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[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 79 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now I know this plan is foolproof. Check this out. First of all, you and me start studying in Canada. Doesn't matter the university, okay, just so long as we get in there, all right? Then we just go there every day, do the work, study, gain their trust until we get them in the palm of our hand.

All right. So how we get the intel?

That's the beauty of it, bro. They deposit the intel into our brains, week after week, month after month. They're not even gonna know they're being spied on. And then 4 or 6 years later, we graduate like nothing even happened.

[–] davel@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago
[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 54 points 10 months ago

go back to your own country and make it better instead of coming here and taking our jobs

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[–] Emanuel 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The officer cited an article titled "Why is China Becoming a Microfluidics Superpower?" — which says microfluidic devices are important for new medical research — in support of his decision to reject Li.

Hate when spies want to advance medical science.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rejecting Doctor Zhang because I read an article that says “More Chinese Medical Students Specializing in Cancer Research to Help Elderly”

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Asking my Chinese physician if they're just using my physical as a means of advanced their knowledge, and therefor China's knowledge, in the medical field

[–] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"As hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive information in Canada or abroad, contrary to Canada's interests, the court's appreciation of what constitutes 'espionage' must evolve," he wrote in his December 22 decision, made public this week.

"The officer further noted that Mr. Li has a strong interest in microfluidics [...] and that he indicated in his study plans that he wanted to dedicate his career to improving China's underdevelopment of the application of advances to point-of-care technology in the field of public health," says the Federal Court decision.

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Only the most scrupulous asiatic agents have interests in microfluidics. Not even our own Canadian students care about it! Deport him!

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The irony is that Canada's only chance of not having its entire lunch eaten by the US as their rapacious interests pull back from elsewhere in the world is to encourage Chinese interest in the country. Canada is a gnat in either relationship, but they'll make out better if they can negotiate between two powers instead of one.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

[extremely Matt Christman voice] GIVE US THE SOFT LUMBER

[–] GreenWater@hexbear.net 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mainland Chinese would be better off not glamorizing universities in the Five Eyes countries that hate them even more than most Western countries do.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 38 points 10 months ago

I think it’s usually rich students that go. But China has been recruiting Chinese Americans who have been wrongfully accused of working for China to actually work for China for real lol

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] daisy@hexbear.net 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Speaking as a canuck, I second this. Our racist state, with its own low-key apartheid system that harms the First Nations, is basically irredeemable.

Also, I'm willing to collaborate with the Chinese government in exchange for having input into nuclear strike locations. First, Red Deer needs to go, followed by Cochrane, Airdrie, and Okotoks.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Comrade let me please slip you a few coordinates for down here in so-called AuSStralia too.

[–] daisy@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

rat-salute-2 At your service, comrade.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Mooooooommmmm Canada is hogging all the nuclear strikes again!

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

Anyone who lives in klanada and does not despise it should not be trusted. kkkanada

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Canada with it's zero MEMS fabs is not a world leader in microfluidics.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Canada research in MEMS is not too bad, actually.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm just kind of blown away.

Learning something in a foreign country and then taking it back to use in your country's domestic industry is what almost all foreign university students are doing, no?

Do they expect him to pay for four years of not learning and go back to China empty handed? How is this espionage? Fucking racist pricks, kkkanada

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So did they find any proof of electoral interference or secret police station yet? Or we are cooking the next china bad lore?

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think a UK police report said that none of the “secret police” buildings investigated had anything to do with Chinese government operations lol

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is a Chinese Canadian community suing the canadian government for falsely accusing them of having secret police station atm

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Hopefully they succeed. The canucks have so many crimes that go unnoticed and they spend all their resources on racist bullshit. It’s the point of course, but frustrating as hell that the assholes get to move on with their lives while communities are in pieces over legal fees and threats and reputations damaged.

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not a single dissenting voice. Not even an activist or mention of rising anti-asian hate and rhetoric within Canada.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago
[–] SovietWaveGoddess@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Canada ensuring the century of humiliation is going to come for them lol

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's no way this isn't in retaliation for China justifiably detaining the Michaels for espionage

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Every time Canada does something like this, China should respond tit for tat by banning one Michael.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

A Chinese person and a university freely entered into an agreement that the Chinese person would pay to learn freely available information. This is totally ridiculous. China is moving the world ahead on a rate that rivaled the early Soviet Union's space program. The west has their head in the sand, because it won't be more than another generation before China leaves them behind. Once students STOP coming here for an education, it will be too late.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

I didn't see the link and reported this in error. Apologies to the mods.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Fucking Canada I swear to god

The only way for Canada to remain internationally relevant is to brain drain from the Global South faster than the US can.