Photos – Nude on Snow
Interesting scenes from Changchun, China where the local skiing season is closing with a “Crazy Nude on Snow Festival”. Photos by Xinhua, Mar 6, 2010. Read More →
Harper visits The Great Wall, calls it ‘unbelievable’
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and wife Laureen visits the Great Wall of China at Badaling in Beijing, China on Thursday, December 3, 2009. (CP) CP – “Unbelievable”. That’s how Prime Minister Harper described the Great Wall of China today during a walk with his wife Lauren and a flank of Canadian officials. The outing, about 90 minutes outside Beijing, came prior to key meetings with Chinese President Hu Jintao and dinner with... [Read More...]
2/3 Canadians urge PM to focus on China’s human rights, not trade: poll
PMO release Sigh… what can I say? Sometimes I really don’t understand my fellow Canadians. Why are Canadians always one step behind the rest of the world? Is it because our country is too cold so our people don’t travel outside of North America to see the rest of the world? With an obvious shift of western media obsession on the “China threat” theory and the retrieve of the once mainstream China-bashing rhetoric, I can... [Read More...]
It’s China’s 60th anniversary.. did Canada say ‘happy birthday’?
(Photo released by the PMO; Harper met Hu Jintao during G8 in Pittsburgh) The Conservatives might appear courting China in recent months — I’d say especially, reluctantly after the recession. The PMO even released a photo seeing PM Harper chatting happily with China’s president Hu Jintao in the recent G8 summit in Pittsburgh. Conservative propaganda machine boasted about that being a sign of a better China-Canada relationship. Today... [Read More...]
Photo – Dragon boat saves lives in sunken Zhejiang, China
People row a dragon boat to commute through a flooded area in Cangnan county, in east China's Zhejiang province, Monday Aug. 10, 2009. (AP Photo) Read More →
Why can’t?
Getting a little bored at these people keep blasting China for protecting its own resources and industries while they have been doing the same, if not more pressing, for decades onto others. In this case, China is pouring money into R&D of green technology … then what’s wrong to protect their own investment? READ ALSO: Why can’t China protect its own natural resources? Western media cannot help applying their double standard... [Read More...]
Chinese hospital uses shock therapy treat internet addiction
Oh boy, I might be next in line to receive such treatment :P From Danwei: The use of shock therapy to treat cases of Internet addiction has been suspended by the Ministry of Health, The Beijing News reports. In May, the Linyi Fourth People’s Hospital’s came under fire after an article published in the China Youth Daily revealed that the hospital had been using electric shock therapy to treat Internet addiction. Yesterday, the Ministry... [Read More...]
Western media cannot help applying their double standard on China
Here it comes again… The western media is once again quick to apply their double standard to China in the recent riots in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Times of London is among the worst: (link) As a people, the Uighurs look more like Afghans than ethnic Chinese. Ethnically, they are a Turkic race whose homeland is at the meeting point of Asia and Europe. The area now called Xinjiang was annexed by the Chinese Empire in the 19th century, although it briefly... [Read More...]
Why can’t China protect its own natural resources?
I don’t understand… why is it OK for Canada to prohibit Chinese companies from buying Canadian natural resources corporations and why is it OK for the US to stock up strategic reserves but it’s not OK for China to protect its own natural resources? Keeping commodities China, U.S. and EU face off at the WTO Globe and Mail -The complaints this week to the World Trade Organization by the United States and the European Union about Chinese... [Read More...]
The race is still on…
This is interesting…. Harper and Ignatieff are still racing to have their first China trip. Both men released a photo with China’s foreign minister Yang Jiechi on the same day today. REAL ALSO: Iggy races against Harper for first China visit Has Canada-China relation improved after Day’s visit? Day’s ice-thawing mission to China Hu Jintao not meeting Harper in G20? ‘Tibet is sovereign issue for China to deal with’ Ignatieff... [Read More...]
