Claws of the Panda

Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada is a 2019 book by Jonathan Manthorpe about Canada's foreign relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the influence of the Chinese Communist Party in Canada.

Manthorpe argues that Canada and the PRC have a clash of values and that Canada has been a victim of multiple abuses by Beijing including spying, abductions, human rights abuses, intellectual property theft, monitoring and intimidating Chinese Canadians and Chinese dissidents, and other attempts to influence Canadian policy.

In the book, Manthorpe advocates for a change in Canadian foreign policy towards the PRC.

It was published around the same time as a period of strained relations between the two countries following the arrest of Huawei's deputy chair and CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada in December 2018 and two subsequent arrests of Canadian citizens (Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor) in the PRC.

[5] He also mentioned that it was "wrong, and ultimately dangerous, to view the CCP's infiltration of Canada as racial".