga stands out as a it mildly. But our government is not acting from 2017, when 48 percent of Canadians Members of a Chinese honour bridge too far in the outing of Soviet fellow trav- in accordance with what they know. held favourable views toward China. guard march in formation near ellers, but that didn’t mean penetration wasn’t In early May, Canada’s ambassador to Chi- Ordinary Canadians are beginning to the Great Hall of the People a problem. Moreover, we were all terrified of na, Dominic Barton, surprisingly projected a comprehend the true nature of the CCP. on Tiananmen Square the Bomb and believed that there were cir- tougher tone, calling for a “rigorous review” of in Beijing on Feb. 4, 2020. They understand that our government’s re- cumstances in which the Soviets might use it. the WHO’s handling of the pandemic when fusal to acknowledge the regime’s ruthless China has the Bomb too, but the CCP the crisis is over. But when asked at his May self-interest and sprawling political ambi- doesn’t need to use it as a threat when 13 daily news briefing to elaborate, Trudeau tions as a threat to our national security is there are so many other ways to conquer undermined Barton’s message: “It’s totally making us all victims of Beijing’s “hostage the perceived enemy. It helps when the normal that we be asking questions about diplomacy.” Many of us can see that the tac- designated enemy is so fearful of appear- how different countries are behaving, includ- tics may have changed, but the ideology of ing racist that their leaders often walk on ing China,” he said. Different countries? But communism is as implacable as ever in its diplomatic eggs with the CCP. China is the only country whose behaviour existential drive for control—and not just CCP propaganda has apparently con- has been so calculatedly irresponsible as to control of its near neighbours, as some wist- vinced many western governments, in- cry out for formal investigation. In that one ful western China-watchers would like to cluding Canada, that the regime’s rise is stroke, Trudeau assured the CCP the ambas- believe—but the West itself. inevitable and irresistible. Our govern- sador’s stern tone was form, not essence. The virus of communism isn’t new, but ment seems to fear economic punishment The Mandarin Chinese word “kowtow” decades of sympathy with Marxism among if we criticize harsh CCP actions in Hong is universally understood as an act of deep “tenured radicals,” whose students never Kong, or press too forcefully on the subject respect demonstrated by prostration. It also learn the truth about communism (they are of imprisoned Canadian hostages Michael spells out who is the boss of whom. In refus- taught it was “socialism in a hurry”), have Ordinary Canadians Kovrig and Michael Spavor, or speak up for ing to express displeasure with the CCP’s radically weakened our cultural antibodies the persecuted Falun Gong and Uyghurs, or handling of the coronavirus, as in so many to its pathogens. In the early Cold War with are beginning push back against Huawei’s 5G demands. other things, our leaders are kowtowing to the Soviet Union, when Marxism’s acolytes to comprehend But economic punishment is unlikely the Party and acknowledging its hegemony. in the intelligentsia had not yet colonized to happen. The United Kingdom, Norway, Pandas look so cuddly, it’s easy to forget the universities, the West was able to build the true nature South Korea, Sweden, and Australia have they are still bears, with a bear’s steely claws. up herd immunity to its evils. That disap- of the CCP. all had spats with China in the last 10 years The details on just how penetrating and how peared in the next generation. and have all been threatened, but in each deeply embedded CCP claws are in Cana- The West enjoyed certain advantages in the case exports to China continued to rise. da’s viscera can be found in veteran foreign Cold War. Our economy was not dependent Last year, China found a phoney pretext to correspondent and seasoned China hand on supply chains controlled by Moscow, as we ban imports of our beef and pork to pun- Jonathan Manthorpe’s revelatory 2019 book, are now by Beijing. We didn’t cooperate with ish Canada for detaining Chinese telecom “Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of the Soviets in scientific projects, as we do now executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. arrest Influence and Intimidation in Canada.” De- with the CCP. The Soviets managed to steal warrant. But lo, when China found itself in pressing as it is, I urge Canadians to read it. some research secrets through espionage, a food deficit, the ban was lifted. It doesn’t matter how often or how low but in bits and pieces. It was nothing like the In the Angus Reid poll cited above, when our leaders kowtow to appease the pan- wholesale dissolution of borders in data theft Canadians were asked whether they agree da. The panda’s appetite is never satiated. that China has been effecting for years. or disagree that the “Chinese government To the greedy CCP, Canada is nothing more The Soviets did manage to infiltrate the uni- has been transparent and honest about the than a vast unguarded forest of bamboo, versities, unions, intelligence services, and COVID-19 situation in that country,” a wide theirs for the taking. even presidential circles in the United States, majority either disagreed or disagreed strong- but it happened in spite of official opposition, ly. They are correct in their view. The evidence Barbara Kay is a Montreal-based not with the complicity of national leaders. is in on the CCP’s lack of transparency, to put columnist and author of three books. OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2020 B13

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