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Tibetan Medicine Sowa-Rigpa Lures Patients Seeking Drug-Free Cures
By AFP Relax news, News18, A staff member of Tibetan medical practitioner Yeshi Dhonden’s Tibetan Herbal Clinic packs traditional Tibetan medicine to send to patients by courier in the Indian town of Dharamsala. (Photo courtesy: AFP Relaxnews/ Prakash SINGH) Before dawn in the Indian Himalayas, scores of patients clutching small read more →
EU backs away from trade statement in blow to China’s ‘modern Silk Road’ plan
Member states wary of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative without guarantees on transparency, sustainability and tendering process. The EU has dealt a blow to Chinese president Xi Jinping’s bid to lead a global infrastructure revolution, after its members refused to endorse part of the multibillion-dollar plan because it did read more →
The world must unite like a ‘flock of geese’, says China’s Xi Jinping
By Tom Phillips, President urges the world to cooperate, as Germany warns it could refuse to sign up to the Belt and Road initiative unless free tenders are guaranteed. Xi is attempting to contrast himself with the US president Donald Trump. Photograph: POOL/Reuters Chinese president Xi Jinping has made his read more →
Power, Money, and Fake News in China
Written by Graham Bond, China Policy Institute In Anglophone circles, 2016 was the year that ‘fake news’ became real, at least in terms of raw political impact. Questionable figures painted on the side of the Brexit Battle Bus were blamed for leading the UK out of the European Union. Donald read more →
The Latest: 29,000 Chinese institutions hit by cyberattack
By The Associated Press, ABC News, The latest on the global extortion cyberattack that hit dozens of countries on Friday (all times local): 4:50 a.m. Chinese state media say more than 29,000 institutions across China have been infected by the global “ransomware” cyberattack. Xinhua News Agency reports that by Saturday read more →
China on spying spree against Australia, defence secretary says
Reuters, 12 May 2017 China is conducting extensive espionage against Australia, Canberra’s most senior defence department official said on Friday, in a rare public accusation against its largest trading partner. Chinese spying on Australia has been the subject of much speculation by analysts but senior government officials have largely steered read more →
China anxious for India to endorse the OBOR initiative
12 May 2017 – Hindustan Times China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative is a grand Chinese vision that seeks to link production centres in China with markets and natural resource centres around the world through a China-built communications artery. Beijing is keen to have India come aboard this new read more →
Tibetans don’t see China as enemy: Dalai Lama
Lalit Mohan, Tribune News Service Dharamsala, May 10: “Tibetans don’t see China as enemy but as a friend. We have not gathered here against China but for truth and justice. We consider China as our friend and strongly believe in principle of give and take and mutual benefit,” said the read more →
Tibet, China will move beyond mistrust, says Dalai Lama
The Statesman/ANN DHARAMSALA (The Statesman/ANN News Desk) – The Dalai Lama hopes relations between Tibet and China can move past mistrust. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said he hoped that relations with China would move beyond mistrust as he reiterated his commitment to resolving the issue of read more →
‘Skeleton God’: Exorcising Demons in Tibet
By Jonathan DeHart, Mysterious murders, corruption, and the ghosts of history haunt the fictional Tibetan town of Yangkar. Media coverage of Tibet tends to be bleak, from the Chinese government mounting security cameras around the childhood home of the current Dalai Lama to Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire to read more →
U.S. lawmakers not backing down on human rights for Tibet, Pelosi says
By Douglas Busvine, Reuters, 10 May 2017 Top U.S. lawmakers delivered a blunt message to China on Wednesday that they would not relent in their campaign to protect human rights in Tibet, calling for legislative and trade steps to press home their point. Nancy Pelosi, leading a bipartisan Congressional delegation read more →
US committed to Tibetan cause: Pelosi tells Dalai Lama
The Outlook, 10 May 2017 Washington/dharamshala, May 10 Top Democratic Party leader Nancy Pelosi, who met the Dalai Lama, has affirmed US’ commitment to the Tibetan people, their faith, culture and language. Pelosi along with a bipartisan delegation met the 81- year-old Tibetan spiritual leader yesterday in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. read more →
US reps, Dalai Lama take aim at China sore spot Tibet
By Fox News, Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi greets Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama at the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. A group from US Congress is taking aim at one of China’s sore spots, Tibet, during a meeting in India read more →
U.S. lawmakers visit Dalai Lama, highlight situation in Tibet
By Douglas Busvine, DHARAMSALA, India U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi meets Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in Dharamsala, India May 9, 2017. REUTERS/Douglas Busvine A U.S. Congressional delegation visited the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in India on Tuesday, seeking to draw world attention to read more →
Fred Frederikse: ‘Better to die a good death’
Dr Lobsang Sangay, prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile By Fred Frederikse, Wanganui Chronicle 9 May 2017 Millisphere, noun. A “sphere of interest” of roughly one-thousandth of the world’s population. Around 7 million people, but anywhere between 3.5 and 14 million will do. A lens through which to study human read more →