Sandra Watson Parcels
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PhD Candidate | Defence Studies Dept | Kings College London | Asia & China Team ITSS Verona. Analysing China's economic & strategic goals through the BRI. ☕️🟦
Calgary, Canada
Joined April 2009
Traveled down memory lane today. The street scene is Harbin, China in 1987, where I lived as a kid. The 2nd pic is me on the train to Harbin after our family trip to Hawaii. We took three trains starting in Hong Kong to Guangzhou, Beijing, Harbin. What a trip. What a ride. #China
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The U.S. is accusing China of having carried out a secret underground nuclear explosion test in 2020. The Chinese allegedly used new technology to mask the explosion.
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The Nuuk consulate defines the total strategic confusion of this government. Canada needs to re-build our military and intelligence infrastructure, staffing, strategy, equipment and capabilities that will make our enemies and allies respect us once again. Right now, just like
Canada’s new consulate in Nuuk is now officially open — a major commitment under our Arctic Foreign Policy. As strategic competition increases in the Arctic, Canada is standing with our Arctic partners to advance stability, security, and shared interests in the North.
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18-year-old Hadiseh Akbarzadeh was shot and killed by the Islamic regime for taking to the streets of Fardis on January 8th to protest for a free Iran. Rest in Peace Hadi. The Iranian nation will never forget your sacrifice 💔
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The CCP doesn’t just target the federal government, it also targets our states, cities, schools, and families. Florida @AGJamesUthmeier's new Consumer Harm from International Nefarious Actors (CHINA) Prevention Unit is a proactive step to protect consumers from foreign
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Attorney General James Uthmeier is scheduled to speak in West Palm Beach on Thursday morning.
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Chinese navy conducted more dangerous air and naval exercises around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, violating Philippine maritime waters.
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Macklem says loss of CUSMA would mean recession for the Canadian economy https://t.co/bBP7R1DHY7
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China has conducted nuclear explosive tests, including preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons… China has used decoupling – a method to decrease the effectiveness of seismic monitoring – to hide its activities from the world. China conducted one such
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An Iranian official found in Canada appeared for a deportation hearing yesterday – and got the press banned from his proceeding. Our exclusive story.
globalnews.ca
The Iranian citizen wants his case heard behind closed doors.
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Tamar. Yonathan. Shahar. Arbel. Omer. The Siman Tov family, brutally murdered on October 7. Remember their names.
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Taiwan teams with US firm Kratos to build attack drones to counter China https://t.co/rKRwzaEE6G
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U.S.-based Kratos Defense and Taiwan's military have successfully tested a new jet-powered attack drone, a move aimed at rapidly boosting the island's ability to field "large numbers" of low-cost...
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'He had promised a Canada “building at speeds not seen in a generation,” only for his tenure to coincide with contractions in everything from manufacturing to construction' https://t.co/4Kwe5RsbUu
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Canada on recession watch, economy on 'life support': Economist https://t.co/yeC87jiAEO
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Carney govt trips to China and India, and the speech in Davos, bolstered hopes we’re serious about being an energy superpower. Meanwhile in Canada, ECCC has been adding new policies and proposals that are killing investment certainty at home. My latest: https://t.co/2IIYZlNJCA
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"Mexico will save CUSMA for Canada—not the other way around. Mexico has out-negotiated, out-witted, and frankly out-smarted Canada at every turn, all without slipping into emotional reactions—even after Trump unilaterally renamed the Gulf of Mexico." More on The Food Professor
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Simple question for the government about China being a threat for whoever wants to ask it. I keep hearing them, like Joly, say “things change,” etc. So ask this: Did the intelligence change? Is there new intelligence? Because if not, the threat to Canada didn’t change. They did.
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Reports of a suspected illegal biolab operating out of a Las Vegas home are deeply alarming. This lab is linked to the lab in Reedley, California that @ChinaSelect investigated in 2023. We commend the @LVMPD and federal authorities in Nevada for investigating and acting quickly
chinaselectcommittee.house.gov
Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party unveiled a report on its investigation into the illegal People’s Republic of China-tied biolab discovered...
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A must watch. Especially for Canadians. Niall Ferguson captures the essential point with remarkable clarity: to make sense of Donald Trump, one must first grapple seriously with nineteenth‑century American history and the evolution of U.S. economic policy. Trump’s outlook is
“As I’m sure you know Canadians feel rather bruised and insulted by Donald Trump” The Truth about Donald Trump, Mark Carneys win and American History.
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In total, the federal government has now accumulated $1.27 trillion in debt, almost half of which has been added over the last five years https://t.co/4uKCdD5M7Z
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I just had a very brief meeting with the Lebanese Chief of Defense General Rodolphe Haykal. I asked him point blank if he believes Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. He said, “No, not in the context of Lebanon.” With that, I ended the meeting. They are clearly a terrorist
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