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The Tibetan nomad traditions defying the modern world
BBC, 18 August 2016 Despite decades of change and development, nomads still migrate to the Tibetan Plateau every summer, from where China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports. There was a time here when tribal Tibetans roamed across a vast dramatic landscape with no specific place to call home. For generation after read more →
Where Do China-India Relations Stand After the Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit?
Sushma Swaraj and Wang Yi. Credit: PTI By R.S. Kalha on 18 August 2016 – The Wire China’s idea of bilateral relations seems to be to aggressively push their national interests while dismissing India’s concerns as unimportant. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi was in Delhi on August 13, 2016 for read more →
China’s Empty Oceans
By Adam Minter, Aug 17, 2016 Bloomberg On Wednesday, Indonesia celebrated its Independence Day with a bang — blowing up several Chinese boats that had been caught fishing illegally in its waters and impounded. China doesn’t dispute Indonesia’s territorial claims, but Chinese fishermen have more pressing concerns. According to reports read more →
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest The New York Times / By LUO SILING AUG. 14, 2016 Generations of Chinese have been taught that the Tibetan people are grateful to China for having liberated them from “feudalism and serfdom,” and yet Tibetan protests, including self-immolations, continue read more →
Trillions in Murky Investments Could Rock China’s Economy
By Keith Bradsher, AUG. 12, 2016 – The New York Times SHANGHAI — The deal could be hard to resist. A Shanghai investment firm is offering a fat return of up to 10 percent a year, handily beating both the local stock market and the paltry payouts from bank accounts. read more →
Rio 2016: Does the Chinese public have a victim narrative?
BBC, 12 August 2016 One week into the Olympic Games and Chinese patriots have a lot of complaints. A brief shortlist might start with judges biased against Chinese athletes. In all Rio venues, the points of the gold stars on the Chinese national flag were misaligned. On one occasion where read more →
A Writer’s Quest to Unearth the Roots of Tibet’s Unrest
By Luo SIling, New York Times, 14 August 2016 On March 10, 1959, several thousand Tibetans, fearing that the Chinese might abduct the Dalai Lama, gathered at the Norbulingka summer palace to protect the Tibetan spiritual leader. Credit The Office of Tibet, Washington, D.C. Generations of Chinese have been taught read more →
Xinhua commentary hints at NSG-SCS quid pro quo
Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi meeting Goa Governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan in Donapaula, Goa on Friday. A Xinhua write-up that appeared on Friday underscored that India should not consider that its entry into the NSG is “tightly closed,” indicating a softening of Beijing’s stand on the entry read more →
Tsai’s Apology Strengthens Taiwan’s Place at Front of Chinese Modernity
Bunun people in the early 1900s. Image Credit: Flickr/ Ralph Repo By Kerry Brown, August 09, 2016 – The Diplomat Magazine Mainland China’s ethnic policy could stand to learn a thing or two from Tsai’s apology. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s historic apology to the island’s indigenous people on August 1 read more →
In China, Economic Data Highlights Growing Divide Between Regions
By Mark Magnier, Aug. 10, 2016 – The Wall Street Journal Provinces’ first-half figures for GDP growth also have revived the debate over the country’s statistics BEIJING—New economic data for China broken down by region shines a light on how uneven growth is around the country and how the nation’s read more →
And the Policemen Danced
Horses dance, too From the print edition of The Economist, August 2016 In Tibetan areas the government mixes control with tolerance TROUPES of Tibetan dancers twirled long pieces of silk. Men in red-tasselled hats brandished swords. Horses in fine saddles stormed around the stadium. Last week the Gesar cultural festival read more →
China’s South China Sea Moves Draw Ire of U.S. Pacific Fleet Chief
In a photo released on Aug. 1 by Xinhua News Agency, a missile is launched from a Chinese navy ship during a live ammunition drill in the East China Sea. Photo: WU DENGFENG/ASSOCIATED PRESS By Jeremy Page, 9 August 2016 – The Wall Street Journal Adm. Swift says air patrols, read more →
US condemns demolition of Tibetan Buddhist institute by China
A photo of Larung Gar valley (Representational image). Source: Fickr Indian Express, 9 August 2016 – PTI Larung Gar is said to be the biggest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world. The US has condemned demolition of Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Institute, one of the largest centres of Buddhist learning read more →
New Photos Cast Doubt on China’s Vow Not to Militarize Disputed Islands
Hangars large enough to hold: Fighter jets Bombers, tankers or transport planes By The New York Times | Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies/Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative/DigitalGlobe By DAVID E. SANGER and RICK GLADSTONE, New York Times AUG. 8, 2016 When President Xi Jinping of China visited President Obama read more →
Natural Disasters in Tibet: Is it the New Normal?
By Zamlha Tempa Gyaltsen, tibetpolicy.net World’s highest plateau witness three different natural disasters in a month A 600 million cubic meters of glacial slide onto the Aru summer pasture of Ruthok County on 17 July 2016, killing nine people, burying more than 110 yaks and 350 sheep. Ruthok is one read more →