Former Tory MP Kenny Chiu, whose 2021 defeat has been central to the Foreign Interference Commission’s probe into China’s election meddling, says the commission’s final report has been misrepresented in a fresh allegation from a fellow party nomination contender.
An outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses, Chiu became the “target of false narratives” related to his proposal for a foreign influence registry, according to the commission’s final report published on Jan. 28.
These false narratives, alleging Chiu as “racist” and “anti-China,” circulated on the Chinese social media platform WeChat and were also promoted by media with known links to the Beijing regime and its state media during the 2021 federal election, the report said….