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Global News analysis: Why CSIS believes Canada is a ‘permissive target’ for China’s interference - National | http://Globalnews.ca https://globalnews.ca/news/7075248/canada-china-interference-permissive-target/
2. Joske’s report says United Front pioneers such as Premier Zhou Enlai, a CCP revolutionary, said the United Front should use “the legal to mask the illegal,” and the CCP should be “nestling intelligence within the United Front.”
3. Joske’s report also underlined the United Front’s mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic — in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and U.K., Japan, Argentina and the Czech Republic — “to gather increasingly scarce medical supplies from around the world and send them to China.”
4. Adding to the international expert consensus on this large-scale CCP N95 mask operation https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/
5. “There are people a lot more senior than I was in government, and they have some serious business links with China,” Mulroney said. “China is very willing to weaponize trade and investment to compel people to say what they want them to say.”
7. Photo of the 2019 counter-rally in Vancouver noted in this story, interesting event for United Front researchers in Canada, with reports of Pro-PRC crowds surrounding HK democracy advocates in Toronto and Vancouver. This photo by @inamitchellfilm
8. @alexjoske defines the United Front as “the system at the heart of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to influence foreign politicians, meddle in ethnic Chinese communities and transfer technologies from abroad … "
9. The United Front is an exportation of the CCP’s political system (which) undermines social cohesion, exacerbates racial tension, influences politics, harms media integrity, facilitates espionage.” Joske told me Australia only started to act after investigative reports exposed
10. the stunning case of CCP/United Front corruption networks and political donations, involving the real estate tycoon and casino VIP (800 million bet in one year!) Mr. Huang, and former Senator and poli fundraising rainmaker Sam Dastyari https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/icac-kaila-murnain-cries-during-evidence-about-sam-dastyari/11459624
11. So, from my network evidence, if you want to see if United Front corruption occurring in Canada, evidence suggests rainmaker fundraisers networking with casino high-rollers at United Front dinners, is a good place to start. Or, are any senators advocating for China policy?
12. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-27/labor-staffer-tells-icac-he-was-asked-to-count-bag-full-of-cash/11453344 cash in bags is part of the UF political corruption playbook, according to the Australia case study.
13. Canada certainly is not permissive of Russia’s cyber and social media and disinformation meddling. But it has been permissive of the CCP’s elite capture financial campaign, and weaponized trade politics. This is the key quote that explains how China is undermining democracies
14. The PRC utilizes growing economic wealth to mobilize interference operations: ‘with deep coffers and the help of western enablers, the CCP uses money, rather than Communist ideology, as a powerful source of influence, creating parasitic relationships of long-term dependence.
15. Now in Australia criminal nat sec laws “provide a high degree of specificity on offences and threat activities, including on whether the activity was in the planning stages, intentional, reckless or funded by a foreign intelligence service.”
16. The penalties range from 10 to 20 years’ imprisonment. And “the legislation creates a new transparency scheme that prescribes the registration of persons acting as agents of foreign principals and requires regular public disclosures.”
18. Australia counter espionage raids office of politician with staff connected to United Front, could be first criminal case since new laws https://twitter.com/scoopercooper/status/1276328128286203906?s=21 https://twitter.com/scoopercooper/status/1276328128286203906
