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Why Are Tibetans Setting Themselves on Fire?
Tsering Woeser Liu Yi’s portraits of Tibetans who have self-immolated, Songzhuang art village in Tongzhou, on the outskirt of Beijing, December 25, 2012 February 27, 2009, was the third day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. It was also the day that self-immolation came to Tibet. The authorities had just read more →
8 reasons China and its president are off to a rocky 2016
BEIJING (AP) — Barely more than a week into 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping is having a rough time of it, with challenges ranging from a plummeting stock market to new provocations from obstreperous ally North Korea. While none pose an existential threat to his administration, the world will be read more →
Son of Chinese Revolutionary to Xi Jinping: Redress Injustices First Step to Democracy
By Larry Ong, Epoch Times, January 10, 2016 If Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping wishes to set China on the path of democratic reform while in office, he must earn the support and trust of the Chinese people, urges Xi’s childhood friend. The first step Xi should take on this read more →
Harmony existing in India for over 1,000 years: Dalai Lama
Business Standard, IANS, 4 January 2016 The traditional and religious harmony in India has been existing for over 1,000 years, the 14th Dalai Lama said here on Monday during the belated celebration of his 80th birthday. Various dignitaries, including senior politicians, activists, artists and religious personalities, gathered here to pay read more →
Manmohan wants Dalai Lama’s blessings for harmony in India
Economic Times, 4 January 2016 NEW DELHI: Describing Dalai Lama as “modern incarnation of Lord Buddha”, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought the Tibetan spiritual leader’s blessings for India to move on the path of peace and harmony. Speaking at a function here to commemorate the 80th birth anniversary read more →
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 →