CANADA
How Beijing Targets Critics, Dissidents in Canada
Transnational repression (TNR) in Canada has become a growing concern, with diaspora groups sounding the alarm and calling on Ottawa to take stronger action.
Carolina Avendano
8/15/2025|Updated: 8/15/2025
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A shooting threat sent to Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre earlier this year bore the name of an outspoken critic of the Chinese regime. Posing as Sheng Xue, a Chinese Canadian pro-democracy activist, the sender threatened to “enter as a spectators” and open fire if a performance by the U.S. dance company Shen Yun went ahead.
The threat turned out to be one of more than 140 false threats the dance company has received over the past year, many of which have been traced to sources in China. Both Sheng Xue and Shen Yun have long been in Beijing’s crosshairs–Sheng for her activism, and the company for its work to showcase “China before communism.”
For Sheng, who is based in Toronto, the use of her name in the email threat is one of many instances where her identity has been misused to target her and damage her reputation. As a long-time dissident and human rights advocate, she said she has been targeted by Beijing many times, including through online defamation, disinformation campaigns, attempted infiltration, and physical intimidation.
Transnational repression (TNR) in Canada has become a growing concern, with diaspora groups sounding the alarm and calling on Ottawa to take stronger action.
In another incident in February, Sheng’s name was used to attempt to send a bomb threat to the office of Taiwan’s president, according to email records reviewed by The Epoch Times. She received an email on Feb. 20 from Taiwan’s National Police Agency asking her to confirm her identity in relation to a threat email that had been sent to the agency’s director general using her name.
“China’s transnational repression is one of the most dangerous and under-recognized threats to global democracy–and Canada has become a frontline target,” Sheng told The Epoch Times.
“Canada is one of the most heavily targeted countries due to its large Chinese diaspora, open society, and historical naivety toward the CCP’s tactics.”
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READ MORE: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/how-beijing-targets-critics-dissidents-in-canada-5901765?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-2
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