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China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
China detains popular Tibetan monk and supporters: Tibetan writer
This March, 2011 photo, provided by Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser, shows Karma Tsewang, a highly regarded Tibetan monk, from Japa Monastery at an annual world peace praying meeting in Nangqian county, Qinghai province, China. (AP / Tsering Woeser) [The Associated Press] BEIJING — Chinese authorities have detained a highly regarded read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
The Disneyfication of Tibet
Strike a pose: Han Chinese tourists have overrun Tibet, taking pictures inside temples, gawking at sacred rituals, and making a mockery of a culture. [Washington Monthly] By Pearl Sydenstricker How tourism has become a tool of occupation. High on a mountain in eastern Tibet is a platform where corpses are read more →
Film maker to debut Tibet freedom film
[Bakewell Today] A Baslow-born filmmaker who documented the journey of two children escaping Tibet is to hold Derbyshire’s first screening of the film. Nick Gray’s film Escape from Tibet follows 11-year-old Tenzin and his brother Pasang, 19, as they negotiate the Himalayas in a bid to escape Chinese oppression read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities
By Daniel Golden November 01, 2011 ( Bloomberg.com ) When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet. read more →
Universities and colleges urged to end ties with Confucius Institutes
[Canadian Association of University Teachers] (December 17, 2013) The Canadian Association of University Teachers is calling on universities and colleges to sever their ties with institutes subsidized and supervised by the authoritarian government of China. At a meeting of the CAUT Council earlier this month, delegates passed a resolution calling read more →
Obama names China ambassador, economic ties in mind
[AP] Washington: The nomination of veteran Sen. Max Baucus as US ambassador to China reflects the importance to Washington of advancing the economic relationship with the Asian power despite recent strains on security issues. The Montana Democrat lacks foreign policy credentials but has a track record in pressing Beijing over read more →
Trying to settle India-China boundary issue: Shivshankar Menon
[Indo-Asian News Service] New Delhi : India has been able to build mechanisms to keep peace on its border with China and is trying hard to settle the boundary issue with the giant neighbour, National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon said Saturday. “We have built mechanisms to keep peace on the read more →
Xi Weakens Role of Beijing’s No. 2
[The Wall Street Journal] By Jeremy Page, Bob Davis and Lingling Wei Expanding His Own Remit Further, President Takes Lead on Economy, Traditionally Premier’s Turf BEIJING—British officials were finalizing details of Prime Minister David Cameron‘s visit this month to Beijing when they received a last-minute scheduling change: President Xi Jinping would host a read more →
North Korea is more accessible to foreign journalists than Tibet is
Two Tibetan women look out over the snow in Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images) By Max Fisher [The Washington Post] The Tibetan Autonomous Region of China has been largely closed to the outside world since it was wracked by popular protests in 2008. But the extreme read more →
Dear President of China
Police in Tiananmen Square. A duel between China and Western media seems to be coming to a head/Reuters Photo [The New York Times] By Thomas L. Friedman MEMO to: China’s President Xi Jinping. From: A Friend of Your Country. Dear President Xi, in recent years there’s been a tug of read more →
Japan pledges $20bn to ASEAN in bid to dilute China’s influence in the region
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference after his Cabinet approved a massive stimulus package. Photo: EPA [AFP/The Telegraph] Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe offers aid and loans over five years to Southeast Asian bloc against the backdrop of an ongoing territorial dispute with Beijing Japan pledged read more →
Tibet’s Tense New Reality
Chinese soldiers on patrol in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. (Anastasia Corell) By Anastasia Corell [The Atlantic] Checkpoints with fire extinguishers, pincer-wielding police officers, and spies disguised as monks—welcome to daily life in Lhasa. From nearly any point in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, read more →