Governments may increase their espionage efforts in China in response to weakening transparency from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, according to an Australian defence expert. Michael Shoebridge, director at Strategic Analysis Australia, made the comments as attention focuses on the CCP’s espionage interference overseas. “As Xi Jinping closes China to foreign journalists and academics and makes it harder for foreign businesses to operate there, there will be an increasing drive by other countries’ government agencies to get sources inside Chinese institutions and organisations,” he wrote in an email to The Epoch Times on Sept. 12. “Unlike Beijing’s efforts overseas, that is far less likely to involve trying to interfere in politics and decision making in China and be much more focused on gaining information and insights about the opaque workings of the CCP and those around Xi.”...Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/governments-may-plant-more-spies-within-the-ccp-defence-expert-5490003
The United States and Canada should cooperate more closely on taking legislative action and exposing Chinese interference to reduce Beijing’s threat, Conservative MP Michael Chong told a U.S. commission. Mr. Chong, who’s been personally affected by Beijing’s attempts to meddle in Canadian politics, was in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12 to testify before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The long-serving MP told U.S. House representatives, senators, and administration officials about his personal experience and provided an overview of the different ways the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries to interfere in Canada, such as running illegal police stations, using Chinese international students for repression, and the dissemination of propaganda through the media.... 
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET, Sept. 12, on the transnational repression campaign that China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party engaged in, harassing diaspora communities and regime critics, specifically Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Tibetans, and others from suppressed groups in China. Witnesses: Panel 1 Michael Chong, member of Canadian Parliament, Wellington-Halton Hills Panel 2 Yana Gorokhovskaia, research director for strategy and design, Freedom House Laura Harth, campaign director, Safeguard Defenders Rushan Abbas, founder and executive director, Campaign for Uyghurs ...