Former lecturer at Chinese academy for cyberwarfare faces new immigration hearing in Canada

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A former lecturer at a Chinese university which served as a military academy for cyberwarfare will face a third immigration hearing after a judge found problems with a previous decision that would have admitted him to Canada. Huajie Xu, a 43-year-old Chinese national who has been in Canada since 2021, faces a new hearing before Canada's Immigration Appeal Division in order to determine whether he was a member of Chinese military units responsible for cyber espionage against Canada — and thus would be inadmissible on security grounds, according to a Federal Court of Canada decision issued on Feb. 19. Xu...