Comment on Joly tells China’s top diplomat Canada won’t ‘tolerate any form of interference in our democracy’
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Ms. Joly said China interfering in Canadian elections, setting up illegal police stations and bullying diaspora communities were all put on the table in Beijing, as were its intimidation and disinformation campaigns against members of Parliament.
Ms. Joly said she referred to the public inquiry headed by Quebec Court of Appeal justice Marie-Josée Hogue that concluded in its first report in May that China is the “most persistent and sophisticated foreign interference threat to Canada at the moment.”
She also raised the expulsion of Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei last year after The Globe reported he had targeted Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong in an attempt to gain leverage over the MP, who had sponsored a Commons motion on Beijing’s repression in Xinjiang.
On trade, Ms. Joly said Mr. Wang discussed Beijing’s concern about Canada likely joining the U.S. and Europe in imposing massive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and ending federal subsidies to Canadians for EVs imported from China.
On the larger issues of human-rights abuses, Ms. Joly said she raised concerns about China’s crackdown in Hong Kong, brutal treatment of Muslim Uyghurs and Tibetans, and military threats to invade the self-governing island democracy of Taiwan.
In the Chinese readout of the meeting, Mr. Wang told Ms. Joly that Beijing will brook no criticism of its human-rights records or its menacing of Taiwan, calling those subjects a red line that should not be crossed.
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