New report shows Canadian government blocked 43 attempts to sell military goods to China last year
PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images, blocked 43 attempts last year to sell military goods to Chinese customers, a new report shows.
The federal government, which shrouds its military exports approval process in secrecy, did not identify precisely what military goods it blocked from shipping to China. It only revealed the particular category. In more than 90 per cent of the cases, it was Category 1-6, which includes goods that can be put to civilian or military use, such as acoustical underwater listening systems, sonars, lasers, gravity meters , radar and imaging equipment.
China has been trying for years to scoop up various types of signal processing software for its military but also for its national intelligence agencies, he said.“That is why it is important to protect that kind of knowledge,” he said. “It is entirely possible, in fact it is quite likely, that some of the technology has been developed with some of our closet partners because we tend to share some of those more intimate secrets as it relates to acoustic signal processing.
Ms. Todgham Cherniak also said it’s likely many of the stopped shipments include gear that Canada was worried would be used to repress groups such as the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China that has been subject to mass detention and targeted by population-reduction measures.
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