Interference smear sticks to its maker

The Chinese embassy in Canada has expressed Beijing's strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to the allegation that China poses the "most persistent and sophisticated" foreign interference threat to Canada.

The accusation made by Canada's Foreign Interference Commission in a report released on Friday is groundless, it being nothing more than a fabrication for political purposes.

The smear is common among China-bashing politicians in the West looking to explain their poor performance in an election or find an excuse for their domestic governance failures.

The latest example is that even though the US intelligence community confirms that there is no evidence showing China funding the ongoing student protests on the Palestinian question in the United States, some US politicians still keep on tirelessly spreading the unfounded claim.

China consistently upholds the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries. China has never meddled in any other country's internal affairs, including those of Canada.

The attempts by certain Canadian and US politicians to shift the blame onto China for their own electoral failures are unfair and unethical, revealing their self-serving and shameless nature.

The report published by the Foreign Interference Commission of Canada is riddled with contradictions and ideological bias and lacks credibility. It uses terms like "may", "might", "potential" and other misleading words. It claims to derive conclusions from "intelligence" yet also states that the "intelligence is not proven fact". "Not all of the information provided below necessarily has been corroborated or fully assessed," it admits.

Such statements suggest that the report is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, as the spokesperson of the Chinese embassy in Canada pointed out.

Rather than China, it is Canada and the US that continuously try to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. Both Canada and the US are constantly trying to undermine China's security and stability by overtly and covertly condoning and supporting separatist activities in Taiwan, Xinjiang, Xizang and Hong Kong.

These activities are well proven and brook no denial. Canada is doing nothing but a thief crying "stop thief".