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China grows bored of its pool-boy: 

After over two years without leaving his country, Chinese President Xi Jinping isn’t missing the chance for in-person diplomacy as he joins other world leaders at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, this week.

Following a highly anticipated summit with U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday, Mr. Xi will meet with the leaders of Australia and Japan, as well as Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

Not on the list however, is Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Asked whether he would meet Mr. Xi in Bali, Mr. Trudeau told reporters Sunday “the G20 is an opportunity to meet with a range of leaders and advance Canada’s interests and positions.” But a schedule released by his office the following day did not include any summit with Mr. Xi, and neither Ottawa nor Beijing has indicated one could take place.

“Canada is still in the deep freeze,” said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

 

This China:

Moments before Biden and Xi were set to hold their discussion, a White House TV producer shouted a question to Biden asking if the president would raise concerns about China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and elsewhere. Chinese staff immediately grabbed the journalist and shoved her toward the exits in an attempt to forcibly remove her from the room. White House aides were forced to physically intervene and said the woman should be allowed to stay.

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Conservative MP Michael Chong is calling on the Liberal government to identify the 11 candidates who allegedly received funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 2019 federal election.

“It is clear that Beijing interfered in last year’s 2021 election. Beijing’s ambassador to Canada commented critically and publicly during that election campaign and Beijing spread disinformation through proxies on Chinese-language social media platforms,” Chong, who is the shadow minister for foreign affairs, said in Parliament on Nov. 14.

“Last week we found out that Beijing also interfered in the 2019 election. We found out that the Prime Minister was told months ago, in January, about hundreds of thousands of dollars that were illegally funnelled to at least 11 election candidates.”

“My question for the government is very simple: Who are these 11 candidates?

Chong’s question referred to a Global News report, published on Nov. 7, alleging that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several cabinet ministers, in a series of briefings and memos starting January 2022, about CCP interference in Canada that can include “covert funding to influence election outcomes.”

The report said at least 11 candidates, whose party affiliations were not disclosed, received CCP campaign funding in the 2019 federal election.

“Despite the government knowing about this for at least 10 months, no one has been expelled, no one has been criminally charged and no action has been taken,” Chong said, adding that the primary victim of this interference is the Chinese community in Canada.

“When is the government going to take action to protect Canadians and protect Canadian democracy?” he added.

Addressing the allegations of election interference on Nov. 7, Trudeau condemned China for meddling with Canada’s democratic institutions.

 

But they won't get them from "ChinaFan2013":

The House affairs committee yesterday voted unanimously to compel documents regarding alleged Chinese Communist interference in federal campaigns. The committee earlier heard foreign agents sought to unseat Conservative MPs: “Canadians deserve answers.”

 

 

What it looks like when international media isn't on the Canadian government payroll and you're armed with drama instead of intelligence.#TrudeauNationalDisgracepic.twitter.com/UtZTDj3lSh

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