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Canada is playing a dangerous game, first with its pushback on the Trump tariffs, and now with its cozying up to America’s greatest threat, China. Canadians learned from a Chinese news report their Prime Minister, Mark Carney, had been secretly negotiating with the CCP to develop a plan for military cooperation between the two countries. The move makes Canada a threat to U.S. security.

Carney quietly revives China military talks — Canadians find out from Chinese media – Juno News
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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has quietly revived a formal military dialogue with China’s People’s Liberation Army that had been dormant for more than eight years.

Carney previously called China Canada’s “biggest security threat.”

And Canadians learned about the renewed dialogue from China.

Canadian and Chinese defence officials met in Ottawa on Sept. 4 for the fifth Canada-China Defence Coordination Dialogue.

The bilateral dialogue was established in 2013. Canada and China held four previous rounds — in 2013, 2014, 2016 and April 2018 — before the mechanism went dormant. The Sept. 4, 2026 meeting marked the first dialogue since then.

The eight-year gap refers specifically to the Defence Coordination Dialogue, not to an absence of all military or defence contact between Canada and China.

China is working on developing an AI-run robot army equipped with humanoid “soldiers” with AI brains. Reuters is claiming that an investigation of their procurement records reveal the army is already being built. They claimed they reviewed “more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, official publications, government records and defense-company materials.” This led them to conclude China is building an AI robot army.

China Is Actively Preparing a Humanoid Robot Army for Future Battlegrounds › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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China is aggressively developing an AI-driven, highly advanced military robotics program that could see automated humanoid robots for active combat roles on future battlefields.

The Daily Wire reports that the Communist Chinese government is carefully eyeing technology that was showcased at the recent World Humanoid Robot Games.

The People’s Liberation Army’s official newspaper, on Monday, called for a move to develop combatant capabilities in the humanoid robots that danced, ran, and boxed at the games.

OMISSION: Networks SILENT on Canada-China Military Talks– www.newsbusters.org
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The Elitist Media evening news continue their mission on trade, acting as spokespeople for the Canadian prime minister instead of reporting the full scope of US-Canada relations that led to the breakdown at the negotiating table. Over the weekend and through today, an alarming omission emerges.

It appears that the media insist on glossing over the influence that China may have over Canada. In this case, we are only finding out about a high-level security meeting because China disclosed it. Per the Toronto Star:

As the Carney government pursues deeper relations with Beijing, the Chinese government reports it held a “candid” exchange on military issues with Canadian officials earlier this month.

The meeting – which Beijing said took place in Canada on Sept. 4 – followed years of diplomatic strain and is raising concerns among Conservatives, who reject the idea of military co-operation with China.

China’s defence ministry revealed the two countries held their fifth defence co-ordination dialogue last week. Canada’s Defence Department confirmed that report days later.

It’s worth noting that the countries’ military meetings were suspended in 2018 after the Trudeau administration arrested Huawei’s CEO. Their resumption at this particular juncture seems highly questionable. 

Even more questionable is the Elitist Media’s refusal to so much as mention China- whether it’s the military meeting or Canada’s insistence on laundering dumped Chinese steel as their own, which sunk the trade negotiations to begin with.

ABC World News Tonight addressed Canada only within the context of the retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada. Rachel Scott being Rachel Scott, she made sure to close by quoting Prime Minister Mark Carney.  

 

 

ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT

9/8/26

6:39 PM

RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, Americans are also feeling the impact of President Trump’s trade war with Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney imposing tariffs on $20 billion worth of American goods after President Trump imposed steep tariffs on Canadian goods, Carney saying tonight “we relied too much on one economic partner and it’s clear that time is over.” David.

DAVID MUIR: Rachel Scott on the breaking developments tonight. Rachel, thank you.

What’s remarkable about ABC’s Canada reporting, tacked on at the end of their White House roundup, is that there isn’t even a mention of President Trump’s proposed ban against Bombardier aircraft- let alone China. The reporting was narrowly focused on the Canadian point of view, as is normally the case on the most Trump-deranged of the Elite Media broadcast networks. 

CBS’s Canada reporting on the Evening News was slightly better. There was at least a mention of Bombardier, but still no mention of China.

 

 

CBS EVENING NEWS

9/8/26

6:43 PM

TONY DOKOUPIL: Canadian tariffs took effect today and about $20 billion of U.S. goods, the latest escalation in a trade war with no clear end. Here’s our Chief White House Correspondent, Nancy Cordes.

NANCY CORDES: Canada made good on its threat today, imposing hefty new tariffs on U.S. dairy, steel, aluminum and appliances after trade talks broke down last month.

MARK CARNEY: We can’t let American goods into Canada tariff free, while they charge our companies to export them.

CORDES: The tariffs apply to just a slice of U.S. goods. But the risk is a spiral of retaliation, reminiscent of president trump’s trade war with China last year.

DONALD TRUMP: Canada has taken advantage of the U.S., they have ripped us off for years and now we are turning the tables.

CORDES: At Detroit Axle in Michigan, the CEO says the cross-border tit-for-tat is already driving up his costs.

MIKE MUSEINESH: I’ve imported a million dollars worth of product, once upon a time we paid the government $25,000 in tariffs. Now it went up to $725,000 in tariffs. Overnight.

CORDES: Canada is America’s second-largest trading partner and their economies are closely intertwined. On Sunday, Trump posted a cartoon image of himself checking Canada’s prime minister with a hockey stick. And he threatened to ban the sale of Canadian Bombardier business jets. Bombardier pointed out that the company works with 2800 U.S. suppliers and makes its wings in Texas, flight control components in California. It buys engines from Arizona and communications equipment from Iowa. 

A Kansas Republican, Senator Jerry Moran, even reached out to The White House to make sure that Trump knows Bombardier supports more than 1000 jobs in Wichita. It’s yet another sign, Tony, that Trump’s party may not share his appetite for another trade war, especially in an election year.

DOKOUPIL: That is true, Nancy. Thank you very much.

NBC didn’t even bother with a report. Meanwhile, the public continues to get less than half the story of the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and Canada. 

The Elitist Media are making sure that this continues to be the case, even if it means suppressing Canada’s military rapprochement with America’s main geostrategic rival.


Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump Discussed Potential Trilateral Meeting With Xi Jinping: Kremlin– www.ndtv.com
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump discussed the idea of holding a trilateral meeting with China’s Xi Jinping at an upcoming summit in November, the Kremlin said Wednesday.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is scheduled to hold a summit in the Chinese city of Shenzhen between November 18-19.

Russia has indicated Putin will attend, although the White House has not yet announced whether Trump will be there.

Asked whether Trump and Putin discussed the idea of a trilateral meeting in Shenzhen during their phone call on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Undoubtedly.”

“This potential possibility has been mentioned before, and there will be such an opportunity,” Peskov told reporters, including AFP.

APEC is an intergovernmental forum that dates to the 1980s.

The group, which includes Russia, China and the United States, is among the most important forums for economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

The November summit comes as Washington pushes Russia for an end to the Ukraine war, and amid deepening ties between Moscow and Beijing.

US envoys visited both Moscow and Kyiv last week, but did not announce a breakthrough in talks to end the war in Ukraine. 

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)



The Chinese Communist Party has been allowed to set up propaganda outreach programs in 83 U.S. Colleges according to a report by Defending Education.

The report claims the program is called “The Young Envoys Scholarship,” which sends 50,000 U.S. students to study or visit China. The program is “run by the China Education Association for International Exchange, an organization guided by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism.”

Chinese government program at 83 U.S. colleges aims to ‘influence’ students: report– www.thecollegefix.com
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Program is run by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ organization with CCP ties

A Chinese government program at 83 U.S. colleges is part of an “ongoing effort … to influence American students’ perceptions of the communist country,” according to a recent report by a conservative watchdog group.

The Young Envoys Scholarship is an international exchange initiative launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2024 to bring 50,000 U.S. students to study or participate in cultural visits to China, according to the Defending Education report.

It is “run by the China Education Association for International Exchange, an organization guided by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism,” the report states.

Reagan Dugan, Director of Higher Education Initiatives at Defending Education, told The College Fix that the program is operating in American schools without students and families knowing its real agenda.

Dugan added that the program needs greater monitoring. “US oversight must apply the same diligence to American students traveling to China at the behest of the CCP that they do to foreign students studying in America,” she said.

A policy expert also raised national security concerns.

Due to a breach in security, the Department of Homeland Security has let states know it will be conducting spot paper ballot audits of U.S. voting machines this November.

The announcement comes following news Chinese parts have shown up in U.S. voting machines, giving the Chinese government potential opportunity to manipulate election results. This is a follow-up on the announcement President Trump made in July about Chinese interference in U.S. elections.

DHS Secretary Says Chinese Parts in Voting Machines Necessitate Audit – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to require states do random audits of paper ballots in order to counteract the danger from potential Chinese access to voting machines this November.

The statement that China interferes in our elections is not supposition. It is fact, and the only question is to what extent. As part of his July reveal of classified document caches exposing a vast domestic and international election fraud network, President Donald Trump noted that not only did the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) steal 200 million voters’ data and manufacture fake ballots to help Joe Biden, it also has potential access to vote tabulation machines. Indeed, the CCP mounted a pressure campaign to influence American officials ahead of the 2020 election. It subsequently transpired that a Chinese company had bought the vendor involved in the New Jersey noncitizen registered voters scandal.

All of which is to say that it is perfectly understandable that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin is concerned about the CCP’s and related entities’ possible ability to influence the midterm election, especially since he almost certainly has even more evidence than we, the public, do about Chinese meddling.

The Department of Justice announced the disruption of a Chinese Communist Party hacking operation that had successfully accessed government networks. Some institutions breached include the Senate, the DOJ, NASA, and the Federal Reserve.

FBI Director Kash Patel announced, “Today we announced the disruption of a global botnet and hacking platform used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure. These tools were used by PRC cyber actors to hide the origin of their attacks… Today’s action is just the latest technical operation against PRC-sponsored hacking – and in support of President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, the FBI is surging efforts to shape adversary behavior and defend the homeland in cyberspace.”

Feds: Chinese Hackers Broke Into DoJ, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The Justice Department announced Wednesday that federal authorities seized internet domains associated with two Chinese hacking platforms used to target some of the nation’s most sensitive government institutions.

The platforms, known as QScan and QTRouter, were operated by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called QTFY, according to the Justice Department.

Federal officials said QTFY was employed by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company and provided computer intrusion services to paying customers, including China’s Ministry of State Security and People’s Liberation Army.

The hacking tools allowed malicious actors to infiltrate computer systems while concealing the country from which the attacks originated, prosecutors said.

Among the targets were the Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve and U.S. Senate. The Energy Department, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health were also victims of QTFY-related intrusion activity, according to federal officials.

“State-sponsored malicious hackers preying on America’s critical infrastructure will be stopped and prosecuted,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said. “We are here to ensure security for the American people and will use every tool we have to keep that promise.”

China’s New Missile Can Target Planes Flying Near US: Report– www.ndtv.com
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China has developed hypersonic glide vehicles that can launch air-to-air weapons targeting high-value targets such as command-and-control aircraft thousands of miles away, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The new addition to Beijing’s arsenal comes at a time when the US is struggling with supplies of crucial air defence missiles and long-range strike weapons following the six months of war with Iran.

It can be a threat to aircraft such as aerial refueling tankers, airborne early-warning and control jets and flying command posts, including the US Air Force’s E-4B Nightwatch.

The Chinese military has also added air-to-air capabilities to some hypersonic cruise missiles and built anti-ship capabilities into several types of missiles, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg.

China is the only country publicly known to operate and develop hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) capable of launching air-to-air missiles. The developments mark a significant expansion of the country’s efforts to use its growing missile arsenal — largest in the world at more than 3,150 ballistic weapons — for a wide range of military missions, sources said.

Federal Prosecutors Charge Chinese National With Voter Fraud in 2024 U.S. Election › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A Chinese national has been charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with submitting a fraudulent online voter registration in which he impersonated another Chinese national living in Massachusetts.

Breitbart reports that Yupeng Sun, a resident of Andover, Massachusetts, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with submitting a fraudulent voter registration and ballot during the 2024 presidential election.

The investigation was led by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), according to a press release from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

According to court filings, Sun submitted an online voter registration in Massachusetts on October 10, 2024, impersonating another Chinese national residing in the state who had legal permanent resident (LPR) status.

Sun reportedly then submitted an early voting ballot at Malden City Hall for the 2024 presidential election on October 31, while still impersonating the victim.

Japanese lawmakers travel to Beijing, seeking to mend ties after fallout– abcnews.com
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TOKYO — A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers, including one from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party, headed to Beijing on Monday to meet with Chinese officials for the first time since ties between the two Asian rivals deteriorated after Takaichi’s comment on Taiwan angered China.

Japan seeks a chance to mend its strained ties with China as tensions have spilled over into the economy.

The group, which includes Gaku Hashimoto, a lawmaker of Takaichi’s governing Liberal Democratic Party and a former health and welfare vice minister, and a lawmaker each from two opposition parties Komeito and the Centrist Reform Alliance, is to meet with Chinese Communist Party officials during their visit through Thursday.

“Communication has been severed in all areas and we are beginning to see their impact in many areas,” Shinichi Isa, a top spokesperson for the CRA party, told reporters before leaving Tokyo’s Haneda airport. “I hope we can somehow find a clue to restart a dialogue.”

Isa, who has served as a diplomat at the Japanese Embassy in China, wrote on X earlier this month that bilateral ties have sunk to their worst since the 1972 normalization of relations. He wrote that officials had always remained in communication even during previous lows: “Now all channels between officials and ministries have been cut off.”

The situation is not in the national interest of either side, Isa said at the time, and the Chinese side accepted a request from Japanese lawmakers for a “window for dialogue.”

China warns US of retaliation if Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ sanctions hit their Iran oil trade– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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China has warned the US that it could retaliate if Washington significantly expands secondary sanctions on Chinese companies doing business with Iran

China has warned that it could take retaliatory measures if the United States significantly expands secondary sanctions targeting Chinese companies doing business with Iran, according to reporting by the Financial Times.The warning came after the Trump administration on Monday announced new sanctions targeting companies in Hong Kong and mainland China as part of a broader crackdown on Iran’s oil trade. The measures, however, did not target major Chinese financial institutions, FT reported.A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday that Beijing would take “all necessary measures” to safeguard its rights and interests, while reiterating China’s opposition to what it described as unilateral sanctions lacking a basis in international law or United Nations Security Council authorisation.The spokesperson also called for de-escalation and a return to dialogue and negotiations.

After spending more than four years in a Russian prison, U.S. Marine Robert Gilman has been released. His release came thanks to negotiations between the Trump administration and the Putin regime. While the Biden administration negotiated a deal to release WNBA player Britney Griner from a Russian prison, they made no effort to negotiate the release of a U.S. Marine.

Trump Brings U.S. Marine Home After Biden Abandoned Him in a Russian Prison for Four Years– gellerreport.com
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Biden abandoned a U.S. Marine. Trump brought him home.

Biden traded drug carrying basketball player Brittney Griner for a convicted Russian arms dealer “merchant of death” Viktor Bout.

A senior Chinese Communist Party official has somehow been allowed to purchase historic property in Washington D.C. That property is only 650 feet away from the White House’s northeast grounds. The man, Qiu Feili (who goes by Philip Qiu in America) is also a trained sniper. The property cost $8.4 million.

NEW: Senior Chinese Official Buys Building Steps From White House– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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A senior Chinese Communist Party official with documented ties to intelligence and state security organizations has acquired a historic commercial property located approximately 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds in Washington, D.C.

According to an investigative report from the Daily Caller, the 100-year-old Securities Building at 729 15th Street NW was purchased on July 21, 2026, for $8.4 million by the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation. District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds filings confirm the transaction details and the foundation’s role as buyer.

The new owner is identified as Philip Qiu, also known by his Chinese name Qiu Feili. Public records and translations of Chinese government announcements reviewed by the Daily Caller indicate that Qiu has held multiple positions connected to Chinese intelligence and state security entities.

His career began as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Team of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, a local unit under the Ministry of Public Security. By 2011, while enrolled in a master’s program at Shanghai Jiaotong University, he had completed special forces training. University announcements from that period describe him participating in a training exercise in which he served as a commander and recorded the best individual sniper performance, using 42 shots to eliminate a significant portion of opposing forces.

White House Warns China and Dozens of Countries Are Stealing Billions with ‘Transshipment Scam’– slaynews.com
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The White House is warning that China and dozens of other countries are using third-party nations to disguise the origin of exports and evade U.S. tariffs, costing the Treasury billions of dollars each year.

A new 25-page report from the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy identifies more than 40 countries as posing a high risk for tariff-avoiding transshipment.

Those nations include China, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic.

The report, titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” says the practice allows exporters to route goods through intermediary countries before they enter the United States under a different declared country of origin.

White House Says China Built Global Transshipment Network

The report identifies China as the clearest historical example of the practice.