“China is a huge market. The idea they have fished out other … The department said no one was available for an interview with CBC News on the issue. Hoskings said the province is trying…
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In Beijing, helping freezing migrants will get you in trouble with the law
Inside room B209 at the Family of Fortune and Prosperity apartment building near Beijing’s capital airport, You Juhong’s eyes brim with tears as she speaks. “In 2008, Beijing welcomed you. In 2016, Beijing hated you.…
Artist Flees Beijing After Filming Devastation of Mass Evictions
Daxing district, Beijing. After a November fire here that killed 19 people, the government tore down the surrounding migrant housing. HONG KONG — When Hua Yong, a painter in Beijing, first witnessed the eviction of…
South Korea’s Moon, China’s Xi to talk North Korea, trade in Beijing summit
South Korean President Moon presides over the natioanal security council at the Presidential Blue House in Seoul Thomson Reuters By Christine Kim and Ben Blanchard SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – Reining in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions will…
China planning refugee camps along North Korean border: reports
China is considering plans for five refugee camps along its border with North Korea, according to media reports. Reports in the New York Times, the Guardian and other news outlets say a document shows that…
Alberta beef and pork producers hope new deal with China will pay big dividends
China is loosening restrictions on Canadian beef and pork … “When you have a greater variety of markets, your price stabilizes,” Campbell told Global News on his farm just north of Edmonton. “The value that…
Inside China’s ‘virtue schools’ for women
Centres training women to be “virtuous” have sprung up across China in recent years, telling women that career and femininity do not mix and forcing them to do menial work. But what are these institutes…
Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest
BEIJING — With coding skills, a foreign degree, fluent English and an apartment barely big enough for his espresso maker and two cats, Si Ruomu thought he was the kind of go-getting young tech worker…
China to recreate Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon
China has announced plans to recreate Shakespeare’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon along with replicas of the playwright’s homes, as part of an ambitious new international cultural center that will pay homage to three literary greats. Set…
No ‘one sticking point’ holding up trade talks with China: Lametti
The federal government knew it was in for a bumpy ride as it pursued a free-trade agreement with China, says the parliamentary secretary to Canada’s innovation minister, but it isn’t giving up. “We knew it…
Trade deal with China ‘impossible’ and NAFTA remains ‘a mess’: Unifor president Jerry Dias
The head of Canada’s largest private-sector union says he’s not surprised that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came home this weekend without any progress made on a free-trade deal with China. In fact, said Unifor president…
Beware effects of China’s ‘united front’ in Canada: former envoy
“China does have a strategy for influencing public opinion and … And in a Canadian Press interview this summer, Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye blamed an ill-informed Canadian news media for forcing human rights onto the…
Should MPs accept free trips to China? Critics urge closer look at sponsored travel
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…