Archive for April 25th, 2008

Canadians’ Rights threatened by Chinese Communist Party.

Caylan Ford, New Tang Dynasty. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Graveland.New Tang believes the consulate pressured tourism groups to withdraw their planned support of the New-York-based Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular. The troupe has shows scheduled in both Edmonton and Calgary.

“We believe that by doing that the Chinese consul general has overstepped his diplomatic duties as defined by the Vienna Convention on consular affairs,” New Tang spokeswoman Caylan Ford said Thursday.  -CP

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Apparently the Chinese consul general has pressured companies in Calgary Canada to shun it’s planned sponsorship for the Chinese New Year Spectacular.  The Embassy’s website also threatened spectators (Chinese) that they would be monitored and punished for going to see the show.  This is what my blog is about, understanding the untold story of the people will will not go see this show because they are afraid of being punished by the Communist Party.  My feeling is that this is much more common than it looks on the surface and there is a real threat from the Communist Party toward issues that frankly, make it feel scared.  But if this party is scared of Chinese peoples rights in Canada, it is important that the Communist Party is not allowed to deny these people their canadian rights.  This TV station is speaking up and telling the story about the Communist Party overstepping the boundary of it’s duties as the Chinese consul in Canada.

 

Welcome to my new blog!!!

Hello,

I am intrigued by the land of China, mainly it’s phenomenal contrasts and extremes, wondrous beauty and sometimes unfathomable psychology! 

This is a blog for dissidents to have a respected voice.  In China it is not allowed to say many things that the Communist Party says is a threat to what it calls harmony and social stability.  Recently some large groups of Chinese people in several countries have been staging protests about what they perceive as unfair reporting about China as well as anti-Tibetan sentiment.  These big events for the Chinese nationalists are not the sort that would challenge the Communist Party’s thought directives. The pro-China fervor seems to be mixed with defending the Communist Party from “Westerners” human rights concerns and taking criticism of the regime as personal insults to the Chinese people.

Are these big events pro-Communist Party events?  

If these events are expressions of people who have swallowed the Communist Party’s version of issues from Tibet, Falun Gong, Chinese history, Taiwan, to multiple other sensitive issues that have been manipulated, then what is the other side of the story?  

Is it strange that so many Chinese people gather to speak up against CNN and the BBC, while back in China no one would dare to form such a protest against Xinhua and CCTV which are communist party mouthpieces openly run by the party’s censors? Not to mention that there is no free media in China (all must repeat the party’s version on information, not to mention the great firewall).  They would be severely punished by the Communist Party in China for demonstrating for fair media.  How can this double standard exist?

What concerns me is what is lying behind the propaganda, what is really happening to China and the people, mainly, what stories do the dissidents have to tell.  It does not take bravery to side with the ruling party, and certainly not wits.  There are stories beneath the surface that are forbidden to be told and those are the stories it takes bravery and heart to tell under the repressive circumstances.

Welcome again,

 

Carry Anne