There’s a long-running irritation in Sino-Canadian universities and colleges relations

It's the persistent use by the Chinese Communist Party of its students here as shock troops in propaganda warfare and its persecution of Canadians it considers dissidents.

Canada believes in freedom of speech and expression, but the marshalling by Beijing’s diplomats in Canada of fifth columnists from among the 140,000-or-so Chinese students in Canada goes well beyond what is acceptable, writes Jonathan Manthorpe. Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY JONATHAN MANTHORPE

September 9, 2019

A long-running irritation in Sino-Canadian university and colleges relations has been the persistent use by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of its students here as shock troops in propaganda warfare and its persecution of Canadians it considers dissidents. Canada believes in freedom of speech and...

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