After troubling the world with COVID epidemic China is now busy destroying democracies in other countries. Recently Taiwan has alleged that China has its ways to botch-up elections in many countries to get a desired result that favors the dragon. The tactics comprises military pressure, controlling fake propaganda running media, forcing its own narratives on others, and manipulating opinion polls to affect elections. Not just Taiwan we have seen similar attempts being made by China during the elections in Nepal, Maldives, and Canada.
Today China despite being 9,000 miles away from Canada is interfering with its elections by giving money to its leaders and media to run its own storyline. There are enough proofs against China for deliberate electoral manipulations. While Canada Premiere Justin Trudeau has become a cry baby blaming everything on India it was Canada’s own Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that has hinted at China for deliberate espionage activities.
At a time when Canada is blaming India for killing of extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on its soil, it is overseeing where the real threat lies. Canada has just turned blind eye to “real interference” that is actually coming from China and not India. Canada is a democracy being run by elected representatives who are responsible for enacting laws and running trade with countries. But if a wrong leader is elected it will destroy the whole democratic process of a what, exactly what China wants to achieve.
In 2021 Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had accused China of interference during federal election campaign. Chinese diplomats and their proxies had backed the re-elections of Justin Trudeau’s liberals but only to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be anti- China. The whole attempt by China was exposed by Canadian intelligence agency CSIS that gave documented proofs of Chinese interference that returned the liberals to office. CSIS had also shared these documents with its Five Eyes partners UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand, and also France and Germany. CSIS accused China on two counts – First, interfering with its elections by supporting liberals, and second, making sure the Conservative party candidates could not win.
The world can see through China’s manipulative tactics, like how it hid crucial information about coronavirus in the beginning. China cheated in Asian games as well by attempting devoid Neeraj Chopra of a gold, but that attempt was foiled. China’s strategy to interfere in Canada’s electoral process comprises identifying Canadian leaders loyal to China and influencing Chinese population residing in Canada. CCP sent messages to its consulates in China that they should pressurize Chinese in Canada to vote in a certain way. China also funded the election campaigns of its favored candidates and told the local Chinese to donate as well.
Finally, China ran a disinformation network against the anti-China candidates in Canada and spread controversies against them so that their vote bank gets impacted. CSIS noted that Vancouver’s consulate general Ms. Tong, who returned to Canada in July 2022, and former Consul Wang Jin made “discreet and subtle efforts” to encourage Canadian-Chinese groups
to vote in favor of Liberals. China was playing phycological warfare against Canada to get its favorite leader in power. CSIS also revealed that a Michael Chan, an important minister from Canada, was too close to Chinese consulate and was involved in fund raising for the liberals. CSIS report further claims that Justin Trudeau ignored security leaks as Mr. Chan was involved and even once publicly acknowledged China’s interference but said it was not worrisome. Chinese government had also donated $2 lakh to Justin Trudeau’s cancer foundation and out of which $1.40 lakhs was given to Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau. China was sending direct money to Justin Trudeau via charity. The eyebrows were raised when the directors of Trudeau Foundation resigned when these Chinese donations were made public. China is looking to attain power by interfering in the elections of other countries. Today, China has the veto power in United Nations Security Council using which it has stopped India’s entry. China has a direct control over world bodies like World Health Organization and World Trade Organization and wants to dominate the global leadership. China’s phycology works in way that it believes in total domination instead of getting dominated itself. China is trying to imitate the Unites States by interfering in internal matters of other countries and playing the role of a big boss. It knows that whenever there is a war somewhere countries with vested interests would play a role and it is following the suit.