'CSIS Canada intelligence outlines how the interlocked detentions of Huawei’s CFO & Michael Kovrig drove #China ’s #interference in 🇨🇦’s 2019 & 2021 elections.' Sam Cooper The Canadian Press Politics Elections Canada Commissioner of Canada Elections Foreign Interference Commission #cdnpoli #TrudeauMustResign
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Good comments here from Michael Kovrig. Beijing creates facts, and rather than deal with those facts, some would rather create fictions to not have to deal with those facts and put the people whom they are supposed to represent at risk.
Picture Xi Jinping 'strapped into a giant, bureaucratic authoritarian machine...a prisoner of the system.' Sobering assessment of the CCP mindset by former hostage of Beijing Michael Kovrig in POLITICO Ottawa Playbook w/Kyle Duggan bit.ly/3w18Dnf
Phelim Kine “老 康“ Michael Kovrig POLITICO Kyle Duggan I love this observation
Back in February 2021, Steve Yates (葉望輝) & I discussed exactly this on Federal Newswire’s China Desk
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Phelim Kine “老 康“ Michael Kovrig POLITICO Kyle Duggan I thought the end of this was pretty interesting...that they're all basically sailing on the ship they helped to build but can't turn it around even if they wanted
Michael Kovrig Phelim Kine “老 康“ POLITICO Kyle Duggan What do you have to say about the other Michael’s accusations?
Michael Kovrig ‘China’s hostage taking has become so prominent that MIT warns companies about these risks of doing business in China, and the U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory warning Americans to, “reconsider travel to Mainland China due to the arbitrary enforcement…
Michael Kovrig Me thinks is no coincidence one of the vinyls Blinken bought is Taylor Swift’s. Apart from the “T.S. 1989” thing👇🏼
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Michael Kovrig Phelim Kine “老 康“ POLITICO Kyle Duggan Insider job my ass,see that C-SPAN logo?
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To stop illegitimate forms of bullying and coercion, we need collective action, mutual support and technical expertise in trade, economics and more. This Department of State team is setting a great example that others should follow:
National Division RCMP 9. Regarding CSIS’s uncorroborated intelligence that Beijing may have considered assassinating Meng as a last resort to her co-operating with U.S. investigations into Huawei, Kovrig said the information isn’t shocking for China experts. Michael Kovrig
Phelim Kine “老 康“ Michael Kovrig POLITICO Kyle Duggan That is just nonsense. The problem with Xi is that he is incredibly poorly educated, speaks no foreign language and has no deeper sense of any culture outside of his own. He is a prisoner of his own ignorance. And he was placed in his job because they wanted a brute.
Phelim Kine “老 康“ POLITICO Kyle Duggan Pacing inside his psychological prison... twitter.com/cskun1989/stat…
Michael Kovrig Maybe don't take the first hostage for an orange clown. And then in the inevitable tit for tat don't disavow your own spies for years. Basically don't be scumbags.