University Protests Raise CCP Influence Concerns
This week Uyghur activist Rukiye Turdush gave a presentation at Ontario’s McMaster...
Tibet status
China’s Plan to ‘Liberate’ a Cradle of Tibetan Culture
At The Washington Post, Emily Rauhala reports on government efforts to intensify state-led...
Beijing Reasserts Right to Name 15th Dalai Lama
Despite optimism from the Dalai Lama about progress towards his goal of Tibetan autonomy within Xi...
The Dalai Lama and the Future of Tibet
Last year when the 14th Dalai Lama announced that he may be the last incarnation of Tibetan...
Tibetan Leader On Back-Channel Talks With China
Frank Jack Daniel at Reuters reports that Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister of Tibet’s...
Tibetan Communist Leader Phuntso Wangye Dies
Phuntso Wangye (also known as Phunwang), the founder of the Tibetan Communist Party who later...
Rights Group Says Another Tibetan Sets Himself on Fire
In the fourth such self-immolation this month, a Tibetan died after setting himself on fire in Gansu. From AP: Free Tibet said Lhamo Kyeb, 27, died Saturday near a monastery in northwestern China’s Gansu province. Citing a...
Teenaged Tibetan Monk ‘Self-immolates’ in China
An 18-year-old Tibetan monk has burned himself to death in Sichuan Province, according to a report from BBC. He is believed to be the 44th Tibetan to self-immolate in protest against Beijing’s policies: The monk in...
Dalai Lama Called for Focus on Climate, not Politics, in Tibet
According to the Wikileaks cables, as reported by the Guardian, the Dalai suggested to U.S. diplomats that discussions over Tibet should focus on environmental concerns, which he sees as being more urgent than political issues:...
China Seizes On a Dark Chapter for Tibet
The New York Times revisits the history of the British in Gyantse, Tibet and looks at how the government is trying to shape the narrative: These days, Gyantse resembles other towns in central Tibet. Its dusty roads are lined...
China Warns Obama not to Meet Dalai Lama
Already upset over the the Obama administration’s planned arms sale to Taiwan, Beijing has warned President Obama against meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader as planned. From the BBC: Mr Zhu [Zhu Weiqun, executive...
Course Correction
Newsweek reports on Beijing’s new approach toward Tibet, almost two years after deadly riots engulfed Lhasa: “…Though local riots looked bad in the press, they never really threatened control of Tibet. And the...
Wang Xiaodong (王小东): It’s Up to the West to Face Why China is Unhappy
A book released earlier this year, called Unhappy China: The Great Time, Grand Vision and Our Challenges (中国不高兴：大时代，大目标及我们的内忧外患), offered a pointed nationalist critique of Western countries and their media. When the book was...
Obama Officials Meet Dalai Lama in India
China has reacted angrily to a meeting between Obama administration officials and the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. From Xinhua: According to media reports, three top aides to U.S. President Barack Obama, met the Dalai Lama...
Robert Barnett: A Way out of Tibet’s Morass
Tibet expert Robert Barnett offers his suggestions of how both sides can work to increase understanding and decrease tensions over Tibet: Western governments have been accused of interference, but it is unlikely that any want to...
Ian Buruma: China’s Burden
Ian Buruma writes in the Guardian about the various arguments on both sides of the TIbet issue, and brings in another perspective: But the Chinese have another argument up their sleeve, which seems more plausible (and more...
Pico Iyer: ‘A Hell on Earth’
Writer Pico Iyer, who last year published a book about the Dalai Lama, writes in the New York Review of Books about his observations while traveling with the Tibetan leader in Japan: As I watched and listened to him speak, day...
Dialogue on Tibet: Past, Present and Future
While those at the polar ends of the Tibet debate may see it as a black and white issue, a few efforts have been made recently to show the complexity of the problems involved. China Pictorial, an official travel and photography...
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