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Celebrate the Panscheel Agreement? It was one of India’s worst political disasters
[Daily Mail] By Dr Sanat Kaul The Vice-President Hamid Ansari paid a visit to Beijing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Panchsheel Agreement with China. It may be recalled this Agreement trumped by Nehru has been the source and beginning of the greatest disaster of Indian Foreign Policy results read more →
Hong Kong marches for democracy as government says ‘doing its utmost’
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters gather to march in the streets to demand universal suffrage in Hong Kong July 1, 2014. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu [Reuters] HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with many calling for the city’s leader to be sacked, in what could read more →
Hong Kong’s politics: No paper tiger
[The Economist] PEOPLE in Hong Kong have responded with alarm, and some defiance, to a white paper issued by China’s leaders about the city’s political future. In rallies outside Beijing’s representative office in Hong Kong on June 11th, politicians and protesters burned copies of the report and accused officials of read more →
China-Taiwan relations: Big brother comes wooing
Does this hat make me look charming? [The Economist] For more than six decades after the Chinese civil war, the mainland did not allow its minister-level officials openly to set foot in Taiwan. This changed on June 25th when Zhang Zhijun, director of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, visited the island read more →
The Illusion of Chinese Power
[The National Interest] By David Shambaugh CONVENTIONAL WISDOM has it that the China juggernaut is unstoppable and that the world must adjust to the reality of the Asian giant as a—perhaps the—major global power. A mini-industry of “China rise” prognosticators has emerged over the past decade, all painting a picture of read more →
China to let Indian experts monitor Brahmaputra in Tibet
[The Hindu] China has for the first time formally agreed to allow Indian hydrological experts to conduct study tours in Tibet to monitor the flows on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra, according to a new agreement signed here on Monday during the visit of Vice-President Hamid Ansari. In a read more →
Hong Kong democracy ‘referendum’ voting ends
[BBC] Votes are being counted in Hong Kong after an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage in the Chinese territory. The 10-day poll was held by protest group Occupy Central, which says almost 800,000 voted online or in person. A Hong Kong government spokesman has said the vote has no legal read more →
Spain court scraps probe of ex-Chinese leaders over Tibet under new universal jurisdiction law
[Associated Press] MADRID – Spain’s National Court has scrapped an investigation into several former Chinese leaders for alleged genocide in Tibet, a probe that had angered Beijing. A court statement late Monday said the court dismissed the investigation because it did not comply with a new law that curbs Spanish read more →
Taming the west
[The Economist] The Communist Party deepens Tibet’s integration with the rest of the country [June 21, 2014|Lhasa|From the print edition] WHEN it opened eight years ago, the railway from Golmud to Lhasa was one of the most ambitious rail ventures ever attempted. At a cost of $4 billion, tracks were read more →
US professors urge Western universities to end ties to China’s Confucius Institutes
By Peter Foster, The Telegraph In a serious blow to China’s soft-power outreach, a leading association of American professors warns that Confucius Institutes break basic standards on academic freedom Chinese soft-power diplomacy has suffered a major rebuke after the leading association of American university professors accused China’s network of Confucius read more →
FRESH OVERTURES—CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER’S INDIA VISIT
[Centre for China Analysis & Strategy] By JAYADEVA RANADE, President, CCAS June 2014 During his 2-day (June 8-9) visit to New Delhi, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, was received by India’s new Minister for External Affairs Ms Sushma Swaraj (June 8), recently-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee read more →
Monk tortured in jail as China clamps down on Tibet
[The Sunday Times] By Nicola Smith and Lhakpa Kyizom, Dharamsala Published: 8 June 2014 Sonam Rabga says the beatings have left him with kidney failure A TIBETAN monk has revealed how he was beaten and tortured in a Chinese jail amid signs of a relentless clampdown by Beijing on read more →
US urges China to hold unconditional talks with Tibetan leadership
June 7, 2014 12:30 pm (Tibet.net) DHARAMSHALA: The US has urged China to engage in unconditional talks with His Holiness the Dalai Lama or his representatives as the Tibetan administration in India reinvigorated its effort to achieve genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people through the Middle Way policy. The Department read more →
The Rise of Narendra Modi and the Tibetan hopes? (Tibetan Perspectives)
Mr. Lobsang Yeshi, Member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile The widespread Indian euphoria and the global interest in the stunning victory of Mr. Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India is followed not only with the routine greetings from the world leaders but also historic conglomeration of the SAARC leaders in read more →
Border Makes China and India Bristle, Even as They Seek Closer Ties in Trade
As Indian police officers stood guard on Sunday, Tibetan exiles in New Delhi attended a protest of a visit by China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi. Mr. Wang arrived for trade talks this week. Credit Tsering Topgyal/Associated Press By Ellen Barry [The New York Times] NEW DELHI — China’s state news read more →