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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 →
BBC Report: Tibetans displaced within region ‘amid rampant mining’
Campaigners and researchers say that mining operations have gathered apace in recent years By Navin Singh Khadka Environment reporter, BBC News A record number of Tibetans have been displaced in their own homeland amid rampant mining and river damming in vacated areas, according to reports. Tibetan leaders and researchers claim read more →
Chinese authorities increase pressure on foreign correspondents
[FCCC] International journalists working in China complain that the Beijing authorities are making life difficult for them, sometimes making it impossible for them to do their work. Visas are being delayed or denied. Reporters are finding it increasingly difficult to conduct interviews because people who speak to them suffer from police read more →
US calls on China to release Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xia, pictured in 2012, has been under virtual house arrest since 2010. Her husband Liu Xiaobo was jailed in 2009. Photograph: Ng Han Guan/AP By Tania Branigan [The Guardian] Secretary of state John Kerry says Nobel prize winner should be freed and his wife released from house arrest The read more →
THE MEANING OF CHINA’S CRACKDOWN ON THE FOREIGN PRESS
By Evan Osnos [The New Yorker] The Chinese government is threatening to expel nearly two dozen foreign correspondents, working for the Times and Bloomberg News, in retaliation for investigations that exposed the private wealth of Chinese leaders. It is the Chinese government’s most dramatic attempt to insulate itself from scrutiny in the thirty-five years since China read more →
Biden decries China squeeze on US media
By Anthony Zurcher [BBC] China is putting the squeeze on the New York Times and Bloomberg News, and it could have severe consequences for press freedom. The nation has blocked internet access to the two organisations’ websites, denied access to key events, such as the recent meeting between British Prime read more →