Category: Beijing

At Least 29 Dead in Beijing Hospital Fire, Mostly Patients

BEIJING—The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities said Wednesday, and a dozen people had been detained including the hospital’s head and her deputy. The fire broke out at the private Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and forced dozens of people to evacuate. Some who were…


How China Made Russia Its Junior Partner

Commentary When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met in March, it was to firm up a new Sino-Russian strategic partnership crafted last year. Yet there is always a hierarchy in every alliance, and it is increasingly apparent that Russia is the junior partner in this relationship. It wasn’t always so. From the founding of communist…


Pierre Poilievre Calls for Canada Revenue Agency to Audit Trudeau Foundation

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on Friday, asking it to conduct an audit of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, with a “particular focus” on a $140,000 donation it received from the Chinese regime. “Allegations suggest that the donation was directed by a state-backed group in Beijing with the…


Poilievre Calls for Canada Revenue Agency to Audit Trudeau Foundation

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) on Friday, asking it to conduct an audit of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, with a “particular focus” on a $140,000 donation it received from the Chinese regime. “Allegations suggest that the donation was directed by a state-backed group in Beijing with the…


Stifled by Politics, Beijing and Shanghai Fall in Rankings of International Financial Centers

Shanghai and Beijing have both fallen sharply in the latest ranking of the world’s most competitive financial centers. The dynamism of China’s financial sector has waned markedly in part due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s recent policies, and the trend is intensifying. With the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2020, CCP authorities implemented…


House China Committee Urges More Support for Taiwan in Face of Increasingly Aggressive Beijing

The parliamentary Canada-China relations committee (CACN) is urging the government to bolster its support for Taiwan in the face of an increasingly aggressive Beijing. Tabled in the House on March 30, CACN’s latest report offers 18 recommendations regarding Taiwan, including rejecting the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) attempts to coerce countries like Canada to consider Taiwan as…


MP Han Dong to Sue Global News Over Report Alleging He Told Chinese Diplomat to Delay Releasing 2 Michaels

MP Han Dong says he is planning to sue Global News over a recent report alleging that the former member of the Liberal caucus had told a Chinese diplomat to delay the release of two Canadian citizens imprisoned in China. “Yes, I am taking legal action against Global News and Corus Entertainment,” Dong wrote in…


MP Han Dong Suing Global News Over Report Alleging He Told Chinese Diplomat to Delay Releasing 2 Michaels

MP Han Dong says he is planning to sue Global News over a recent report alleging that the former member of the Liberal caucus had told a Chinese diplomat to delay the release of two Canadian citizens imprisoned in China. “Yes, I am taking legal action against Global News and Corus Entertainment,” Dong wrote in…


Liberal MP Discussing 2 Michaels With Chinese Consulate Directly Amounts to ‘Monumental Government Negligence’: Former Envoy to China

Former Liberal MP Han Dong should have faced “serious consequences” for discussing the case of imprisoned Canadians with the Chinese consulate without informing the government, says a former Canadian ambassador to China. Dong, who is now sitting as an Independent MP representing Toronto’s Dong Valley North riding, resigned from the Liberal caucus on March 22,…


PREMIERING NOW: Troubled US Bank’s Ties to China Raise More Red Flags

The Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) bad management may have set off a nationwide financial crisis. The Biden administration has pledged to protect depositors’ money. But among SVB’s customers are firms affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). So why are American taxpayers footing the bill to make Beijing whole? In the premiere of the new…