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Trillions in Murky Investments Could Rock China’s Economy
By Keith Bradsher, AUG. 12, 2016 – The New York Times SHANGHAI — The deal could be hard to resist. A Shanghai investment firm is offering a fat return of up to 10 percent a year, handily beating both the local stock market and the paltry payouts from bank accounts. read more →
Rio 2016: Does the Chinese public have a victim narrative?
BBC, 12 August 2016 One week into the Olympic Games and Chinese patriots have a lot of complaints. A brief shortlist might start with judges biased against Chinese athletes. In all Rio venues, the points of the gold stars on the Chinese national flag were misaligned. On one occasion where read more →
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest
By Luo SIling, New York Times, 14 August 2016 On March 10, 1959, several thousand Tibetans, fearing that the Chinese might abduct the Dalai Lama, gathered at the Norbulingka summer palace to protect the Tibetan spiritual leader. Credit The Office of Tibet, Washington, D.C. Generations of Chinese have been taught read more →
Xinhua commentary hints at NSG-SCS quid pro quo
Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi meeting Goa Governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan in Donapaula, Goa on Friday. A Xinhua write-up that appeared on Friday underscored that India should not consider that its entry into the NSG is “tightly closed,” indicating a softening of Beijing’s stand on the entry read more →
Tsai’s Apology Strengthens Taiwan’s Place at Front of Chinese Modernity
Bunun people in the early 1900s. Image Credit: Flickr/ Ralph Repo By Kerry Brown, August 09, 2016 – The Diplomat Magazine Mainland China’s ethnic policy could stand to learn a thing or two from Tsai’s apology. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s historic apology to the island’s indigenous people on August 1 read more →
In China, Economic Data Highlights Growing Divide Between Regions
By Mark Magnier, Aug. 10, 2016 – The Wall Street Journal Provinces’ first-half figures for GDP growth also have revived the debate over the country’s statistics BEIJING—New economic data for China broken down by region shines a light on how uneven growth is around the country and how the nation’s read more →
And the Policemen Danced
Horses dance, too From the print edition of The Economist, August 2016 In Tibetan areas the government mixes control with tolerance TROUPES of Tibetan dancers twirled long pieces of silk. Men in red-tasselled hats brandished swords. Horses in fine saddles stormed around the stadium. Last week the Gesar cultural festival read more →
China’s South China Sea Moves Draw Ire of U.S. Pacific Fleet Chief
In a photo released on Aug. 1 by Xinhua News Agency, a missile is launched from a Chinese navy ship during a live ammunition drill in the East China Sea. Photo: WU DENGFENG/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Jeremy Page, 9 August 2016 – The Wall Street Journal Adm. Swift says air patrols, read more →
US condemns demolition of Tibetan Buddhist institute by China
A photo of Larung Gar valley (Representational image). Source: Fickr Indian Express, 9 August 2016 – PTI Larung Gar is said to be the biggest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world. The US has condemned demolition of Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute, one of the largest centres of Buddhist learning read more →
New Photos Cast Doubt on China’s Vow Not to Militarize Disputed Islands
Hangars large enough to hold: Fighter jets Bombers, tankers or transport planes By The New York Times | Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies/Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/DigitalGlobe By DAVID E. SANGER and RICK GLADSTONE, New York Times AUG. 8, 2016 When President Xi Jinping of China visited President Obama read more →
Natural Disasters in Tibet: Is it the New Normal?
By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen, tibetpolicy.net World’s highest plateau witness three different natural disasters in a month A 600 million cubic meters of glacial slide onto the Aru summer pasture of Ruthok County on 17 July 2016, killing nine people, burying more than 110 yaks and 350 sheep. Ruthok is one read more →
Hong Kong Makes History with First Pro-Independence Rally
Liam Fitzpatrick / Hong KongTIME magazine Updated: Aug. 5, 2016 10:55 PM The gathering comes just 12 days after a poll found that 1 in 6 Hong Kongers support independence from China The first pro-independence rally in Hong Kong history took place Friday in the shadow of the city’s main government read more →
( The Great Indian Prime Minister ) Nehru and the China-Tibet blunder!
Kameng Shambala The truth about the China-India War of 1962 hidden from us by Secularists, Liberals, Nehruvians, Socialists, Leftists and Congress Apologists! The people of India ( esp. the people of Arunachal Pradesh in North East ) will never forget & perhaps never forgive those responsible for the China – read more →
India is Losing an Opportunity With China
By Prem Shankar Jha, The Wire, 1 August 2016 When Delhi ignored Beijing’s quiet demarches to let sleeping dogs lie in Arunachal Pradesh, not only did the Vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin summon Ambassador Ashok Kantha to express his “strong dissatisfaction and staunch opposition” to Narendra Modi’s visit in February read more →
Himalayan railway connecting Tibet with India feasible: China
Deccan Herald, Beijing, Aug 5 (PTI) Aug 5, 2016 Chinese officials say trans-Himalayan railway connecting Tibet with India and Nepal is economically and technically feasible as Beijing looks to make Tibet an economic and cultural hub connecting China with South Asia. “The construction of a railway crossing the Himalayan mountains read more →