By Graeme Wood | May 7, 2021, 2:27pm
China’s consul general in Vancouver Tong Xiaoling giving Premier John Horgan a red scarf during Chinese New Year celebration in Richmond in 2019. In 2018, Horgan went on a trade mission to Guangdong province, which has a Belt and Road Initiative agreement with B.C. | Photo: BC Government Flikr
After Australia’s federal government cancelled a state memorandum of understanding on the Belt and Road Initiative with the Chinese government, the B.C. government has just days to mull over a likewise agreement of its own.
The provincial government’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Guangdong Province to support the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in a pan-Pacific partnership was signed in May 2016 and could expire Sunday, leading to an assessment on whether or not it should be resigned.
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There is enough evidence of China’s genocide of Uyghur and Turkic people that last month Canadian parliamentarians joined those in at least 39 other countries to denounce it.
Yet a denier of this genocide is a director of the Chinese Canadian Museum to which the B.C. government has committed $10 million. His presence threatens the integrity of the nascent museum, and Premier John Horgan has done nothing about it.
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To run until
March 31 next year, it has attracted the participation of 50
businesses, including some with popular brands, and six banks and credit institutions,
who have earmarked 11.34 trillion VND (491 million USD) to lend to the
participating firms.
Their
long-term interest rates will be 6.5-11.3 percent and short-term interest
rates will be 4.5 percent.
Face masks and hand sanitisers were added to the list of essential goods last
year, and the 10 earlier ones are rice, noodles and vermicelli; sugar; cooking
oil; eggs; cattle meat; poultry meat; vegetables; processed foods; seafood; and
seasoning.
The programme also covers dairy products and items when schools function.