Gris reports that China is preventing Anastasia Lin, named Miss World Canada, from competing in the international pageant in Sanya City China. The reason, she is a member of Falun Gong and an outspoken activist against religious persecution in China. When threats to her family failed to silence her they denied her a visa to China. The London based parent organization Miss World Ltd. is indifferent to her pleas because China provides a purpose built venue gratis, pays hundreds of millions to host the pageant and takes no cut of the endorsements. So China essentially owns the pageant.