Xiaomi shows Arunachal is in India at handset launch, triggers anger in China
January 30, 2015[Hindustan Times] By Sutirtho Patranobis BEIJING: A map showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of India displayed at the New Delhi launch of Chinese company Xiaomi’s popular Mi4 mobile phone on Wednesday has triggered online uproar in China. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet and Chinese maps show the area read more →
Exclusive: Dalai Lama, Barack Obama Set to Appear in Public Together for First Time
January 30, 2015US President Barack Obama with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the White House’s Map Room in February 2014 [TIME] By Elizabeth Dias Tibetan leader will participate in the Feb. 5 National Prayer Breakfast where the President is expected to attend. Obama has never appeared publicly with Tibetan leader who read more →
China Further Tightens Grip on the Internet
January 30, 2015[NEW YORK TIMES] By Andrew Jacobs An Internet cafe in China, which has long had some of the world’s most onerous digital restrictions. Credit European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party. read more →
India’s US Envoy S Jaishankar Appointed New Foreign Secretary
January 30, 2015S Jaishankar, India’s Ambassador to the US, has been appointed India’s new Foreign Secretary. [NDTV] NEW DELHI: In a surprise announcement on Wednesday evening, S Jaishankar, India’s Ambassador to the US, has been appointed Foreign Secretary, replacing Sujatha Singh, whose tenure has been abruptly “curtailed” by nearly eight months. Dr Jaishankar’s read more →
China’s super-rich communist Buddhists
January 29, 2015By John Sudworth, BBC News, 29 January 2015 Could China be bringing Tibetan Buddhism in from the cold? There are new signs that while a crackdown on Tibetan nationalism continues, the atheist state may be softening its position towards the religion – and even the Dalai Lama. That a former read more →
Fresh details of ‘savage’ Tiananmen massacre emerge in embassy cables
January 29, 2015The Chinese authorities were heavy-handed in their reaction to the events in Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989 Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Widener By Tom Phillips, The Telegraph, 27 January 2015 In confidential embassy memos Canadian diplomats describe China’s rulers as “a group of vicious elderly generals” who tried to read more →
After sealing deal with Obama, PM Narendra Modi all set to woo China
January 28, 2015By Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, 28 January 2015 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to travel to China at the invitation of President Xi Jinping before he completes one year in office on May 26. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is visiting China on January 31 to meet her counterpart read more →
U.S. and India Share Sense of Unease Over China
January 27, 2015President Obama with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, third from left, during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi on Monday. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times By Peter Baker and Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 26 January 2015 NEW DELHI — When President Barack Obama landed here for read more →
Beijing’s Xinjiang Policy: Striking Too Hard?
January 26, 2015The Diplomat, 23 January 2015 By Gabe Collins – China’s long running Uighur insurgency has flared up dramatically of late, with more than 900 recorded deaths in the past seven years. This puts the conflict’s cumulative death toll in a range similar to that of The Troubles in Ireland or the ETA/Basque separatist read more →
The Plunder of Myanmar
January 25, 2015The Editorial Board, New York Times, 23 January 2015 China’s exploding appetites have unleashed a wholesale looting of Myanmar’s valuable natural resources. While this often involves outright theft, it also comes in the form of crony capitalism. Myanmar’s military elite has deals with Chinese companies that are eager to exploit read more →