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Philippine minister starts damage control after Duterte’s China war remark
MANILA (Reuters) – Talks last week between leaders of China and the Philippines were frank and friendly, with no threats or bullying, Manila’s foreign minister said on Monday, after his president said he was warned of war if he drills for oil in the South China Sea. Foreign Secretary Alan read more →
China’s favoured trade deal in focus at Asian meeting
By Reuters, DNA, Asian trade ministers met on Monday to discuss a proposed free trade deal that is backed by China and has been given new impetus by the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) would create a free trade area of more read more →
Hopeful of meeting between Trump, Dalai Lama: Lobsang Sangay
Business Standard. 20 May 2017 Tibet’s Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Thursday expressed hope that U.S. President Donald Trump might continue to support the Tibetan cause and meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Sangay said, “After US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson’s assurance, we Tibetans remain hopeful that President read more →
China claims breakthrough in mining ‘flammable ice’
BBC News , China Methane hydrate, or ‘flammable ice’, is a highly energy-intensive fuel source China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply. Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough. Methane read more →
China’s top diplomat says hopes S.Korea can resolve THAAD issue
By Reuters, DNA, China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, told a visiting South Korean envoy on Friday that he hoped South Korea could respect China’s major interests and concerns and appropriately differences over the THAAD missile system issue. Yang made the comments in a meeting with Seoul’s envoy to China Lee read more →
China and the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
Why Beijing’s attempt to control the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation will not work. The media has repeatedly reported on the reincarnation issue of the 14th Dalai Lama which prompted Lian Xiangmin, director of the Contemporary Research Institute at the Chinese Tibetology Research Center, to weigh in. “The next Dalai Lama should read more →
Richard Gere on how China has damaged his career over his support for Tibet
By Garry Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald Around the time of American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman and Primal Fear – the heady ’80s and ’90s – Richard Gere was just about the biggest star in Hollywood. Dashing, charming, sexy, great hair. But while he has slipped from the spotlight at read more →
What Happens When China Excludes Taiwan from the World Stage
By Dennis P. Halpin, National Intrest, Beijing’s strategy to push Taipei out of any global forum could have wide-ranging consequences. Taiwan, after participating for eight straight years in the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, has suddenly been left out this year with no invitation to attend. The reason read more →
China issues warning for new ransomware virus
By AFP, Geo.tv, BEIJING: China has urged Windows users to protect themselves against a new ransomware virus similar to the WannaCry bug that wreaked havoc worldwide last week. “UIWIX” encrypts and renames files through a bug in the Windows operating system, China´s National Computer Virus Emergency Response read more →
Tibetans mark 22nd anniversary of 11th Panchen Lama’s abduction
MYSURU: Hundreds of Tibetans took out a peaceful rally through the main streets of the city, demanding justice for Panchen Lama on Wednesday. Tibetan Women’s Association and Tibetan Youth Congress organizations from Bylakuppe, Hunsur and Kollegal, assembled near the Mysuru Palace north gate. Tenzin Dolma, president of the Regional Tibetan read more →
Beijing’s hard and soft touch
The Pioneer, 17 May 2017 China’s history is replete with threats and territorial demands. Sino-Indian talks on border disputes have one theme: ‘What is with us now is ours’ Notwithstanding several Indian liberal thinkers’ strong advocacy for India to endorse China’s magnum opus, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in view read more →
Can China Afford Its Belt and Road?
Christopher Balding, Bloomberg News China’s just-completed conference touting its Belt and Road initiative certainly looked like a triumph, with Russian President Vladimir Putin playing the piano and Chinese leaders announcing a string of potential deals and massive financial pledges. Underneath all the heady talk about China positioning itself at the heart read more →
Nepalis don’t share Indian ambivalence towards China
By Akhilesh Upadhyay, Kathmandu, Indian Express, While India’s stated (and strong) opposition to BRI is that CPEC runs through the disputed Kashmir region, its nervousness runs deeper than that. Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a news conference at the end of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China May read more →
China challenges India to explain ‘meaningful dialogue’ on Belt and Road Initiative, says doors open for New Delhi to join project
By Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times, China has asked India to clarify its call for a “meaningful dialogue” on the Belt and Road Initiative while noting that the doors will be always be open for New Delhi to join the project. Leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum wave as they read more →
Philippines, China vow closer ties, management of disputes
By The Associated Press, ABC, Manila, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographers prior to their bilateral meeting held on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, May 15, 2017. read more →