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Subject: Chinese Espionage in Canada - Part 2
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PART 2
Chinese Espionage in Canada
Continued from Part 1.
"Myth 1: Trade With China Benefits Canada
'How many times have you heard that China is now Canada's second-
largest trading partner?' asks Mr. McAdam. 'This means that China is
our second-largest source of imports after the U.S. - not that our
trade with China has improved.'
He notes that China now exports more than four times as much to Canada
($38.3 billion) as we are selling to them ($9.3 billion). Statistics
Canada says the Canadian trade deficit with China expanded from $3.9
billion in 1997 to $26.8 billion in 2006.
'China is really using Canada almost as a colony,' says Mr. McAdam,
'getting raw materials from us and selling them back to us in finished
products ranging from furniture and clothes to plastics and high-tech
equipment.
'Canada doesn't need China,' he says, 'China needs Canada.'
Myth 2: China has 1.3 Billion Customers
'It's a mirage - there are one billion peasants who cannot afford a
bottle of Coke,' Mr. McAdam says. The real customer base is 300
million - people with privileged government positions.
He says that the West's widespread trade deficits with China spring
from low wages and prisoner slave labour, counterfeit products and
pirated intellectual property.
While a few Canadians make money in China, he says, the fantasy of
broad-based beneficial trade has been 'created by people to justify' a
close relationship with China.
Myth 3: China Is Becoming A Democratic Nation
'Trade had not brought democracy to China and never will,' says Mr.
McAdam. Nor will it bring China free speech, free media, free worship
or free demonstrations -- graphically confirmed in Tiananmen Square in
1989 and this year in Tibet.
He quotes Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who said last year that
'democracy is probably still 100 years away.
Myth 4: China Has Improved Human Rights
With Olympic visitors gone home, Mr. McAdam predicts, China 'will
crack down' on its citizens.
Mr. McADam laments that 'nobody is really taking China to task over
human rights violations.' Even in Canada, Chinese emigres and students
are 'intimidated by the Chinese government, which leads them to think
that they, or their families back home, will be harmed -- unless they
spy.' This includes some targeted students, scientists, businessmen,
foreign delegations and public servants, he says.
Most of the Chinese media in Canada are controlled by the Communist
government or its proxies, says Mr. McAdam. 'The information that the
Chinese population is getting here in Canada -- they might as well
live in Communist China.'
...."
End of Part 2.
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