EU-DIGEST: Canada: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling interference activities by the Chinese government the "greatest strategic threat"

3/17/23

Canada: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling interference activities by the Chinese government the "greatest strategic threat"

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the "greatest strategic threat to national security."

In a statement provided in French to CBC/Radio-Canada on Friday, a CSIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the "Chinese population" but from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which9 is deploying a strategy aimed at "geopolitical gains" on economic, technological, political and military fronts.

"To do so, it uses all the state powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and sovereignty of the country," said the unnamed spokesperson.