Politics Briefing: MP Michael Chong urges co-ordinated response by Ottawa and Washington to Beijing interference

Hello, Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, a repeated target of Chinese government intimidation, told U.S. congressional hearings Tuesday that Ottawa and Washington need a co-ordinated response to Beijing's concerted efforts to interfere in Western democracies and bullying of diaspora communities. Mr. Chong received a rare invitation to speak to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, an 18-member panel from the Senate and House of Representatives that monitors human abuses in China and is examining Beijing's global-repression campaign. "Foreign interference is a serious, national-security threat to Canada. It threatens our economy, long-term growth, social cohesion, our Parliament and our elections. It…