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Dalai Lama translates true happiness during visit to American Enterprise Institute
Charles Dharapak/AP – The Dalai Lama, posing for a selfie with blogger and activist Alek Boyd, discussed how to advance a “happy life’’ for people worldwide at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington on Thursday. [The Washington Post] By Melinda Henneberger As the Dalai Lama entered the room at the read more →
Exclusive: The Dalai Lama Talks Pot, Facebook and the Pope With TIME
Elizabeth Dias, TIME Magazine His Holiness the Dalai Lama Ahead of a lengthy two-week tour of the U.S. west coast, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, spoke with TIME religion reporter Elizabeth Dias during a wide-ranging, 40-minute interview in Washington D.C. on Wednesday. He weighed in on the moral read more →
China faces UN Criticism in North Korea’s Crime Against Humanity Probe
[VOA] China Rejects UN Criticism in North Korea Rights Probe China is rejecting the charge of a U.N. human rights inquiry that suggested Beijing was aiding and abetting crimes against humanity by returning defectors to its ally, North Korea. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Tuesday that China cannot accept read more →
Former Taiwan VP meets China’s president
[Sky News] A former vice-president of Taiwan has met China’s top leader in the latest high-level encounter between the two sides amid steadily closer relations. Lien Chan, also an honorary chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, met President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, the read more →
China media: Modernising the system
Wang Yu-chi, (left), head of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, and Zhang Zhijun, head of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, greeted each other before their meeting on Tuesday in Nanjing, China/Photo by Alexander F. Yuan/Associated Press [BBC] Modernising the system of governance, a potential meeting between the leaders of China and read more →
Reputation Matters: Unpacking the Microsoft China Censorship Scandal
[The Wall Street Journal] By Jason Q. Ng Controversy this week over alleged China-related censorship on the international version of Bing.com, the search engine operated by Microsoft has cast an important spotlight on the ways in which censorship can bleed over into supposedly free regions of the Internet and on the importance read more →
Badiucao: (巴丢草): How the Great Firewall Works
[China Digital Times] In this cartoon, Badiucao demonstrates how Internet censorship works in China, by showing the restraints imposed on netizens by the Great Firewall as they surf the Web.
A Great Chinese Contraction in Tibet?
By Claude Arpi [claudearpi.blogspot.in] A remarkable historical document appears in the latest book of Melvyn Goldstein’s History of Modern Tibet(Volume 3).On May 14, 1957, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee decided to downsize the Chinese presence in Tibet and postpone the so-called democratic reforms in Central Tibet. A few read more →
Will China shake the world again?
By Robert Peston [BBC] Unless you are an aficionado of the great moments of Chinese Communist history, you probably won’t have heard of Wuhan (it is the site of Chairman Mao’s legendary swim across the Yangtze). But perhaps more than any other Chinese city, it tells the story of how read more →
About a Tibetan at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C
[tibetreport.wordpress.com] By Bhuchung K Tsering Those who are familiar with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., particularly its Asian Division, would be aware of its documents on Tibet, whose Tibetan-language collection is said to be one of the largest in the West. The collection ranges from Tibetan Buddhist scriptures read more →
Taiwan and China Edge Ever Closer
OP-ED [The New York Times] By Jonathan Sullivan NOTTINGHAM, England — Government officials from China and Taiwan met last week for the first time in an official capacity in more than six decades. The talks were uneventful — producing modest agreements to establish communication channels and other practical arrangements — read more →
Boots joy for Tibetan team
[Fairfax NZ News] Shane Kidby’s passion for football has taken him to the hometown of the Dalai Lama to train its team of budding players. The New Plymouth man sold his house and gave up his job as a sales representative to volunteer his time as a coach in Dharamsala, read more →
After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China
[The New York Times] By Andrew Jacobs A Tibetan law student at the E. Gene Smith Library in southwest China. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times CHENGDU, China — Decades ago, the thousands of Tibetan-language books now ensconced in a lavishly decorated library in southwest China might have ended read more →
China for border code of conduct, India mum
[The Times of India] By Indrani Bagchi NEW DELHI: China has suggested drawing up a code of conduct with India on the disputed border. This is expected to govern the behaviour of troops and personnel of both countries on the border. The proposal was made during the recent read more →
Book review: Jeff Smith decodes the complex China-India rivalry in Cold Peace
[First Post] By Uttara Choudhury New York: US strategic analyst Jeff M. Smith’s new book, Cold Peace, is a wonderfully nuanced analysis of the complex India-China relationship bedeviled by rivalry for almost six decades, but steeped in surprisingly steady cooperation in the diplomatic and economic spheres. Book cover from Amazon.com read more →