JANUARY 1-7, 2021 Truth & Tradition THEEPOCHTIMES.COM | B1 GREG BAKER/AFP viA GEtty imAGEs Special coverage exclusive Calgary Mayor, Canada at a Crossroads: Facing an Increasingly Aggressive Communist China Other Officials Target of Chinese See editor’s note on B2 Regime Influence: Leaked Document Frank FanG & omid Ghoreishi THE EPOCH TIMES Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, a number of Cal- gary city officials, Calgary Mayor several academ- Naheed Nenshi. ics, and a former tHE CAnADiAn PREss/ mayor of St. John’s JEFF mCintOsH are all on a list of targets that Chinese officials hope to influence to further the communist 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 A paramilitary police officer stands guard in Tiananmen Square in a file photo. the Foreign Affairs Office of the- mu nicipal government of Daqing, a city in northeastern China. Communist China’s Continued on B2 Silent War Against the West How Chinese Data Trove on 2 Million For decades, CCP has been using ‘unrestricted warfare’ People, Including to weaken allied Western nations, including Canada, from within Canadians, Serves Beijing’s ‘Unrestricted Bowen Xiao & omid Ghoreishi consequences, are far-reaching. limited to propaganda warfare, THE EPOCH TIMES Skirting the traditional, direct culture warfare, memetic war- Warfare’ military confrontation offensives fare, front operations, political News Analysis that have become somewhat out- Unrestricted infiltration, technological and tealthily and with sweeping pre- dated in modern times, this un- telecommunications warfare, le- JusTina wheaLe cision, the Chinese Communist conventional strategy has become warfare has gal warfare, economic espionage, THE EPOCH TIMES Party (CCP) has been waging a central to the communist regime’s become education espionage, cyberwar- decades-long war against the West approach to warfare. central to the fare, and sanctions warfare. The News Analysis S to achieve world domination by The strategy is highlighted in regime employs all of these to A Chinese database containing the utilizing a military strategy known the 1999 book “Unrestricted War- communist varying degrees simultaneously personal information of millions of as “unrestricted warfare.” fare,” authored by two Chinese air regime’s in multiple sectors of society in people around the globe—includ- Unbeknown to most of the popu- force colonels—Qiao Liang and approach to order to undermine or influence ing at least 5,000 Canadians, among lation, the CCP has infiltrated al- Wang Xiangsui—and published the targeted country. them Prime Minister Justin Trudeau most every major avenue of life in by the People’s Liberation Army, warfare. In 2014, Chinese state-sponsored and Conservative Party Leader Erin countries like the United States and the armed forces of the CCP. The hackers infiltrated the computer O’Toole—was recently leaked to Canada—leaving virtually no in- book, which has been translated networks of Canada’s National Re- Western media, offering a glimpse dustry untouched. While this threat into English, is based on the origi- search Council. The attack cost Can- into the regime’s effort to harvest has largely existed undetected, the nal army documents. ada hundreds of millions of dollars. data on targeted foreigners. 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 Continued on B3 LEAH miLLis/POOL/AFP viA GEtty imAGEs ‘Generational The Ties Between Canada’s Threat’: US Taking Elite and Powerful and Beijing CLEmEnt sABOuRin/AFP viA GEtty imAGEs Unprecedented Yao LianG & TanYa du Steps to Counter THE EPOCH TIMES Commentary Communist China For decades, high-level Cana- dian leaders, well-connected elites, and powerful corpora- U.S. Secretary of State tions have pushed for closer ties Joan deLaneY Mike Pompeo. THE EPOCH TIMES between Canada and China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks at a Infographic: These closer links have ben- conference of the Canada China Business News Analysis U.S. confrontation of the efited a narrow group of indi- Council in Montreal on Sept. 23, 2016. In its efforts to counter the CCP, speeches by several top viduals and corporations, while Beijing’S threat of an increasingly officials, including Secretary the average Canadian has borne Its implementation strategy, they belligerent Beijing regime, of State Mike Pompeo and the brunt of the adverse conse- say, is to “target elites in the West so inFSpaceluence the United States has been National Security Adviser quences, such as weakened na- that they either welcome China’s pulling out all the stops. Robert O’Brien, strongly tional security and job loss. dominance or accede to its inevita- over international A slew of extensive measures lashed out at Beijing and The Chinese regime has an bility, rendering resistance futile.” Force in 2020 to oppose the Chinese its increasingly aggressive ambition to become the world’s Canada is one of the countries organizations Communist Party’s growing and hostile actions toward number one global power, Beijing has targeted for elite hostility signify a sea change America and the world. scholars Clive Hamilton and capture for decades. in Washington’s China policy. Mareike Ohlberg write in their Page B4 In this new era of direct Continued on B8 2020 book “Hidden Hand.” Continued on B6 READ WHAT OTHERS WON’T REPORT North America’s Fastest-Growing Independent Newspaper, Delivering TRUTH and TRADITION TRUTH and TRADITION See subscription details on A3 B2 | SPECIAL REPORT JANUARY 2021 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 and infiltration within Canada hen I was growing up in China a few decades The CCP uses Confucius Institutes and Chinese student and exposing the true nature of ago, we were told the communists were going organizations to influence the academic system in other the Chinese Communist Party. to liberate the whole world. countries, while stealing innovation and research ideas In the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party in their initial stages. Our regular 40-page weekly paper consists of four sections (CCP) directed the entire country to make The way the CCP handled the coronavirus outbreak clearly featuring Canadian & World Wquality steel. China would catch up with the United Kingdom showed its true nature. It covered up information about News, Opinion, Mind & Body, in 5 years and America in 10 years. Instead, this movement the virus from the Chinese people until more and more Culture & Tradition, Life & brought the Chinese economy to near collapse and, in the three cases were found in nearby countries among travellers from Leisure, along with two pages of years from 1959 to 1962, 40 million people died due to famine. China. It does not care about its own people. Why should crosswords and other puzzles. Yet the CCP has never given up on the idea of catching it care about people in other countries? As an independent newspaper, up and taking over (or “liberating,” as it would say) the Canada is at a crossroads in its relations with Beijing, as the we endeavour to cover important world. Under Deng Xiaoping, China began doing busi- communist regime continues to hold Canadian citizens cap- news and topics in an unbiased ness with the rest of the world and the door to China was tive, punishes Canada’s economy, commits human rights viola- manner, with no hidden agenda opened wide. The CCP has been systematically infiltrating tions against the Chinese people, and acts ever more belligerent or spin, because we believe that other countries ever since, and it has used its propaganda on the world stage. This makes looking at Beijing’s behaviour truth and tradition are key to a healthy society. media to influence public opinion in the West. globally, and its impact in Canada, all the more relevant. The regime seeks to muddle the concepts of the CCP and In this special report, we present a few aspects of how the China, so that any criticism of the Party is said to be a criticism CCP has targeted Canada, especially its elites. Perhaps more HOW THIS SPECIAL of China and the Chinese people. In this way, the CCP takes ad- important than understanding these details is understand- REPORT IS FUNDED vantage of people’s generosity and kindness toward the Chinese ing the nature of the CCP itself and its threat to the world. This special report is funded by people. The CCP is not a political party or regime in the normal We’re also including an excerpt of the new book “How the subscriptions and donations. sense. It does not represent the Chinese people; it is a small group Spectre of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” published By subscribing or making a that seized power illegitimately and holds onto it by tyranny. by The Epoch Times to shed light on how China donation, you can help us The CCP has stolen military technology from other replaced the Soviet Union as the primary threat continue to deliver truthful countries to build its own military, with the clear goal to the free world. The West got China wrong for reporting free from influence by of global domination. many reasons. any government, corporation, or It developed the Thousand Talents Plan and many other This special report also covers recent unprec- political party. such programs to bring advanced technology from over- edented efforts by Canada’s allies to counter Every donation, big or small, seas to China, and it has gradually lured manufacturers the CCP threat.