News From Other Sites
China Takes a Predictably Harsh Line on Obama’s Meeting With the Dalai Lama
[TIME] By Hannah Beech To Beijing, a breakfast isn’t simply a breakfast. It’s tantamount to backing Tibetan independence Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama walks outside the White House after his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Feb. 18, 2010/Yuri Gripas—Reuters It took three days for China’s read more →
Growing US-India ties no threat to China: Barack Obama
[Zee News] Washington: US President Barack Obama has expressed surprise at the Chinese reaction over his India visit and said that there are undoubtedly aspects of India that make US closer to India, but China doesn’t need to be threatened because Washington has good relations with New Delhi. “I was surprised when I heard read more →
Online submission of application for Protected Area Permit
[Press Trust of India] In order to streamline and facilitate the processing of Protected Area Permit (PAP), the Home Ministry has launched online facilities of seeking such applications from foreigners intending to visit Tibetan settlements. All foreigners intending to visit Tibetan settlements and camps in India may apply online for read more →
Modi to visit China in May
[Press Trust of India] “This is a preparatory visit,” says Sushma Swaraj, who is on her maiden visit to China. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in May this year. “Modiji is going to come in May. I will give them read more →
India committed to ‘early settlement’ of boundary issue with China: Sushma Swaraj
[Press Trust of India] BEIJING: India is committed to finding an “early settlement” to the vexed boundary issue, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said on her maiden visit to China as she proposed a six-point template to build Sino- India ties to realise the common dream of ‘Asian Century’. Addressing an India-China read more →
As Muslim Uighurs Flee, China Sees Jihad Risk
[The Wall Street Journal] By Jeremy Page and Emre Peker Uighur protestors burn a Chinese flag in Istanbul, where some members of the mostly Muslim ethnic group have settled after fleeing their homeland in China/Associated Press photo KAYSERI, Turkey—In hindsight, it was a soccer match that kindled Mehmet’s hatred of read more →
Yang Zili and the Paranoid Regime
A Journalist’s plight demonstrates the depth of China’s present illness [The Wall Street Journal] By Xiao Shu BEIJING: Chinese journalist Yang Zili first appeared in international headlines in 2001 after being arrested in Beijing and charged with “subverting state authority.” His crime was starting the “New Youth Society,” a salon read more →
China hopes Sushma Swaraj’s visit will reset focus on Sino-India ties
[Press Trust of India] By K J M Verma BEIJING: After the din created by the US President’s visit to India with apprehensions here that it was aimed at driving a wedge in Sino-Indian relations, China hopes External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s forthcoming visit will bring back the focus on bilateral ties read more →
China says no room for ‘western values’ in university education
[THE GUARDIAN] Education minister says books which ‘smear socialism’ will be banned Students attend their college graduation ceremony in Shanghai’s Fudan University. China’s education minister has said there is no place for western values in university teaching. Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters China’s education minister has vowed to ban university textbooks which read more →
Xiaomi shows Arunachal is in India at handset launch, triggers anger in China
[Hindustan Times] By Sutirtho Patranobis BEIJING: A map showing Arunachal Pradesh as part of India displayed at the New Delhi launch of Chinese company Xiaomi’s popular Mi4 mobile phone on Wednesday has triggered online uproar in China. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as South Tibet and Chinese maps show the area read more →
Exclusive: Dalai Lama, Barack Obama Set to Appear in Public Together for First Time
US President Barack Obama with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the White House’s Map Room in February 2014 [TIME] By Elizabeth Dias Tibetan leader will participate in the Feb. 5 National Prayer Breakfast where the President is expected to attend. Obama has never appeared publicly with Tibetan leader who read more →
China Further Tightens Grip on the Internet
[NEW YORK TIMES] By Andrew Jacobs An Internet cafe in China, which has long had some of the world’s most onerous digital restrictions. Credit European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital, has no interest in overthrowing the Communist Party. read more →
India’s US Envoy S Jaishankar Appointed New Foreign Secretary
S Jaishankar, India’s Ambassador to the US, has been appointed India’s new Foreign Secretary. [NDTV] NEW DELHI: In a surprise announcement on Wednesday evening, S Jaishankar, India’s Ambassador to the US, has been appointed Foreign Secretary, replacing Sujatha Singh, whose tenure has been abruptly “curtailed” by nearly eight months. Dr Jaishankar’s read more →
China’s super-rich communist Buddhists
By John Sudworth, BBC News, 29 January 2015 Could China be bringing Tibetan Buddhism in from the cold? There are new signs that while a crackdown on Tibetan nationalism continues, the atheist state may be softening its position towards the religion – and even the Dalai Lama. That a former read more →
Fresh details of ‘savage’ Tiananmen massacre emerge in embassy cables
The Chinese authorities were heavy-handed in their reaction to the events in Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989 Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Widener By Tom Phillips, The Telegraph, 27 January 2015 In confidential embassy memos Canadian diplomats describe China’s rulers as “a group of vicious elderly generals” who tried to read more →