Secret report outlines how Beijing’s consul-general discussed ‘grooming’ municipal politicians
China’s diplomatic mission in Vancouver has actively interfered in the city’s politics, using proxies in diaspora community organizations and grooming politicians to run in last fall’s municipal election, according to Canada’s spy agency.
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