{"id":50069,"date":"2022-11-08T05:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/china-weaken-canada-democracy-justin-trudeau"},"modified":"2022-11-08T05:21:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:21:52","slug":"china-taking-aggressive-steps-to-gut-canadas-democracy-warns-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50069","title":{"rendered":"China taking \u2018aggressive\u2019 steps to gut Canada\u2019s democracy, warns Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister\u2019s comments come after a news report that Beijing had funded a \u2018clandestine network\u2019 of candidates in 2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/justin-trudeau\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> has warned that China is \u201cplay[ing] aggressive games\u201d to undermine democratic institutions amid reports Beijing actively interfered in Canada\u2019s federal elections.<\/p>\n<p>His comments on Monday came after a news report that Beijing had funded a \u201cclandestine network\u201d of candidates in Canada\u2019s 2019 election and just days after the federal police force said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/27\/canada-secret-chinese-police-stations-investigation\">actively investigating<\/a> a secret network of illegal Chinese \u201cpolice stations\u201d in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/07\/china-weaken-canada-democracy-justin-trudeau\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prime minister\u2019s comments come after a news report that Beijing had funded a \u2018clandestine network\u2019 of candidates in 2019Justin Trudeau has warned that China is \u201cplay[ing] aggressive games\u201d to undermine democratic institutions amid reports Beijing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,50,712,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-china","category-justin-trudeau","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50070,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069\/revisions\/50070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}