Chinese Friends: Conference stirs feminism's fires
Three months after one of the largest gatherings of women the world has ever seen, the United Nation's World Conference on Women is still profoundly affecting the lives of two local residents.The Beijing conference and its concomitant gathering of non-governmental organizations in Huairou reawakened the dormant feminist in Elizabeth Anne Hull and the sleeping politician in Catherine Lee. Hull, a Harper College English professor, has been inspired to pursue several nascent...
Chinese Friends: Clinton is strengthening ties to China
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Why did his communist Chinese friends want Bill Clinton to be reelected?It is common knowledge that, while in college, he organized pro-communist rallies, refused to fight the communists in Vietnam, and documented the fact that he abhors our own military. He sympathetically visited communist countries while other Americans were fighting against the communists and dying in Vietnam.Since becoming President, he has tried to impose a communist-type medical system on Americans and, as...
Chinese Friends: LEADERSHIP CHANGES IN CHINA FORECAST A SLOW THAW WITH U.S.
On Sept. 11, the "China threat" argument that had long been the stock in trade of one school of conservative China watchers suddenly came unraveled. Terrorism, not China, was the real threat, and the world was newly divided between those who fight terrorism and those who side with it.Within hours of the attacks, Chinese President Jiang Zemin had called President George W. Bush expressing his sympathy and promising cooperation. In Beijing, Chinese laid flowers before...
Chinese Friends: Clinton is strengthening ties to China
Editor:
Why did his communist Chinese friends want Bill Clinton to be reelected?It is common knowledge that, while in college, he organized pro-communist rallies, refused to fight the communists in Vietnam, and documented the fact that he abhors our own military. He sympathetically visited communist countries while other Americans were fighting against the communists and dying in Vietnam.Since becoming President, he has tried to impose a communist-type medical system on Americans and, as...
Chinese Friends: INFLUX OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS CALLED SERIOUS,
25-30 ESTABLISHMENTS HAVE HIRED THEM, SAYS IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL
Sanchez, Correa and Miguel Garcia, 26, who also worked at China North and must go back to Mexico, sat quietly talking and listening to the music of Los Temerarios at the modestly furnished house where they were staying. Correa said seven workers lived in the three-bedroom home. They said Chinese friends allowed them to live there.Sanchez and Correa said they were each paid $50 for oneday's work, although it doesn't compensate them for the money it cost to get to...