President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet on Thursday for 2 days of discussions on a spread of topics, but each men face crises brought on by China at home from which they might be looking to escape.
“Justin Trudeau has claimed for months that he was not informed by the police [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] (CSIS) about Chinese interference in Canadian elections,” Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), said in a Fox News Digital statement. “We recently learned from CSIS agent leaks that this is clearly not true.”
Biden and Trudeau face accusations of appearing soft or have potentially problematic ties to China: Biden faces accusations from the House Oversight Committee that his the family received over $1.3 million in mass payments through one of Hunter Biden’s associates who worked with a Chinese energy company. Hunter Biden is the president’s son.
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Meanwhile, a CSIS report on Chinese election interference leaked to Canadian magazine The Globe and Mail indicated that China intervened in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Beijing sought to be certain that Trudeau’s Liberal Party candidates secured seats above conservative politicians whom it considered unfriendly.
Trudeau waited two weeks for this announce a poll in the allegations.
China denies all allegations of interference, saying it has little interest in meddling in Canada’s internal affairs.
Asked whether Biden and Trudeau plan to discuss allegations of meddling in China’s election, the White House didn’t respond until the publication.
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Trudeau’s spokesman said he had nothing to add to his comments made ahead of yesterday’s “Query Period” TV show.
Biden will seek unity on Ukraine and the environment but is unlikely to make much progress on tougher trade disputes, sources said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“[Trudeau’s] he’s doing all the things in his power to delay any investigation,” Bernier said. “This includes objecting to sending your chief of staff, [Katie] Telford to testify as she is going to have to do some BS to try to reconcile the truth along with her boss’ claims and this can embarrass them much more.
“After all, this also includes the appointment of family friend and Trudeau Foundation member David Johnston as the ‘Special Rapporteur’ who will take two months to determine whether a full investigation into Chinese interference is warranted or not, which we expect will likely be the latter, he continued. “With Trudeau, it is often the same pattern.”
David Stilwell, a member of the Vandenberg Coalition’s advisory board who previously served as assistant secretary of state for the Office of East Asia and the Pacific, said Canada will not be the only country targeted by China’s operations.
“[Chinese President] Xi Jinping is not just searching for candidates,” Stilwell told Fox News Digital. “They do it in every other democratic government with open media via bots, cyberspace and so forth.”
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“What’s he trying to do? Does he favor Trudeau over his opponent? Does he favor Biden over Trump? No, he doesn’t really care, Stilwell said. “All Chinese tactics There seems to be a creation of chaos, anger, division and discontent here.”
He referred to Sun Tzu, writer of The Art of War, describing China’s approach as “entropic warfare” – looking for to create chaos in the state to divide it and pit its different parts against one another, not external forces.
“It means you send spies, agents, bribes into the enemy country to do exactly what we are saying, which is to create the conditions for civil war,” Stilwell explained. “Then the opponent starts fighting with himself. After they’re done fighting they usually’re exhausted, you only go in and take control.
According to The Globe and Mail, Trudeau’s close adviser Telford will speak in the week starting April 10 about what she and the prime minister knew about Chinese interference and what they did to stop it.
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Stilwell noted that whatever the procedure is that the House Committee hopes to learn from the testimony, it could possibly just as easily be inferred from the book “Silent Invasion” which covered the same operation China took over Australia.
Aurel Braun, a professor of diplomacy and political science at the University of Toronto, agreed that what China is doing is “nothing latest” and the Canadian people and government just want to know: “Have we done enough about this? “
“We’re a G-7 country. We’re a member of NATO. We’re part of NORAD. We’re the second largest territory in the world. We’re a complicated industrialized country. We’ve got huge natural resources, so we’re a big player in the international system,” Braun said. “It should not be unusual for countries to listen to what Canada is doing or take an interest in Canada’s domestic politics.”
Braun noted that China is trying to compete with the West – particularly the United States – and can use political clout, economic dominance or systemic industrial espionage to surpass its rivals.
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He argued that the problem is that Canada specifically has been slow to respond to the Chinese threat and “must have been [been] faster in taking certain steps”.
“The issue is perception, and perception is fatal,” he continued. “Subsequently, it could be appropriate to have an independent commission with representations from different parties, and that will be higher at restoring confidence.”