We Don't Have to Trade With China

But the post-modern West needs a rope to hang itself:

The Defense Ministry said Saturday that five Chinese and five Russian warships had sailed through the Soya Strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin island to the Sea of Okhotsk, possibly in connection with a joint patrol in the Pacific Ocean.

Nine of the naval vessels were involved in a joint exercise in the Sea of Japan between July 18 and 23, the ministry said, adding it is carefully monitoring their movements.

Last year, Chinese and Russian warships circumnavigated Japan, prompting Tokyo to criticize the "show of force."

The Chinese and Russian vessels — destroyers, frigates and supply ships — were located about 200 kilometers southwest of Rebun Island in Hokkaido around 3 p.m. Friday and had moved eastward through the strait by Saturday, according to the ministry.

On Saturday, China's Defense Ministry slammed the frequent dispatch of ships and aircraft by certain unnamed countries to "show off their military force for self-interest," saying the moves have raised tensions in the East and South China Seas.

In comments about a Japanese defense report flagging Chinese threats, ministry spokesperson Tan Kefei said the actions have seriously aggravated regional tensions, even as overall situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea was generally stable.

Tan said Japan's annual defense white paper projected a "wrong perception" of China, and "deliberately exaggerates the so-called Chinese military threat."

China has lodged stern representations to Tokyo, expressing resolute opposition to the paper, he said.

 

If China had its way, Japan would be wiped off the map.

Nope.

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For China watchers, the arrest of a retired RCMP officer for allegedly helping China with its interference efforts in Canada is not surprising, given Beijing’s extensive network of spies and agents in Canada and its ambitions for global domination.

Scott McGregor, a former Canadian Armed Forces intelligence operator and intelligence adviser to the RCMP, says Canada is particularly infested with a proportionally higher number of CCP agents compared to other countries.

This is due to a number of factors, including “ease of entering, the massive support network and depth of infiltration, abundance of natural resources, and lack of enforcement,” he said.

 

Don't forget Justin!

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But it's not complicated to get your relative in a position of power, isn't it, Dominic?:

Calling a judicial inquiry into alleged election fraud by Chinese agents is “complicated,” newly-appointed Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc yesterday told reporters. It has been nearly five months since all MPs but the Liberal caucus voted for an independent investigation: “What exactly is the holdup?”

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Well, it's true, isn't it?!:

A B.C. man took it upon himself to rebrand an RCMP station in Cariboo, placing a cardboard sign in front of the building that reads “Chinese Police Station.” ...

The incident follows recent reports that the RCMP has charged one of its former members in a foreign interference investigation, alleging retired officer William Majcher used his network of Canadian contacts to obtain intelligence or services that benefited the People’s Republic of China. 

Per a Global News report, a second former RCMP officer, Kenneth Ingram Marsh, has also been named a co-conspirator in the allegations against Majcher.

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A human rights group is raising concerns about the Canadian government-funded Chinese Canadian Museum as it opens to the public this month, citing anomalies during the opening ceremony and some board members' outspoken support of the Chinese communist regime.

The opening ceremony was held at the museum, housed in the historic Wing Sang Building in Vancouver's Chinatown, on July 1. Dozens of politicians from all three levels of government were invited, including British Columbia Premier David Eby, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, and Mary Ng, the federal minister of international trade, export promotion, small business, and economic development.

Irregularities during the event included the seating arrangement, choice of keynote speakers, and guests invited to the museum's plaque unveiling, appearing to indicate that critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aren't welcomed, said the Chinese-Canadian Concern Group on the Chinese Communist Party’s Human Rights Violations in an emailed statement sent to Epoch Times sister media New Tang Dynasty TV on July 10.

The most apparent abnormality was the sidelining of NDP MP Jenny Kwan, a vocal critique of Beijing's human rights abuses, according to the group. Ms. Kwan represents the Vancouver East riding, where the museum is located. However, she was neither introduced by the emcee nor invited onto the stage along with other MPs to unveil a commemorative plaque.

"In response to the cold treatment of MP Jenny Kwan at the Chinese Canadian Museum’s opening ceremony, the Concern Group expressed its dissatisfaction and raised concerns in a news release, questioning whether this is another instance of the Chinese Communist Party targeting a political figure who dares to criticize human rights issues in China through Chinese Canadian community organizations," the statement said.

The seating arrangement was also called to question because Ms. Kwan was not given a designated seat despite being a third-term elected MP.

In contrast, Wilson Miao, a Liberal MP newly elected in 2021, who is not from the riding, was invited to the stage for the plaque unveiling and had a seat in the front row, right next to Senator Yuen Pau Woo.

Mr. Woo has on various occasions taken stances aligned with Beijing's policies, such as praising the national security law that has been used to clamp down on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and voting against a Senate motion in June 2021 that would recognize the CCP's oppression of Uyghur Muslims as an act of genocide. Mr. Woo previously also confirmed to The Epoch Times that he helped draft a petition opposing creation of a foreign agent registry in Canada.

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It's not strictly Chinese and it's certainly nothing new, but it IS insidious:

The Gatestone Institute accuses the WEF of trying to replace governmental systems in Western nations with totalitarian Chinese Communist Party-style sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology.

On Friday, the Gatestone Institute’s J.B. Shurk issued a warning that the WEF’s plan will result in a tyrannical system in which “a small group of elites bark orders and ordinary citizens dutifully obey.”

The effort to replace current systems in the West with CCP-style totalitarianism is all part of Schwab’s “Great Reset” agenda.