kkkanada

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.netEnglish
    79·
    11 months ago

    Now I know this plan is foolproof. Check this out. First of all, you and me start studying in Canada. Doesn’t matter the university, okay, just so long as we get in there, all right? Then we just go there every day, do the work, study, gain their trust until we get them in the palm of our hand.

    All right. So how we get the intel?

    That’s the beauty of it, bro. They deposit the intel into our brains, week after week, month after month. They’re not even gonna know they’re being spied on. And then 4 or 6 years later, we graduate like nothing even happened.

  • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    The officer cited an article titled “Why is China Becoming a Microfluidics Superpower?” — which says microfluidic devices are important for new medical research — in support of his decision to reject Li.

    Hate when spies want to advance medical science.

  • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    47·
    11 months ago

    “As hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive information in Canada or abroad, contrary to Canada’s interests, the court’s appreciation of what constitutes ‘espionage’ must evolve,” he wrote in his December 22 decision, made public this week.

    “The officer further noted that Mr. Li has a strong interest in microfluidics […] and that he indicated in his study plans that he wanted to dedicate his career to improving China’s underdevelopment of the application of advances to point-of-care technology in the field of public health,” says the Federal Court decision.

    did-i-miss-a-page

  • carpoftruth [any, any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    45·
    11 months ago

    The irony is that Canada’s only chance of not having its entire lunch eaten by the US as their rapacious interests pull back from elsewhere in the world is to encourage Chinese interest in the country. Canada is a gnat in either relationship, but they’ll make out better if they can negotiate between two powers instead of one.

  • GreenWater [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    Mainland Chinese would be better off not glamorizing universities in the Five Eyes countries that hate them even more than most Western countries do.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      11 months ago

      I think it’s usually rich students that go. But China has been recruiting Chinese Americans who have been wrongfully accused of working for China to actually work for China for real lol

    • daisy@hexbear.netEnglish
      33·
      11 months ago

      Speaking as a canuck, I second this. Our racist state, with its own low-key apartheid system that harms the First Nations, is basically irredeemable.

      Also, I’m willing to collaborate with the Chinese government in exchange for having input into nuclear strike locations. First, Red Deer needs to go, followed by Cochrane, Airdrie, and Okotoks.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    11 months ago

    I’m just kind of blown away.

    Learning something in a foreign country and then taking it back to use in your country’s domestic industry is what almost all foreign university students are doing, no?

    Do they expect him to pay for four years of not learning and go back to China empty handed? How is this espionage? Fucking racist pricks, kkkanada

  • Hexbear2 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    A Chinese person and a university freely entered into an agreement that the Chinese person would pay to learn freely available information. This is totally ridiculous. China is moving the world ahead on a rate that rivaled the early Soviet Union’s space program. The west has their head in the sand, because it won’t be more than another generation before China leaves them behind. Once students STOP coming here for an education, it will be too late.