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China plans to buy gold mine in Arctic; Trudeau government to decide deal

A Chinese stat-run company is planning to buy a gold mine in the Canadian Arctic. The plans of a state-run company acquiring the area has sparked concerns for the Canadian government.

Shandong Gold Mining Co.’s plans on buying the gold mines from a Canadian company as experts believe it shows how China is expanding its presence in strategically important region.

The Canadian opposition party has raised concerns and has urged the Trudeau government to take steps as it holds a cabinet meeting over this deal.

The opposition has urged the Prime Minister to block the deal and discourage China from acquiring any more assets in the Arcitc after the US warned that China could be aiming to assert its importance in sensitive and important regions such as Arctic, similar to the South China Sea dispute.

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China charges two Canadians with spying

The Dandong procuratorate in East China’s Liaoning Province on Friday initiated a public prosecution of Canadian national Michael Spavor for stealing sensitive intelligence from China.
A branch court of People’s Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality has initiated a public prosecution of Michael John Kovrig, former Canadian diplomat, for stealing sensitive information from China.

Trudeau says he’s ‘disappointed’ after China charges two Canadians with spying https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-disappointed-spavor-kovrig-1.5619084 More disappointments coming.

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Cirque Du Soleil

Cirque Du Soleil, known as “National Treasure of Canada,” announced on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo that the troupe will return to the stage for their first series of post- COVID19 shows starting on June 3 in Hangzhou, capital of E China’s Zhejiang.

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Huawei

China accused Canada of being an “accomplice” in a US push to bring down Huawei and other Chinese tech giants on Wednesday, after a Canadian court sided against key Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in an extradition battle. Judge Heather Holmes ruled that the fraud charges, not sanctions, were the key issue. Holmes also noted that, while Canada did not have economic sanctions against Iran when Meng was first detained, the US measures “were not fundamentally contrary to Canadian values.”  What a “stunning” and “beyond imagination” argument! So Canada has made the decision to side with US in this new World War.