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RonyTheTiger t1_j6lg689 wrote

Reply to comment by Supercilious-420 in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

Unless you’re officially at war countries don’t usually cut ties quickly. 10 years is quick in a global sense.

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Supercilious-420 t1_j6livn7 wrote

Of course, but there is a difference between severing diplomatic ties and allowing problematic collaboration such as the example described in this article. That’s just the tip of the iceberg here in Canada when you look at the level of interference in Canadian business and politics, not to mention the police stations they have been running in violation of our sovereignty.

I am not anti-immigration by any means, and I do not have any bad feelings towards the Chinese people themselves, but the Chinese government is and has been awful for many decades.

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grapehelium t1_j6lp8db wrote

There was also a potential Chinese spying incident in a Canadian virology lab in 2019. (Although I am not sure how the investigation ended)

link

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GreenNatureR t1_j6ngv24 wrote

Detailed article in Jan 2021

>It’s been 2½ years since Qiu and Cheng were removed from the lab. It’s been a year since they were actually fired, in January 2021. And yet they have yet to be formally accused of anything, and it’s not known if they have retained legal counsel.

It's 3 and a half years now.

another article by BBC in 2020

>A tweet with more than 12,000 retweets and 13,000 likes - claimed without evidence that Dr Qiu and her husband were a "spy team", had sent "pathogens to the Wuhan facility", and that her husband "specialised in coronavirus research".
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>None of the three claims in the tweet can be found in the two CBC reports and the terms "coronavirus" and "spy" do not appear even once in either.
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>CBC has since reported that these claims are baseless.

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Acromegalic t1_j6m1op4 wrote

Are you saying there are Chinese police stations in Canada?

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Supercilious-420 t1_j6m2cpe wrote

Yeah it’s a thing, like all of the major news networks have published stories on it.

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Koss424 t1_j6mxzig wrote

they are everywhere in the Western World, but has come to the attention of the proper authorities recently.

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RushingTech t1_j6nfnv1 wrote

I don't understand why they are called police stations. It's not like the Chinese agents operating in them have any authority in the country they're stationed in. They are spies plain and simple.

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Acromegalic t1_j6nk9t4 wrote

Ho-leee shit! That's fucking CRAZY that any country would allow that on their soil. Do they not know about the CCP campaign to infiltrate the world's governments and steal information and gain influence‽

I mean... every country on the planet has some spies, but to be that brash and not get arrested or detained? That's a HUGE failure on the part of the state.

That really makes me question my previous assumption that Canada was a secure neighbor.

That's crazy...

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