Taiwan President Frontrunner Disputes China Framework for Talks
December 28, 2015Yu-Huay Sun, Bloomberg News, 28 December 2015 The frontrunner in Taiwan’s looming presidential election disputed China’s bottom line for continued talks while pledging to keep trade negotiations between the former foes on track. Tsai Ing-wen, the chairwoman of the island’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party, took issue with the so-called “1992 consensus” read more →
Journalist Says China May Expel Her for Article on Uighurs
December 23, 2015By MICHAEL FORSYTHE DEC. 22, 2015 / The New York Times HONG KONG — A French journalist says she is facing expulsion from China after she wrote an article critical of the country’s treatment of its Uighur minority, which set off stinging criticism in the state-controlled press, a public rebuke read more →
Pessimism clouds China’s outlook
December 23, 2015Peter Cai, Business Spectator, 23 December 2015 CHINA – Back in 2014, the most searched phrases made on Google about China’s economy were ‘China largest economy’, ‘China number 1 economy’ and ‘China overtakes US economy’. That changed in 2015: people increasingly looked up phrases such as ‘China economy collapse’, ‘China read more →
The Emperor’s Mighty Brother
December 23, 2015Published in the print edition of The Economist, 19 December 2015 Demand for an aphrodisiac has brought unprecedented wealth to rural Tibet—and trouble in its wake BY THE middle of May, the snowline in Yushu prefecture has retreated to the peaks of its steep valleys. Nomads who have spent the read more →
Turkish Coast Guard rescues 51 refugees off Çanakkale
December 22, 2015Published on The Daily Sabah Turkey, 20 December 2015 The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 51 refugees off the northwestern Çanakkale province coast on Sunday when their small boat began to sink, Turkish official sources said. The rescued came from Afghanistan, Burma and Tibet, said a Turkish Coast Guard official on read more →
China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama
December 22, 2015By David Lague, Paul Mooney and Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters, 21 December 2015 ALDERSHOT, England – Thousands of Buddhists from all over Britain packed into the Aldershot football stadium southwest of London on June 29, quietly waiting under a hot sun to see the Dalai Lama. Just outside the turnstiles, read more →
Dalai Lama to remain on no-frisking list at airports
December 22, 2015By Mihir Misra, The Economic Times, 21 December 2015 NEW DELHI: The government has decided to continue granting Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama exemption from frisking at airports across the country, even as it has removed Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from the list of people accorded this read more →
Tibetan monks shy away from self-immolation as families threatened
December 22, 2015By Benjamin Haas, AFP, 22 December 2015 Adrak’s last words before Chinese police dragged him away were “May the Dalai Lama live 10,000 years”. The 20-year-old Tibetan monk was carrying the spiritual leader’s portrait as he walked down the main street outside his monastery, also calling for freedom for Tibet. read more →
Senior Tibetan official warns on discrimination in China
December 22, 2015Ben Blanchard, Reuters, 22 December 2015 BEIJING – The Chinese-appointed former governor of Tibet warned on Tuesday that the government needed to make more efforts to tackle ethnic discrimination, state media said, in rare comments by a senior official on an issue more commonly taken up by rights groups. Qiangba read more →
The politics of Tibet’s poisonous religious divide
December 22, 2015By David Lague, Paul Mooney and Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters, 21 December 2015 The doctrinal schism that the Chinese Communist Party is using to hound the Dalai Lama arose long ago in the internecine politics of his own school of Tibetan Buddhism. Dalai Lamas are drawn from the dominant Gelugpa read more →