Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap up
Transnational Repression: Is Canada Doing Enough?
🔍 Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up | May 30, 2025
Title: Sabotage in Cannes, NSC Purge in Washington, and China’s Transnational Repression in Canada
This week’s Global Intelligence Weekly Wrap-Up delivers the sharpest analysis on the biggest national security, espionage, and foreign interference stories from around the world. Hosted by Neil Bisson, retired CSIS Intelligence Officer and Director of the Global Intelligence Knowledge Network, this 29-minute episode reveals how threats to democracy, sovereignty, and public safety are evolving faster than ever.
🌐 In This Episode:
- Sabotage hits the Cannes Film Festival — a deliberate attack on soft targets raises questions about Western infrastructure vulnerabilities.
- Washington’s National Security Council gets gutted — over 100 staffers are purged in a political shake-up that could weaken America’s intelligence continuity.
- RCMP warns of rising violent extremism in Canada — with Jewish Canadians increasingly targeted, why is our terrorism threat level unchanged?
- New exposé reveals how China is escalating transnational repression against Canadian citizens, activists, and politicians.
- A year after promising a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry, Canada still has no commissioner, no timeline, and no enforcement.
- Germany charges three men with spying for Russia and plotting to kill a Ukrainian veteran — a chilling escalation in Russian espionage.
- India takes a bold step to block Chinese surveillance tech — demanding full access to CCTV source code to stop potential espionage.
🧠 Whether you're in law enforcement, intelligence, academia, or just a citizen who cares about the world, this podcast offers the insights you won’t get from mainstream media.
👇 Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - Sabotage at Cannes: A New Form of Hybrid Threat
05:35 - NSC Shakeup: Over 100 US Staffers Purged
10:40 - RCMP Flags Violent Extremism Threats in Canada
15:52 - China’s Transnational Repression Targets Canadians
21:06 - Canada’s Foreign Agent Registry Still Missing
24:24 - Russian Espionage Plot Foiled in Germany
26:53 - India Cracks Down on Chinese Surveillance Tech
28:40 - Outro
🔗 Links to Stories Discussed:
- Cannes Sabotage: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gel3g84q0o
- NSC Purge: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/national-security-council-administrative-leave-trump
- RCMP Extremism Warning: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-newman-canadas-terrorist-threat-too-great-for-jews-and-canadians
- China Targets Dissidents: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-targets-dissidents-canada-1.7543745
- Foreign Agent Registry Delay: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-agent-registry-1.7540028
- Russia Spy Plot in Germany: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/germany-charges-people-spying-russia-potentially-intent-kill-122272075
- India’s Crackdown on Chinese CCTV: