{"id":3431,"date":"2010-04-15T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T20:58:01","slug":"qotd-chinese-espionage-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/qotd-chinese-espionage-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Chinese espionage in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>China\u2019s not buying our oil; it\u2019s buying the reliable flow of Canadian corporate profits and our stable economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a national security risk to Canada?<\/p>\n<p>No, again. It is true that, according to CSIS, the Chinese government represents the largest espionage threat to Canada, stealing the equivalent of $1-billion a month from our country in industrial secrets. (That\u2019s more than our annual exports to China.)<\/p>\n<p>But that espionage is done illegally by Chinese students, expats and other sympathizers, not through the legal ownership of share certificates. No doubt our high-tech energy secrets are being stolen and will continue to be stolen, but that is not happening because of a Wall Street deal. The central strategic value of the oil sands is not at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Ezra Levant, <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2010\/04\/15\/ezra-levant-pipeline-to-asia.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Pipeline to Asia&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2010-04-15<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s not buying our oil; it\u2019s buying the reliable flow of Canadian corporate profits and our stable economic outlook. Is it a national security risk to Canada? No, again. It is true that, according to CSIS, the Chinese government represents the largest espionage threat to Canada, stealing the equivalent of $1-billion a month from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,25,41],"tags":[542,543,476],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-china","category-economics","category-quotations","tag-alberta","tag-csis","tag-espionage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65595,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/65595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}