Special rapporteur\u0027s personal and professional connections go back decades: \u0027He’s obviously both in love with and infatuated by the PRC\u0027
during a 2017 China trip quotes him as saying he had a “profound Chinese complex.”
While governor general, Johnston described Nanjing University as being like his “alma mater” or “home away from home,” according toMeanwhile, as one of the world’s top engineering-focused universities, Waterloo developed another China-related distinction. From 2006 to 2017 its faculty members published more than 100 papers in collaboration with Chinese military scientists, the fourth most of any university in the world, according to aby the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Johnston travelled to China again in 2017, meeting once more with Xi. Also on the trip was then-NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who recently recalled a chilling incident during the state dinner with the president. Xi abruptly left the event and returned later, at which point the Canadians noticed that their electronic devices no longer worked,in a column for CTV. It turned out that as they dined, Nobel-winning dissident Liu Xiabo had died of cancer while under guard.
For many Canadians, excitement about an opening-up, liberalizing China finally turned sour four years ago after Canada arrested a Huawei executive under its extradition treaty with the U.S. In response, China detained in spartan conditions Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, while elevating the punishment for alleged Canadian drug dealer Robert Schellenberg from 15 years in jail to death.
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