China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics
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Apr 17, 2008, 10:48 GMT
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Really, i have no idea that there are refugees in China. Are they north koreans or iraqis (actually quite a lot these days in Wenzhou and yixin) or other groups? There is iraqis in Beijing?
what kind of refugees? well, for CCP, those not HAN-CHINESE is refugees.
i am currently an american student studying at a chinese university in beijing and i just talked to my adviser about this matter...she said that it is completely false and that summer courses are still proceeding as scheduled. of course, this being the massive lumbering bureaucracy known as china, you never know, but i don't know how this article came to light when it seems to be contradicted by the very people who should have a handle on this information. just want to let people know
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Aren't they going to house a lot of the Olympics athletes and others in the universities? Of course, the guesthouses for foreign students are the best accomodations. I remember reading an article about the U.S. chefs scouting out the kitchen facilities at beijing normal university.
They probably want to get rid of the students because they're the ones most likely to take a stand and protest the government's treatment of Tibet.
Yet another false report from the Western media about China. Xinhua says these 'news' from Deutsche-Presse-Agentur is a complete invention. This is getting out of hand. How can we keep criticizing Chinese rhetoric if our own media is so ridiculously biased as to fabricate negative and irresponsible news. Apparently, there are some important Western powers trying to provoke the Chinese. Pretty ill-advised.
Another faked news! Nothing more should be talked about it here.
This kind of fake news make all the German media lose their credit. I won't trust news reports of German media any more.
Again another LIE by the white christian devils!
that's definitely false
This article may not entirely be true. For one thing, not all summer programs at 'Beijing University' have been canceled. This is a false statement. Two, whoever wrote this article did not do their research and did not properly address the university as Peking University, leading to the assumption that this article may be fabricated or just poorly reported. We are not saying that the Chinese Government has not become stricter in terms of issuing visas for the upcoming Olympic games. Yes, some applicants will be denied visas or issued limited length of stays but we would like to confirm that this article contains errors. If readers doubt my defense, I actually know a colleague who works with the International Studies Office of Peking University who handles study abroad and they are unaware about such policy of 'kicking' out students.
Olympics was, is, will always be part of China!
lan liu jinApr 22nd, 2008 - 11:48:33
Olympics is was, and will always be part CCP OPPRESSION RIGIME´s China.
I think many people don't understand the fundamentally different nature of journalism in western democracies and in China. Newspapers and news agencies in democratic countries are independant (and usually private) institutions, while the news business in China is organized in a hierarchical way (with the Communication minister at the top). While news in China are more or less the official voice of the country, news originating from democratic countries are reflecting the independent opinions of each particular newspaper/TV/news agency. So, threatening to boycott France or Germany as a whole as a total misunderstanding of the way things work in democracies.
Piglet's comments are off-the-topic. Moreover he/she does not understand the matter underlying the boycott or not, so please stop condescending.
It is hard to believe they are not creating news to let the Chinese government to look stupid. Even Chinese government is doing so, it is their power to do so. Image how your Germany treat Chinese students on the visa.
Lying is now a part of philosophy of German media.
China and its inconsiderable laws has created problems to those foreigners who have been staying in China and working for years, to those students who have been studying Chinese languages, but not from the developed country but from those countries where China can put pressure. I wonder why people and Chinese think Western are doing propaganda...come and live in China more than 12 years then you will know China and Chinese people. They are simple, helpful, and warm and welcoming till everything is good, once some problem arose with you then every one will turn against you.
If China is taking precaution for Olympic why they just publish publically rather than destroying some other innocent lives and whole business where they don’t have even nothing to do with Olympic. They give ultimatum and deport person back what cause bad impact in some ones life and carrier. They keep record according to their passport what crime did those foreigners have done in China? Taught English to Chinese, paid to the Chinese university to study Chinese language or worked in Chinese companies to enhance the company, universities and Chinese culture and economy?
If China doesn’t welcome foreigners and as they have been saying foreigners that Chinese law has said so then where are those rules printed? Is Chinese government can fool foreigner and outer world just like their own citizens? Chinese government has been doing because Chinese citizens don’t have any their own idea they follow their leaders as if they are herd of cattle...
In fact Chinese are the most chicken heart people with stupid thought, China is so scared about terrorism that they even don’t allow taking lighter in the luggage while flying domestically. Well what to say more…
By the way are all Middle East, Africans, Asians are terrorists? May be a Chinese itself a terrorist or even a white skinned who is born at developed western country with a high education background can be the one. Deporting Middle East, Asians and Africans is only provoking to consider China as their enemy.
To home may concern:
We are the must poor refugees, we was living in Beijing and then we forced to leave our home what the UNHCR offer to us in Beijing, so now we are living 120km out of Beijing and near the town called Miyun the place they told us its Hotel on the mountain and so beautiful we can enjoy our life so well, but unfortunately its detention place they closed the doors and then they say please understand the situation we have Olympics you are staying here for 2 months not allow to go any where and no visitors and you have three mails we offer you every day Chinese food, we are 10 refugees including 4 kids they take away our freedoms we became the victim of this Olympics. We are asking all the world who have mercy in his heart to reach our tragedy we are asking you by the name of humanity to help us please.
Iraqi and Pakistani and Eritrean Refugees in Beijing.
To home may concern:
We are the must poor refugees, we was living in Beijing and then we forced to leave our home what the UNHCR offer to us in Beijing, so now we are living 120km out of Beijing and near the town called Miyun the place they told us its Hotel on the mountain and so beautiful we can enjoy our life so well, but unfortunately its detention place they closed the doors and then they say please understand the situation we have Olympics you are staying here for 2 months not allow to go any where and no visitors and you have three mails we offer you every day Chinese food, we are 10 refugees including 4 kids they take away our freedoms we became the victim of this Olympics. We are asking all the world who have mercy in his heart to reach our tragedy we are asking you by the name of humanity to help us please.
Iraqi and Pakistani and Eritrean Refugees in Beijing.
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