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China exploits the vulnerability of open democracy
by Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times – September 13, 2017 Openness, diversity and tolerance are the greatest strengths of the world’s liberal democracies. But to autocratic regimes like China, these same attributes are vulnerabilities ripe for exploitation. As reported by the … Continued
Asia’s glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions
Agence France-Presse – Published in The Guardian – 14 September 2017 Asia’s mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century’s end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on … Continued
After toiling in rural China, Chen Min’er, a protege of Xi Jinping, joins Party’s top tiers
The Strait Times, 13 September 2017 Read original story here LIUPANSHUI (Guizhou) (NYTIMES) – Guizhou is one of China’s poorest provinces, yet its villages of rice paddies, buffaloes and mud-brick homes have long been a proving ground for rising stars … Continued
Rights groups ask China to stop detaining its critics
GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights activists called on China on Wednesday to stop detaining lawyers and critics, voicing concern for their health and fate in custody after the death of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo attracted international attention in July. … Continued
China’s manipulation of UN human rights efforts must be stopped
By Sophie Richardson -Published on foxnews.com China’s growing appetite for global power isn’t hard to spot: military muscle-flexing in the South China Sea, the trillion-dollar New Silk Road development initiative, even its proliferation of Confucius Institutes, academic outposts to spread … Continued
Blog: Both Man and Nature are endangered by Chinese Intrusion in Tibet
Wangden, FreeTibet.org 12th September 2017 Amidst a number of ongoing distressing events in Tibet, more heart-wrenching news came recently when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Zitsa Degu (Ch: Jiuzhaigou), also known as the Valley of Nine Villages, in eastern Tibet on … Continued
See Bizarre ‘Lava-Like’ Landslide Tear Through Hillside
By Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic. Read Original Story here, Scientists have speculated that warming temperatures may be making the region’s terrain more unstable. What caused a stream of gooey, earthen debris to ooze through an empty field? Experts aren’t quite … Continued
Wrong to rail against Dalai Lama for not condemning violence on Rohingya Muslims
By Omair Ahmad, DailyO Read original story here, As the situation in Myanmar worsens day by day, and the United Nations calls it “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, a level of condemnation that is rarely used by the international … Continued
Dalai Lama says Buddha would have helped Myanmar’s Muslims
The Sun Daily. Read original story here, NEW DELHI: The Dalai Lama has spoken out for the first time about the Rohingya refugee crisis, saying Buddha would have helped Muslims fleeing violence in Buddhist–majority Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya … Continued
Cambridge University Press headed for showdown with China over censorship
The Guardian – 9 September 2017 Cambridge University Press is heading for a showdown with Chinese authorities after the government reaffirmed its commitment to block certain content following an outcry last month when it was revealed the publisher has restricted … Continued
Tibetans cannot be equated with other refugees: BJP
The Sentinel. Read original story here, Itanagar, Sept 10: The Arunachal Pradesh unit of BJP on Sunday said that the issue of Tibetan refugees cannot be equated with other refugees settled in the State as it has completely different parameters. … Continued
Dalai Lama begins visit to Londonderry
BBC, 10 September 2017 Read original story here The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has begun a two-day visit to Northern Ireland. He is visiting Londonderry as the patron of charity Children in Crossfire, as part of its 20th … Continued
The Tibet factor
By Claude Arpi, The Statesman – 10 September 2017 The Division of Heaven and Earth not only relates to the struggle of the courageous Tibetan people who took part in a large-scale uprising in the Spring of 2008 on the Tibetan plateau … Continued
Beijing’s Bold New Censorship
By Perry Link, New York Review of Books Authoritarians, in China and elsewhere, normally have preferred to dress their authoritarianism up in pretty clothes. Lenin called the version of dictatorship he invented in 1921 “democratic centralism,” but it became clear, … Continued
How I Became An Activist: My Story Of Political Awakening
By Purandhya, Feminism in India. Read original story here, When I recall those post-dinner conversations as a young girl when suddenly everyone would talk about what is going wrong with the nation, I’d notice that the women in the house … Continued