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The Canadian government has been tracking Chinese government efforts to influence Canada since at least 1986. [2] These overseas influence operations have allegedly risen to the extent that they represent an alarming security threat to the United States, who conducted a secret probe into the issue in the 1990s, according to former Canadian and US intelligence officials. [3]
In May, the House of Commons passed a non-binding motion calling on the government to expel Chinese diplomats involved in interference. [74] The motion also called on the government to establish a public inquiry and a foreign agent registry, and to force the closure of Chinese police stations operating in Canada. [75]
Canada and China established resident diplomatic missions in 1971, and it led to a series of diplomatic successes in the west. The People's Republic of China joined the United Nations in 1971, [30] replacing the international legitimacy previously held by the Kuomintang Government of the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan.
Canada has criticized the Chinese government over issues such as the oppression of Uyghurs in China, the crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, allegedly unfair trade practices, and espionage and intimidation activities in Canada. [4] In 2022, Canada referred to China as "disruptive" in its official Indo-Pacific strategy document. [5] [6]
The People's Republic of China (PRC) became more influential economically in the 1990s and 2000s and was beginning to be widely recognized as an emerging superpower.In 2010, China became the world's second largest economy by nominal GDP and became the largest economy since 2014 measured by GDP PPP surpassing the United States which previously held that position.
In September 2020, the Ministry of Commerce issued new rules allowing for the creation of the "Unreliable Entity List", and the National People's Congress followed up soon after in June 2021 by promulgating the "Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law", which established a legal framework for maintaining previous sanctions.
In 2020, [1] the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and various Chinese regulatory bodies, [2] under CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, began a regulatory spree, strengthening regulations, issuing fines, [3] and introducing or modifying laws. Though mostly targeted at disrupting the growth of "monopolistic" technology companies, the government also ...
The Chinese government placed Yang on a 1994 blacklist of 49 pro-democracy activists barred from returning to China. Yang used another person's passport to enter China in 2002. [17] Yu Wensheng: lawyer 2020 inciting subversion of state power 4 years According to Yu's wife Xu Yan, he was also deprived of his citizens' rights for three years. [18]