From The Los Angeles Times: It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When China seven years ago won the right to hold this summer’s Olympics, the nation erupted in joy, confident it would finally receive the accolades it...
Read MorePhoto from Chinese government official media, via blog.sohu.com. More Chinese government officially published photos are here.The Economist, the only Western publication with an accredited reporter in Lhasa when riots first...
Read MoreWhile discussion of the recent riots in Tibetan areas and their aftermath is being strictly policed on the Internet inside China, a number of Chinese bloggers (many of them living overseas) have started to weigh in. Responses...
Read MoreThe Times is reporting that monks at Tashilunpo Monastery in Xigaze, Tibet, defied the police presence on Monday to march on the streets briefly, before being intercepted by armed police: The maroon-robed monks from the...
Read MoreWhile China limits access to journalists to Tibetan regions, Radio Free Asia shares communications from those inside. As communication becomes more difficult with people living inside Tibet, cell phone conversations with family...
Read MoreIn today’s New York Times, Howard French reports: A group of prominent Chinese intellectuals has circulated a petition urging the government to stop what it calls a “one sided” propaganda campaign about Tibet and initiate...
Read MoreTang Danhong 唐丹鸿，(born in 1965 ) is a poet and documentary filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She has made several documentaries in and about Tibet since the 1990s. She wrote the following essay this week and published it on her...
Read MoreDave Zirin is the author of Welcome to the Terrordome: the Pain Politics and Promise of Sports (Haymarket) and the host of XM Radio’s Edge of Sports Radio. He writes on the National magazine: The brutal crackdown by...
Read MoreFrom AFP: China turned its back Saturday on appeals for dialogue with the Dalai Lama, vowing to smash anti-China forces in Tibet, where it said the death toll in recent unrest had risen to 19. A day after Beijing launched a...
Read MoreThe ultimate fallout from the ongoing unrest and subsequent crackdown in Tibetan areas is not yet known, but already recent events have had some impact on the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Propaganda chiefs have become concerned...
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