Dalai Lama meeting in Rochester with local Tibetans
September 30, 2015Josh Moniz, jmoniz@postbulletin.com The Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader of Tibet, will meet with several members of Minnesota’s Tibetan community Wednesday at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester. The president and board members of the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota will be among the group attending the 9 a.m. meeting, which read more →
Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Offers Cold Shoulder to Western Officials
September 28, 2015By Edward Wong, The New York Times, 25 September 2015 BEIJING — When Wang Huning, a policy adviser to the Chinese president, made a six-month trip to the United States in 1988, he returned with notes for a 400-page memoir. “The Americans care for strength,” he wrote after watching a read more →
Remarks by President Obama and President Xi of the People’s Republic of China in Joint Press Conference
September 28, 2015whitehouse.gov Rose Garden 12:22 P.M. EDT PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody. Please have a seat. I want to once again welcome President Xi back to the White House. We first hosted him here three years ago when he was Vice President. So this is our sixth meeting. As a result read more →
Self-Determination Is the Only Solution for Hong Kong
September 28, 2015By Joshua Wong, TIME.com, 25 September 2015 Taking the first step on the path toward independence is the only way that Hong Kong can defend its autonomy The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration clearly stated that Hong Kong could remain unchanged for 50 years after China resumed sovereignty in 1997. The Chinese read more →
China needs to grant genuine autonomy to Tibetan people
September 24, 2015Editorial, Asahi Shimbun, 23 September 2015 Occupying the highlands of western China at an average elevation of 4,000 meters, Tibet marked the 50th anniversary of the foundation of its autonomous region on Sept. 1. Celebratory events were held in Tibet on Sept. 8, but the Xi administration continues to pursue read more →
Why Tibet Could Be the Best Opportunity for Xi Jinping
September 23, 2015Co-authored by Bhuchung Tsering, Vice President, International Campaign for Tibet On September 24 later this month, China’s President Xi Jinping will arrive in Washington to meet President Obama for an important state visit. The context is a growing alarm about China’s less than peaceful rise, and provides a rare opportunity read more →
Understanding Xi’s contradictions
September 22, 2015By Cheng Li, www.brookings.edu, 17 September 2015 Analysts of the Chinese leadership are mistaken to characterize President Xi Jinping in a simplistic, stagnant, and one-dimensional way. Prior to Xi’s ascent to the top leadership in the fall of 2012, many overseas China analysts described this new party boss as “a read more →
Tibet anniversary celebrations conceal a far darker reality
September 18, 2015WHAT THE MAINLAND MEDIA SAY VERNA YU Coverage to mark the formation of the region’s government presented a rosy picture of its achievements and painted over the cracks A rally held to mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of Tibet’s regional government. Photo: AP Marking the 50th anniversary of read more →
China’s 50 year rule is the darkest age in the history of Tibet: TYC
September 15, 2015Thursday, 10 September 2015 17:17 Yangchen Dolma, Tibet Post International TYC Executives VP Tamdin Hrichoe, Finance Secretary Tenzin Wangchuk and Information/International Relations Secretary Tsewang Dolma are taking part in this campaign. Photo: TYC New Delhi — The India based Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) condemns the recent celebrations by the Chinese read more →
Dalai Lama calls for more research on Panchen Lama
September 14, 2015By Reuters Media, 14 September 2015 DHARAMSALA, India — Tibetan spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on Saturday stressed the need for more research works on Panchen Lama after China last week said that the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism is “living a normal life”. Almost a week back, Norbu Dunzhub, a member of read more →