Harper visits The Great Wall, calls it ‘unbelievable’
Share 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... [Read More...]
What is it about Harper’s China trip?
Share Dear readers: Here’s the transcript of today’s briefing on PM Harper’s visit to China. Enjoy. Main point? Just a tour. Nothing to be signed. But free entrance to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City. (my emphasis in bold) ———————- file photo TRANSCRIPTION DATE: November 30th, 2009 – 1:00 p.m. LOCATION: National Press Theater, Ottawa, Ontario PRINCIPALS: ‧Dimitri Soudas, Associate... [Read More...]
It’s China’s 60th anniversary.. did Canada say ‘happy birthday’?
Share (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...]
Obama meets Hu Jintao
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Hu Jintao not meeting Harper in G20?
Share Hu met with Harper in 2007. (CIV file) It looks like that Chinese president Hu Jintao will not meet with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, nor French president Nicolas Sarkozy in the G20 summit. According to the website of China’s foreign affairs, Hu will be meeting with heads of state of the UK, USA, Russia, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Thailand. But the Chinese FM also says detailed schedules are still being hammered... [Read More...]
Total despair
Share The recent playout of events happening in China has had me completely disappointed towards the Hu Jintao-Wen Jiabao administration, which I used to invest a lot of hope that they might bring changes to China’s political ecology. Obviously, I have been a naive optimist. The most scary thing is the strong, class-struggle style of languages used by the government (or the party?) in recent public speeches and media reports. This administration... [Read More...]
911-style terror plot foiled by China
Share Washington Post – The crew of a Chinese airliner bound for Beijing thwarted an attempt to crash the plane last week, a Chinese government official said Sunday. The plane had taken off from the region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, where police in January raided an office of an ethnic minority separatist group. Police said at the time that they had killed two suspects and arrested 15. The Communist Party chief of the region, Wang Lequan,... [Read More...]
Hu Jintao will not visit Japan this year
Share Ming Pao HK – Chinese president Hu Jintao will not visit Japan this year, as officials point out that “it’s difficult” to having Chinese leaders visit the same country twice a year. Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to visit Japan in April. Foreign minister Li Zhaoxing will arrive at Japan next month, making preparations for Wen’s trip. Analysts believe that China wants to wait and see whether Japan’s prime... [Read More...]
Hu Jintao tones down rhetoric against Taiwan, emphasizes building socialist harmony
Share Chinese president urges 2007 wealth-redistribution to build socialist harmony BEIJING (AP) – China’s President Hu Jintao said it will be vital in 2007 for his government to spread the country’s growing wealth among its have-nots, in a New Year’s speech that also toned down rhetoric against rival Taiwan. “It is an important year in building a socialist harmonious society,” Hu said in a nationally televised... [Read More...]
Chinese immigrants’ response to Hu-Harper meeting
Share I’ve translated some responses from PRC immigrants in Vancouver regarding the Hu-Harper meeting, from the popular online forum westca.com (Note: Online forums are a major channel that PRC immigrants air their views on things. Unlike HK or Taiwanese immigrants who look for more traditional forms of media for information and idea sharing, PRC immigrants almost exclusively rely on the internet for news and on online forums for comments/responses.... [Read More...]
