Australians are wise to Chinese interference. Canadians need to catch up
The head of Australia’s spy agency is worried that too few people in Australian business and academia share his concerns about foreign interference, in effect facilitating efforts by unfriendly autocratic governments to undermine Aussie democratic institutions.
“They are entitled to their views but the reasons they offer for them are flimsy, such as: ‘all countries spy on each other,’ ‘we were going to make the information public anyway,’ ‘it’s no different to lobbying or networking,’ ‘the foreign government might make things difficult for us,’ and so on,” Mr. Burgess.
Compared to Canberra, however, Ottawa continues to tiptoe around the Chinese-interference elephant in the room, in part to avoid having to say anything that might upset Chinese-Canadian voters or elicit Beijing’s ire. Canadian business and university leaders prefer it that way. After all, they see China as their golden goose.
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