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2. Several former Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials interviewed by Global News said that CanSino’s Canadian-educated scientists were likely seen as potential assets by Chinese Communist Party information collection networks.

3. And one of the Canadian security consultants, said the agency responsible for the CanSino collaboration— the National Research Council (NRC) — should have seen red flags surrounding a CanSino partnership.

4. China failed to send the vaccine to Canada, breaking terms of the deal to use Canadian technology to develop it. Meanwhile, since June “many Chinese military” staff have received CanSino vaccine doses enabling them to soldier in “epidemic affected areas” without being infected

5. “There have been a lot of cases where Chinese academics have gathered intelligence in North America,” Elcock said. “The Chinese will make use of every opportunity. The Thousand Talents plan is one of those opportunities, and it’s clearly a vector of intelligence collection.”

6. Juneau Katsuya said: “This talent recruitment is systematically supported by the United Front Work Department, and other departments. But the United Front in particular, is responsible for trying to repatriate valuable Chinese people, like Dr. Yu.”

7. The NRC entered a March 2020 deal with the endorsement of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sharing Canada’s proprietary cell-line for vaccine-development with China.

8. The failed deal means that Canadian citizens lost a chance to be first-in-line to receive a vaccine produced in Canada.

9. “NRC has been abused by China before in this way, and that is why this case is so offensive,” Juneau Katsuya said. “It looks like what China did, is they got what they needed (from Canada) and they stopped the vaccine shipment. This neutralizes the ability for Canada.”

10. "I had a discussion with one Canadian professor in Artificial Intelligence, who was approached in the Thousand Talents Plan, with the offer that he would get a full salary at (a Chinese collaborator university) on top of his Canadian university salary,” @M_Johnston1 said.

11. “You can almost hear the huge vacuuming sound whisking away North American technologies to Chinese labs, under Xi Jinping,” she said.

12. The United Front Work Department, and its tentacles in Richmond B.C., and Markham, Ont., in connection to casinos, PPE, meetings with Canadian politicians, and connections to transnational organized crime suspects, is something I have covered. @CullenInquiryBC

13. Here is an interesting thing @alexjoske found about the Fujian United Front in Canada, whose leader has been central to @csiscanada investigations.

14, In a Canadian case study, Joske’s report found that the Fujian Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office sent representatives worldwide in July 2016 to establish China’s talent recruitment stations.

15. And the Fujian office, which is part of China’s United Front according to Joske, set up four stations in Canada. Canada’s former ambassador to China, John McCallum, was pictured at the opening of one of the stations in Toronto.

16. The Toronto community leader that opened that station and was pictured with McCallum, “is a member of several organisations run by the United Front Work Department in China and has been accused of running a lobbying group for the Chinese Consulate in Toronto,” Joske says.

17. Markham, Ont., is a centre of activity for the Fujian group, see my PPE story globalnews.ca/news/6858818/c…

18. Here the leader from Markham greets Xi Jinping in Beijiing globalnews.ca/news/6055004/h…

19. Network links through Markham and United Front activity, 2019 anti-Hong Kong democracy, pro-Beijing national security rally

20. Here is CanSino CEO Dr. Yu in 2011, at a Toronto forum with Consular and recruiting program officials, where he coached on his lessons learned in landing funding in China, and how Canadian-based researchers can do the same.

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22. And here is Alex Joske's international deep dive on the CCP recruiting plans. aspi.org.au/report/hunting… experts point out many countries have talent recruiting. Western intelligence believes the CCP has sort of weaponized the vacuum collection of IP for PLA, though.

23. A computer-translated agenda of the Dr. Yu forum in Toronto, in 2011, from his Chinese-Canadian biopharma association.

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