From Financial Times : The butchers’ shops on Beijing Road were just beginning to re-open for business on Friday, but residents of the politically charged Tibetan capital have started to grumble about a new threat – inflation....
Read MoreJoe McDonald of Associated Press reports: A new protest was reported Saturday in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as diplomats wrapped up a trip organized by Beijing in an effort to blunt criticism of its crackdown on unrest in the...
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio News: As China tightens its grip on Tibet, it is also stepping up controls on monks in other Chinese provinces, forcing them to denounce the Dalai Lama and forbidding them from leaving their...
Read MoreTibetan riots aren’t the only crisis the government faces in western China. A couple hundred kilometers north of Lhasa, the Xinjiang capital is struggling with an ominous climate change problem that appears to be...
Read MoreChina promises leniency for the monks who switched the script on this week’s post-riot foreign media tour of Lhasa. From Xinhua: The monks who disrupted the tour of overseas reporters on Thursday are not to be punished,...
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 MoreThe U.S. economic recession and other economic factors look likely to add to China’s headaches in the run-up to the Olympics. From MarketWatch.com : China’s already battered stock markets could tumble further against...
Read MoreJeremiah Jenne writes on the China Beat blog: In the hours and days following the event, there were several cases of words and especially images misrepresenting what was going on in Tibet. While I don’t think it was necessarily...
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 MoreFrom The Opposite End of China blog: Of all the tremendously informative articles on Tibet that Xinhua has put together over the past two weeks, this has to be my favorite: Tibetologist: China’s patriotic education of...
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