How China is targeting its Uyghur ethnic minority abroad
October 31, 2017The Globe and Mail, 30 October 2017 Read story here In a broad campaign to increase pressure on Uyghurs overseas, including those in Canada, Chinese authorities are using coercive measures on family members, recruiting people to spy and sending threats … Continued
Inside China’s secret ‘magic weapon’ for worldwide influence Xi is quietly ramping up a Communist party department to expand Beijing’s soft power
October 30, 2017by James Kynge in London, Lucy Hornby in Beijing and Jamil Anderlini in Hong Kong Read story here On the Google map of Beijing there is an empty quarter, an urban block next to the Communist party’s leadership compound in … Continued
UN Climate Change Summits: With or Without Tibet
October 30, 2017UN Climate Change Summits: With or Without Tibet *By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen Read story here Introduction The 23rd Conference of Parties (COP23) or the UN Climate Summits will be organized by the government of Fiji. But due to logistic issues … Continued
While we obsess over Trump, China is making history
October 27, 2017By Fareed Zakaria Opinion writer, the Washington Post. Read original story here. While news and analysis in the United States continue to be obsessed with President Trump’s daily antics and insults, halfway around the world, something truly historic just happened. … Continued
Meet Sarat Chandra Das: The spy who came in from the cold of Tibet and wrote a book about it
October 27, 2017By Parimal Bhattacharya, Scroll.in. Read Original story here. How did a middle-class Bengali become a British agent in the forbidden kingdom? On the fringe of Darjeeling town, where the Hill Cart Road winds into a thick urban sprawl, is a … Continued
China’s Xi Jinping grows in power and influence, prepares to ‘act big’
October 26, 2017By Saša Petricic, CBC News. Read original story here. Xi Jinping may have opened China’s Communist Party Congress as “first among equals,” but he walks away as much more than that. He’s now likely the most powerful leader this country’s known … Continued
Chinese Communist Party Vows to ‘Sinicize Religions’ in China
October 25, 2017By Charlotte Gao, The Diplomat, 25 October 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched a campaign to tighten China’s grip on the religious community since 2016. Against that backdrop, the United Front Work Department (UFWD) — the agency within the Chinese … Continued
How Mao Molded Communism to Create a New China
October 24, 2017The New York Times, Roderick MacFarquhar, 23 October 2017 Read story here Toward the end of his life, dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, Mao Zedong claimed two achievements: leading the Communist revolution to victory and starting the Cultural Revolution. By … Continued
‘Into the brains’ of China’s children: Xi Jinping’s ‘thought’ to become compulsory school topic
October 23, 2017South China Morning Post, 23 October 2017 Read story here Chinese schoolchildren will soon be studying President Xi Jinping’s political ideology after it becomes official Communist Party dogma later this week. Education Minister Chen Baosheng said the new ideology, unveiled … Continued
Charting China’s ‘great purge’ under Xi
October 23, 2017BBC, 23 October 2017 Read story here Since becoming China’s leader in 2012, Xi Jinping has overseen a vast and ruthless anti-corruption drive in which more than a million officials have been disciplined. A BBC study has found that more … Continued