Red Cells Raise Western Corporate Hackles

Chinese big data, CCP corporate units risk worsening Western fears of Chinese firms

By: Toh Han Shih

Earlier this week, the Canadian government blocked an attempt by the Chinese state-owned enterprise Shandong Gold Mining to acquire a Canadian operator of an Arctic-circle gold mine on national security grounds, the latest indication of growing western unease over the extent to which the Communist Party is playing a growing political rol…