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Living in a slum in the name of enlightenment
Sydney Morning Herald, 17 October 2016 Sertar, Garze: In the northern summer of 2001, thousands of Chinese security personnel, backed by an army of labourers armed with sledgehammers, massed at the entry of the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute. In this almost impossibly remote place, sitting high on the Tibetan read more →
Demolition of Larung Gar Monastery by China ‘inhuman’, ‘unconstitutional’: Former Tibetan PM-in-exile
ANI, Business Standard Former Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche has termed demolition of Larung Gar Monastery and eviction of thousands of monks and nuns in his homeland as inhuman and unconstitutional. Rinpoche said it was not for the first time that Chinese authorities had completely demolished Larung Gar, as a read more →
Chinese Leaders Are Living in a Dangerous Illusion
Arthur Waldron, China Change This is a speech delivered on October 2, the first day of the three-day conference on the prospect of a democratic Chinain New York City, organized and attended by overseas Chinese scholars and dissidents. With Professor Waldron’s permission, we are pleased to post the text of read more →
Czech politicians meet Dalai Lama in contrast to pro-China policy
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech ministers and senior parliamentarians held a private meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, risking upsetting China just as Prague is trying to boost ties with Beijing. By contrast, the country’s four highest-ranking officials kept their distance from the meeting and issued read more →
Has Xi Jinping changed China?
China Policy Institute, 18 October 2016 Almost as soon as Xi Jinping assumed office as president in March 2013, a few months after becoming leader of the Communist Party, it became apparent that he planned major changes for China. In particular, Xi called for carrying out further market economic reforms, read more →
Czechs welcome Dalai Lama in Prague
Prague Daily Prague, Oct 17 (CTK) – About 1000 people, some of them carrying Tibetan flags or posters reading Free Tibet, came to Prague’s Hradcany Square to welcome the Tibetan Dalai Lama, who arrived in Prague to attend the 20th Forum 2000, which was founded by former president Vaclav Havel. read more →
Tibet’s Thangkas find new fans across China
Her eyes riveted to the canvas, Wulan meticulously applies colour to an image of the Buddha, using pigments made of crushed pearls, turquoise and agate.PHOTO: SPH 17 October 2016 – The Business Times [BEIJING] Her eyes riveted to the canvas, Wulan meticulously applies colour to an image of the Buddha, read more →
Xi Jinping: Where Does the Power Come From?
Kerry Brown, China Policy Institute: Analysis The consensus on the history of the People’s Republic of China after its establishment in 1949 is that the last seven decades divides into two phases. The first until 1978, broadly covering the Maoist era, saw mass campaigns, Utopian visions guiding social development, and read more →
China set to free last Tiananmen prisoner – but he’ll be frail and ill
South China Morning Post, 14 October 2016 A rights group and fellow former inmate say China’s last-known prisoner held in relation to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests will be released on Saturday, but that he’ll face freedom a frail and mentally ill man. Miao Deshun’s release follows an 11-month sentence read more →
Tibet infrastructure gives Beijing edge over India in Nepal: Chinese media
Sutirtho Patronobis, Hindustan Times, Beijing Updated: Oct 13, 2016 09:37 IST India and China are competing for influence over Nepal but superior infrastructure in Tibet that borders the land-locked country can give Beijing the edge, the nationalist Global Times said on Thursday. A top expert wrote in the state-controlled newspaper read more →
ALERT! The Chinese are wiping out Tibet
rediff.com / October 13, 2016 10:15 IST The world must hang its head in shame for being a mute spectator to the ‘cultural holocaust’ in Tibet, says Major General Mrinal Suman (retd), who visited Tibet recently. Tibet continues to be an enigma to all visitors. My two visits have been read more →
China’s Tibet tourism statistics just don’t add up
By Simon Denyer and Congcong Zhang, 6 October 2016 – The Washington Post Depending on your perspective, the official statistics for the number of tourists flooding into Tibet are either impressive, or downright scary. The Chinese government says 23 million visitors will enter the Tibetan Autonomous Region this year, an read more →
The absurd face of China’s censorship: Bookstore tears out Taiwan page from Webster’s
Simon Denyer and Luna Lin, The Washington Post, 13 October 2016 Censorship, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once observed, “reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.” This week, the Chinese government’s lack of confidence was on display as reports emerged that a state-run bookstore in Shanghai had opened read more →
Brics summit in Goa: After isolating Pakistan, India must call China’s bluff
The Firstpost, 13 October 2016 Having isolated Pakistan in the international community reasonably effectively, India will come face to face with China, Pakistan’s mentor and accomplice, at the two-day Brics summit in Goa this weekend. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to at least politely confront Chinese President Xi Jinping read more →
The alphabet soup at Goa
The Hindu, 13 October 2016 As Indian foreign policy looks westwards, the BRICS summit offers India an opportunity to calibrate its outreach to multiple powers. This weekend will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his foreign policy team undertake a complex and significant manoeuvre. This comes at a time when read more →