Why Canada is among the prime targets for Chinese interference attempts

Late in August of 1971, the Iowa Highway Patrol arrested two people for speeding and carrying a concealed weapon. The two were activists for The Black Revolutionary Party, a militant group formed earlier that year at a meeting of Canadian supporters of Chinese Communism, which was dedicated to armed resistance against discrimination and to the spread of Mao Zedong's ideology. In the car, the Iowa officers discovered an envelope addressed to Ottawa, to Bu Chaomin, a correspondent for China's Xinhua News Agency. He was also, according to declassified FBI files, "reported to be a Red Chinese intelligence agent" - and…