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Caught between two worlds: the dilemma of the overseas Chinese student
South China Morning Post, Sidney Leng, 28 May 2017 It began with a graduation speech praising democracy and fresh air. But once Chinese internet users caught wind of it, the eight-minute speech brewed into a nationalistic storm. Internet users on the Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo slammed Chinese-born University of read more →
50 Years of marriage and mindfulness
By Penelope Green, Waterloo Region Record, Nena and Robert Thurman at home in Woodstock, N.Y. Once voted by their friends as the couple least likely to succeed, the Thurmans are approaching their 50th anniversary, a durable love anchored by their Buddhist faith. – ANDREW WHITE,NYT WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The lawn read more →
China hopes Indian leaders to be present at next OBOR meet
By PTI, DNA, Chinese consul-general Ma Zhanwu here today expressed disappointment over Prime Minister Narendra Modi not attending the recently concluded OBOR meet in Beijing and hoped that Indian leadership would attend the next meeting in 2019 at the same venue. “China had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other read more →
Tibet group urges China to start dialogue with the Dalai
By PTI, DNA, The Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh (TSGAP) has urged China to start dialogue with the Tibetan Government in Exile for a final solution. A delegation of the TSGAP led by its President Gicho Kabak had met Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in New Delhi yesterday. read more →
‘Not a Single Sound’: Chinese Critic He Weifang Falls Silent
By Associated Press, VOA, Beijing: One of the Chinese government’s most vocal critics is finally falling silent. He Weifang told The Associated Press Friday that he would no longer publish on social media after authorities repeatedly shut down his personal blog, his Weibo microblog and two WeChat accounts. He, a read more →
The new Red Guards: China’s angry student patriots
By Carrie Gracie, BBC, Ms Yang said the air in the US was “sweet and fresh” Half a century ago millions of Chairman Mao’s Red Guards gathered in rallies in Tiananmen Square to chant slogans and wave their red books of his quotations in a show of loyalty to the read more →
Modi to open India’s longest bridge in Assam today, mark shift in China strategy
Live Mint, 26 May 2017 New Delhi: For more than five decades, India ignored the roads along its 4,056-km long (2,520 mile) disputed border with China. The logic was simple: the South Asian nation didn’t want to give Chinese troops an easy path if Beijing ever tried to repeat the read more →
‘India, China differences in RCEP offer opportunities for US’
By Press Trust of India, Washington, May 26 2017, 9:32 IST, The differences between India and China inside the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) offer opportunities for the US which has withdrawn itself from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, American lawmakers have been told. Reuters file photo The differences between India read more →
China activists fear increased surveillance with new security law
By Reuters, DNA, Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimise monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last week, the latest step to strengthen Beijing’s security apparatus. Half a dozen activists contacted by Reuters say they already face extensive surveillance by read more →
China could not succeed in destroying Buddhism in Tibet: Sangay
The Tribune, 25 May 2017 Washington, May 25 Tibetans have foiled China’s attempts to “destroy” Buddhism in the remote Himalayan region with the help of nearly 30,000 monks and nuns “educated” in India who “sneaked” back to revive their culture, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile has said. Lobsang Sangay, the read more →
‘Only logical’ for Trump to meet Dalai Lama: Tibetan leader
By David Brunnstrom | WASHINGTON FILE PHOTO: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama watches a dance performance on the last day of his teachings in Tawang in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo The head of Tibet’s government in exile said on read more →
China’s silent debt bomb for Pakistan
By Minhaz Merchant, DNA, Excessive liquidity making its way from Chinese banks to Pakistan does not bode well for its modest economy History shows that when a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio climbs above 200 per cent, a red flag goes up. China’s total debt at $27 trillion is now 277 per read more →
President Trump, meet the Dalai Lama
© Getty Images Dr Lobsang Sangay, 23 May 2017 On his first foreign trip, President Trump has met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the home of Mecca and Medina, the holiest shrines of Islam. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and visited the Western Wall, all that read more →
China’s Rights Abuses Infect UN
Expand Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during a high-level event in the Assembly Hall at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Sophie Richarson, Human Rights Watch, 24 May 2017 “A disease that is spreading – north, south, east, and west.” read more →
Senate confirms Terry Branstad as U.S. Ambassador to China as he commits to “urge Chinese authorities to engage in meaningful and direct dialogue with the Dalai Lama”
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad at his Senate confirmation hearing on May, 2, 2017. International Campaign for Tibet, 22 May 2017 On May 22, 2017, Mr. Terry Branstad was confirmed by the Senate to be the U.S. Ambassador to China. During the confirmation hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee read more →