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Under Assault : Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada.
In 'Under Siege', national security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the details of Beijings five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference scandals that have shaken present-day Ottawa, this book addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time. Molinaro lives in Oshawa, ON.
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- ISBN: 9781039011700
- Physical Description: 352 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Random House of Canada, 2025.
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| Subject: | HISTORY / Asia / China POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian |
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FOREWORD BY CHERIE WONG
National security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijingâs five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the Cultural Revolution to the foreign-interference scandals that have shaken present-day Ottawa, this definitive book addresses one of the most urgent issues of our time.
Amidst heightened tensions between Western nations and China, Canadians have found themselves astonished by hostage crises, cyberattacks, harassment of members of our government, and theft of intellectual property worth untold billions of dollars. Guided by Molinaroâs experience as a historian and China specialist, Under Assault focuses on the actions of the Peopleâs Republic of Chinaâs government and its governing party, the Chinese Communist Party, against Canada during the past fifty years.
From Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeauâs earliest journeys through the âMiddle Kingdomâ prior to his election to Parliament in the 1960s, the communist government of the PRC has perceived Canada as a staging ground for spying on and pressuring its ultimate target, the United States. When Canadaâs first tech giant, Nortel, was plundered of intellectual property by digital spies; while Canada was manipulated into advocating against the independence of Taiwan; and as Chinese Canadians were targeted in the country where they thought theyâd escaped Maoâs terrors, Canadaâs leaders have too often seen only what they want to see in China: an emerging market of inestimable value and fertile soil for democratic change for a long-tyrannized people. Generations of Communist leadership have gladly allowed Canadaâs government to labour under these misapprehensions, even when the evidence of Chinaâs spying, theft and harassment of Canadian citizens has been happening right before its eyes. Canada has rarely allowed itself to believe what the rest of the world has long understood.
Informed by numerous interviews with generations of Canadian politicians, diplomats and bureaucrats; members of diaspora communities targeted by China who have endured this harassment for too long; as well as by new revelations from recently declassified CSIS documents, Under Assault is a timely, eye-opening account of a country compromised by its own illusions in a time of rising global conflict and a burgeoning new world order.
