(CBC) The mother of Vancouver-based pop star Wanting Qu has been arrested on corruption charges in China.
Qu is the girlfriend of Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson who said Friday, that the situation was "very tough."
"Obviously it's a personal issue for her," Roberston said. "And it's been many months with no information and that's very tough. I have next to no information."
Robertson confirmed that Qu Zhang Mingjie was being held in detention in China.
On Friday, Wanting Qu posted a message on her Facebook page, expressing her sadness.
"I love my mom dearly and I am truly heartbroken," the post states. "This ordeal is very stressful and I find myself ... crying over it daily.
"I appreciate the love and support from my friends, my fans and my family. I will use your strength to get through these tough times."
China Daily reports that her mother, Zhang Mingjie, a Harbin city official, was arrested after allegedly undervaluing state assets for sale.
According to South China Morning Post, Zhang Mingjie was dismissed from her position as deputy director of Harbin's development and reform commission in September 2014.
I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I'm just going to stand behind this blast proof wall and wait for Shen to show up.
lol
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I find it very difficult to give a shit anything white. They are a bunch of hypocritical, narcissistic, two-faced, lazy, entitled, intolerant, myopic, delusional neophyte twits with zero knowledge of anything outside their lily white world. China is the centre of the universe and has been for the better part of 2500 years. Most of the innovations that Westerners used against us were stolen from us. Since the West can't save a dime, the natural order will soon be back. The West will be broke and will have to come back to us hat in hand because they partied their future away. I can't wait till that day comes. :yahoo:
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Since the West can't save a dime, the natural order will soon be back. The West will be broke and will have to come back to us hat in hand because they partied their future away. I can't wait till that day comes. :yahoo:

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This seems to be the theme of Niall Ferguson's book, War of the World.
....that Europe squandered its advantage in World War II, and thereafter the money and power would inevitably flow back to Asia where it had originally come from.
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is the centre of the universe and has been for the better part of 2500 (1450) years. Most of the innovations that Westerners used against us were stolen from us. Since the West can't save a dime, the natural order will soon be back. The West will be broke and will have to come back to us hat in hand because they partied their future away. I can't wait till that day comes.
Lazy posting. Copy / pasting blabber from the mullahs is pretty sleazy
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is the centre of the universe and has been for the better part of 2500 (1450) years. Most of the innovations that Westerners used against us were stolen from us. Since the West can't save a dime, the natural order will soon be back. The West will be broke and will have to come back to us hat in hand because they partied their future away. I can't wait till that day comes.
Lazy posting. Copy / pasting blabber from the mullahs is pretty sleazy
Don't EVER compare us to that backward part of the world.
Of course not. The jist of your words just sounded so familiar to me ac_smile
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Of course not. The jist of your words just sounded so familiar to me ac_smile
If the words sounded familiar, the Islamists copied us, not the other way around. They are stuck in the 8th century.
was just teasin / funning ya gal
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese.
Particularly this piece of trite and meaningless news.
Bob...try harder...
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I dislike China too ELPHUPPY.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you ELPHUPPHY, why is that your name?
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you ELPHUPPHY, why is that your name?
Pleased to meet you.
I am elphupphy because I love the phupphys. I've used this name for many years, and am also known as springvalleykid in earlier days.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
Excuse me, I don't see Westerners protesting the increasing theft of their hard earned money(taxes). Chinese would storm zhonghanhai if we were had to surrender the amount of money you fools do to your governments. Anytime, governments spend your money, they are taking away some of your freedom. Keep that in mind genius next time your property taxes go up(another tax China does not have).
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you ELPHUPPHY, why is that your name?
Pleased to meet you.
I am elphupphy because I love the phupphys. I've used this name for many years, and am also known as springvalleykid in earlier days.
Ooooh k, that's why you also have a pup as your avatar. Nice to meet you :howdy:
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
Excuse me, I don't see Westerners protesting the increasing theft of their hard earned money(taxes). Chinese would storm zhonghanhai if we were had to surrender the amount of money you fools do to your governments. Anytime, governments spend your money, they are taking away some of your freedom. Keep that in mind genius next time your property taxes go up(another tax China does not have).
China may not have taxes, and they also have few freedoms, slave wages, a totalitarian government, few health standards, filthy air in most major cities, and no the citizens would not storm anything anywhere. They would be gunned down by the army and you know it.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
.....so you didn't take time to read the label, to see where the food was from, or what the ingredients were?
Anyways, I think you're making up this story in order to justify racist views. If you cared for the dog that much, had that much invested in it, you wouldn't have bought that food to begin with. I don't believe your story anyways. Even if it is true, then you're cheap and you should've spent the extra money to buy dog food with better ingredents. More likely the dog's demise was caused by your own personal neglect or at best natural factors such as aging.
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China may not have taxes, and they also have few freedoms, slave wages, a totalitarian government, few health standards, filthy air in most major cities, and no the citizens would not storm anything anywhere. They would be gunned down by the army and you know it.
You can walk down the street with a beer in China, but you cannot do that in Canada. Wages are rising several times faster than in the West which is why they are starting to lose some industry to lower wage neighbours. As for health, well China has gone from a life expectancy npt much better than Zimbabwe a generation ago to the city folk having lifespans on par with the West. If the CCP taxed it's people as punitively as Canada does and delivered sub-par economic growth that would be the end of the CCP dynasty. There's a tacit understanding in China; deliver the goods if the government wants to retain power. I think it is superior to the West's outdated universal suffrage bullshit.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
.....so you didn't take time to read the label, to see where the food was from, or what the ingredients were?
Anyways, I think you're making up this story in order to justify racist views. If you cared for the dog that much, had that much invested in it, you wouldn't have bought that food to begin with. I don't believe your story anyways. Even if it is true, then you're cheap and you should've spent the extra money to buy dog food with better ingredents. More likely the dog's demise was caused by your own personal neglect or at best natural factors such as aging.
All of which proves to me to me that you are just a loud-mouthed punk who hasn't a clue about what he says. That's ok.. I guess when I was 15, I was like that too. You'll grow out of it if you live that long.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
.....so you didn't take time to read the label, to see where the food was from, or what the ingredients were?
Anyways, I think you're making up this story in order to justify racist views. If you cared for the dog that much, had that much invested in it, you wouldn't have bought that food to begin with. I don't believe your story anyways. Even if it is true, then you're cheap and you should've spent the extra money to buy dog food with better ingredents. More likely the dog's demise was caused by your own personal neglect or at best natural factors such as aging.
All of which proves to me to me that you are just a loud-mouthed punk who hasn't a clue about what he says. That's ok.. I guess when I was 15, I was like that too. You'll grow out of it if you live that long.
Project much? ac_lmfao
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
.....so you didn't take time to read the label, to see where the food was from, or what the ingredients were?
Anyways, I think you're making up this story in order to justify racist views. If you cared for the dog that much, had that much invested in it, you wouldn't have bought that food to begin with. I don't believe your story anyways. Even if it is true, then you're cheap and you should've spent the extra money to buy dog food with better ingredents. More likely the dog's demise was caused by your own personal neglect or at best natural factors such as aging.
All of which proves to me to me that you are just a loud-mouthed punk who hasn't a clue about what he says. That's ok.. I guess when I was 15, I was like that too. You'll grow out of it if you live that long.
If your actions are any indication and the story is true, then you're a moron.
Any intelligent, caring dog/pet owner would've fed the dog properly.
You say you spent $3000 on treating the animal, and then you didn't have enough money all those years to look for spend on proper dog meat?
If you had, you could have extended your precious animal's life by several years.
If it was my dog, and I cared for it that much, I'd never feed it processed canned food if I didn't know its origins.
Hasn't it occurred to you that many supermarkets or the local butcher has dog meat cut locally available for purchase?
I see it all the time - dog bits/scraps for sale - made out of REAL meat.
Anyway, don't blame China or anyone else for your own stupidity.
The dog's death was your fault and only your fault.
Honestly, some people oughta get locked up to protect themselves and others from their own stupidity.
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I find it very difficult to give a shit about anything Chinese. They are a bunch of lying, crooked communist sheeple who either cannot dredge up an original thought or action, or when they do try, steal from someone else. They will soon kill themselves off due to massively polluted cities.
Why you racialize the Chinese?
I hate the Chinese, generally speaking. It comes from their treatment of their own people, their people being such cowards as to go along with their government policies with, generally speaking, no resistance, and worst of all because in January of '14 I had to put down a beloved dog Georgie, who was not even 3 years old, because of food I was feeding her that was poisoned and made in China. It destroyed her liver and I could do nothing for her, even after spending over $3,000 on treatments and IVs and whatever might work. Fuck the Chinese.
.....so you didn't take time to read the label, to see where the food was from, or what the ingredients were?
Anyways, I think you're making up this story in order to justify racist views. If you cared for the dog that much, had that much invested in it, you wouldn't have bought that food to begin with. I don't believe your story anyways. Even if it is true, then you're cheap and you should've spent the extra money to buy dog food with better ingredents. More likely the dog's demise was caused by your own personal neglect or at best natural factors such as aging.
All of which proves to me to me that you are just a loud-mouthed punk who hasn't a clue about what he says. That's ok.. I guess when I was 15, I was like that too. You'll grow out of it if you live that long.
If your actions are any indication and the story is true, then you're a moron.
Any intelligent, caring dog/pet owner would've fed the dog properly.
You say you spent $3000 on treating the animal, and then you didn't have enough money all those years to look for spend on proper dog meat?
If you had, you could have extended your precious animal's life by several years.
If it was my dog, and I cared for it that much, I'd never feed it processed canned food if I didn't know its origins.
Hasn't it occurred to you that many supermarkets or the local butcher has dog meat cut locally available for purchase?
I see it all the time - dog bits/scraps for sale - made out of REAL meat.
Anyway, don't blame China or anyone else for your own stupidity.
The dog's death was your fault and only your fault.
Honestly, some people oughta get locked up to protect themselves and others from their own stupidity.
I don't really expect anyone here to commiserate with me. Your comments simply show your total ignorance of the situation and mean nothing to me, other than as an illustration of what kind of a punk you are.