The mysterious departure of a researcher from a Winnipeg lab drew international attention for a time in summer 2019. But soon Canadians and the world were too occupied with COVID-19 to think much about it. In this edited excerpt from his new book “Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada,” former national security analyst Dennis Molinaro underlines the connections.

Xiangguo Qiu, a medical doctor and biologist, and her husband were born in China. They moved to Canada in the 1990s, and became naturalized Canadians. She joined the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg in 2003. The lab was run by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The NML wasn’t an ordinary medical lab. It was a biosafety level 4 (P4) lab, a high-security facility t

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