{"id":55429,"date":"2023-05-24T05:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/canada-china-allegations-election-interference-inquiry-david-johnston"},"modified":"2023-05-24T05:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:39:16","slug":"canadian-special-rapporteur-rules-out-inquiry-into-chinese-interference-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55429","title":{"rendered":"Canadian special rapporteur rules out inquiry into Chinese interference claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Johnston warns that subversive efforts represent \u2018increasing threat\u2019 to democracy but public inquiry would be the wrong choice<\/p>\n<p>An official named to investigate allegations that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/canada-china-election-meddling-leaked-intelligence-reports\">China attempted to subvert Canadian elections<\/a> has announced he will not launch a public inquiry, prompting frustration from critics who say the decision only furthers Beijing\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Special rapporteur David Johnston on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/democratic-institutions\/services\/reports\/first-report-david-johnston-independent-special-rapporteur-foreign-interference.html\">released a 55-page report<\/a> on foreign interference in Canadian institutions, warning that subversive efforts represented an \u201cincreasing threat\u201d to democracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/canada-china-allegations-election-interference-inquiry-david-johnston\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Johnston warns that subversive efforts represent \u2018increasing threat\u2019 to democracy but public inquiry would be the wrong choiceAn official named to investigate allegations that China attempted to subvert Canadian elections has announced he will no&#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":[246,41,244,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-china","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\/55429","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=55429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55429\/revisions\/55430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}