How Communist China Threatens Unity in Canada
CALGARY—The Chinese Communist Party undermines national unity in Canada through psyop operations that sow division, Jan Jekielek, host of the Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program, told a Calgary conference on Sept. 21.
“They want to see two sides that are so radicalized that they have to fight each other,” Jekielek said at the 2025 Reclaiming Conference organized by the grassroots group We Unify and held from Sept. 19–21.
“I hope that we can, at a grassroots level, educate ourselves about what a totalitarian regime like communist China is capable of, and understand that it seeks to subvert the society and guard ourselves.”
Jekielek said that one way the Chinese regime achieves this is with the use of social media platforms, especially those controlled by the regime, to create division. He said Canadians should counteract these efforts by showing compassion and engaging in dialogue with those who have a different opinion.
Referring to the recent assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, Jan said Kirk was an example of someone who always reached out to the other side effectively.
CCP’s Domestic ‘Enemy’
This strategy of causing divisions to crush unity has also been used by all communist regimes for consolidating their control domestically, Jekielek said, adding that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is no exception. He said the CCP always needs an “enemy” to justify its existence as the controlling regime.
“In 1989, it was students looking for democracy. That movement was crushed. In 1999, there was a spiritual movement called Falun Gong that became widely popular, an extremely grassroots movement, I might add, which is very relevant to the discussions we’re having today,” Jekielek said.
“They are not willing to give up their faith, and they end up in prisons. They end up being tortured, in some cases to death,” Jekielek said.
Understanding CCP’s Threat
Jekielek said the West for years “vastly misunderstood” China, thinking that if it engaged with it in various ways such as commerce it could change the totalitarian regime.
“It convinced us that … they can change if we put enough money there, if we engage enough, we invest enough, if we share our legal system–all of those things, with never any intention of actually doing that, because in that system, the Chinese Communist Party is always supreme,” he said.
He added today, it should be understood that from an external threat perspective, China is the number-one threat to Western countries like Canada.
“I hope that we can, at a grassroots level, educate ourselves about what a totalitarian regime like communist China is capable of, and understand that it seeks to subvert the society and guard ourselves,” he said.
“And we could do this at a grassroots level, talking to each other, understanding this face of that kind of evil as this organ harvesting. I think that’s the way that we can actually guard our future and reclaim our future, or a piece of it.”
The three-day 2025 Reclaiming Conference, which according to the organizers is a “grassroots conservative leaning leadership conference,” featured a number of speakers who spoke on the themes of freedom and other topics.
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