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Chinese state media videos and photos show Canadian Community Service Association president Niu Hua attending the “10th Conference for Friendship of Overseas Chinese Associations,” hosted by the state council’s overseas Chinese affairs office.Niu is seen applauding with the group on Monday during Xi’s entry to the conference, which state media says involved representatives from 130 countries, and is also seen in a group picture with the Chinese leader.Chinese state media says Shi Taifeng—head of the Chinese United Front Work Department’s central committee—told conference attendees that they serve as “an important bridge and bond” between China and the rest of the world.Shi told the groups they are “fresh troops” in China’s effort to develop a “shared future for mankind” as part of the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”Niu has not responded to requests for comment, but his Chinese-language WeChat social media account shared state-media depictions of the meeting and photographs of him outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, where the meeting with Xi took place.The Canadian Community Service Association says on its website that it was established in 2002 to promote integration and “the spirit of community service” among Chinese and other multicultural communities, organizing activities such as fundraising drives for natural disasters.It says it is “non-profit, non-religious, and non–political,” and has nearly 20,000 members.
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Following its appointment of a diocesan bishop against the Vatican’s wishes, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted an official visit to ensure that the bishop is implementing state policies.
UCA News reported May 10 that local officials from the CCP had made a visit to Bishop Shen Bin of the Diocese of Shanghai, in order to “study the local church’s progress on the implementation of socialist policies.”
The CCP’s visit took place on May 8 when three officials from the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) visited the diocese, their official purpose being to inaugurate a new workshop building. In reality, the visit was chiefly an opportunity for the CCP officials to ensure that the diocesan authorities were correctly effecting the “Chineseization (Sinicization) of religion.”
The diocese is recognized by the Holy See, but Shen is not the Vatican-approved bishop of Shanghai. The Vatican-recognized bishop of Shanghai is actually Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin whereas Shen is merely the Vatican-approved bishop of Haimen.
Nevertheless, the CCP recently installed Shen as the ordinary of Shanghai diocese.
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Figures don’t support a Conservative MP’s protest that his 2021 election loss was due to Communist Chinese agents, say Liberal members of the House affairs committee. Ex-MP Kenny Chiu yesterday testified the very nature of election interference made it difficult to document: “In your particular riding the NDP vote actually went up.”
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Veteran Liberal MP John McKay wants Canadians to know how everyday products like acai berries — even sold by Canadian companies operating here — may have been produced by children who are working instead of going to school. Without realizing it, even the most ethically conscious consumer could be the last link in a supply chain tainted with child or forced labour.
Before cellphones end up in people’s hands, the hands of children may be used to mine the cobalt needed to make the phone’s lithium ion batteries. Before beans are ground into people’s morning coffee, they may have been picked in one of 17 countries where the U.S. department of labour says children do the picking. Before cotton is made into t-shirts or bedsheets, forced labour may have harvested the cotton.
Tell your boss to stop taking Chinese money.
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