A Toronto MP who was dropped by the Liberal Party days before the last federal election over a failure to disclose a withdrawn sexual assault charge says he was the victim of “honeypot” tactics at the hands of the Chinese government.
The politician said he believes he was an alleged target because the Chinese government wanted Spadina-Fort York represented by someone who was “sympathetic to them and their agenda.”
“You don't have to be a political scientist to realize that I would not be a communist sympathizer, given my own family lived experience with my parents being run out of their country by communists.” Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail reported that Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong received threats from China after he criticised Beijing's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, but that CSIS never told Chong about the threats.In April, Global News reported that MPP Vincent Ke served as a financial intermediary in a Chinese Communist Party election interference scheme.
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