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Time to shuffle the deck: season of political personnel changes in China’s Communist Party goes up a gear
South China Morning Post, 28 September 216 The opening in late October of the Chinese Communist Party’s key sixth plenum – or assembly meeting of all members – is the latest session of the Central Committee’s current tenure and signifies the start of Beijing’s five-yearly political reshuffle season, lasting until read more →
China prepares for Dalai Lama’s death by looking to its own top Tibetan cleric
Simon Denyer, The Washington Post LHASA, China — In the contest for Tibetan hearts and minds, a 26-year-old Buddhist monk is emerging into the spotlight. He is the Chinese-appointed Panchen Lama, and he is being groomed by the Communist Party to fill an important political and religious role in Tibet. read more →
The Dalai Lama is An Anti-Separatist Element
by Han Lianchao (September 29, 2016, Beijing, Sri Lanka Guardian) Some young Chinese friends of mine often criticize me for getting mixed up with the Dalai Lama. They say he’s a separatist element who’s trying to split Tibet from China. I don’t blame them for this, as I once understood read more →
In China, repression buries rule of law
Editorial Board, Washington Post, 27 September 2016 AS CHINA’S economy mushroomed in recent decades, outsiders often pointed out the need to establish rule of law, giving investors and business executives, both at home and abroad, a reliable set of rules upon which to make decisions. In a democratic system, rule read more →
Unbylined: A Q&A With a Chinese Fixer
Piper French, Road&Kingdom In international journalism, a local journalist hired by foreign reporters for his or her special knowledge of the local area, culture, and language is called a fixer. The relatively unsung nature of the fixer’s work belies its difficulty and its importance. Fixers are crucial in helping foreign read more →
Dalai Lama envoy says Canada-China free trade must factor in Tibetan crisis
Stephen Smith, CBC New The self-immolation protests of 144 mostly young Tibetans since 2009 cannot be ignored as Canada embarks on exploratory free trade talks with China, says the Dalai Lama’s special representative to the United States and Canada. “They should look at the reason why people are doing this,” Penpa read more →
‘With thousands of dams upstream, China has water as weapon against India’
The Indian Express, 23 September 2016 NEW DELHI: With China having 87,000 dams, many in Tibet, with strategic benefit against India, experts on Friday urged the “down stream” Asian nations to unite and force Beijing to sign a trans-border water sharing treaty to counter its massive damming policies. Tibet is read more →
China’s new invasion of Tibet
Angus Grigg, AFRWEEKEND, 24 September 2016 On the station platform a group of retirees are posing for photos, pumping their fists and shouting “Lhasa” with every snap of the shutter. “Lhasa, Lhasa, Lhasa,” they chant. Their backdrop is an olive-green train carriage that will take them from the western Chinese read more →
China’s damming of the river: A policy in disguise
By Dechen Palmo, Tibetpolicy.net An upper Mekong dam underway. Photo: Michael Buckley China’s control over “blue gold” wealth on Tibetan plateau has armed China with tremendous leverage and made them a potential water power in a way Saudi Arabia is an oil power.[1] Moreover, the country which has the largest read more →
China should be proud of Wang Quanzhang – instead it persecutes him
The Guardian, 23 September 2016 Last July, the Chinese government launched its most widespread crackdown on rule of law advocates in decades, detaining some 300 rights defenders. Some have been held incommunicado since, with lawyers and family members trying to visit them in detention being told to look elsewhere. Meanwhile, read more →
In Tibet, religious freedom comes with Chinese characteristics
Agence France-Presse, 22 September 2016 The sun has yet to rise over Lhasa, but dozens of colourfully dressed pilgrims are already gathered and reciting prayers at the entrance to Jokhang, the most sacred temple in Tibetan Buddhism. Many of those gathered – Tibetans and Han Chinese visitors – say religion read more →
On China, when shall we learn the lessons?
The Pioneer, 22 September 2016 In dealing with Beijing, New Delhi has since the 1950s been persuaded by the myth of Chinese warmth for India and Indian interests. The much-heralded Panchsheel was a disaster that few are willing to accept Several years ago, during a conference in an Indian university, read more →
With Beijing, does Delhi have a Tibet card?
Prashant Jha, Hindustan Times, 21 September 2016 When Narendra Modi took oath on May 26, 2014, there was a surprise guest at Rashtrapati Bhawan – Lobsang Sangay, the Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Four months later, when China’s President Xi Jinping visited Ahmedabad, the security administration was instructed to read more →
Glacial lake floods threaten Tibet
SciDev.Net Several of Tibet’s glacial lakes are expanding rapidly, calling for urgent attention. Recent studies show that there are at least six potential glacial lake outbursts. Managing transboundary natural hazards calls for cooperation between China and Nepal. [LHASA] Tibet’s expanding glacial lakes threaten downstream communities in Nepal, reports Jane Qiu. read more →
Inside China’s secret brainwashing centres: ‘People only see what the government wants them to see’
news.com.au, 18 September 2016 FROM the outside it looks like any other holiday village in China. But hidden inside one of the region’s picturesque mountains is a dark and forbidding ‘brainwashing centre’ where government officials routinely carry out horrific acts of abuse and torture on Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong read more →