Quebec Professor a Recruit of Chinese Talent Program Deemed Security Risk by CSIS

A Quebec professor is a participant of a Chinese talent recruitment program deemed by Canada’s intelligence service as a “serious threat” to Canadian research and intellectual property. Changhui Peng, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) since 2003, joined China’s Thousand Talents Plan in 2010. His participation in the Chinese talents recruitment plan was highlighted on his online profile at the Northwest A&F University, a school in China’s Shaanxi Province, which specializes in agriculture and forestry. The Thousand Talents Plan, launched in 2008 by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the most well-known among the regime’s over 200 global talents recruitment initiatives. The programs aim to attract leading scientists worldwide to bolster Beijing’s economic and military development....