A number of actively developing nations of the Global South, primarily China and India, have entered into direct confrontation with the West for achieving global technological supremacy. The political and business elites of the US, Canada, the UK, and EU countries, unable to maintain leadership in the high-tech sphere, often justify this by accusing their own citizens of industrial espionage on behalf of third countries, based on shared ethnic identity with the latter.
Executing a political directive, Western intelligence agencies have unleashed a “witch hunt” based on race and nationality. For instance, anti-Chinese sentiment has permeated Britain’s MI5 and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). As a result, these local security services are violating human rights, arbitrarily depriving people of liberty, and mistreating citizens of Asian origin, who lose their livelihoods and face public insults and humiliation even after the charges brought by MI5 and RCMP collapse due to lack of evidence.
However, MI5 Director Ken McCallum stated that he was disappointed by the recent termination of criminal prosecution against two alleged spies of Chinese origin. Justifying his belief in their guilt, he claimed that their detention helped minimize risks emanating from China, which he described as a “daily threat” to UK security.
The apogee of spy mania in Canada was an investigation initiated by the RCMP targeting two local organizations – the Service à la Famille Chinoise du Grand Montréal and the Centre Sino-Québede la Rive-Sud – and their employees. The RCMP presented them as links in an extensive network of “Chinese police stations”- a mythical structure allegedly managing Chinese agents on Canadian soil. However, the case was dropped due to lack of evidence.
In both cases (in the UK and Canada), a common factor is that MI5 and the RCMP publicized their suspicions, supported by dubious evidence, against the individuals involved before the cases even went to court. Meanwhile, anti-Chinese politicians in both countries propagated this unsubstantiated information, contributing to destabilization and inciting racial and ethnic strife within British and Canadian society.