India, Tibet and China Assertion of China’s Spiritual Sovereignty
October 27, 2015By Thubten Samphel, Published in the October 2015 issue of Diplomatist magazine. The importance of the Tibetan plateau to Asia is threefold: geopolitical, cultural and environmental. What China does or does not do in Tibet has geopolitical, cultural and environmental consequences for the rest of Asia. Geopolitically, Tibet served as read more →
Liberty Medal Ceremony Held for Dalai Lama in Philly
October 27, 2015NBC 10, 27 October, 2015 PHILADELPHIA: The Liberty Medal was presented to representatives of the Dalai Lama, who was unable to attend due to health reasons. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and actor Richard Gere took part in a tribute to the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader during the 2015 Liberty Medal Ceremony read more →
Coup whispers sour Xi’ s return
October 26, 2015Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times, 25 October 2015 Wreathed in the glow of royal pomp and ceremony, Chinese President Xi Jinping has returned home from Britain to face bitter infighting at the top of the Communist Party and resistance to his authority over the People’s Liberation Army. The British government read more →
Xi Jinping in London: Cameron and Osborne take a big risk on China
October 26, 2015The Interpreter, 22 October 2015 In the last few decades, the relationship between China and the UK has often seemed like that between a married couple who have been having the same argument for so long that they have forgotten the issue they started arguing about, yet seem happiest when read more →
GOP candidates need to talk about China
October 26, 2015CNBC, 23 October 2015 Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. When the Republican presidential field gathers for its third debate, the guiding topic will ostensibly be economic policy. That means the candidates should be talking about China. Yes, the “foreign policy” debate (Sept. 17 on CNN) has read more →
Xi’s Visit to Britain Highlights Broader Shift in Concerns About China
October 23, 2015The New York Times, 22 October 2015 LONDON — The visit to Britain by President Xi Jinping of China is underscoring how European nations are de-emphasizing human rights and security concerns as they compete to benefit from China’s growing economic might. Prime Minister David Cameron and his chancellor of the read more →
Minister ordered to address Chinese human rights issue in Commons
October 23, 2015Crowds protest against the state visit by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. Photograph: Kristian Buus/In Pictures/Corbis Patrick Wintour Political editor Thursday 22 October 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/22/minister-ordered-address-chinese-human-rights-issue-commons Cross-party concern that David Cameron has downgraded human rights in his efforts to win business contracts with China was expressed at Westminster on Thursday when read more →
5 reasons why Tibet’s melting ice is a disaster for India, Europe and US
October 22, 2015By Nihar Gokhale, CATCH News, 22 October, 2015 DELHI: Did you know that rivers originating in Tibet’s glaciers supply water to 1.3 billion people? That’s equivalent to the entire population of India. But these glaciers are fast disappearing due to global warming. Tibet’s sustainability is crucial for sustenance of the read more →
Nehru and the China-Tibet blunder
October 21, 2015By Rajaram NS Identity (Distortion & Appropriation) April 1, 2015 Nehru and the China-Tibet blunder This is the sixth part of the IndiaFacts series on distortions of Indian history. In the year 1950, two momentous events shook Asia and the world. One was the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and the read more →
Tibetan voices on China’s control
October 21, 2015By John SudworthBBC News, Aba Tibetan region, Sichuan province 20 October 2015 From the sectionChina Media caption Inside Tibet: John Sudworth visits Aba to see what people there make of Britain’s strengthening ties with China The first thing that strikes you about the monasteries clinging to the side of the mountains read more →