While territorial disputes have long played a role in Chinese economic and foreign policy, China’s growing resources have allowed it to adopt more ambitious and expansive tactics in asserting its territorial claims. However, as...
Chinese authorities have reportedly arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and other residents of largely Tibetan Dege County in Sichuan Province, following protests against a vast dam project that would destroy six...
The Associated Press’ Huizhong Wu reports that at least 23 people have been detained following protests across Inner Mongolia against recently announced language education reforms. The new policies would gradually replace...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At The Financial Times, Leslie Hook writes that Chinese authorities have misdiagnosed the causes...
After three successive days of demonstrations (see pictures at Tea Leaf Nation and Global Voices), protesters in Jiangmen, Guangdong won a written guarantee on Monday that a planned uranium processing plant nearby would not go...
An article by a Central Party School scholar and reports of experimental concessions in some Tibetan areas have recently given rise to hopes that China might adopt a softer line towards the Dalai Lama. But after police allegedly...
Following the release last week of a Human Rights Watch report on relocation and resettlement in Tibet, High Peaks Pure Earth translates Tibetan writer Woeser’s description of a return visit to one uprooted community: I...
Tantalizing signs have recently emerged of possible change in China’s Tibet policy: arguments by a Central Party School scholar, a visit to Tibet this week by U.S. ambassador Gary Locke, and reports that strictly religious...
Xinhua reports the imminent relocation of another 86,100 people in Henan as part of the South-North Water Diversion project. Residents of Xichuan County, Henan, which is located near the Danjiangkou Reservoir, will move to more...
Fast Company reports on an innovative plan by the city of Tianjin to deal with the water crisis and avoid the pollution that comes with the massive south-to-north water diversion project: The project has been in the works for 50...
“How China’s Taking Over Africa, and Why the West Should be VERY Worried” In a prolix and partly puzzling piece published in the online edition of the Daily Mail, the conservative British tabloid, the author...
From McClatchy Newspapers: In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans – nearly one-tenth of the population – from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The […]
From Three Gorges Probe: Director Jia Zhangke, a leading figure in what is known as China’s Sixth Generation of filmmakers, won the prestigious Golden Lion prize at the recent Venice Film Festival for his movie Still Life, shot in the Three Gorges area… Jia Zhangke spoke with Three Gorges Probe while in Toronto last month […]
The following article was written by Chen Guojie, a senior researcher at the Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and translated by Three Gorges Probe: Since the 1950s, 22 million people have been moved to make way for hydropower dams in China, according to official statistics. Most […]
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