Japanese Minister Criticises China's Attempts to Change the Status Quo. It hopes to join Five Eyes intelligence Alliance to Counter Chinese Threat.
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Administrative Reform, attended a U.S.-Japan symposium on Friday (23 October). He stated that China's growing military power and making attempts to alter the status quo unilaterally, including East and South China sea, China-India border and Hong Kong, have led Japan interested in joining Five Eyes.
Nikkei, alongside Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C. think tank, co-hosted the 17th symposium on "The era of growing U.S.-China rivalry and new administrations in the U.S. and Japan" in Tokyo. Former Japan Defense Minister Taro Kono participated in the meeting through video.
"China's military spending has increased 44 times in the last 30 years... Number of fighter jets, submarines, cruise and missile there's a wide gap between Japan and China," he said. With China's increasingly security load over Hong Kong, "the one country two systems, which had been the current state in Hong Kong, has been brutally destroyed... the international community has to get united and face with this issue.". Kono further said, "although Japan is not an Anglo Saxon nation, and yet Japan shares values with these nations 100%. Therefore Japan should work with the Five Eyes and I hope it will become the Sixth Eye in due course."
#Japan #FiveEyes #TaroKono #CSIS #Nikkei #ChinaThreat
Source: Apple Daily #Oct24
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201024/JQL4RHEV75DLTFNE6YW4MWZOVM/
[Note: Some wordings modified according to the speech of Taro Kono. For details please refer to:
https://channel.nikkei.co.jp/d/?p=csis2020e&s=2468
]
Taro Kono, Japanese Minister of State for Regulatory Reform and Administrative Reform, attended a U.S.-Japan symposium on Friday (23 October). He stated that China's growing military power and making attempts to alter the status quo unilaterally, including East and South China sea, China-India border and Hong Kong, have led Japan interested in joining Five Eyes.
Nikkei, alongside Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C. think tank, co-hosted the 17th symposium on "The era of growing U.S.-China rivalry and new administrations in the U.S. and Japan" in Tokyo. Former Japan Defense Minister Taro Kono participated in the meeting through video.
"China's military spending has increased 44 times in the last 30 years... Number of fighter jets, submarines, cruise and missile there's a wide gap between Japan and China," he said. With China's increasingly security load over Hong Kong, "the one country two systems, which had been the current state in Hong Kong, has been brutally destroyed... the international community has to get united and face with this issue.". Kono further said, "although Japan is not an Anglo Saxon nation, and yet Japan shares values with these nations 100%. Therefore Japan should work with the Five Eyes and I hope it will become the Sixth Eye in due course."
#Japan #FiveEyes #TaroKono #CSIS #Nikkei #ChinaThreat
Source: Apple Daily #Oct24
https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201024/JQL4RHEV75DLTFNE6YW4MWZOVM/
[Note: Some wordings modified according to the speech of Taro Kono. For details please refer to:
https://channel.nikkei.co.jp/d/?p=csis2020e&s=2468
]
CSIS warns China’s Operation Fox Hunt is targeting Canada’s Chinese community
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (#CSIS) says Beijing routinely uses undercover state security officials and “trusted agents,” or proxies, to target members of Canada’s Chinese community in an effort to silence critics of CCP leader Xi Jinping, including threats of retribution against their families back in China. Canada’s spy agent addresses the same issue mentioned by FBI Director Christopher Wray in July that Operation Fox Hunt is part of a global campaign of intimidation. CSIS spokesman urged Chinese national and Chinese-Canadians to report any threats or intimidation to Canadian authorities.
Former CSIS director says that the Chinese authorities, who have almost unlimited resources, are very active and sophisticated.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Nov10
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/politics/article-csis-warns-chinas-operation-fox-hunt-is-targeting-canadas-chinese/
#Canada #NationalSecurity #FoxHunt
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (#CSIS) says Beijing routinely uses undercover state security officials and “trusted agents,” or proxies, to target members of Canada’s Chinese community in an effort to silence critics of CCP leader Xi Jinping, including threats of retribution against their families back in China. Canada’s spy agent addresses the same issue mentioned by FBI Director Christopher Wray in July that Operation Fox Hunt is part of a global campaign of intimidation. CSIS spokesman urged Chinese national and Chinese-Canadians to report any threats or intimidation to Canadian authorities.
Former CSIS director says that the Chinese authorities, who have almost unlimited resources, are very active and sophisticated.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Nov10
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/politics/article-csis-warns-chinas-operation-fox-hunt-is-targeting-canadas-chinese/
#Canada #NationalSecurity #FoxHunt
For the First Time, Canada Acknowledges China’s Operation Fox Hunt Causes Threat, Urges Nationals to Report Cases
Following the US, the Canadian government has also acknowledged that China’s Operation Fox Hunt had been causing threats, pointing out that China targeted at individuals in the Chinese-Canadian Community through plainclothes national security personnel or “trusted agents”. The Canadian authority criticised this action as threatening to national security and Canada’s sovereignty and the safety of its people, and urged victims to report their cases.
In response to The Globe and Mail’s inquiry on China’s Operation Fox Hunt, John Townsend, the spokesperson of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that some countries, including China, routinely sent plainclothes national security personnel or “trusted agents” to other countries to make threats, silence dissidents or suppress political opponents, instilling fear in other countries. He said, “These activities constitute a threat to Canada’s sovereignty and to the safety of Canadians.”
Townsend refused to reveal the number of Canadians targeted by Operation Fox Hunt, but urged Chinese Canadians and local Chinese nationals to report any cases of threats or intimidations by China, “These individuals, for various reasons, may not have the means to protect themselves or do not know they can report these activities to Canadian authorities. The fear of state-backed or state-linked retribution targeting both them and their loved ones, in Canada and abroad, can force individuals to submit to foreign interference.”
#Canada #China #OperationFoxHunt #CSIS #JohnTownsend #CanadaSovereignty #CCP #NationalSecurity
Source: Apple Daly #Nov11
https://bit.ly/2WmBGMk
Following the US, the Canadian government has also acknowledged that China’s Operation Fox Hunt had been causing threats, pointing out that China targeted at individuals in the Chinese-Canadian Community through plainclothes national security personnel or “trusted agents”. The Canadian authority criticised this action as threatening to national security and Canada’s sovereignty and the safety of its people, and urged victims to report their cases.
In response to The Globe and Mail’s inquiry on China’s Operation Fox Hunt, John Townsend, the spokesperson of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said that some countries, including China, routinely sent plainclothes national security personnel or “trusted agents” to other countries to make threats, silence dissidents or suppress political opponents, instilling fear in other countries. He said, “These activities constitute a threat to Canada’s sovereignty and to the safety of Canadians.”
Townsend refused to reveal the number of Canadians targeted by Operation Fox Hunt, but urged Chinese Canadians and local Chinese nationals to report any cases of threats or intimidations by China, “These individuals, for various reasons, may not have the means to protect themselves or do not know they can report these activities to Canadian authorities. The fear of state-backed or state-linked retribution targeting both them and their loved ones, in Canada and abroad, can force individuals to submit to foreign interference.”
#Canada #China #OperationFoxHunt #CSIS #JohnTownsend #CanadaSovereignty #CCP #NationalSecurity
Source: Apple Daly #Nov11
https://bit.ly/2WmBGMk
China, Russia 'primary culprits' behind 'Cold War' levels of espionage and foreign interference towards Canada: CSIS
OTTAWA – Canada’s spy agency says that it “observed espionage and foreign interference activity at levels not seen since the Cold War” last year and that many security threats have become “much more serious.”
“The key national security threats facing Canada, namely violent extremism, foreign interference, espionage and malicious cyber activity, accelerated, evolved and in many ways became much more serious for Canadians,” warns Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director (CSIS) David Vigneault in the organization’s 2020 annual report.
Source: NationalPost #Apr12
https://nationalpost.com/news/intelligence-committee-warns-china-russia-targeting-canadian-covid-19-research
#China #Russia #ColdWar #Canada #CSIS
OTTAWA – Canada’s spy agency says that it “observed espionage and foreign interference activity at levels not seen since the Cold War” last year and that many security threats have become “much more serious.”
“The key national security threats facing Canada, namely violent extremism, foreign interference, espionage and malicious cyber activity, accelerated, evolved and in many ways became much more serious for Canadians,” warns Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director (CSIS) David Vigneault in the organization’s 2020 annual report.
Source: NationalPost #Apr12
https://nationalpost.com/news/intelligence-committee-warns-china-russia-targeting-canadian-covid-19-research
#China #Russia #ColdWar #Canada #CSIS
CSIS first alerted Ottawa to national-security concerns of two scientists at top disease laboratory
Canada’s spy agency urged the removal of security clearances for two scientists who were later dismissed from the country’s top infectious-disease laboratory because of national-security concerns relating to their work with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to two sources.
In January of this year, Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies Section, and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from their positions with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
Source: The Globe and Mail #May12
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-csis-first-alerted-ottawa-to-national-security-concerns-of-two/
#CSIS #Ottawa #NationalSecurity #Canada #China
Canada’s spy agency urged the removal of security clearances for two scientists who were later dismissed from the country’s top infectious-disease laboratory because of national-security concerns relating to their work with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to two sources.
In January of this year, Xiangguo Qiu, who headed the Vaccine Development and Antiviral Therapies Section, and her biologist husband, Keding Cheng, were fired from their positions with the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg.
Source: The Globe and Mail #May12
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-csis-first-alerted-ottawa-to-national-security-concerns-of-two/
#CSIS #Ottawa #NationalSecurity #Canada #China