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Will China Close Its Doors?
By Ira Belkin and Jerome Cohen, The New York Times, 1 June 2015 The slogan for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was “Beijing Welcomes You.” Now, seven years later, a draft law targeting foreign institutions — including universities, museums, athletic and cultural groups, professional associations and all nonprofit social organizations established read more →
The Great American Rethink on China
Washington may be junking a strategy of integration that has ruled for 45 years By David Feith, The Wall Street Journal, 28 May 2015 Beijing’s bid to dominate one of the world’s most important waterways, the South China Sea, is again the focus as U.S. and Asian leaders gather here read more →
China ranked amongst lowest in 2015 World Press Freedom Index
Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:00 Yeshe Choesang, Tibet Post International China is ranking #176 out in 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index with a score of 73.55. Photo: RSF Paris, France: – China ranked 176th out of 180 countries in the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, released read more →
‘China violently crushing protests by Tibetan nomads’
Big News Network, Saturday 30 May 2015 China has been “violently crushing” all peaceful protests by Tibetan nomads demanding return of their pastoral land and their nomadic way of life in the Tibetan plateau, a Tibetan rights activist said here on Saturday. Tsering Tsomo, a Tibetan nomad and head of read more →
Tibetan PM warns that India and China can’t sidestep his country if they aim for peaceful ties
Dr Lobsang Sangay talks about Beijing’s repression of Tibet and Modi’s recent visit to China. Ajaz Ashraf, The Scroll, 23 May 2015 Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Lobsang Sangay was educated at Delhi University and Harvard Law School. In an email interview, he speaks of how discussions about read more →
When the Dalai Lama turns 80
By Major General (retd.) Vinod Saighal, The Statesman, 26 May 2015 According to the Tibetan calendar he will do so on June 21, while the Gregorian or the universal calendar that is used worldwide puts the date as July 6. Much rests on his longevity for the Tibetans in Tibet read more →
Déjà vu for Tibet’s refugees
200 families have been camping in a nearby football field. By Tsering Dolkar Gurung, Nepali Times, Living inside tented camps has brought back memories of the past for Tibetans Namgyal Dolma was in her forties when she escaped her village in eastern Tibet along with her three children and an read more →
How McMahon Drew His Line, and Why China Wants It Changed
By Pradip Phanjoubam on 20/05/2015 Prime Minister, Narendra Modi was virtually silent on the vexed border issue during his just concluded visit to China, belying the expectations of many in Arunachal Pradesh. While there were 24 bilateral agreements signed, a majority of them business related, both the countries for the read more →
If Tibet is part of China, Why are Tibetans treated so badly? Rose Tang
Saturday, 23 May 2015 17:19 Rose Tang, Tibet Post International Rose Tang delivering her speech at the Tibetan National Uprising Day rally in Chicago, US, on March 10, 2015. Photo: TPI Brooklyn, US – If Tibet is part of People’s Republic of China, as the Chinese government insists, then why read more →
Tibetan Festival Organizer is Detained by Police in Sichuan
Tibetans display banned images on flags at prayer gathering, Ngaba, Sichuan, March 4, 2015 (RFA) Radio Free Asia, 22 May 2015 Police in western China’s Sichuan province have detained a Tibetan man suspected of organizing a prayer festival in March in which flags bearing photos of Tibetan exile leaders were read more →
China denying passports to restrict critics, minorities
By Christopher Bodeen, AP, 20 May 2015 BEIJING (AP) — Hand your passport to police or it will be canceled, read the notice to all 4.4 million residents of far-northwestern China’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The demand would now seem outrageous to most Chinese, who more than a decade since read more →
Once More, With Feeling
By Nirupama Rao, The Wire, 16 May 2015 Summit meetings between global players like India and China are closely watched for new strategic directions or policy guidance. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China has been no exception. Was it the same tea poured into new cups, tales of Buddhist read more →
Tibetans seek release of Panchen Lama
The Tribune, 17 May 2015 Tibetans and their supporters today observed the International Solidarity Day to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Panchen Lama going missing from Tibet. In a press release issued here today, spokesperson for the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said six-year-old Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, was read more →
China urged to release Panchen Lama after 20 years
BBC, 17 May 2015 Tibetan exiles are calling for China to release a high-ranking monk who disappeared 20 years ago when he was just six years old. The boy was detained by the Chinese authorities just three days after the Dalai Lama declared him to be the reincarnated Panchen Lama. read more →
Modi’s assertive approach makes China take note of new India
By Danvir Singh, Sify News, 17 May 2015 Days before the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to leave for China on a three-day state visit, India formally registered a protest against the recently signed $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Chinese envoy in Delhi was summoned to the read more →