Dalai Lama visits Mongolia over China’s objections
November 19, 2016The Dalai Lama met with Buddhist worshippers Saturday during a four-day visit to Mongolia, despite Beijing’s strident demand that he be barred from entering the country. China is “firmly opposed to the anti-China separatist activities by the Dalai Lama in any country, in any name, and in any capacity”, foreign read more →
Dalai Lama paying visit to Mongolia this week
November 18, 2016AKI Press Bishkek (AKIpress) – The Dalai Lama is paying a visit to Mongolia by the end of week, according to the Gandantegchinlen Monastery, the Mongolian Buddhist center. The Gandantegchinlen Monastery (Tibetan name translates to the “Great Place of Complete Joy”) said the Dalai Lama’s visit will be a religious read more →
China demands Mongolia scrap visit by Dalai Lama
November 18, 2016BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday demanded its northern neighbor, Mongolia, scrap a visit by the Dalai Lama, labeling the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a separatist who seeks to alienate Chinese-controlled Tibet from Beijing. The 81-year-old monk is starting a four-day visit to predominantly Buddhist Mongolia on Friday evening. His read more →
China tells Mongolia to bar Dalai Lama visit
November 18, 2016Reuters, 18 November 2016 China told Mongolia to forbid the Dalai Lama’s planned arrival there on Friday, suggesting the Tibetan spiritual leader’s trip could harm Beijing’s relations with its northern neighbor. China regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist, though he says he merely seeks genuine autonomy for his Himalayan read more →
China doubles down on internet control after tough new law
November 18, 2016Associated Press, 17 November 2016 BEIJING (AP) — China’s leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-reaching Chinese cybersecurity law loom over a gathering this week of the world’s leading tech firms and Chinese officials. The Communist Party’s read more →
Nepal is Said to Detain 41 Tibetans Traveling to India
November 17, 2016The New York Times, 17 November 2016 The Nepali police have detained 41 Tibetans who were trying to cross the border into India, according to a police officer who spoke to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The police officer, Rajendra Bista, works in Dhangadi, an area 270 miles southwest of Kathmandu read more →
Chinese state media says that Donald Trump as president is what happens if people have democracies
November 16, 2016From http://www.independent.co.uk/ Andrew Griffin Wednesday 9 November 2016 China has consistently supported Trump throughout the election campaign, just like Russia Chinese state media says that Donald Trump as president is what happens if people have democracies. The state-run Xinhua News Agency has said that the election of the controversial Republican read more →
China lashes out at Nepal over commitment on ‘One China’ policy
November 16, 2016From http://tibetexpress.net/ By Lobsang Tenchoe DHARAMSALA, Nov 9: Concerned by the ‘anti-China’ activities in Nepal in recent days, China has expressed its resentment to Nepal’s new government over its commitment on ‘One-China’ policy. China has cautioned Nepal’s government over its long-held One-China policy saying ‘anti-China’ activities in Nepal have surged read more →
China’s Great Leap Backward
November 16, 2016By The Atlantic, December 2016 The country has become repressive in a way that it has not been since the Cultural Revolution. What does its darkening political climate—and growing belligerence—mean for the United States? What if china is going bad? Since early last year I have been asking people inside and read more →
Can China’s Xi Pivot From Disrupter-in-Chief to Reformer-in-Chief?
November 16, 2016A picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping on display at a military museum, Beijing, Oct. 24, 2016 (AP photo by Andy Wong). world politics review, 15 November 2016 Standing at about 6 feet tall, Chinese President Xi Jinping cuts an imposing figure, especially compared to the famously diminutive Deng Xiaoping, read more →