The case centres on Yuekang Li’s visa application to study at the University of Waterloo and take his knowledge back to China to improve its public health system. Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton ruled Li’s proposal falls under the definition of “non-traditional” espionage.

“As hostile state actors increasingly make use of non-traditional methods to obtain sensitive information in Canada or abroad, contrary to Canada’s interests, the court’s appreciation of what constitutes ‘espionage’ must evolve,” he wrote in his December 22 decision, made public this week.

Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a board member with the China Strategic Risks Institute think-tank, said she expects to see more such rulings in future.

  • @PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    Fadden said China doesn’t respect its own rhetoric on international scientific cooperation.

    “There’s another principle involved here. In international relations it’s called reciprocity — that if we allow them to do x, they should allow us to do x,” he said.

    “If you look into what the Chinese allow, I think you’ll find that very few westerners are allowed to study at Chinese universities looking into those 10 or 15 categories I’m looking at.”

    This pretty much sums up all the reasons. Don’t get me wrong, China have some of the brightest scientist and researcher in the world, simply because distribution is a thing. It’s much easier to get real talented people in pretty much any thing given huge enough population and if you direct your resource properly. You can say that their reliance on those odd approach might have killed their own innovation, cause talented people are still people, they can give up or trying to survive in their own way when the env do not give their best support and chance to shine.