Beijing’s Trojan Horse Rolls Into Canada: National Security Expert Warns Carney’s Chinese EV Deals Embeds Sabotage Risk

Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper (emphasis our own), China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada’s new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet. That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and written by Brenda Shaffer, an energy and national-security specialist who teaches at the United States Naval Postgraduate School. China, she writes, “continues to find creative ways to infiltrate and influence the West,” embedding in its exports the capacity to surveil citizens, disrupt transportation and ports, and trigger blackouts…