China crisis: west riven by age-old question – to appease or oppose?
March 21, 2015David Cameron shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing in December 2013. Photograph: Xinhua/Reuters Tania Branigan, The Guardian, 19 March 2015 You might call it one of the irregular verbs in international diplomacy: we engage, you accommodate, they appease. US irritation over Britain’s decision to read more →
Europeans defy US to join China-led development bank
March 18, 2015George Parker in London, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in Paris and Geoff Dyer in Washington, Reuters France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to follow Britain’s lead and join a China-led international development bank, according to European officials, delivering a blow to US efforts to keep leading western countries out of the read more →
Q. and A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule
March 16, 2015By Chris Buckley, Sinosphere David Shambaugh, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is one of the United States’ most prominent experts on contemporary China. He has also been prominent in China. His books have been translated and published there, and his views cited in the read more →
Chinese government’s warning to the Dalai Lama: You’d better reincarnate – on our terms
March 13, 2015Chris Buckley, The New York Times Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. CNW Group / Tibetan Cultural Society of BC BEIJING – Chinese Communist Party leaders are deathly afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned read more →
Exiled Tibet leader compares China to N.Korea, apartheid S.Africa
March 13, 2015Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (prime minister) of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, poses in front of the French National Assembly on March 12, 2015 in Paris (AFP Photo/Dominique Faget) By Marianne Barriaux, AFP The leader of Tibet’s exiled government on Thursday compared China to the regimes of North Korea and apartheid South Africa read more →
Statement of Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay on the 56th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
March 13, 2015March 10, 2015 8:56 am We are gathered here to remember the brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of Tibet fifty-six years ago. We are also gathered here to remind ourselves to carry forward the non-violent struggle of the Tibetan people with great determination, courage read more →
Beijing’s Panchen Lama misses out on vice-chairman post
March 12, 2015[South China Morning Post] By Kristine Kwok China’s pick as the 11th Panchen Lama is at least a year away from receiving the honorific title of CPPCC deputy chairman, with the advisory group set to select another candidate for the top job today. But he still has the central government’s read more →
China choosing Dalai Lama like Castro naming pope – Tibetan exile leader
March 11, 2015[REUTERS] His Holiness the Dalai Lama (R), Tibetan political leader Dr. Lobsang Sangay (C), and Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Penpa Tsering (L) gesture to a banner showing pictures of the Dalai Lama at different ages during his 77th birthday celebrations at the Tsuglakhang Temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, on read more →
The Coming Chinese Crackup
March 8, 2015[The Wall Street Journal] Chinese President Xi Jinping, front center, and other Chinese leaders attend the opening meeting on Thursday of the third session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. PHOTO: XINHUA/ZUMA PRESS The endgame of communist rule in China has begun, read more →
Tibetans in Yunnan Give Up Wearing Animal Skins, Burn Valuable Furs
March 6, 2015[Radio Free Asia] Tibetan villagers living in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year by vowing to give up the wearing of animal furs and by burning those already in their possession, sources said. The Feb. 27 action by residents of Drangsung read more →