"One country,two systems" is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
Chinese immigrants began settling in Canada in the 1780s. The major periods of Chinese immigration would take place from 1858 to 1923 and 1947 to the present day,reflecting changes in the Canadian government's immigration policy.
Chinese Canadians are Canadians of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry,which includes both naturalized Chinese immigrants and Canadian-born Chinese. They comprise a subgroup of East Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians. Demographic research tends to include immigrants from Mainland China,Taiwan,Hong Kong,and Macau,as well as overseas Chinese who have immigrated from Southeast Asia and South America into the broadly defined Chinese Canadian category.
The United Front Work Department (UFWD) is a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with "united front work." It gathers intelligence on,manages relations with,and attempts to gain influence over elite individuals and organizations inside and outside mainland China,including in Hong Kong,Taiwan,and in other countries.
Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Vancouver,British Columbia,and is Canada's largest Chinatown. Centred around Pender Street,it is surrounded by Gastown to the north,the Downtown financial and central business districts to the west,the Georgia Viaduct and the False Creek inlet to the south,the Downtown Eastside and the remnant of old Japantown to the northeast,and the residential neighbourhood of Strathcona to the southeast.
George Chow is a Canadian politician. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2017 provincial election,representing the riding of Vancouver-Fraserview. A member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party,he has served in the cabinets of Premiers John Horgan and David Eby. Since February 20,2024,Chow is the Minister for Citizens' Services. Previously,he was the Minister of State for Trade from 2017 to 2022.
Taiwanese Canadians are Canadians who carry full or partial ancestry from the East Asian country of Taiwan. There are over one hundred thousand Taiwanese who have gained citizenship or permanent residency status in Canada.
The pro-Beijing camp,pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp is a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing central government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) towards Hong Kong. The term "pro-establishment camp" is regularly in use to label the broader segment of the Hong Kong political arena which has the closer relationship with the establishment,namely the governments of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Pro-Beijing politicians are labeled "patriots" by pro-Beijing media and "loyalists" by the rival pro-democracy camp.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre were the first of their type shown in detail on Western television. The Chinese government's response was denounced across the world;a report by the U.S. State Department said:"Foreign governments have expressed near universal revulsion over the crackdown although a few exceptions have supported China's approaches. Negative reactions range from punitive measures by Western countries to private criticisms in the East." Specifically,it said:"China's credentials as a socialist reformer were being called into question not only by Western European communists but also by progressives in Eastern Europe and,to a lesser extent,the Soviet Union." Notably however,many Asian countries remained silent throughout the protests;the government of India responded to the massacre by ordering the state television to pare down the coverage to the barest minimum,so as not to jeopardize a thawing in relations with China,and to offer political empathy for the events. Criticism came from both Western and Eastern Europe,North America,Australia and some east Asian and Latin American countries. North Korea,Cuba,Czechoslovakia,and East Germany,among others,supported the Chinese government and denounced the protests. Overseas Chinese students demonstrated in many cities in Europe,America,the Middle East,and Asia against the Chinese government.
Wong Foon Sien,also simply known as Foon Sien,was a Canadian journalist and labour activist. He devoted time to a number of civil and human rights organizations,was one of the early leaders of the Chinese Benevolent Association in Vancouver,and was "perhaps the most influential person" in the city's Chinatown. He was sometimes referred to as the "spokesman for Chinatown",or as "mayor of Chinatown" by Vancouverites,to the resentment of some Chinese Canadians in the community.
A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
The Chinese Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area was first established around 1877,with an initial population of two laundry owners. While the Chinese Canadian population was initially small in size,it dramatically grew beginning in the late 1960s due to changes in immigration law and political issues in Hong Kong. Additional immigration from Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and related conflicts and a late 20th century wave of Hong Kong immigration led to the further development of Chinese ethnic enclaves in the Greater Toronto Area. The Chinese established many large shopping centres in suburban areas catering to their ethnic group. There are 679,725 Chinese in the Greater Toronto Area as of the 2021 census,second only to New York City for largest Chinese community in North America.
The history of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia began with the first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America in 1788. Some 30–40 men were employed as shipwrights at Nootka Sound in what is now British Columbia,to build the first European-type vessel in the Pacific Northwest,named the North West America. Large-scale immigration of Chinese began seventy years later with the advent of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858. During the gold rush,settlements of Chinese grew in Victoria and New Westminster and the "capital of the Cariboo" Barkerville and numerous other towns,as well as throughout the colony's interior,where many communities were dominantly Chinese. In the 1880s,Chinese labour was contracted to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following this,many Chinese began to move eastward,establishing Chinatowns in several of the larger Canadian cities.
Chinese Canadians are a sizable part of the population in Greater Vancouver,especially in the Chinese communities in the city of Vancouver and the adjoining suburban city of Richmond. The legacy of Chinese immigration is prevalent throughout the Vancouver area.
The United Chinese Community Enrichment Services Society or S.U.C.C.E.S.S.,is a Canadian social services organization headquartered in Vancouver,British Columbia.
Relations between the government of Hong Kong and the Republic of China (Taiwan) encompass both when the Republic of China controlled mainland China,and afterwards,when the Republic of China fled to Taiwan.
Anna Chek Ying Wong was a Canadian artist,master printmaker and educator. She taught for 20 years at the Pratt Graphics Center.
The New Republic or New Republic Chinese Daily was a Chinese language newspaper published first in Victoria and then in Vancouver,Canada possibly from 1912 to 1984. Most early issues of the newspaper were lost or were sporadically preserved in BC Archives,Nanjing Library in China,and Library &Archives Canada (1957-1970).
This is a list of domestic and international reactions to the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.
Apart from protests on 1 October—the Chinese National Day—most of the significant events of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests in October 2020 took place away from the streets,and many of them outside Hong Kong and China. The threat to protests posed by the national security law was exacerbated by continued uncertainty about the fate of twelve detainees who had attempted to escape to Taiwan by boat in August,and were held across the border in Shenzhen;on 10 October,Hong Kong police detained nine further individuals in relation to that incident. In addition,the Hong Kong government did not relax the four-person gathering limit that had been enacted in the course of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,and the police continued to strictly enforce it. Pan-democrats in the city considered the restrictive gathering limit to be a pretext for curbing protests,also given that other pandemic related restrictions were relaxed in the course of the month.
