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Tibet should be core issue for India, China: Tibetan PM
[IANS] By Vishal Gulati Dharamsala: Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay Wednesday said Tibet should be a core issue for India in its dealings with China. “It has always been our hope that the Indian government makes Tibet a core issue in its dealings with China and urges the Chinese government to resolve the issue of Tibet peacefully through dialogue,” Sangay read more →
14 Nobel Laureates Urge South African President to Give Dalai Lama Visa
[AFP] JOHANNESBURG: Fourteen Nobel Peace Laureates have asked President Jacob Zuma to guarantee the Dalai Lama a visa to South Africa, after the Tibetan spiritual leader was forced to abandon a trip to the country. The Dalai Lama was to attend a summit of Nobel peace prize winners in Cape read more →
All substantive issues on table during Xi visit: Indian Foreign Ministry
[IANS/Business Standard] All substantive issues of interest, including the festering border issue, between India and China will be on the table during talks between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sep 18, the external affairs ministry said Monday. Briefing the media ahead of the much-anticipated visit of the Chinese president, external affairs read more →
Why China fears a Scottish Yes
[The Financial Times] By Ben Marino It is one of Beijing’s worst nightmares: subjects in a resource-rich semi-autonomous province hold a vote on independence. So when Premier Li Keqiang was asked in June where he stood on Scottish independence, it came as no surprise that he backed the union. In read more →
With eye on China, India to develop disputed border region
[Reuters] BY TOMMY WILKES NEW DELHI Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:52am IST (Reuters) – India has eased restrictions on building roads and military facilities along its disputed border with China, as the new government seeks to close the gap on its neighbour’s superior transport network and take a stronger stance on read more →
Tibetan Ex-Prisoner Describes Harsh Conditions Behind Bars
Radio Free Asia Gonpo Trinley’s laogai prison release order issued by Deyang prison in Sichuan province, in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of TCHRD Tibetan political prisoners in a notorious prison in China’s Sichuan province are forced to work long hours, isolated from each other and assaulted by Han read more →
Foreign Journalists in China See Decline in Reporting Conditions
Journalists waiting outside the Great Hall of the People during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing in March.Credit Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters [The New York Times] By Andrew Jacobs Conditions for foreign journalists working in China have gone from bad to worse over the past year, with the Chinese authorities read more →
Confucius says
[The Economist] A decade ago China began opening centres abroad to promote its culture. Some people are pushing back Sep 13th 2014 | BEIJING AND EUGENE, OREGON | From the print edition “HARMONY is the most valuable of all things,” said the Chinese philosopher Confucius two and a half millennia ago. There is read more →
Panchsheel not in India’s interests, says Sanat Kaul
[Indian Today] By Sanat Kaul Sanat Kaul While the Chinese are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the lapsed Panchsheel Agreement with India is also joining in, India is not bothering to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Simla Agreement of 1914, the basis on which it claims Arunachal Pradesh. The Modi read more →
India talks tough on one-China policy, says reaffirm one-India policy first
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this month. [The Times of India] By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: India on Monday took a tough line ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India later this read more →
An Open Letter to Michelle Obama
By Rose Tang, published: March 24, 2014 The letter was originally posted by the author on her Facebook page. Dear Michelle: I wasn’t the only Chinese who was totally disappointed by your speech at Peking University on Saturday. You did not mention a word about the university being a birthplace of China’s read more →
Tibetan leadership urges China to open ‘earnest dialogue’
[The Parliament Magazine] Written by Kelsang Gyaltsen on 8 September 2014 in Opinion Kelsang Gyaltsen says Tibet is not seeking independence, but is concerned only with preserving the “distinct Buddhist cultural heritage, language and natural environment of the Tibetan plateau”. On 12 June 2012, the EU high representative Catherine Ashton called on China read more →
From Taiwan, Broad Support for Democracy in Hong Kong
Demonstrators took to the streets of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, in March to protest a cross-strait agreement with China on trade in services.Credit Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images [The New York Times] By Austin Ramzy Taiwan’s main political parties say they support Hong Kong residents’ calls for a greater say in choosing read more →
Dalai Lama’s spiritual event in Delhi soon after Xi Jinping’s visit
[Deccan Herald] By Anirban Bhaumik [New Delhi, 5 Sept 2014] Tibetan leader Dalai Lama’s plan to hold a spiritual conclave in Delhi in the third week of this month put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Government in a fix as it is preparing to host Chinese President Xi Jinping in the national read more →
1,000-year-old monastery to have Buddhist studies centre
By Vishal Gulati, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) Shimla, Sep 3 (IANS) Tabo, an ancient seat of Buddhist religion and culture in picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh in northern India, will now have an international learning centre. Baudh Darshan, which will help preserve the ancient seat of Buddhist studies, will read more →