Why Chinese spies like us

Here is an old adage from the world of espionage.
It goes something like this.
Consider a beach the target country and the sand on it the coveted intelligence.
The Americans would use satellites to probe from high altitudes what they can make of it.
The Israelis would creep up onto the beach at night in inflatable boats and grab a bagful for analysis.
The Chinese would declare a national holiday, send everyone to the beach so they can all pocket a bit of sand and bring it home.
As former FBI analyst Paul D. Moore puts it; “In China’s model, anyone and everyone is a potential intelligence asset.”
The quicker our elected officials understand this, the safer Canada will be.
Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was trying to articulate this fact when he warned in a CBC interview that some of our elected politicians, including municipal officials in B.C., are under the influence of foreign governments.
“There are several municipal politicians in British Columbia and in at least two provinces there are ministers of the Crown who we think are under at least the general influence of a foreign government,” said our top spy before being forced to backtrack on his comments because it triggered a tongue lashing from the Chinese-Canadian community and politicians from coast-to-coast.
What Fadden was saying was not new because it has been said many times before in reports, analysis and interviews across the globe.
It is however alarming that our naïve politicians don’t and won’t believe what McFadden said is happening.
So they demand for proof, fully well knowing that evidence and human sources gathered in the intelligence game, will for the most part always be kept confidential.
Our sister paper The Asian Pacific Post have for the past decade chronicled incidents, interviews and reports to show how China’s agents of influence have been infiltrating Canada.
We have shown how an assortment of front men from tycoons to Triad members infiltrate Canada’s business, political and financial infrastructure.
Despite this litany of reports the naïve, gullible and influenced keep their heads buried in the sand, with some camouflaging China’s efforts as engagement, instead of infiltration.
The recent comments by CSIS boss McFadden also prompted a terse reply from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’ office which stated it did not know what our top spy was talking about.
Obviously no one checked Harper’s attack at the Liberals back in June 2005 when he accused the Liberal government of the day of not addressing the presence of Chinese industrial spies during question period.
“Today the former head of the CSIS Asia desk confirmed reports from defectors that close to 1000 Chinese government agent spies have infiltrated Canada,” Harper said then.
Harper quoted the former CSIS official, Michel Juneau-Katsuya, as believing Chinese spies cost Canada $1 billion every month through industrial espionage. Juneau-Katsuya oversaw the CSIS Asia desk during the mid-1990s.
How soon we forget. That’s perhaps why Chinese spies like us.
For a small replay of some of what has happened for those who refuse to believe China’s infiltration of Canada is real, threatening and happening go to www.asianpacificpost.com