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Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, the first Belt and Road movie
PandaPawDragonClaw, 13 November 2019 Read original news here. Common Destiny, a movie-documentary about the modern Silk Road, tells the story of lives transformed by dreams realised through persistence and the enabling power of infrastructure development. In many ways the movie … Continued The post Dreams and Infrastructure – Common Destiny, read more →
Hong Kong university under ‘siege’ from police as violence spreads
James Griffiths for CNN. Read the article here. Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong woke to a third consecutive day of travel chaos and debris littering the streets Wednesday, following fiery clashes across the city overnight and a prolonged and violent standoff at a university … Continued The post Hong Kong university under ‘siege’ from read more →
Hong Kong faces more protests after clashes at university
Hong Kong, 13 November 2019 Read original news here. Hong Kong is facing another day of anti-government action after a night of pitched battle at a top university. At the Chinese University of Hong Kong police fired tear gas and … Continued The post Hong Kong faces more protests after read more →
Uighur activists say China running hundreds more camps
Fled by Al Jazeera. Read the article here. A group said it assessed images from Google Earth and found 182 suspected ‘concentration camps’. Uighur activists said they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain the ethnic group, alleging … Continued The post Uighur activists say China running hundreds read more →
China’s Grand Plan To Take Over The World
John Mauldin for Forbes. Read the article here. When the US and ultimately the rest of the Western world began to engage China, resulting in China finally being allowed into the World Trade Organization in the early 2000s, no one … Continued The post China’s Grand Plan To Take Over read more →
An ode to Tibet
Nirtika Pandita, Asian Age. Read the article here. Artist Sudhir Katkar adds modern elements to traditional Tibetan Thangka art, which usually has a religious undertone. Spiritual, intricate, and alluring are among the words that define Thangka, a Tibetan Buddhist art … Continued The post An ode to Tibet appeared first read more →
China, Greece agree to push ahead with COSCO’s Piraeus Port investment
Reuters, Read original article here. 12 November 2019 ATHENS (Reuters) – China and Greece agreed on Monday to push ahead with a 600 million euros investment by COSCO Shipping into Greece’s largest port, Piraeus, as part of efforts to boost … Continued The post China, Greece agree to push ahead read more →
How Xi Jinping’s brand of authoritarianism is stifling China
By John Pomfret, The Washingon Post, November 7, 2019 Read original news here. China’s president, Xi Jinping, should be feeling pretty pleased with himself. Since assuming power as the chief of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi has only grown … Continued The post How Xi Jinping’s brand of authoritarianism read more →
How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans
By Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li, New York Times, Nov. 10, 2019 Read original news here. RUZHOU, China — When the call came for local doctors and nurses to step up for their troubled community, the emergency wasn’t medical. It was financial. Ruzhou, a city … Continued The post How Bad Is China’s Debt? A read more →
Tibetan Man Detained in March, No Word Given to Family
Radio Free Asia, 7 November 2019, Read the original article here. A Tibetan man detained by Chinese authorities in March has vanished in custody, with no word on his present whereabouts or charges made against him given to his family, … Continued The post Tibetan Man Detained in March, No read more →
‘Crimes against humanity’: is China killing political prisoners for their organs?
By Tim Elliott, 7 November 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald, Read the original article here. In China, it’s possible to pre-book an organ transplant, something that would be impossible under a voluntary donor system – raising suspicions of widespread organ harvesting. … Continued The post ‘Crimes against humanity’: is China killing read more →
China Is World’s Worst Abuser of Internet Freedom: Freedom House Report
By Frank Fang, 5 November 2019, Epoch Times, Read the original article here. China was again ranked the worst among governments for increased exploitation of the internet for social control and political purposes, according to a report released by Freedom … Continued The post China Is World’s Worst Abuser of read more →
Include Tibetan plateau in UN discussions: Climate researchers
By Vishal Gulati, Indo-Asian News Service, Dharamshala. link to the article here. Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) climate researchers on Thursday urged the world leaders to recognize the global ecological importance of the plateau and make Tibet central to any discussion … Continued The post Include Tibetan plateau in UN discussions: read more →
Tibetan Man Not Heard From Since Detention Last Month by Chinese Police
Reported by Dawa Dolma for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Link to the article here. A Tibetan man detained by Chinese police in early October on unknown charges has not been heard … Continued The post Tibetan Man Not Heard From Since read more →
In China, every day is Kristallnacht
The Washington Post, By Fred Hiatt, November 3 2019 Read original news here. In China, every day is Kristallnacht. Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany … Continued The post In China, every day is Kristallnacht read more →