which likely would not be possible with trips to China given the country’s muzzling of activists and political dissidents. Global News asked the Prime Minister’s Office whether the government would support or be open to…
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Coquitlam school trustees’ free trips to China raise ethical concerns
Coquitlam school trustees are under fire for taking Chinese-government-paid trips to China. For the past few years … Kerri Palmer Isaak, told the Tri-City News the trip, which cost the Chinese government about $8,000 a…
Alex Pierson: Why is Team Trudeau calling this second trip to China a success?
I’m not sure if Team Trudeau was told they would start trade talks on their official visit to China or assumed they would and then arrived in China to a frosty reality that China ain’t…
China accuses Australian leader of undermining trust
then misrepresented Australia’s policy on China’s sweeping territorial claims in the South China at a news conference held exclusively for Chinese reporters and attended by Huang. The Chinese Embassy in Australia issued a strongly worded…
The 2017 Sanya Energy International Forum Focuses on Energy Transformation in China
View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-2017-sanya-energy-international-forum-focuses-on-energy-transformation-in-china-300569356.html Nearly 300 domestic and foreign leading experts and scholars specializing in energy gathered … ( read original story …)
China complains to Australia over Turnbull comments on interference
were baseless and poisoned the atmosphere of China-Australia relations, Geng told a daily news briefing. “We express strong dissatisfaction at this, and have already lodged solemn representations with the Australian side,” he said. Geng said…
Trudeau leaves China with a defence of Western media, but no progress on free trade
China, which heavily censors its own press, has seized on President Donald Trump’s attacks on “fake news” to grow more open in denouncing international media it sees as impeding its agenda. And as Beijing flexes…
Migrant workers evicted from homes in Beijing
Thousands of migrant workers have been evicted from their homes in Beijing in what the government calls a crackdown on unsafe living conditions. CNN’s Matt Rivers has more. ( read original story …)
Beijing forces migrant workers from their homes in ‘savage’ demolitions
Beijing (CNN)Modern Beijing was built on the backs of low-paid migrants like Zhao Guihua. The 50-something cook and cleaner is one of thousands of people critics say have been forced from their homes in the…
Ottawa holds up venture capital deal to highlight benefits of Beijing ties
The dignitaries at the signing ceremony in Beijing’s St. Regis Hotel on Friday paid homage to Xi Jinping and repeatedly name-checked the Chinese president’s favoured project. This is not how venture capital funds are brought…
Trudeau says visit to China produced results despite failing to advance trade talks
It also dominated Trudeau’s news conference with reporters before his return flight … particularly a country as significant and as much of an economic powerhouse as China has become — is that they need to…
Canadian detained in China for 2 years urges caution on trade talks
Now living in Canada, the couple spoke about their experience Wednesday in an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his tour of China to help lay the…
China rebukes Australians over influence debate ‘hysteria’
China’s embassy statement said recent news reports had made false accusations about its government, and vilified Chinese students. “Those reports, which were made up out of thin air and filled with Cold War mentality and…