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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

China - O'Canada

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“O Canada! We stand on guard for thee” is the refrain from Canada’s national anthem. Like so many other nations of the world, including the United States, the “stand on guard” has been lowered to bending over for penetration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Canada is under attack by the CCP with “unrestricted warfare” on economic, political, military, and cultural fronts.

Vancouver, British Columbia, is a beautiful city on the west coast of Canada where housing and real estate costs have skyrocketed in recent years due to the influx of rich Chinese immigrants wanting to own land. In China, the CCP does not allow for private land ownership. Chinese, in 2018, laundered over $5 billion through River Rock Casino and other casinos to buy land, houses, businesses, drugs, and luxury automobiles. Many of the Chinese-owned houses are vacant for most of the year, while native Canadians can not buy homes and are driven out of the housing market due to high prices.

Canadian farmlands are being bought up by Chinese immigrants who ship much of the product to China. To own and buy farmland is an attraction that cannot be duplicated in China. Rapidly rising farmland prices caused by foreign investors make it difficult for young locals to start farms. Many Canadians end up being employees of Chinese investors. CCP's financial tentacles are a major factor in farmland funding.

China is Canada’s second-largest trading partner after the United States. In 2022, imports from China totaled $100 billion, while exports totaled $29 billion. The largest import segment was telecommunication equipment, while the largest export segment was fossil fuels, followed by agricultural products.

Chinese interference in Canada’s elections will be investigated by a special investigator, announced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 23, 2023. The turmoil evolves around recent election interference and a 2014 donation of $103,000 to a foundation for Trudeau’s late father, Pierre, who served twice as Canada’s prime minister. One of the donors was Zhang Bin, associated with China’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), a CCP organization advancing China’s interests worldwide. Zhang also made significant donations to the Universities of Toronto and Montreal.

Trudeau has refused to approve a more broad inquiry into Chinese influence on Canadian politics even though, in 2019, he raised “serious concerns” of Chinese interference in Canada with President Xi of China at the G20 meeting in Indonesia.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warned Trudeau that China has been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of political interference in elections in order to subvert the democratic process. The subversions include cash payments to select CCP-friendly candidates, placing agents in Members of Parliament (MP) offices to influence policy, and mounting aggressive campaigns to punish Canadian politicians who the CCP views as “unfriendly.” Another front is blending into the Chinese diaspora community to mobilize them to influence local elections and support CCP policies. Chinese dissidents living in Canada are “critical threats” and special targets of CCP intimidation and threats.

Confucius Institutes(CIs) are funded through the CCP’s United Front Work Department, which works out of CCP Canadian consulates. CIs purport to be cultural education programs but, in fact, are propaganda tools for influencing Canadians to look favorably on CCP policies. No discussions of freedom for Tibet or Hong Kong, Taiwan independence, or Tiananmen Square are allowed in CIs classrooms. Due to public outcry, some CIs have closed though eight still remain in Canadian universities. Other CIs have been renamed and are now called the Centre for Language and Cooperation.

Canada’s military announced it has recently discovered Chinese surveillance monitoring buoys in the Arctic seas. This followed the Chinese spy balloon that floated down from Canada, then crossed the United States and hovered over military bases collecting and transmitting intelligence back to China before being shot down over the South Carolina coast.

Summary

China’s goal is world domination through unrestricted warfare. CCP law states the government has the right to access all data from all sources. Thus when TikTok states its data on U.S. citizens is secure and is not stored in China, it is meaningless. ( A mouse click can send the data to TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, headquartered in Beijing). A basic rule of life is to “never trust a communist.” A recent revelation has TikTok employees monitoring and compiling a list of users who watched gay content.

Canada is an important country that borders the United States and is in China’s crosshairs for domination. China is following its usual playbook of penetrating and influencing countries with economic, cultural, and military gray zone activities. Canada is awakening to the dangers of the CCP and is instituting new laws and actions to counter China’s economic, political, and cultural warfare.

The Heritage Foundation recently published “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China,” listing actions needed to counter the threat from China. An excellent summary and plan, its primary value is identifying the issue --- the United States is in a new Cold War with China.

The mission of the American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) since 1958 has been to educate Americans on national and economic security and moral leadership issues.

“Peace Through Strength” is ASCF’s motto, and its implementation is now more important than ever.

Laurence F. Sanford
Senior Analyst
American Security Council Foundation
www.ascf.us

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  1. David Elderfield David Elderfield I am a Canadian who was tasked by the top levels of my Federal Government to heighten border security through sensor technology, and to respond to the discovery of illicit goods with automated review for money laundering. We were extremely successful in moving the markers forward, until our tax department relentlessly attacked our pre-revenue company that was supported on our personal after-tax savings (a zero tax liability situation.)

    These attacks started just weeks after we declined an offshore buyout offer, spawned from meetings with CIMC & COSCO in Shanghai.

    Interference & influence networks have long been established in Canadian bureaucracies by Organized Crime Groups (OCG's). Numerous official investigations by authorities have found & published this finding. And OCG's work hand in glove with foreign governments, or wherever money shines brightest.

    Your article is accurate. Patriotism is dying and standing on guard has become sitting at best. Wednesday, May 17, 2023