China Hates Canada And I Couldn't Be More Proud!

Dezza points out a few good reasons Canadians should be proud of the fact that Stephen Harper was snubbed by Hu Jintao. After initially requesting the meet, the Chinese president declined to meet Harper at the current APEC meeting in Vietnam, an act many feel is because of Canada's tough stance towards the country's human rights violations.

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House members urge Bush to skip Olympics 35 weeks 19 hours ago

(CNN) -- Fifteen U.S. House members asked President Bush Tuesday not to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing to protest China's human rights records.

The call follows comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who earlier said Bush should boycott the August 8 opening ceremony.

President Bush has said he intends to meet China's president during a trip to see the Olympics. Bush didn't elaborate on what issues he might bring up, but his administration has accused China, a major U.S. trade partner, of human rights abuses.

Old Chinese Villages - a photo tour 14 weeks 57 min ago

The following series of photos, taken from my new book of photography ‘CHINA: Portrait of a People,’ are what I personally consider the most beautiful sites of Old China; those remote villages that have yet to meet China’s wrecking ball, and a proud people contented to proceed with their antediluvian customs as they have for five thousand years.

Convicted Chinese Smuggler Does Serious Hurt To Canada's Tourism Industry 2 years 14 weeks ago

China has agreements with more than 80 countries but will not let Canada have an "Approved Destination Status" agreement.

There are two reasons for this hurt on Canada's tourism industry and ...

Rights groups slam top IOC official’s stance on Beijing 1 year 18 weeks ago

by AFP | Khaleeij Times Online
July 13, 2007

GENEVA - Two human rights groups on Friday sharply criticised a senior Olympic official who warned social activists not to use the Beijing 2008 Games to highlight their concerns.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) said the remarks by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) chief Beijing organiser, Hein Verbruggen, repudiated the Olympic movement’s own ideal and its Code of Ethics.

Human Rights May Be an Issue in China… But What about the U.S.? | China Esquire 26 weeks 6 days ago

CNN recently did an article about Amnesty International’s annual report, and some of the results are predictable. But America got the lion’s share of Amnesty’s annual report about human rights violations! Read on...

Bush, After Talks With China’s Leader, Accepts Invitation to Beijing Olympics 1 year 12 weeks ago

SYDNEY, Australia, Friday, Sept. 7 — President Bush has accepted an invitation from President Hu Jintao of China to attend the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing, a move that drew condemnation from human rights advocates and a Republican member of Congress, who are calling for a boycott of the Games.

Cup of Cha || China Don’t Get PR 35 weeks 6 days ago

Considering the fact that virtually everyone under 35 that I meet in China is working in PR, you would think the government would be able to run a halfway decent campaign. And yet this T1bet situation has shown the stunning misconceptions that the country has about what will create good press

Chinese Canadian Profile 1: Chinese Canadian population over 1 million; few have religion 1 year 37 weeks ago

Canadians of Chinese origin make up the largest non-European ethnic origin in Canada. In fact, the Chinese community is the 5th largest of any ethnic origin in Canada other than English or French. In 2001, there just over one million people of Chinese origin living in Canada. That year, they represented approximately 4% of the total Canadian population.

Canada Rights Team Decries China "Organ Tourism" 1 year 43 weeks ago

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday.

Former Canadian cabinet member David Kilgour decried "organ tourism," whereby rich foreigners go and pay for a transplant which, Kilgour said, may have cost a Chinese citizen his life.

The Chinese embassy in Ottawa had no immediate comment.

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