Massive show of force staged in China’s Xinjiang region after terrorist attack
February 19, 2017Paul Mooney, South China Morning Post Thousands of paramilitary police take part in parade in Hotan after eight people were killed during a knife attack earlier this week Thousands of armed police and military vehicles have taken part in a parade in China’s restive Xinjiang region in a massive show read more →
US univ rejects Chinese students call not to invite Dalai Lama
February 17, 2017PTI Feeds, 17 February 2017 Beijing, Feb 17 (PTI) A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics. Chancellor Pradeep K Khosla of read more →
Indian-Origin Chancellor Rejects Chinese Students’ Call Not To Invite Dalai Lama
February 17, 2017Press Trust of India, 17 February 2017 Beijing: A US university headed by an Indian-origin academician has rejected call by Chinese students to withdraw invitation to exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama but assured them that his speech would have nothing to with politics. Chancellor Pradeep K Khosla of the read more →
The Surprisingly Early Settlement of the Tibetan Plateau
February 17, 2017Genetic analysis suggests that humans have continuously inhabited the Tibetan Plateau as far back as the last ice age. Credit: Getty Images By Jane Qiu | Scientific American March 2017 Issue The first humans who ventured onto the Tibetan Plateau, often called the “roof of the world,” faced one read more →
Long Wait for Freedom: Tibet still hopes for SA government’s support
February 16, 2017Tibet’s new representative in South Africa, Ngodup Dorjee, works out of a tiny office in Centurion South Africa: The Chinese embassy in Pretoria is a sprawling complex set among manicured green lawns, with a Chinese flag waving proudly at the entrance. It is a world apart from the premises out read more →
Tackling hypertension, Chinese style
February 15, 2017Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama gestures as he speaks on “Reviving Indian Wisdom in Contemporary India’ at a public event in New Delhi on Sunday. (Photo: PTI) Chinese consider the Dalai Lama to be ill-informed and uneducated, thus is not qualified to speak at the commencement ceremony. Why this read more →
China Needs a New Grand Strategy
February 15, 2017CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – The Cold War ended in December 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated. The post-Cold War era ended in November 2016, when Donald Trump won the United States presidency. It is impossible to predict all of what the Trump era will bring, not least because of Trump’s own read more →
Exiled Tibetan leader hopes Trump to support China dialogue
February 14, 2017Tibetan government-in-exile Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. Sangay said he has high expectations for U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain friendly relations with Tibet, as Trump’s predecessors have. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) (The Associated Press) TOKYO – The prime minister of read more →
India can lead efforts towards world harmony: Dalai Lama
February 13, 2017Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan and Minister for Industries and IT K. Taraka Rama Rao during the ground-breaking ceremony for the South Asia Hub of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at Hyderabad on Sunday. Buddhist spiritual leader says his dream is to read more →
US univ invites Dalai Lama: Chinese media warns overseas Indians of consequences
February 13, 2017China’s state media on Thursday warned overseas Indians of “political consequences” if they interfere in the country’s internal affairs, after a US university headed by an Indian-origin academic invited exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama. According to a report in the state-run Global Times, the University of California read more →