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Laborers work on the scaffoldings at a construction site in Kunming, Yunnan province, December 22, 2014. (Courtesy Reuters) How the United States Fits in By Evan A. Feigenbaum February 2, 2015 Laborers work on the scaffoldings at a construction site in Kunming, Yunnan province, December 22, 2014. (Courtesy Reuters) In read more →
Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Words to Dalai Lama Ruffle China and India
ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times | February 6, 2015 BEIJING — Prayer breakfast speeches in Washington are rarely, if ever, the source of bruised feelings overseas. Not so this year. President Obama’s comments at this week’s religious gathering not only caused domestic problems — offending some conservative American Christians, read more →
Self-Immolations. Threats From Beijing. Playing Politics With the Dalai Lama
By Isaac Stone Fish, 4 February, (Foreign Policy.com) All in a day’s work for Lobsang Sangay, the Harvard-educated prime minister of the quixotic Tibetan movement in exile. DHARAMSALA, India — These days, the Dalai Lama seems to make news mostly when world leaders decide whether or not to meet with read more →
Obama hails Dalai Lama as ‘good friend’
The Dalai Lama attends the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC, February 5, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb) By Andrew Beatty Washington (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Thursday hailed the Dalai Lama as a “good friend” during a symbolic first public encounter between the two men that is sure to read more →
Full Transcript of President Obama’s Remarks at the Annual National Prayer Breakfast
whitehouse.gov Washington, D.C. 9:13 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Well, good morning. Giving all praise and honor to God. It is wonderful to be back with you here. I want to thank our co-chairs, Bob and Roger. These two don’t always agree in the Senate, but in coming together read more →
Annual prayer breakfast draws Obama and Dalai Lama but not word of an official meeting
[The Associated Press] Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gestures as he speaks to his followers during the Jangchup Lamrim teaching session at the Gaden Jangtse Thoesam Norling Monastery in Mundgod in the southern Indian state of Karnataka December 23, 2014. (Abhishek N. Chinnappa/REUTERS) WASHINGTON: The degree to which read more →
The International Campaign for Tibet’s statement on the Shugden demonstration in Washington D.C.
[International Campaign For Tibet] FEBRUARY 4, 2015 The International Campaign for Tibet deplores the planned demonstration in Washington D.C. by some fundamentalist Buddhists belonging to the International Shugden Community that aims at undermining the work of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The demonstrators are attempting to confuse the general public read more →
China Tightens Rules on Internet Use, Online Comments
[The Associated Press] BEIJING: China has tightened Internet controls with new rules that require users to register their real names and barring online material that challenges the country’s political system. The rules issued Wednesday follow what technology companies say are official efforts to block use of virtual private networks to read more →
Torn apart by Tiananmen, father, son still fight for free speech in China
[McClatchy] BY STUART LEAVENWORTH Travelers read books banned on the Chinese mainland, including some published by New Century Press, at a book shop in Hong Kong’s airport on Oct. 23, 2014 in China. New Century Press, founded by Bao Pu, son of a former top Communist Party member, specializes in read more →
China offers up to $50,000 in cash for terrorism tips in Tibet
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama prays during Ganden Ngachoe, the death anniversary of 14th Century Tibetan Saint-Scholar Lama Tsongkhapa, in New Delhi on Dec. 16. | AP AP – JAN 31, 2015 BEIJING – Chinese authorities are offering up to 300,000 yuan ($50,000) for tips on terrorist activities in the read more →
Insurgency in Northeast India: The Chinese Link
[Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies] LOOKING EAST Insurgency in Northeast India: The Chinese Link By Wasbir Hussain Wasbir Hussain External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has just ended a four-day visit to China where she discussed “bilateral, regional and global issues of concern” for both countries. The range of read more →
China Sharpens Its Censorship Blade
[The New York Times] Op-Ed By Helen Gao Jing Wei BEIJING — In early November, when Beijing played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, city officials closed hundreds of factories and forced millions of vehicles off the roads to clear the soupy gray smog that normally blankets the sky. read more →
Xi confident of new progress in India-China ties in new year
[PTI] BEIJING: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday called on Chinese President Xi Jinping, who expressed full confidence in Sino-India relations, hoping that “new progress” would be made in the ties in the new year. “I have full confidence in India-China relations and I believe that new progress will be achieved in growing read more →
UN rejects China’s move to black out NGO criticism
[AFP] UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says the NGO committee will continue to report on the stance of countries. China has been forced to drop a measure at the UN that targeted NGOs seeking to be heard at the world body. China had proposed for the United Nations to refrain from read more →
Daoism gains a foothold, again, in China
[Public Radio International] By Matthew Bell A Taoist priest stands in sunlight to keep warm in the courtyard of the 700-year-old Dongyue Temple in central Beijing. Credit: David Gray/Reuters The officially atheistic People’s Republic of China has five official religions. Buddhism, Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism and Daoism. In one sense, Daoism — read more →