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China Passes Antiterrorism Law That Critics Fear May Overreach
The New York Times By CHRIS BUCKLEYDEC. 27, 2015 BEIJING — China’s legislature approved an antiterrorism law on Sunday after months of international controversy, including criticism from human rights groups, business lobbies and President Obama. Critics had said that the draft version of the law used a recklessly broad definition read more →
Here’s why the Chinese may never be able to fully populate Tibet
by Susanna Pilny, redorbit.com, 31 December 2015 Depending on who you ask, anywhere from a few hundred thousand to upwards of seven million Han (ethnically Chinese) have immigrated into Tibet Autonomous Region since it was invaded by China in 1950—but according to an international team of researchers, these Han are read more →
China, the U.S. and the Coming Taiwan Transition
By Douglas Paal, The Diplomat, 29 December 2015 Chinese President Xi Jinping is a man in a hurry, presiding over a system that normally resists rapid change. The latest example is a rushed and massive reorganization and slimming of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), announced on September 3 and expected to be read more →
Holding the fate of families in its hands, China controls refugees abroad
By Paul Mooney and David Lague, Reuters, 30 December 2015 MONTREAL/MUNICH – Erkin Kurban, an ethnic Uighur from China’s frontier region of Xinjiang, left his homeland for Canada back in 1999. When he returned to Xinjiang for a visit in April 2013, he had not seen his family for more than read more →
A Chinese Company in India, Stumbling Over a Culture
SHINDE, India — When a Chinese truck company wanted to open a factory in India, its president looked at sites that had a mountain in back and a river in front — especially auspicious locations in the traditional practice of feng shui. The company, Beiqi Foton Motor, found a seemingly read more →
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack – former employees
Joseph Menn, Reuters, 30 December 2015 SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing read more →
China passes controversial counter-terrorism law
An Weixing, the head of the Public Security Ministry’s counter-terrorism division, speaks at a news conference after China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law in Beijing, December 27, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon China passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday that requires technology firms to help decrypt information, but read more →
China’s Database of ‘Living Buddhas’ Is the Latest Attempt to Control Tibetan Affairs
Cave monastery, Lhasa, Tibet By Hannah Beech, Time Magazine, 11 December 2015 Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese government announced that Beijing would be compiling a database of the nearly read more →
Taiwan President Frontrunner Disputes China Framework for Talks
Yu-Huay Sun, Bloomberg News, 28 December 2015 The frontrunner in Taiwan’s looming presidential election disputed China’s bottom line for continued talks while pledging to keep trade negotiations between the former foes on track. Tsai Ing-wen, the chairwoman of the island’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party, took issue with the so-called “1992 consensus” read more →
Journalist Says China May Expel Her for Article on Uighurs
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE DEC. 22, 2015 / The New York Times HONG KONG — A French journalist says she is facing expulsion from China after she wrote an article critical of the country’s treatment of its Uighur minority, which set off stinging criticism in the state-controlled press, a public rebuke read more →
Pessimism clouds China’s outlook
Peter Cai, Business Spectator, 23 December 2015 CHINA – Back in 2014, the most searched phrases made on Google about China’s economy were ‘China largest economy’, ‘China number 1 economy’ and ‘China overtakes US economy’. That changed in 2015: people increasingly looked up phrases such as ‘China economy collapse’, ‘China read more →
The Emperor’s Mighty Brother
Published in the print edition of The Economist, 19 December 2015 Demand for an aphrodisiac has brought unprecedented wealth to rural Tibet—and trouble in its wake BY THE middle of May, the snowline in Yushu prefecture has retreated to the peaks of its steep valleys. Nomads who have spent the read more →
Turkish Coast Guard rescues 51 refugees off Çanakkale
Published on The Daily Sabah Turkey, 20 December 2015 The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 51 refugees off the northwestern Çanakkale province coast on Sunday when their small boat began to sink, Turkish official sources said. The rescued came from Afghanistan, Burma and Tibet, said a Turkish Coast Guard official on read more →
China co-opts a Buddhist sect in global effort to smear Dalai Lama
By David Lague, Paul Mooney and Benjamin Kang Lim, Reuters, 21 December 2015 ALDERSHOT, England – Thousands of Buddhists from all over Britain packed into the Aldershot football stadium southwest of London on June 29, quietly waiting under a hot sun to see the Dalai Lama. Just outside the turnstiles, read more →
Dalai Lama to remain on no-frisking list at airports
By Mihir Misra, The Economic Times, 21 December 2015 NEW DELHI: The government has decided to continue granting Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama exemption from frisking at airports across the country, even as it has removed Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra from the list of people accorded this read more →