Measuring Harper in the Middle Kingdom

Big expectations on energy and investment, but little consensus on outcomes.

Published February 1, 2012

The year of the dragon is supposed to be a lucky one in Chinese astrology, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper must be hoping it translates into big things as he prepares for his second-ever trip to China starting Feb. 7. But China analysts are split on whether any of that luck will rub off on him.

The stakes are certainly high for businesses hoping for Canada to cement ties with its second-largest merchandise...

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We, as Canadians, should all hope that when Mr. harper sits down with the brutal Chinese Communist Party, he should remember that he is representing all Canadians, not just the greedy corporations.
It seems to me that there are a few facts concerning human rights that are been ignored by Western Governments.
The fact that the brutal Chinese Communist Party has murdered 80 million of its own people since 1949, the fact that it is attempting the genocide of tens of millions of innocent Falun Gong practitioners by the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. The fact that there are hundreds of slave camps hidden all over Red China where all the junk that is sold here is being produced. The fact that a million homes were demolished to build the Olympic Complex with no compensation offered to the poor families who lost everything Â. The fact that 64 kindergardÂen children were riding in a nine seat van when it crashed and 15 of the children died while rich Party members buy their girlfriendÂs million dollar apartments in Paris. The fact that the poor pay twelve different taxes while the rich pay nary one.
All of these human rights issues I mentioned are true but the GovernmentÂs of the World are not informing its citizens because then some very rich greedy corporatioÂns might lose out on some business deal with the gangster Chinese regime.
This is just my understanding, thank you.

02/01/12 at 06:02 pm

in view of Attawapiskat and other issues concerning continuing colonialist policies towards Indigenous peoples, China may very well have human rights issues to raise with Canada.

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