Reputation Matters: Unpacking the Microsoft China Censorship Scandal
February 18, 2014[The Wall Street Journal] By Jason Q. Ng Controversy this week over alleged China-related censorship on the international version of Bing.com, the search engine operated by Microsoft has cast an important spotlight on the ways in which censorship can bleed over into supposedly free regions of the Internet and on the importance read more →
Badiucao: (巴丢草): How the Great Firewall Works
February 18, 2014[China Digital Times] In this cartoon, Badiucao demonstrates how Internet censorship works in China, by showing the restraints imposed on netizens by the Great Firewall as they surf the Web.
A Great Chinese Contraction in Tibet?
February 18, 2014By Claude Arpi [claudearpi.blogspot.in] A remarkable historical document appears in the latest book of Melvyn Goldstein’s History of Modern Tibet(Volume 3).On May 14, 1957, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee decided to downsize the Chinese presence in Tibet and postpone the so-called democratic reforms in Central Tibet. A few read more →
Will China shake the world again?
February 18, 2014By Robert Peston [BBC] Unless you are an aficionado of the great moments of Chinese Communist history, you probably won’t have heard of Wuhan (it is the site of Chairman Mao’s legendary swim across the Yangtze). But perhaps more than any other Chinese city, it tells the story of how read more →
About a Tibetan at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C
February 17, 2014[tibetreport.wordpress.com] By Bhuchung K Tsering Those who are familiar with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., particularly its Asian Division, would be aware of its documents on Tibet, whose Tibetan-language collection is said to be one of the largest in the West. The collection ranges from Tibetan Buddhist scriptures read more →
Taiwan and China Edge Ever Closer
February 17, 2014OP-ED [The New York Times] By Jonathan Sullivan NOTTINGHAM, England — Government officials from China and Taiwan met last week for the first time in an official capacity in more than six decades. The talks were uneventful — producing modest agreements to establish communication channels and other practical arrangements — read more →
Boots joy for Tibetan team
February 17, 2014[Fairfax NZ News] Shane Kidby’s passion for football has taken him to the hometown of the Dalai Lama to train its team of budding players. The New Plymouth man sold his house and gave up his job as a sales representative to volunteer his time as a coach in Dharamsala, read more →
After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China
February 16, 2014[The New York Times] By Andrew Jacobs A Tibetan law student at the E. Gene Smith Library in southwest China. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times CHENGDU, China — Decades ago, the thousands of Tibetan-language books now ensconced in a lavishly decorated library in southwest China might have ended read more →
China for border code of conduct, India mum
February 15, 2014[The Times of India] By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: China has suggested drawing up a code of conduct with India on the disputed border. This is expected to govern the behaviour of troops and personnel of both countries on the border. The proposal was made during the recent read more →
Book review: Jeff Smith decodes the complex China-India rivalry in Cold Peace
February 15, 2014[First Post] By Uttara Choudhury New York: US strategic analyst Jeff M. Smith’s new book, Cold Peace, is a wonderfully nuanced analysis of the complex India-China relationship bedeviled by rivalry for almost six decades, but steeped in surprisingly steady cooperation in the diplomatic and economic spheres. Book cover from Amazon.com read more →