An Iowa police discovery a half-century ago underscores the long arc of Beijing’s efforts to shape politics and society across the Pacific, with Canada as a critical platform
Late in August of 1971, the Iowa Highway Patrol arrested two people for speeding and carrying a concealed weapon. The two were activists for The Black Revolutionary Party, a militant group formed earlier that year at a meeting of Canadian supporters of Chinese Communism, which was dedicated to armed resistance against discrimination and to the spread of Mao Zedong’s ideology.
Canada’s cities have been havens for Chinese dissidents and criminals alike. Canadian universities and scientists not only conduct leading-edge work, they often do so in conjunction with U.S. researchers – and have been willing to welcome colleagues from China to their laboratories. Some of those colleagues have come to Canada from military research institutions.
“Dollar diplomacy” is even simpler, he said. When he served as a diplomat in Sydney, cash from an “ambassador’s fund” could be used to reimburse those who helped the embassy. “But of course the local donor can also be funded with business opportunity in China,” Mr. Chen said. But such dismissiveness can be dangerous, cautioned Dennis Molinaro, a former national-security analyst with the federal government specializing in foreign interference. “If we’re only focused on the election as a whole, then they win,” he said. “Then they get to do what they wanted to do, and there’s no effort to really disrupt or challenge that.”
China’s government does not generally admit any culpability in foreign interference, preferring to assign blame to others – and in particular the U.S. – for overseas meddling. “Are there any countries engaged in spying activities? Yes, there are, but China has never been one of them,” the Chinese embassy in Ottawa wrote on Twitter last week.
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