Tibetan Ex-Prisoner Describes Harsh Conditions Behind Bars
September 15, 2014Radio Free Asia Gonpo Trinley’s laogai prison release order issued by Deyang prison in Sichuan province, in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of TCHRD Tibetan political prisoners in a notorious prison in China’s Sichuan province are forced to work long hours, isolated from each other and assaulted by Han read more →
Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions
September 14, 2014Journalists waiting outside the Great Hall of the People during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing in March.Credit Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters [The New York Times] By Andrew Jacobs Conditions for foreign journalists working in China have gone from bad to worse over the past year, with the Chinese authorities read more →
Confucius says
September 14, 2014[The Economist] A decade ago China began opening centres abroad to promote its culture. Some people are pushing back Sep 13th 2014 | BEIJING AND EUGENE, OREGON | From the print edition “HARMONY is the most valuable of all things,” said the Chinese philosopher Confucius two and a half millennia ago. There is read more →
Panchsheel not in India’s interests, says Sanat Kaul
September 12, 2014[Indian Today] By Sanat Kaul Sanat Kaul While the Chinese are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the lapsed Panchsheel Agreement with India is also joining in, India is not bothering to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Simla Agreement of 1914, the basis on which it claims Arunachal Pradesh. The Modi read more →
India talks tough on one-China policy, says reaffirm one-India policy first
September 10, 2014External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this month. [The Times of India] By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: India on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this read more →
An Open Letter to Michelle Obama
By Rose Tang / September 9, 2014By Rose Tang, published: March 24, 2014 The letter was originally posted by the author on her Facebook page. Dear Michelle: I wasn’t the only Chinese who was totally disappointed by your speech at Peking University on Saturday. You did not mention a word about the university being a birthplace of China’s read more →
Tibetan leadership urges China to open ‘earnest dialogue’
September 8, 2014[The Parliament Magazine] Written by Kelsang Gyaltsen on 8 September 2014 in Opinion Kelsang Gyaltsen says Tibet is not seeking independence, but is concerned only with preserving the “distinct Buddhist cultural heritage, language and natural environment of the Tibetan plateau”. On 12 June 2012, the EU high representative Catherine Ashton called on China read more →
From Taiwan, Broad Support for Democracy in Hong Kong
September 7, 2014Demonstrators took to the streets of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, in March to protest a cross-strait agreement with China on trade in services.Credit Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images [The New York Times] By Austin Ramzy Taiwan’s main political parties say they support Hong Kong residents’ calls for a greater say in choosing read more →
Dalai Lama’s spiritual event in Delhi soon after Xi Jinping’s visit
September 7, 2014[Deccan Herald] By Anirban Bhaumik [New Delhi, 5 Sept 2014] Tibetan leader Dalai Lama’s plan to hold a spiritual conclave in Delhi in the third week of this month put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government in a fix as it is preparing to host Chinese President Xi Jinping in the national read more →
1,000-year-old monastery to have Buddhist studies centre
September 5, 2014By Vishal Gulati, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) Shimla, Sep 3 (IANS) Tabo, an ancient seat of Buddhist religion and culture in picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh in northern India, will now have an international learning centre. Baudh Darshan, which will help preserve the ancient seat of Buddhist studies, will read more →