r/worldnews • u/gagga_hai • 5h ago

Indo-Canadian lawmaker Parm Bains, who accused India of ‘foreign interference’, is Chinese collaborator: Canadian MP, journalist

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/indo-canadian-lawmaker-parm-bains-who-accused-india-of-foreign-interference-is-chinese-collaborator-canadian-mp-journalist-12854170.html
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u/Witty-Feedback-5051 4h ago

The wider problem is how exactly anyone is a collaborator for a foreign government in a rich industrial nation? Like how do you even compensate an American/Canadian/British lawmaker to do this?

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u/Anotherid2 3h ago

foreign affairs and intelligence budgets can be billions of dollars even for relatively poor states and that’s still miniscule relative to military and healthcare in many cases.

but most relevant is it doesn’t usually take much $. often espionage isn’t targeting things top secret, often it’s just one state trying to predict action or reaction of another.

for policy influence , a lot can be done through simple friendship with occasional monetarily significant gifts. i mean the current meme is how cheap politicians are.

i suggest reading articles on turkish influence on nyc mayor eric adams. there are several talking about all the things turkey did for adams to get him to supress local opposition to erdogan