Sign up today to be notified of the first episodes in September – click here. POLITICO’s brand-new podcast will host conversations with the leaders and power players shaping the biggest ideas and driving the global conversations, moderated by award-winning journalist Anne McElvoy. Trudeau’s extended stay in the country was spent working in his hotel room.Įnter the “room where it happens”, where global power players shape policy and politics, with Power Play. Earliest departure: Late this afternoon (about the time when this newsletter arrives in inboxes). “The situation remains fluid,” hedged Trudeau’s comms team on Monday. Trudeau found himself stranded in India after a mechanical issue with his ‘80s-era ride (a Royal Canadian Air Force CC-150 Polaris) kept him and the entire Canadian delegation on the tarmac. Twist: Housing is earmarked as a priority for discussion, but chit-chat about canceled and delayed flights has risen as an unexpected wild card for the caucus. today for their three-day caucus, with or without Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU there in person. PLAN B - Federal Liberals are meeting in London, Ont. “That’s why I think it’s really important that our intelligence services brief MPs on the threats they are facing,” Chong said. Parliament returns, issue hangs: MPs will soon head back to the House, although some are still concerned about being targeted. His policy pitch: Exchange standards among Five Eyes intelligence partners about how and when to release information about foreign interference threats during elections and in between, and turn intel into evidence so justice systems can deal with these threats.Ĭhong will also urge close cooperation on foreign agent registries - something Canada has yet to establish. “Beijing’s targeting of me has only further emboldened me to continue to do the work that I’ve been doing on this file, because it has demonstrated to me that we are being effective.” Determination, renewed: Chong told Playbook what happened to him - from a diplomat gathering intel on his family to a disinformation campaign launched against him on Chinese social media WeChat - has only underscored the importance of standing up to China. The hearings come amid a legislative push in the Senate for the Transnational Repression Policy Act, which would “hold foreign governments and individuals accountable when they stalk, intimidate, or assault people across borders, including in the United States.” JEFF MERKLEY (D-Ore.) and TOM COTTON (R-Ark.). CHRIS SMITH (R-N.J.) and JAMES MCGOVERN (D-MA), along with Sens. Context: The committee has a good share of notable China hawks, such as reps. “If we don’t take action today, it will be our children and grandchildren in the United States and all over the world who will pay the consequences of an illiberal world.” Unless you stop that, the Uyghur people in the United States won’t feel safe to speak out,” she said. “My family members have been targeted and detained in retaliation for my advocacy and activism on behalf of my community. She tells Playbook she knows too well the “devastating impact” of the Chinese communist regime’s reach beyond its own borders: her own sister was abducted in China. First-hand experience: RUSHAN ABBAS, founder of the Campaign for Uyghurs, will also appear at the hearing. “I’m going to highlight not just what happened to me,” he tells Playbook, “but also the incidents of numerous incidences of transnational repression we’ve seen, directed by the PRC toward pro-Hong Kong democracy activists, human rights activists, people speaking out defending the rights of Tibetans, Uyghurs and other minorities in Canada.” Congressional-Executive Commission on China ( livestreamed here) and warn that Western democracies need to urgently work together to counter foreign meddling, intimidation and surveillance.īut he doesn’t want the focus to be all on himself. | Spencer Colby/THE CANADIAN PRESSĬHONG’S DAY IN WASHINGTON -Conservative foreign affairs critic MICHAEL CHONG brings his story to Washington today with a message that “transnational repression” is not just taking place in the United States.ĭemocracies like Canada are in the crosshairs, too. Michael Chong prepares to appear as a witness at a committee hearing on foreign election interference in Ottawa in May.
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