{"id":54818,"date":"2023-05-04T03:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/michael-chong-justin-trudeau-harassment-canada-china"},"modified":"2023-05-04T03:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:59:04","slug":"canadian-lawmaker-says-china-targeted-his-family-for-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54818","title":{"rendered":"Canadian lawmaker says China targeted his family for harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chong accused Trudeau\u2019s government of turning blind eye while Chinese diplomat gathered information in Canada<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian lawmaker has accused government officials of turning a blind eye to Chinese harassment of his family as pressure mounts on Justin Trudeau to launch a public inquiry into Beijing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/26\/canada-china-relations-election-meddling-analysis\">attempts to meddle<\/a> in the country\u2019s domestic politics.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/politics\/article-china-targets-mps-csis\/\">Globe and Mail<\/a> reported that China\u2019s intelligence agency had sought information about Michael Chong\u2019s family in Hong Kong \u201cfor further potential sanctions\u201d over the Conservative MP\u2019s criticism of Beijing\u2019s human rights abuses. The paper also reported that Zhao Wei, a Chinese diplomat in Toronto, was part of the harassment campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/03\/michael-chong-justin-trudeau-harassment-canada-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Chong accused Trudeau\u2019s government of turning blind eye while Chinese diplomat gathered information in CanadaA Canadian lawmaker has accused government officials of turning a blind eye to Chinese harassment of his family as pressure mounts on J&#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":[246,41,244,50,667,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","category-espionage","category-hong-kong","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\/54818","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=54818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54819,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54818\/revisions\/54819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}