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CCF News Bulletin for Thurs, Jan 11th
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Published: January 9, 2024
Written by: John Price with the National Security Reference Group, CAUT
This discussion paper reveals how CSIS and the Five Eyes manufactured a “China Threat” in 2018 that turned into a firestorm with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou at YVR that December. Fanned by anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, then stoked by CSIS leaks and a hostile media sensationalizing accusations of ’foreign interference‘, the China threat has mutated to become Canada‘s “China Panic” with far reaching implications.
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This paper examines the three stages in the making of this panic, and how a toxic mixture of Sinophobia and anti-communism has meant that the federal NDP, Conservatives and Bloc Québécois are preventing any resolution of the crisis. Now, as other countries stabilize relations with the People‘s Republic of China, Canada is stuck – a diplomatic outlier unable to get its house in order. Meanwhile, CSIS is in the process of installing an unprecedented research surveillance system in Canadian universities, and Canadian Armed Forces are regularly skirmishing with PRC forces in East Asia. The situation has become critical, necessitating some difficult conversations to determine a path forward towards justice and peace.
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| When: Friday, Jan 19, 2024 at 13:30 - 14:30 EST
Where: ONLINE (Zoom)
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Published: Jan 4, 2024
Written by Sean Fine
A Federal Court judge has concluded that a Chinese engineering student is a potential spy and cannot enter Canada in a ruling that broadens the definition of espionage and has potentially wide consequences for foreign researchers. The student, Yuekang Li, proposed to study under a leading researcher at the University of Waterloo and take what he learns back to China to improve its public-health system. But Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton said Mr. Li‘s plan fits the definition of “non-traditional” espionage – even without evidence he ever engaged in or had been trained in spying, or that his research has military uses.
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Published: Dec 21, 2023
Written by: Robert Fife and Steven Chase
A specialized unit within Global Affairs Canada, linked to the detention of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, sends diplomats overseas to report on security matters without rigorous oversight, adequate training or safeguards to protect their sources in authoritarian countries, a national-security watchdog report concludes.
The report from the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) found instances where the activities of some Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP) officers strayed into covert collection of intelligence.
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Published: Nov 18, 2024
Written by: Robert Fife and Steven Chase
One of the two Canadians jailed by China for nearly three years in a case that was at the heart of a diplomatic crisis is seeking a multimillion-dollar settlement from Ottawa, two sources say, alleging he was detained because he unwittingly provided intelligence on North Korea to Canada and allied spy services.
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Published: December 6, 2023
Written by: Chris Arsenault
The number of Canadian spies with permission to break the law is rising, according to an internal memorandum. The memo, marked secret, provides a glimpse into a murky world of how operatives can ignore normal rules with prior approval.
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 | Published: Dec 15, 2023
Written by: Mick Hall
As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.
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Published: Dec 22, 2023
Written by: Binoy Kampmark
The secretive Australian government just cannot help itself. Clamouring and hectoring of other countries and their secret arrangements (who can forget the criticism of the Solomon Islands over its security pact with China for that reason?) the Albanese government is a bit too keen on keeping a lid on things regarding the withering away of Australian independence before a powerful and spoiling friend.
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 | Published: Dec 31, 2023
Written by: Kari Paul
Banning TikTok in the US seemed almost inevitable at the start of 2023. The previous year saw a trickle of legislative actions against the short-form video app, after dozens of individual states barred TikTok from government devices in late 2022 over security concerns... But now, as quickly as the deluge arrived, it has petered out – with the US Senate commerce committee confirming in December it would not be taking up TikTok-related legislation before the end of the year. With the final word from the Senate, 2023 became the year Congress forgot to ban TikTok.
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Released Nov 2023 The Government of Canada is collecting feedback on potential changes to the Security Intelligence Service Act, relevant to 5 "issue" areas:
- Issue #1: Whether to enable CSIS to disclose information to those outside the Government of Canada for the purpose of increasing awareness and resiliency against foreign interference
- Issue #2: Whether to implement new judicial authorization authorities tailored to the level of intrusiveness of the techniques
- Issue #3: Whether to close the gap, created by technological evolution, and regain the ability for CSIS to collect, from within Canada, foreign intelligence about foreign states and foreign individuals in Canada
- Issue #5: Whether to introduce a requirement to review the CSIS Act on a regular basis so that CSIS may keep pace with evolving threats
The survey is open to the public. The survey and further background information can accessed
at: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2023-nhncng-frgn-nflnc-mnd-csis/index-en.aspx
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Published: Jan 3, 2024
A host from a broadcasting station has been suspended after making inappropriate remarks about the earthquake in Japan, with experts noting that public figures and people from both countries should refrain from provocative remarks.
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More than 400 people around the world, including distinguished scholars, journalists, peace advocates and artists, have signed a statement opposing construction of yet another U.S. military base in Okinawa. This small island prefecture already bears 70% of the total U.S.-exclusive military presence in all of Japan with 31 installations and over 25,000 troops on 0.6% of the nation's land area and about 1% of its population. In the statement “U.S. and Japan, Stop Military Colonization of Okinawa,” the signatories condemn the U.S. and Japanese governments forcing construction of the new base “in the face of opposition by the majority of Okinawans,” and advocate “Okinawa‘s right to self-determination, democracy, and autonomy.” Signatories include Nobel Laureate
Mairead Maguire, Academy Award winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, historian Peter Kuznick, Canadian author Joy Kogawa, Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility Helen Caldicott, Director of Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability Mazin Qumsiyeh, Co-president of International Peace Bureau Corazon Fabros, and Co-Chair of Focus on the Global South Walden Bello. English-language Press
Release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r0t4IyAAJU3qEqrkUm5QyrXtK4UlgJ_O7xfVyv6-Am8/editJapanese-language Press
Release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MQgoxa1HdQZND9_i5Ad24P5pnGyVkbvE50v66jjVvGY/editSign the petition
at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz275kny8xJAT2xJHKCcl9RA5oLM-CWQQMfc20bAMDqtMdtg/viewform
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Written by: Angie Chau
Published by: University of Michigan Press
A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad specifically to study Western art and literature, these trips meant something else entirely. Set against the backdrop of interwar Paris, Paris and the Art of Transposition uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played such a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art.
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