UPDATE (March 16): The Economist has an eyewitness account from their correspondent in Lhasa: After hours of rioting on March 14th, a ring of troops was deployed around the large Tibetan quarter during the night. The next day...
Read MoreUpdate (March 16): The Guardian is reporting from Xining, Qinghai, that protests have spread in Sichuan and Qinghai provinces: In Aba county, Sichuan province, protesters attacked a police station with petrol bombs and fought...
Read MoreBritish journalist James Miles is the only journalist known to be in Tibet during the recent protests and riots. He has written a lengthy report for The Times about what he has seen. The death toll remains unclear, as exile...
Read MoreFrom Project Syndicate: Ever since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples’ Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and opaque. Over the past year, however, the shroud of mystery has begun to drop. Hu’s unbridled glorification of “Mao Zedong Thought,” coupled with […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: When the first cracks appeared in the concrete base and bridges of the Qinghai Tibet railway, just weeks after the carefully staged, triumphal opening on July 1 (the 85th birthday of the Chinese Communist party), they were not the only sign that all is not well with China’s policies in Tibet. The […]
Read MoreFrom South Africa’s Mail & Guardian Online: : Chinese authorities have arrested five Tibetan monks who refused to denounce their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and recognise Tibet as part of China, an India-based pro-democracy group says. The five were expelled from Drepung Monastery in Lhasa and handed over to the Public Security Bureau on […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Weekly “Aren’t we Chinese great? They said it couldn’t be done. And yet we’ve not only done it, we’ve done it ahead of plan.” We are two hours, several beers and half a roasted duck into a journey on the overnight express from Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, travelling along the completed […]
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