No Such Thing as Independent Chinese Global Enterprises, Committee Hears

No Such Thing as Independent Chinese Global Enterprises, Committee Hears
Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI) and former Canadian diplomat in China, speaks at a round-table hosted by MLI in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019. Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times
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A scholar on China has warned that affording more scrutiny to Chinese state-owned enterprises with regard to foreign takeovers of Canadian companies won’t entirely remove the risk of losing strategically to the communist regime.

“All Chinese global enterprises are fully integrated into the PRC [People’s Republic of China] party-state, corporate, military, and security apparatus, because as party General Secretary Xi Jinping has put it ... ‘the party leads everything,’” said Charles Burton before the House of Commons industry and technology committee on May 1.

Noé Chartier
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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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