Evidence trail showing the relationship between BC Conservative candidate for Richmond-Steveston Gordon Zhang (张国任), Chinese government officials, and his role in helping promote the CCP’s Belt and Road Initiative:
① Gordon Zhang served as Vice President of the Canada Grizzly Bear Institute.
② In 2017, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs recorded that the Grizzly Bear Institute and UBC jointly hosted a forum on the “Belt and Road Initiative in North America,” attended by Chinese Consul General in Vancouver Liu Fei. The report stated that participants “unanimously agreed that Canada should accelerate its participation in the Belt and Road Initiative.”
③ Just six days later, the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver recorded another meeting in which Liu Fei met representatives of the Grizzly Bear Institute and others to discuss promoting Canada’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative, including using jointly organized “forums and lectures to expand publicity.”
④ In 2018, an official record from Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management specifically named Gordon Zhang. At a roundtable titled “Belt and Road: North American Cooperation Models and Opportunities,” “Gordon Zhang, Vice President of the Canada Grizzly Bear Institute,” participated in discussions about how China, Canada and the United States could strengthen cooperation in economics, trade, education and culture.
This is not speculation based on simply appearing in the same photo. These are public records published by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Chinese Consulate General in Vancouver, and Peking University itself.
Gordon Zhang is one hell of a CCP lapdog.
@Conservative_BC