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Europeans defy US to join China-led development bank
George Parker in London, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in Paris and Geoff Dyer in Washington, Reuters France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to follow Britain’s lead and join a China-led international development bank, according to European officials, delivering a blow to US efforts to keep leading western countries out of the read more →
Q. and A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule
By Chris Buckley, Sinosphere David Shambaugh, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is one of the United States’ most prominent experts on contemporary China. He has also been prominent in China. His books have been translated and published there, and his views cited in the read more →
Chinese government’s warning to the Dalai Lama: You’d better reincarnate – on our terms
Chris Buckley, The New York Times Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. CNW Group / Tibetan Cultural Society of BC BEIJING – Chinese Communist Party leaders are deathly afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned read more →
Exiled Tibet leader compares China to N.Korea, apartheid S.Africa
Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong (prime minister) of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, poses in front of the French National Assembly on March 12, 2015 in Paris (AFP Photo/Dominique Faget) By Marianne Barriaux, AFP The leader of Tibet’s exiled government on Thursday compared China to the regimes of North Korea and apartheid South Africa read more →
Statement of Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay on the 56th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day
March 10, 2015 8:56 am We are gathered here to remember the brave men and women who gave their lives for the cause of Tibet fifty-six years ago. We are also gathered here to remind ourselves to carry forward the non-violent struggle of the Tibetan people with great determination, courage read more →
Beijing’s Panchen Lama misses out on vice-chairman post
[South China Morning Post] By Kristine Kwok China’s pick as the 11th Panchen Lama is at least a year away from receiving the honorific title of CPPCC deputy chairman, with the advisory group set to select another candidate for the top job today. But he still has the central government’s read more →
China choosing Dalai Lama like Castro naming pope – Tibetan exile leader
[REUTERS] His Holiness the Dalai Lama (R), Tibetan political leader Dr. Lobsang Sangay (C), and Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Penpa Tsering (L) gesture to a banner showing pictures of the Dalai Lama at different ages during his 77th birthday celebrations at the Tsuglakhang Temple in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, on read more →
The Coming Chinese Crackup
[The Wall Street Journal] Chinese President Xi Jinping, front center, and other Chinese leaders attend the opening meeting on Thursday of the third session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. PHOTO: XINHUA/ZUMA PRESS The endgame of communist rule in China has begun, read more →
Tibetans in Yunnan Give Up Wearing Animal Skins, Burn Valuable Furs
[Radio Free Asia] Tibetan villagers living in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year by vowing to give up the wearing of animal furs and by burning those already in their possession, sources said. The Feb. 27 action by residents of Drangsung read more →
The Chair
By Emily Strasser, 16 February 2015 Dharamsala is the end of the journey for many Tibetans fleeing their Chinese-occupied homeland, and where their stories are told. As he speaks, the monk stretches his arms before him, fingers interlocked. The interpreter, leaning forward, lets out a guttural sound from deep in read more →
Tibetans Openly Celebrate Dalai Lama’s Birthday During New Year
Tibetans celebrate at Se monastery in Sichuan’s Ngaba prefecture, Feb. 19, 2015. (Courtesy of an RFA listener) [Radio Free Asia] Tibetans living in northwestern China’s Sichuan, Qinghai, and Gansu provinces openly celebrated the 80th birth year of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama this week, combining public and private observances with read more →
China to project power from artificial islands in South China Sea
[Reuters] HONG KONG – China’s creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coast guard and fishing fleets before long, much to the alarm of rival claimants to the contested waters. Reclamation read more →
Five Predictions for Chinese Censorship in the Year of the Sheep
By Sarah Cook, 19 February This blog was originally published by Foreign Policy. To read the original, Please Click here. Blocked websites, jailed journalists, and nationalist rhetoric have long been features of the Chinese Communist Party’s media control strategy. During the Year of the Horse, which just ended on China’s read more →
China’s Reckless Destruction: Dam projects harming river Brahmputra
[India TV News] New Delhi: China is planning at least 20 large dams for the Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) and its tributaries within Tibet. If all go into operation, the river will never be the same again, warns Michael Buckley, a Canadian environmentalist who has done extensive research on the subject. “China claims read more →
China’s Xi to make first state visit to U.S. as both flag problems
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about his plan for free community college education and middle class economics during a visit Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis, Indiana, February 6, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first state visit to the United States in September, China said read more →