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Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions
Journalists waiting outside the Great Hall of the People during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing in March.Credit Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters [The New York Times] By Andrew Jacobs Conditions for foreign journalists working in China have gone from bad to worse over the past year, with the Chinese authorities read more →
Confucius says
[The Economist] A decade ago China began opening centres abroad to promote its culture. Some people are pushing back Sep 13th 2014 | BEIJING AND EUGENE, OREGON | From the print edition “HARMONY is the most valuable of all things,” said the Chinese philosopher Confucius two and a half millennia ago. There is read more →
Panchsheel not in India’s interests, says Sanat Kaul
[Indian Today] By Sanat Kaul Sanat Kaul While the Chinese are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the lapsed Panchsheel Agreement with India is also joining in, India is not bothering to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Simla Agreement of 1914, the basis on which it claims Arunachal Pradesh. The Modi read more →
India talks tough on one-China policy, says reaffirm one-India policy first
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this month. [The Times of India] By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: India on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this read more →
An Open Letter to Michelle Obama
By Rose Tang, published: March 24, 2014 The letter was originally posted by the author on her Facebook page. Dear Michelle: I wasn’t the only Chinese who was totally disappointed by your speech at Peking University on Saturday. You did not mention a word about the university being a birthplace of China’s read more →
Tibetan leadership urges China to open ‘earnest dialogue’
[The Parliament Magazine] Written by Kelsang Gyaltsen on 8 September 2014 in Opinion Kelsang Gyaltsen says Tibet is not seeking independence, but is concerned only with preserving the “distinct Buddhist cultural heritage, language and natural environment of the Tibetan plateau”. On 12 June 2012, the EU high representative Catherine Ashton called on China read more →
From Taiwan, Broad Support for Democracy in Hong Kong
Demonstrators took to the streets of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, in March to protest a cross-strait agreement with China on trade in services.Credit Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images [The New York Times] By Austin Ramzy Taiwan’s main political parties say they support Hong Kong residents’ calls for a greater say in choosing read more →
Dalai Lama’s spiritual event in Delhi soon after Xi Jinping’s visit
[Deccan Herald] By Anirban Bhaumik [New Delhi, 5 Sept 2014] Tibetan leader Dalai Lama’s plan to hold a spiritual conclave in Delhi in the third week of this month put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government in a fix as it is preparing to host Chinese President Xi Jinping in the national read more →
1,000-year-old monastery to have Buddhist studies centre
By Vishal Gulati, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) Shimla, Sep 3 (IANS) Tabo, an ancient seat of Buddhist religion and culture in picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh in northern India, will now have an international learning centre. Baudh Darshan, which will help preserve the ancient seat of Buddhist studies, will read more →
Britain has ‘moral obligation’ to speak up on Hong Kong, says ex-governor Chris Patten
[The South China Morning Post] Vetting of chief executive in future elections ‘more or less’ what happens in Iran, says Patten as he urges London to speak up Chris Patten pictured in Hong Kong in March. The former colonial governor says the UK has a “duty” to speak up on read more →
At Lhasa, Tibetans still pray for Dalai Lama’s return
While no photographs or video can be taken inside, there appear to be few other restrictions on visitors. Photo: Suhasini Haidar [The Hindu] By Suhasini Haider Lhasa’s Norbulingka isn’t a temple or a monastery, even so, thousands of Tibetan Buddhists stream in here everyday, to offer scarves for the 14th read more →
Beijing Abandons Pragmatism on Hong Kong
[The Wall Street Journal] By Andrew Browne BEIJING—Distrust of the Chinese Communist Party runs deep in Hong Kong, a city built largely by refugees from famine and party-sponsored political violence in mainland China. Deng Xiaoping understood this, and deftly worked around it. His formula for recovering Hong Kong from Britain read more →
China Is Sending Military Vehicles To Hong Kong Ahead Of Expected Protests
A soldier of the People’s Liberation Army stands guard in front of a statue of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping at an exhibition commemorating the 110th anniversary of his birth, in Hong Kong, on August 21,2014/Reuters photo Hong Kong (AFP) — Hong Kong democracy advocates expressed alarm read more →
Kailash yatra breaks all past records
[Hindustan Times] Giving a reason for officials to smile, more than 900 pilgrims have visited Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) this year, setting a new record of sorts. The yatra is an annual affair which passes through Uttarakhand and goes till Kailash Mansarovar in TAR under China. The read more →
Double threat for Tibet
[Nature.com] Climate change and human development are jeopardizing the plateau’s fragile environment. By Jane Qiu 19 August 2014 LHASA A comprehensive environmental assessment of the Plateau of Tibet has found that the region is getting hotter, wetter and more polluted, threatening its fragile ecosystems and those who rely on them. The read more →