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Why Is China’s Police Department Still Running Canada’s Visa Office in Beijing?

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Why Is China’s Police Department Still Running Canada’s Visa Office in Beijing?
A guard tries to block photos being taken as he and a policeman patrol outside the Canadian embassy in Beijing, on Jan. 14, 2019. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images
Patricia Adams
Lawrence Solomon
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A company owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (Beijing police) has a contract to run the visa application program for the Canadian embassy in China. This gives the Chinese regime’s interviewers the ability to extract information about the Canadian citizens of Chinese descent they’re visiting and to send spies into Canada while denying legitimate visitors access to the West.

Patricia Adams is an economist and president of the Energy Probe Research Foundation and Probe International, an independent think tank in Canada and around the world. She is the publisher of internet news services Three Gorges Probe and Odious Debts Online and the author or editor of numerous books. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Bengali, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. She can be reached at [email protected]
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