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Social, Emotional and Ethical (SEE) Learning: We need to SEE beyond STEM learning
By Vikram Chaudhary Financial Express May 10, 2021 Alfiya Shaikh is a Grade 9 student at the Matoshri English Medium School, Pune (run by the Akanksha Education Fund). She used to get irritated frequently, even over trivial things. Today, she has learnt how to manage her anger, cope with difficult read more →
China Is Building Entire Villages in Another Country’s Territory
Foreign Policy 7 May 2021 In October 2015, China announced that a new village, called Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been established in the south of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). In April 2020, the Communist Party secretary of the TAR, Wu Yingjie, traveled across two passes, read more →
U.S., Russia, China poke each other at U.N. Security Council
Reuters 7 May 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took a veiled swipe at Russia and China on Friday during a U.N. Security Council meeting chaired by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, warning that the actions of some big powers portrays impunity to others. The meeting on multilateralism, convened read more →
Beijing accuses G7 ministers of interfering in China’s affairs
Vincent Ni The Guardian 6 May 2021 China has rejected accusations of human rights abuse and economic coercion, made by G7 foreign ministers, accusing them of “blatantly meddling” in China’s internal affairs, calling their remarks groundless. “Attempts to disregard the basic norms of international relations and to create various excuses to read more →
G7 scolds China and Russia over threats, bullying, rights abuses
Reuters 6 May 2021 The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, but beyond words there were few concrete steps aside from expressing support for Taiwan and Ukraine. Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s read more →
A Short Buddhist Teaching: Emptiness and Compassion as Antidotes to Destructive Emotions
Science and wisdom of emotions summit blogsbloWhat You’ll Learn In this short and potent 8 minute teaching, listen as His Holiness speaks about his personal daily practice of generating bodhicitta – “altruistic awakening mind” – which is said to naturally fulfill “the benefit of oneself and others.” Explore how we read more →
China Is a Paper Dragon
David Frum The Atlantic China was mentioned only four times in Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, but it shadowed almost every line of the speech. “We’re in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st Century,” Biden said. His aides describe the president read more →
China Has Lost the Philippines Despite Duterte’s Best Efforts
Foreign Policy 3 May 2021 Since his election in 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has time and again underscored his anti-U.S. and pro-Chinese orientation. On his first trip to Beijing in 2016, he announced it was “time to say goodbye to Washington”—much to the delight of his host, Chinese President read more →
The Tibetan resistance continues
Hans India After the worldwide condemnation of China’s refusal to reveal the whereabouts of the real Panchen Lama, the Chinese Communist Party, opens up to say that the Panchen Lama “is now a college grad with a stable job”. No Tibetan could be fooled into believing this lie. The real read more →
US Secretary Of State Says China Acting “More Aggressively Abroad”: Report
NDTV 3 May 2021 Washington: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview that aired on Sunday that China had recently acted “more aggressively abroad” and was behaving “increasingly in adversarial ways.” Asked by CBS News’ “60 Minutes” if Washington was heading toward a military confrontation with Beijing, Blinken read more →
Tibet has always been free: India needs to change the narrative in the ongoing LAC standoff talks – Part 1
TOI 1 May 2021 Historically Tibet has always been an independent State and a Buffer between India and China. Thus India’s Border Is With Tibet (Not China?) Source: Collection of author’s maps 1. The word has had two views on Tibet’s freedom. One view is that Tibet is a part read more →
Claude Arpi | China’s new weapon is ‘political archaeology’
Claude Arpi Asian Age 28 April 2021 In February this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) started a new campaign called “Party History Learning and Education”; it will continue in full swing through the year as the CPC celebrates its centenary in July. Neican, a weekly brief on China read more →
Melting Glaciers Threaten China’s Plan to Build Massive Dam Over Brahmaputra in Tibet: Report
News 18 Melting glaciers and barrier lakes could threaten China’s plan to build the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, a media report said on Wednesday. The proposed dam which one Chinese official said has “no parallel in history will read more →
2020 Annual Report: Human Rights Situation in Tibet
TCHRD 26 April 2021 The 2020 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet, released online today in three languages: Tibetan, Chinese and English, presents a disturbing picture of deprivation and abuses, marked by persistent and grave human rights violations, including, absence of independent space for free speech owing read more →
EU slams China’s ‘authoritarian shift’ and broken economic promises
Politico 25 April 2021 The European Union’s stance on China is hardening, and that should go down well in Washington. Only four months after Beijing and Brussels concluded the principles of a landmark investment agreement, a high-level internal report seen by POLITICO shows the EU is now increasingly pessimistic about keeping read more →