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The Dalai Lama’s practical path to peace
Michael Gerson, The Washington Post, Opinions DHARAMSALA, India – When posed a policy question, the Dalai Lama is surprisingly (for a religious leader) un-prone to moralism. What, I asked him, does he think of the European backlash against migration? “In the name of sympathy, for the few who are desperate, read more →
Open up or break up, dissident Yang Jianli tells China
Yang Jianli Bharat Bhushan, Catch News, 4 May 2016 Chinese dissident leader Yang Jianli, the moving force behind the Interfaith Conference of China’s ethnic and religious minorities in Dharamsala recently, is not unduly disturbed by the cancellation of visas of some dissident leaders by India. He pointed out that despite read more →
Q. and A.: Tomas Plänkers on the Psychic Legacy of the Cultural Revolution
The Sinosphere, The New York Times Fifty years after the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, when Mao Zedong and the Communist Party called on young people to “beat, smash, loot and burn” in a rebellion against authority and tradition that left millions dead, Chinese today are living with read more →
China’s war on groups that help the powerless
Editorial board, The Washington Post, 1 May 2016 IN CHINA’s drive to modernize over the past few decades — a period in which it became an economic superpower — civil society groups took root, helping fight poverty and environmental damage, offering legal services, aiding migrants, and improving health care and read more →
Harry Wu, dissident and activist who endured 19 years in Chinese labor camps, dies at 79
By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, 27 April 2016 Harry Wu, a Chinese dissident who mounted an international campaign to expose the horrors of his country’s laogai labor camps, where he endured 19 years of captivity as an alleged counterrevolutionary, died April 26 while vacationing in Honduras. He was 79. read more →
Re-Elected Tibetan Leader Pledges to Revive Global Awareness of His Country’s Plight
Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (prime minister) of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, delivers a speech during a European rally marking a failed 1959 uprising against China on March 14, 2015 in Paris. That uprising forced the Dalai Lama to flee, and the Tibetan spiritual leader has been living in exile in India ever read more →
Exiled Tibetans reelect Lobsang Sangay as leader
©REMKO DE WAAL (AFP) AFP, 27 April 2016 Exiled Tibetans have reelected Lobsang Sangay as their leader, the election commission said Wednesday, five years after the Dalai Lama ceded political power in a bid to foster democracy and secure his succession. The 48-year-old former academic won 57 percent of the read more →
China Close to Passing Strict Law on Foreign Groups
By EDWARD WONG, New York Times, April 25, 2016 BEIJING — China is moving closer this week to a new law that would strictly control thousands of foreign nongovernmental organizations in the country, state-run news agencies reported on Monday. Officials are expected to give rapid approval to what may be read more →
Exiled Tibetans re-elect leader to spearhead autonomy drive
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) and Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, arrive for a news conference in Vienna, Austria, in this May 25, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/Files By Tommy Wilkes and Abhishek Madhukar, Reuters, 27 April 2016 Tibetans in exile have re-elected a read more →
China blames India for hosting its terrorist
Ananth Krishnan Beijing, April 22, 2016 The spat between India and China over blocking sanctions on Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar may further widen with Beijing declaring its expectation from India, which involves “bringing to justice” a Chinese Uyghur exile – who has been invited to India next week – deemed a read more →
Through Dalai Lama, One Rediscovers Buddhism
The Dalai Lama’s presence in India as the leader of the community provides an explanation for the coherent and purposeful life it has led for over half a century without frustration. (HT Photo) Krishna Kumar, Hindustan Times , 21 April 2016 Many school textbooks of the 1950s referred to the Himalayas read more →
Ex-Disney star banned from China
Selena Gomez shows in China have been cancelled due to having a picture with Dalai Lama. Photo / AP New Zealand Herald, 20 April 2016 Selena Gomez has reportedly been banned from performing in China due to her association with the Dalai Lama. The Come & Get It singer had read more →
Social media cries foul over Twitter’s new China boss
By Stephen McDonell BBC News, Beijing, 19 April 2016 Ms Chen tweets she’s “excited to join the @TwitterGCN flock” So Twitter now has a managing director in China – a Chinese woman who used to be in the military – and online activists on the open side of the Great read more →
Water War: This River Could Sink China-India Relations
By Joel Wuthnow, The National Interest (Magazine) April 19, 2016 The Brahmaputra is the next test for Beijing and New Delhi. On April 18–19, the Chinese and Indian defense ministers will meet in Beijing to discuss border issues. At the top of the agenda will be how to improve read more →
China to prosecute former Guangdong vice governor for graft
Reuters, 17 April 2016 China will prosecute a former vice governor of the wealthy southern province of Guangdong for corruption after an investigation found he took bribes and abused his position, the country’s main anti-corruption watchdog said on Monday. Liu Zhigeng, who was put under investigation in February, also engaged read more →