Socio/Economic

Chinese National People’s Congress has 83 billionaires, report says

By Jamil Anderlini | Financial Times, Published: March 7 [Reprinted by the Washington Post] BEIJING — The legislature of the world’s last major communist country is almost certainly the wealthiest in the world, according to a popular rich list that names 83 dollar billionaires among the delegates to China’s parliament this year. Meanwhile, in the United States, there is not a single...

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Canadian University To Close Confucius Institute

Canadian University To Close Confucius Institute

Group calls China-linked Confucius Institute hiring practices discriminatory By Omid Ghoreishi, February 7, 2013 The Epoch Times McMaster University has decided to close the Confucius Institute that it has hosted since 2008, the Hamilton, Ontario-based university announced Feb 7. The decision was made because of the hiring practices of the Beijing-linked Confucius Institute (CI), which recruits...

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McMaster closing Confucius Institute over hiring issues

The Globe and Mail By AMES BRADSHAW AND COLIN FREEZE,  Feb. 07, 2013 McMaster University’s experiment with hosting a controversial language and culture school sponsored by China’s government is over. The university will shutter its Confucius Institute this summer, severing a five-year relationship with Hanban, the Chinese government agency that has hundreds of similar outposts around the...

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We Are Witnesses to the Slave Laborers Who Plead for Help

We Are Witnesses to the Slave Laborers Who Plead for Help

January 07, 2013 | By Zhang Yun, a Minghui correspondent in Vancouver, Canada (Minghui.org)  Since the article “A Plea for Help from a Slave Labor Camp in China Spurs U.S. Government Investigation” was published on Minghui, many Falun Gong practitioners who were subjected to the persecution in China and who now live abroad have stood up and attested to the slave labor practices in Chinese...

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2013: Chinese revolution?

Nolan Chart Massive protests have begun to disrupt both Hong Kong and mainland China By John Kusumi (centrist) Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Massive protests have begun to disrupt both Hong Kong and mainland China. There comes a time when the status quo is flatly unacceptable and will no longer be tolerated by the populace. That generalization fits the current circumstances in China. China is...

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Has Obama’s Big Spending Also Bought American Silence On Chinese Prison Camps?

By Investors Business Daily December 26, 2012 Tyranny: A desperate, disturbing message from China found in a box of Halloween decorations is a reminder of how China “works,” as U.S. corporate and political elites have noted. Has America gone from beacon to bought off? Despite a slew of laws to the contrary, it looks as though America’s vaunted trade relationship with China —...

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