There is no place in academia for craven submission to Chinese censorship demands
August 25, 2017Paul Mason, The Guardian, Read original story here Imagine if the British government could eradicate the miners’ strike from history. Not just by deleting all news coverage but by preventing the academic study of it. Imagine if, at university courses on the history of modern conservatism, all mention of it was banned. read more →
Nothing Rong in Tibet
August 25, 2017Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch, 24 August 2017 Read original story here Addressing its abusive past has never been a strength for the Chinese Communist Party, particularly in hotspots like Tibet. If anything, the party has become increasingly strident in defending its record in that region. In 2009, for instance, authorities read more →
Is China using water as a potent weapon against India?
August 24, 2017Rajesh Singh, 23 August 2017, Wion News Read the original story here A few days ago, the Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson informed that China had not shared hydrological data with India on the Himalayan rivers this year. He sought to downplay the development by explaining that “sometimes, due to read more →
View: China is all set to pay a heavy price for its Doklam blunder
August 24, 2017By Kanwal Sibal, The Economic Times, 23 August 2017 Read the original story here. China has begun to believe that like America, it too has become an “indispensable nation,” at least for the global economy, and that its position as virtually the biggest trade partner of most major economies limits read more →
China’s desperate desire to keep its people in the dark
August 23, 2017The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, 21 August 2017 Read original story here THE CAMBRIDGE University Press has rightly abandoned its plan to censor the prestigious China Quarterly journal at the behest of the Chinese authorities. It was indefensible for the journal to remove some 300 sensitive articles and book reviews from its website for a read more →
Doklam foretold
August 22, 2017By D.S. Hooda, Indian Express, Read original story here, The Doklam stand-off was inevitable. It may be resolved peacefully but it is a manifestation of the larger geopolitical contest that is playing out in Asia between India and China. How do we respond? Economically, it is a no-contest because it read more →
China’s global ambitions: are there lessons to be learnt from Tibet?
August 22, 2017The man who replaced the Dalai Lama as the head of Tibet’s government-in-exile has brought a troubling message to Australia. The Chinese military forcibly annexed Tibet in the 1950s, sending the Dalai Lama into hasty exile in India. The Dalai Lama retains his role as spiritual leader. But the Tibetan read more →
Cambridge University Press accused of ‘selling its soul’ over Chinese censorship
August 21, 2017Tom Phillips, The Guardian, Read original story here The world’s oldest publishing house, Cambridge University Press, has been accused of being an accomplice to the Communist party’s bid to whitewash Chinese history after it agreed to purge hundreds of politically-sensitive articles from its Chinese website at the behest of Beijing’s read more →
China’s dystopian push to revolutionize surveillance
August 21, 2017Maya Wang, The Washington Post, Read the original story here As part of a new multimillion-dollar project in Xinjiang, the Chinese government is attempting to “build a fortress city with technologies.” If this sounds Orwellian, that’s because it is. According to the Sina online news portal, the project is supposed read more →
In Beijing’s thinking, the best weapons don’t win today’s wars, but the best narrative does
August 21, 2017India and China are engaged in a military standoff over a disputed territory. Photo credit: Manish Swarup By Brahma Chellaney – The National – 19 August 2017 Donald Trump’s apocalyptic threats against North Korea have attracted much international attention but not China’s unceasing warmongering against India. As the face-off between read more →