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China’s Race Problem
How Beijing Represses Minorities Gray Tuttle, Foreign Affairs For all the tremendous change China has experienced in recent decades—phenomenal economic growth, improved living standards, and an ascent to great-power status—the country has made little progress when it comes to the treatment of its ethnic minorities, most of whom live in read more →
China’s Race Problem
How Beijing Represses Minorities Gray Tuttle, Foreign Affairs For all the tremendous change China has experienced in recent decades—phenomenal economic growth, improved living standards, and an ascent to great-power status—the country has made little progress when it comes to the treatment of its ethnic minorities, most of whom live in read more →
China – Losing Way in the Middle
By Sherab Woeser* China has set a definitive tone for this year’s commemorations of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region’s 50 years by coming out with its most exhaustive and strongest rejection yet of the Middle Way Approach. But there is a catch. China’s version of MWA finds little consonance with read more →
China – Losing Way in the Middle
By Sherab Woeser* China has set a definitive tone for this year’s commemorations of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region’s 50 years by coming out with its most exhaustive and strongest rejection yet of the Middle Way Approach. But there is a catch. China’s version of MWA finds little consonance with read more →
‘China wants to promote Indo-Pak peace talks amid Xi’s visit’
The statement came as Xi landed in Pakistan on a two-day state visit to boost strategic ties with its all-weather ally during which he will reach a number of deals. By: Press Trust of India | Beijing | Updated: April 20, 2015 7:09 pm China on Monday said its role read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
‘The 5 Great Jokes of Chinese History’: prominent scholar lampoons his ‘patriotic’ colleagues
By Feng Xuerong, that’s, 20 April 2015 The following is a translation of a recent piece by prominent Chinese historian Feng Xuerong. Feng, born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province and now based in Hong Kong, is the author of numerous volumes on late Qing and early Republican history. His take on read more →
Born Red
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, permitted a camera crew to read more →
Born Red
How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao. By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 April 2015 In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping, the President of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, permitted a camera crew to read more →
Talking Buddhism and politics at the White House
BY LION’S ROAR STAFF | APRIL 14, 2015 On May 14, Buddhist leaders including the scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi will join together to present the first-ever White House-US Buddhist Leadership Conference. Sessions for the conference will be held at George Washington University, moving then to to the White House—specifically, in the read more →
Schoolboy sends fan letter to Dalai Lama – and gets invited to India for a chat
19 April 2015 By Mike Lockley Edgbaston 13-year-old George Morris and dad stunned when Tibetan guru jets them out to meet him George Morris who got to meet the Dalai Lama It’s a story so fantastic, heart-warming and brimful of hope it could have been scripted by Disney. The schoolboy who read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →
China’s New Environmental Protection Law, Not for Tibet
Site of the Lianghekou Dam currently under construction will be the highest embankment Dam in China tibetpolicy.net By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen* The toxic smog engulfing Beijing and other Chinese cities has forced the Communist government to amend its development model and bring in a new environmental protection law in a read more →