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The number of Chinese acquisitions approved by Ottawa has garnered crucial consideration since 2015 with the purchase of key Canadian businesses such as Norsat International, a satellite firm; Retirement Concepts, a retirement home chain; and ITF Technologies, a high-tech firm. China’s latest $1.5 billion bid to buy Canada’s Aecon Group is thankfully now under a […] -
Recently, the news of the United States–China trade war has dominated the headlines of media all over the world. U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on March 22, aimed at curbing “China’s economic aggression.” It has caused an uproar of criticism over the internet. The predicted consequences have been seriously exaggerated. However, if one […]
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Even before the United States starts a trade war with China, some have declared that China has won and President Trump has lost. Keith Richburg, director of the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Center, argues it is too late for the U.S. to fight back on trade. He contends that China has […]
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With noticeable disappointment and discontentment toward U.S. policy, China’s ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, said during an event in Washington, D.C., that the “recent trend indicates that Americans have a lack of cognizance about China and some misguided strategic judgements.” More specifically, Cui believed that “some people seemed frustrated about the path on […]
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President Donald Trump’s Asia trip highlighted the difficulty in reducing barriers to entry for American companies to key Chinese sectors. American innovation in the electronic payment services sector, for example, places the United States’ leading finance companies on the cusp of a breakthrough into the coveted Chinese marketplace. But China’s unfair trading practices threaten to […]
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President Donald Trump on Dec. 21 put the world on notice that America will no longer accept severe human rights abuses and corruption taking place around the world. Trump issued an executive order declaring a national emergency to deal with those who commit such crimes. In explaining his actions, Trump makes reference to the importance of values, […]
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PERSPECTIVE During Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s China trip last week, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reiterated his comments that the two countries are entering a “golden era” in their relationship, notwithstanding that the leaders didn’t agree on launching formal free trade talks. With exploratory talks to continue, there’s no telling if the two sides will come […]
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An American in China wrote to me concerned about the Chinese people’s apparent acceptance of censorship. This is my response. Hi Jeremy, In your email, you commented that it was your impression that most Chinese people you encountered in everyday life were indifferent to the media censorship imposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I […]
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Dear President Trump, My name is Jennifer Zeng, a writer living in New York. I have wanted to write to you ever since I received a shocking text message from my mother in China last month, before the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. She said that local authorities in Mianyang City, Sichuan […]
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By the mid-20th century, many thought Soviet communism might replace democracy as the dominant political ideology worldwide. Today, mercifully, only five communist countries remain across the world, co-existing with about 188 other nations—a majority with democratic governance of differing kinds. The five are China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam, but the focus here will be […]
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At the just completed 19th Party Congress (held once every five years), Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping laid out in an opening three and a half hour peroration his thinking on virtually every element of Chinese society. Entitled “Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” (quickly contracted into “New Era”), Xi […]
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Ever since China opened its door to the West in the 1980’s, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been working hard to establish its cells or branches in all companies, state-owned, private, and joint-ventures. Recently, as the Party awaits its 19th Congress and maintains “stability” in society, their desire to exert control in the […]
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I was told that my mom was harassed in China again recently. With the approach of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party is so nervous that they had the leader of my mom’s former workplace give a warning to her, who has retired long ago and is only a […]
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The Chinese Communist Party and its paramount leader have legitimacy problems. One can expect that Xi Jinping will strengthen his legitimacy when the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party opens in Beijing on Oct. 18, but the legitimacy of the Party itself will be left as an unresolvable problem. The rule of the paramount […]
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Fan Changjiang, a journalist for the reputable Ta Kung Pao newspaper in republican China, was a loyal communist and proud of it. He once boasted that “in newspapers and books published legally under Nationalist rule, I was the first person to call [the Communists] the Red Army … and not bandits, and to announce that the […]
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WASHINGTON—Four Chinese women sat at a long oaken table in a hearing room on Capitol Hill on the afternoon of May 19 and asked the world to pay attention. Their husbands have been detained in China because of their work for human rights. Rep. Chris Smith said they had come together to “shine a light” […]
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I once hated my mother when I was a child. No matter how well I behaved, and how many awards I won in school, she seemed never to care about my accomplishments or to appreciate me. Sometimes I even wondered: Would she feel upset if I died? When it was finally the time for me […]
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A Facebook friend of mine who currently lives in Taiwan posted on her page that she went back to Beijing and purchased “Big Shrimp Crunchy Candy”, or da zia su (a type of crunchy sweet). She called it “flavors of home.” I took a look and found it to be quite similar to the kind […]
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Eighteen years ago on April 25, together with 10,000-plus Falun Gong practitioners, I stood quietly on Fuyou Street outside the Zhongnanhai Communist Party leadership compound in Beijing, where the Appeals Office of the State Council is located—the office the regime has established where people could complain of official misconduct. It was a warm and sunny […]
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On the presidential campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to get tough with China on currency and trade issues. President Trump, however, appears to have changed tack after a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He tweeted on April 16: “Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the […]
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China has muscled, conned, bullied, grabbed, extorted, and feigned its way to the top of the global supply chain over the last twenty years. It took no prisoners—just market share, intellectual property, and liberties in the valuation of its currency. It used a massive trade surplus to buy foreign assets, coralled foreign companies into joint ventures […]
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WASHINGTON—Ms. Yu Zhenjie traveled from Flushing, New York, to Washington on April 4 to deliver a message to President Donald Trump. Yu did not meet Trump personally. She was one of several dozen practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice who gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in a bid to gain the […]
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Dear President Trump: I send my most sincere greetings to you! I am a former official in both China’s government and the Communist Party, a survivor of the Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, and the first Falun Gong practitioner expelled from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. I would like to tell you about my experiences […]
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On one night in 1966, gangs of communist Red Guards armed with crude implements beat and strangled to death hundreds villagers just outside of Beijing
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The Chinese government has claimed the country no longer harvests organs from prisoners. But recent revelations about two leading Chinese researchers indicate this may not be true. In 2005, China publicly stated what many already believed: that its transplant system was built on harvesting organs from criminals sentenced to death (“executed prisoners”). According to declarations […]
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The Chinese Communist Party has sought to attack Shen Yun Performing Arts, the premier classical Chinese dance and music company, since its inception. Run by overseas Chinese, the New York-based Shen Yun remains firmly independent of the Chinese regime and tours the world, performing in about 20 countries and 100 cities. Tactics used to try […]
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By accepting a phone call, Donald Trump has disrupted relations with China. And the United States and the Chinese people may be the better for it. The call, of course, was from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Dec. 2, offering congratulations on Trump’s electoral victory. No U.S. president or president-elect is believed to have spoken […]
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