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Election interference & Foreign Influence

Ma’s mockery must end

A striking display during a House of Commons session on EV policy and Chinese imports, involving floor-crossing Liberal MP Michael Ma, has raised fresh concerns about foreign influence in Ottawa. By Probe International March 26: In a heated House of Commons committee session examining EV policy and Chinese imports, newly minted Liberal MP Michael Ma—a recent […]

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China & Geopolitics Election interference & Foreign Influence

Warning from a China dissident

By Probe International Yao Zhang, a Chinese-born dissident now living in Quebec, delivers a chilling warning about the creeping influence of communism in the West. Joining the Brave New Normal podcast earlier this month, Zhang sees alarming similarities between China and Canada. She argues that desperate young Canadians, facing unaffordable lives and mounting frustrations, may reach the […]

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China & Geopolitics

How Net Zero is weakening the West

Lessons of the past: principles must be “accompanied by steel along with good intentions,” or liberty itself will wither. In Brief by Probe International For the original commentary by Maurice Cousins, go to the publisher’s website here. China knows exactly what it is doing. This is old wine in new bottles. The Soviet Union long […]

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China & Geopolitics Energy & Climate

China to construct second ship lock at Three Gorges Dam amid growing navigation crisis

Decades-old infrastructure strains under demand.  By Probe International and Three Gorges Probe The Three Gorges Dam’s existing five-tier ship lock system, operational since 2004 and hailed as the world’s largest and most complex, is faltering under surging Yangtze River traffic. Demand has pushed the aging infrastructure beyond its designed capacity, exposing critical strain on its […]

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China & Geopolitics Freedom & Health

The launch of “Deng Xiaoping in 1989” in 2024

A second revised edition of an iconic account of China’s June Fourth Incident launches with Probe International’s Patricia Adams on hand to commemorate the event. By Probe International June 28 | New York: Today marks the launch of the second revised edition of an iconic account of the events that led to China’s Tiananmen Square tragedy, […]

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China & Geopolitics

June Fourth 2024 — Dai Qing, a former person who refused to be silenced

Reporter, novelist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist, Dai Qing continues her quest to reveal China to itself. By Lisa Peryman for Probe International A revised edition of Deng Xiaoping in 1989 戴晴 著, an account by the iconic investigative journalist Dai Qing of the events that led to the tragedy of June 4 on […]