China has no business in reincarnation system: Tibetan PM-in-exile
January 25, 2016Hindustan Times, 23 January 2016 Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay has condemned the Chinese government’s spiritual cataloguing system, while terming it an attempt to control the reincarnation system of monks in Tibetan Buddhism. Highlighting China’s track record of destroying 98 percent of monasteries and nunneries in Tibet as well as read more →
A crisis of faith
January 22, 2016Published in the print edition of The Economist, 16 January 2016 In their response to wobbly markets, China’s leaders reveal their fears THERE should be something comforting, during uncertain times, in the sight of the boss solidly seated behind his desk, working away at the business of the day. And read more →
For U.S., Taiwan Vote Changes Calculus Over ‘One China’
January 20, 2016Honor guards marched in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei this week. The Taiwanese increasingly believe they live in a sovereign state, not a ‘renegade province’ of China. Photo: EPA/JEROME FAVRE By Andrew Browne, The Wall Street Journal, 19 January 2016 TAIPEI—No dogma is more important to Beijing than read more →
Interview with Steve Keen on China debt
January 20, 2016By Valentin Schmid, Epoch Times | January 17, 2016 Steve Keen: China’s Stock Market Is an ‘Unbelievable Bubble’ The most famous unconventional economist talks about debt in China and why it’s a problem. It’s the debt, stupid. This is what professor Steve Keen of London’s Kingston University has been saying all along: Private debt is read more →
Editorial: Preventing a water war in Asia
January 19, 2016By THE WASHINGTON TIMES – – Monday, January 18, 2016 Just when Asia was getting accustomed to the Chinese threat to the oceans of Southeast Asia, there’s another water worry for Asians. The government in Beijing controls the health of six major South and Southeastern Asian rivers, the heart of read more →
Tibet – Disneyland of Snows with Chinese Characteristics
January 18, 2016[Lhasa : In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, phalanxes attend a grand ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region at the square of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Schoolchildren waved read more →
European, US and Australian lawyers call for China to end rights crackdown
January 18, 2016BEIJING – Leading human rights lawyers from Europe, North America and Australia have called on Chinese president Xi Jinping to end an unprecedented crackdown by his security forces that has seen hundreds of attorneys and their relatives intimidated, interrogated, detained and forcibly disappeared. A government offensive against China’s “weiquan” or read more →
Tsai Ing-wen elected Taiwan’s first female president
January 17, 2016BBC, 17 January 2016 Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan’s first female president. Ms Tsai, 59, leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that wants independence from China. In her victory speech, she vowed to preserve the status quo in relations with China, adding Beijing must respect Taiwan’s democracy and both read more →
After vote, China tells Taiwan to abandon independence ‘hallucination’
January 17, 2016BY JAMES POMFRET, MATTHEW MILLER AND BEN BLANCHARD, Reuters, 17 January 2016 TAIPEI/BEIJING – Taiwan should abandon its “hallucinations” about pushing for independence, as any moves toward it would be a “poison”, Chinese state-run media said after a landslide victory for the island’s independence-leaning opposition. Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic read more →
US Under Secretary arrives at Dharamshala; purpose of visit undisclosed
January 17, 2016US Under Secretary Sarah Sewall at the Kangra airport along with Sikyong Lobsang Sangay and other delegates on Friday. (Shyam Sharma/HT Photo) United States (US) Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Sarah Sewall arrived at Dharamshala on Friday. As a US special coordinator for Tibetan issues, Sewall read more →