Caught between two worlds: the dilemma of the overseas Chinese student
May 29, 2017South China Morning Post, Sidney Leng, 28 May 2017 It began with a graduation speech praising democracy and fresh air. But once Chinese internet users caught wind of it, the eight-minute speech brewed into a nationalistic storm. Internet users on the Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo slammed Chinese-born University of read more →
50 Years of marriage and mindfulness
May 27, 2017By Penelope Green, Waterloo Region Record, Nena and Robert Thurman at home in Woodstock, N.Y. Once voted by their friends as the couple least likely to succeed, the Thurmans are approaching their 50th anniversary, a durable love anchored by their Buddhist faith. – ANDREW WHITE,NYT WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The lawn read more →
China hopes Indian leaders to be present at next OBOR meet
May 27, 2017By PTI, DNA, Chinese consul-general Ma Zhanwu here today expressed disappointment over Prime Minister Narendra Modi not attending the recently concluded OBOR meet in Beijing and hoped that Indian leadership would attend the next meeting in 2019 at the same venue. “China had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other read more →
Tibet group urges China to start dialogue with the Dalai
May 26, 2017By PTI, DNA, The Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh (TSGAP) has urged China to start dialogue with the Tibetan Government in Exile for a final solution. A delegation of the TSGAP led by its President Gicho Kabak had met Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in New Delhi yesterday. read more →
‘Not a Single Sound’: Chinese Critic He Weifang Falls Silent
May 26, 2017By Associated Press, VOA, Beijing: One of the Chinese government’s most vocal critics is finally falling silent. He Weifang told The Associated Press Friday that he would no longer publish on social media after authorities repeatedly shut down his personal blog, his Weibo microblog and two WeChat accounts. He, a read more →
The new Red Guards: China’s angry student patriots
May 26, 2017By Carrie Gracie, BBC, Ms Yang said the air in the US was “sweet and fresh” Half a century ago millions of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards gathered in rallies in Tiananmen Square to chant slogans and wave their red books of his quotations in a show of loyalty to the read more →
Modi to open India’s longest bridge in Assam today, mark shift in China strategy
May 26, 2017Live Mint, 26 May 2017 New Delhi: For more than five decades, India ignored the roads along its 4,056-km long (2,520 mile) disputed border with China. The logic was simple: the South Asian nation didn’t want to give Chinese troops an easy path if Beijing ever tried to repeat the read more →
‘India, China differences in RCEP offer opportunities for US’
May 26, 2017By Press Trust of India, Washington, May 26 2017, 9:32 IST, The differences between India and China inside the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) offer opportunities for the US which has withdrawn itself from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, American lawmakers have been told. Reuters file photo The differences between India read more →
China activists fear increased surveillance with new security law
May 26, 2017By Reuters, DNA, Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimise monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last week, the latest step to strengthen Beijing’s security apparatus. Half a dozen activists contacted by Reuters say they already face extensive surveillance by read more →
China could not succeed in destroying Buddhism in Tibet: Sangay
May 25, 2017The Tribune, 25 May 2017 Washington, May 25 Tibetans have foiled China’s attempts to “destroy” Buddhism in the remote Himalayan region with the help of nearly 30,000 monks and nuns “educated” in India who “sneaked” back to revive their culture, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile has said. Lobsang Sangay, the read more →