We Don't Have to Trade With China

Nope:

Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China remains deeply committed to United Nations peacekeeping efforts, where more than 2,400 Chinese troops and police are serving — a contribution that underscores China's increasing prominence in the world body.

 

That's an invasion force, @$$hole.

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Hostile military and intelligence forces are targeting Canada in a new “sophisticated, multifaceted” type of warfare using a range of tools from criminal gangs to cyber-hackers to high-tech companies such as Huawei and China Telecom, the author of a newly released national security report alleges.

The report, by Clairvoyance Cyber Corp., which provides consulting services for CSIS and the RCMP, was completed in 2019 for Public Safety Canada, and warns that state-sponsored cybercrime could be costing Canada an estimated $100 billion per year. According to the report, nations including China and Russia are conducting cyber and human espionage that targets individuals, institutions and corporations in Canada.

But these attacks — which aim to control Canada’s political discourse and collect trade secrets from corporations and personal data from individuals — will increase as 5G networks and densely populated “smart cities” grow.

“Hostile intelligence services and militaries will continue to exploit, interfere with and influence Canadian interests domestically and abroad, using cyber as part of a broader hybrid warfare campaign,” the report says.

“And vendors such as Huawei with the support of state intelligence services will be in a better position to wield foreign control, interference and influence over critical Canadian infrastructure.”

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A senior official at the Vatican says that the Secretariat of State isn’t yet persuaded that speaking out about political unrest in Hong Kong “would make any difference whatever.”

At a press conference held on June 25 that was focused on the Vatican’s upcoming Day of Prayer and Reflection for Lebanon, The Epoch Times asked British Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Holy See’s secretary for relations with states (equivalent to a foreign minister) to comment on similar unrest in Hong Kong.

The Epoch Times asked, “With the financial and political upheaval—and especially the popular unrest against political corruption we have seen in Lebanon and the greater region—what makes this situation different to the Holy See and the Secretariat of State (outside, of course, the strategic location) from the popular uprisings in Hong Kong—where Catholic leaders have been incarcerated, and a request for support has been personally brought by Cardinal Joseph Zen over two years ago?”

The English archbishop responded, “Well, obviously, Hong Kong is an object of concern for us. Lebanon is a place where we perceive that we can make a positive contribution. We do not perceive that in Hong Kong. One can say a lot of—say, appropriate words that would be appreciated by the international press, by many countries in the world, but I—and I think many of my colleagues—are yet to be convinced that it would make any difference whatever.

“I think that here [in Lebanon] we have an opportunity, but in Hong Kong, we have a very different situation altogether.”

 

China is where one will see the great upswing of Christians.

We are letting them down.