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Don’t Forget Tibet
An interview with exiled Prime Minister Lobsang Sangay. By Mary Kissel , The Wall Street Journal China’s Communist Party leadership announced a 60-point reform plan last week which moves the country toward a more open and liberalized economy. But if Beijing’s treatment of Tibet is any indication, constraints on political read more →
Chinese leaders control media, academics to shape the perception of China
(The Washington Post) By Fred Hiatt, Published: November 17, 2013 It’s well known that Chinese censors shape and limit the news and history their people can learn. What may be more surprising is how Chinese officials shape and limit what Americans learn about China. Last month, a cultural attache in read more →
Dalai Lama: China ‘softening’ on Tibet
[Source: Bangkok Post] The new Chinese leadership under President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang and the modern-day Chinese intelligentsia are more receptive to the Tibetan cause and Tibetans’ demand for high-level autonomy, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday. The Dalai Lama said that lately read more →
Looking at Chen Quanguo’s Article on Tibet, with more than a pinch of salt
[Source: ICT blog] by Bhuchung K. Tsering Chen Quanguo As part of my work I look at the statements by China’s leaders to see if they reveal anything about the current state of affairs in Tibet. This was particularly so after General Secretary Xi Jinping took over the leadership and read more →
New Chinese Panel Said to Oversee Domestic Security and Foreign Policy
A plainclothes security guard outside the Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing on Tuesday. China’s new national security committee will deal with cybersecurity as well as the unrest in China’s Tibet and Xinjiang regions, according to one expert/Photo/Associated Press [Source: The New York Times] By JANE PERLEZ Published: November 13, 2013 BEIJING read more →
Chinese Security Agency to Enhance Xi’s Powers
By JEREMY PAGE (Wall Street Journal) updated Nov. 12, 2013 2:53 p.m. ET BEIJING—China’s Communist Party plans to establish a new state security committee that analysts say will potentially enhance President Xi Jinping’s powers, cementing his hold on the military, domestic security and foreign policy in ways that eluded his read more →
Xinjiang Dreams: Worrying about ethnicity
By David Tobin [blogs.nottingham.ac.uk] The ethnically targeted violence of July 2009 in Ürümchi overshadowed the lead-up to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Uyghurs and Han were both victims and perpetrators and official figures claimed 197 people were killed (See here, here and here). The violence suggested that ethnic relations remain an read more →
An exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama
By Amy Kazmin [Source: Financial Times] ‘I always pray the Chinese leadership should develop more common sense’ His Holiness the Dalai Lama (file photo) I arrive in Dharamsala, the Indian home of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, groggy after an overnight train journey from New Delhi and a read more →
The Chinese are anxious over the future
By Fred Hiatt, Published: November 3 (Washington Post) BEIJING Traveling here last week after America’s partial government shutdown and near-default, I expected to encounter a surge of confidence in China’s inevitable, eventual emergence as the world’s greatest power. That is not what I found. Some people here do take pleasure read more →
India, China near pact aimed at keeping lid on border tension
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI | Fri Oct 18, 2013 (Reuters) – India and China are close to an agreement to stop tension on their contested border touching off confrontation while they try to figure out a way to break decades-old stalemate on overlapping claims to long stretches of the read more →
China – Wave of arrests contributes to Tibet’s growing isolation
[Source: Reporters Without Borders] The Chinese authorities have stepped up their persecution of independent Tibetan news providers in recent weeks, arresting three writers who are frequent information sources for external observers on the pretext that they carried out “political activities aimed at destroying social stability and dividing the Chinese homeland.” read more →
Downing Street denies Tibet policy change
[Source: The Herald Scotland] Downing Street has denied changing its stance on Tibet to secure lucrative Chinese business contracts. The claim was made in an editorial in the People’s Daily newspaper, which said that UK Government had admitted it mishandled the issue. The move paved the way for this read more →
Tibetan poet gives voice to dead protesters in new book
[Source: AFP/France 24] A blogger, a taxi driver, a Communist Party official and a Buddhist monk. All of them Tibetan, and all of them driven to the desperate step of setting themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule. These and dozens of others are the subject of a new read more →
4 Tibetans shot dead, 50 injured
[Source: Times of India / PTI] By Saibal Dasgupta BEIJING: Four Tibetans were killed and 50 wounded after Chinese security forces fired on a crowd of protesters at Driru in the Tibet Autonomous Region on Tuesday, according to Washington-based Radio Free Asia (RFA). Reports said Driru villagers were demanding the release of a local read more →
When Patriotism is Flagging: Lhasa Lockdown
[Source: The Economist] LHASA: MORE than five years after violent mass protests rocked Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the city remains in the grip of a severe security lockdown. The first week of October—the festive National Day holiday period when millions in China take the chance to travel to exotic spots like Tibet—offered read more →