PC conspiracies are like Richard Nixon conspiracies.

Which is to say that they are real. Yes, Watergate and its coverup really happened.

PC thinking is alive and well in Canada and we do see it on the boards, its swiftness to blame and condemn and express superiority towards America and its hesitation to blame China, its embracing of double standards in all manner of things social, cultural, ethnic and sexual.

You are welcome to dissociate yourself from PC thinking just as a randomly selected 1970s DC traffic cop could from the Watergate activities. But that dissociation does not negate the activities truly happening a few blocks over.

Odd that your China trail ends with a chemist (!), given the headlines:

New Zealand-China police dismantle drug smuggling ring in China
Australian Dad Infiltrates Chinese Drug Trafficking Ring 
China: Police bust major drug smuggling ring
Canada Border Services Agency: China was the largest single source of drugs seized between 2007 and 2012