Posted on 03/05/2019 1:08:20 PM PST by rickmichaels
Adding another strange wrinkle to Canada-China relations, a Chinese official who oversaw research on his country’s burgeoning naval-submarine fleet has been placed under arrest in China and accused of illegally obtaining Canadian citizenship.
Bu Jianjie, who reportedly spent time as a visiting scholar at two Ontario universities in the mid-1990s, has also been charged with various corruption-related crimes and expelled from the Communist party.
The Canadian citizenship accusation stems from China’s ban on holding dual nationalities. Despite being a scientist with access to naval-defence technology and apparent citizenship from a Western country, however, authorities have not charged him with spying.
China detained a Canadian businessman and an ex-diplomat after Meng Wanzhou’s seizure in what were seen as a tit-for-tat moves, but Canadian officials said there’s also no evidence Bu’s troubles are tied to the uproar over the Vancouver arrest of top Huawei executive Meng.
“Global Affairs Canada is aware of these reports (about Bu),” said Guillaume Bérubé, a Global Affairs Canada spokesman. “We are not aware of any connection between this case and other recent cases of Canadians detained in China.”
Bérubé did not respond to questions about whether Bu is, in fact, a Canadian citizen or whether he was offered the help of the Canadian embassy in Beijing.
Bu was head of the 718th Research Institute at the China Shipbuilding Industries Corp., a state-owned firm heavily involved in supplying the country’s growing navy, including its first domestically built aircraft carriers.
The South China Morning Post suggested Bu worked on fuel systems for the “air-independent propulsion” technology used to make non-nuclear subs harder to detect underwater.
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“...expelled from the Communist party. “
He’s dead, Jim.
No espionage charges? Xi must not want Bu to stop breathing.
5.56mm
Guum-bye
There are thousands of Chinese with dual Canadian/Chinese citizenship.
> Bu was head of the 718th Research Institute <
Wow. China sure has a lot of research institutes.
Either that or he’s about to have a serious ‘accident’ ...
> Bu was head of the 718th Research Institute <
Wow. China sure has a lot of research institutes.
One thing is for sure, his career is toast. If he’s ever out of jail he’ll be serving dim sum. (Equivalent of flipping burgers)
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