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On the Hill today, Rushan Abbas, of the Campaign for Uyghurs on Chinese transnational repression "As Uyghurs we speak out about these crimes, we are punished by the Chinese Communist Party in an act of transnational repression." "My sister, Dr. Gulshan Abbas disappeared from her home in Urumqi only six days after my first public speech." "...The Chinese government is effectively weaponizing our love for our families, our relationships back home against us to keep us silent." "Because silence is oxygen for the tyranny and that they tried to survive with silence of the world" Can someone draw this to the attention of Michael Ma? @RushanAbbas @MPMichaelMa

CSIS says it. Experts agree. China is one of Canada’s top national security threats. Sophisticated operations. Cyber espionage. And no fear of being exposed. They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

Disturbing. All Chinese entities must assist with espionage. So this hacked medical data will certainly be available to the PLA. An organization with active research into biological weapons.

Beijing reportedly has transferred half a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang from detention to prison after trumped-up criminal charges. trib.al/DlJs5J0

Whatever the verdict of the HKETO trial, one thing is clear: the threat to dissidents on UK soil is real and dangerous. 無論香港經貿辦案判決結果如何，異見人士在英國面臨真實而危險的威脅。

Shockingly, a Chinese student is jailed for 6 years in China for joining pro-democracy protests *in Australia*: theguardian.com/australia-news…

If you have not yet, take a look at @thealliescanada featuring of my reporting that led to the recognition of a new group fronted by current and former Canadian senators, as a CCP linked entity. I have met with leadership of Allies for a Strong Canada and I determined that they recognize the same vulnerabilities in Canada’s democracy that I have become expert on, and they are enlisting Canadians that want to participate in a democratic process to counter foreign state influence and threats from China. Check it out and do your own research. More important than ever to find functional ways to participate in democracy in Canada.

This is huge. Sensitive data of UK nationals for sale in China. Depressingly predictable. 1. Summon the Chinese ambassador. 2. @alexsobel proposed an amendment to prevent data transfer to China, which was resisted by Govt. Can we have this now? news.sky.com/story/medical-…

Charles Burton, a former Canadian diplomat in China and a senior fellow with Czech-based think tank Sinopsis, told the committee that Chinese EVs represent an unacceptable security risk, calling them “spy machines on wheels” that could harvest data on drivers, on Canadian infrastructure, even on the licence plates of nearby drivers — and transmit all that to Chinese state security agencies. @sinopsiscz @doublethinklab @opibooks globalnews.ca/news/11810718/…

The Prime Minister did a long and detailed press conference on a very wide scope of issues today with nuanced answers every time. It reminds me of the Harper govt when the PM saw the press as the opposition and avoided them like the plague. People who don’t believe that must listen to the full press conference today. It’s an eye-opener on detail on many issues.

Forced labour is a big problem in China. As you read this, there are tens of thousands of Uyghurs kept as slaves to make cotton, aluminum and other products used in things that we buy. Our govts must do more to keep these products out.

A test verified by The New York Times found that clothes for some of the viral #Labubu dolls contained cotton from the Xinjiang region of China, which is banned in the United States nytimes.com/2026/04/23/bus…

China is Fuelling Canada's anti-US sentiments.  it is time to wake up and study what China did in Venezuela, they are operating the same playbook in Canada, South Africa and Australia.

And look where we are now. Does anyone believe John McCallum woke up one day and said, ‘I really feel like holding a press conference with Chinese media and saying Meng Wanzhou should be freed’ “Mark Carney believes that trade must be diversified and we need to reduce economic dependence on the United States…”

In Aug 2025, Elsa Johnson, a Stanford student, wrote a piece for The Times about how members of the CCP tried to recruit her as a spy. Since then, the junior, who is majoring in East Asian Studies, has faced a wave of harassment from Mandarin speakers who have called her and threatened her and her family. The FBI also informed Johnson that the CCP is physically monitoring her whereabouts on campus — making her fear for her own safety. On Mar 26 she testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, urging Congress to do something to protect America’s students who “face transnational repression”, given that Stanford “has chosen not to address this problem at all”. Here is an abridged and lightly edited version of her testimony. ======= After I wrote a first-person account of my experience in The Times of London, the repression only worsened. Last summer, while conducting research on China in Washington, DC, I began receiving regular phone calls from unknown US numbers. When I answered the calls in English, the callers would switch to Mandarin. In one case, the caller referenced my mother. These bizarre calls were intimidation attempts, designed to remind me that neither my family, nor I, is safe from transnational repression by the CCP. Then, this past fall, the FBI informed me that I am being physically monitored on Stanford’s campus by agents of the Chinese Communist Party. They told me that my family is also at risk and is being monitored. As a 21-year-old who grew up loving the Chinese language and culture, I never imagined that studying it would put me in a position where a foreign intelligence service is tracking my movements on my own campus and monitoring my family. I fear for my safety and for my family’s safety.  The intimidation calls have not stopped. Just this week, I received another call from a US number. After exchanging hellos, the caller switched to Mandarin and asked whether I had finished dinner. That cannot be a coincidence. It is happening to me on American soil because I reported on the activities of a foreign government at an American university. My experience is disturbing, but it reflects a much larger pattern playing out on campuses across the country. According to Freedom House, the Chinese government is the greatest perpetrator of transnational repression targeting students and scholars in the United States. Their 2024 report found that international students and faculty face surveillance and coercion by foreign governments. More than 1.3 million international students study at American colleges and universities, yet many are unable to exercise the freedoms that are supposed to define an American education.  There is also infrastructure already embedded on American campuses that facilitates this system. Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) exist at roughly 150 American colleges and universities, including Stanford. The US State Department has stated plainly that the CCP created the CSSA to monitor Chinese students and mobilize them against views that dissent from the Party’s stance. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission found in 2018 that CSSAs receive guidance from the CCP through Chinese embassies and consulates, and that they are active in carrying out work consistent with Beijing’s United Front strategy. In some cases, the local Chinese consulate must approve CSSA presidential candidates. Documents obtained by Foreign Policy showed that at Georgetown, the CSSA accepted embassy funding amounting to roughly half its total annual budget.  The Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford, or ACSSS, is a recognized student organisation that receives university support and funding. The CCP’s United Front uses these organisations as vehicles for surveillance and influence. American universities are supposed to be places where people can think and speak freely. Right now, for too many students, they are not.  thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

“In the latter hack, first uncovered in late 2024, Chinese hackers were able to siphon off call records from millions of Americans, view FBI wiretap data and steal unencrypted communications from the phone of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.”

It’s obvious where Mark Carney stands on forced labour in China theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Reports of a sudden, widespread shutdown of Baidu robotaxis in China drives home the security vulnerabilities of connected cars and why the US restricts Chinese connected vehicles. This outage likely an accident, but imagine what China could do with cars in the US in a conflict.

"Chinese 'kill switches' found hidden in U.S. solar farms." ~Michael Shellenberger "Chinese government cellular radios activated remotely can cripple power grids & threaten national security."

The Chinese government denies that it is using Uyghur forced labor yet blocks any independent investigation. So what is it hiding? trib.al/uAvR8vc