Scaling China’s Great Firewall
August 18, 2015AUGUST 17, 2015 In the fall of 2011, a friend and I got on to discussing Tibet. “Do you know,” he said, “that Tibetans are setting fire to themselves?” I had spent from 2005 to 2008 in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, but I had never heard of acts of self-immolation. read more →
Analysis: Why Xi Jinping set up a Central Leading Group on the United Front Work?
August 17, 2015By Tenzin Tseten*, Tibetpolicy.net On July 30, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) decided to set up a leading group on the United Front Work. Since his ascension to power, Xi Jinping has formed three important leading groups including this latest one. The two read more →
Human rights, Tibet to be priority during Xi-Obama Sep’15 summit?
August 17, 2015AUGUST 16, 2015 (TibetanReview.net, Aug15, 2015) – The United States pressed China hard on human rights issues, including religious freedom and deteriorating situation in Tibet, during their 19th bilateral human rights dialogue held in Washington, DC, on Aug 13. China tried to hit back by referring to increasing racial attacks read more →
China to scrutinise mails to be sent to Tibet ahead of parade
August 14, 2015Press Trust of India, 13 August 2015 Beijing: China will strictly scrutinise all mails and parcels to be sent to Tibet as part of the stringent scrutiny measures ahead of the 70th anniversary of its victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on September 3. China’s read more →
The Great Tibetan Stand-off between China, Dalai Lama
August 13, 2015By Jayadeva Ranade / Published: 14th July 2015 05:27 AM / Last Updated: 14th July 2015 05:28 AM The year 2015 is a significant one for Tibet and China. The Dalai Lama celebrated his 80th birthday on July 6, 2015. It also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Tibet read more →
China warns Taiwan against return to ‘evil ways’ of independence
August 13, 2015People First Party (PFP) Chairperson James Soong waves to supporters during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, August 6, 2015. REUTERS/PICHI CHUANG China’s top policy maker on Taiwan warned the self-ruled island on Thursday it would soon have to choose between continuing the peaceful development of ties, or returning to read more →
TIBET’S ROAD AHEAD TIBETANS LOSE A HAVEN IN NEPAL UNDER CHINESE PRESSURE
August 13, 2015By BARBARA DEMICK Tsomo escaped Tibet last year on a zipline that carried her into Nepal over a chasm of jagged rocks and a river gushing white as frothing milk. The 23-year-old student remembers she was numb with terror as the smugglers fastened a thick rope through her legs read more →
China will ‘explode’ if communist regime remains, says Ai Weiwei
August 13, 2015Beijing leadership in denial about scale of problems the country is facing, warns artist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei his son Ai Lao at Munich airport: the activist has said that his homeland must become a democratic society. Photograph: Matthias Schrader/AP Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has warned that his read more →
The world should worry more about China’s politics than the economy
August 11, 2015The Economist, 8 August 2015 SUMMER holidays are always the same for China’s leaders. Every year they decamp from the hot and humid capital and gather in villas by an exclusive stretch of beach in Beidaihe, a resort town of little appeal except to those Chinese who cannot afford glitzier read more →
The world should worry more about China’s politics than the economy
August 11, 2015Chinese President Xi Jinping The Economist, 8 August 2015 SUMMER holidays are always the same for China’s leaders. Every year they decamp from the hot and humid capital and gather in villas by an exclusive stretch of beach in Beidaihe, a resort town of little appeal except to those Chinese read more →