From McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson’s blog: The Chinese media love to highlight stories that illustrate how violent U.S. society is. Latest case in point: The Amish school shootings in Pennsylvania are all over the newspapers here. But get this: There was a school shooting in China, and it’s nowhere to be seen in the press. […]
Read MoreFrom The Sunday Herald: Chinese government officials tried to block a reception in the Scottish parliament which drew attention to the plight of one of the communist regime’s oppressed minorities. The diplomats, who were taking their orders from Beijing, asked UK ministers to stop an event attended by Uighur refugees. They feared the showcase would […]
Read MoreA short discussion by Dalai Lama on science and religion: Also trailer of “Visually & Respetfully Yours,” on Tibetan Buddhism and Tears of Tibet, a heavier topic but in lower visual quality also via YouTube
Read MoreFrom China Dialogue: China’s national strategy to develop the country’s western region has led to great progress, but the gap between eastern and western China is still increasing, said Wang Jinxiang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Statistics show that the GDP generated by the country’s western region in 2005 doubled since […]
Read MoreFrom UPI: What one generally regards as modern China and its pollution-belching factories dotting the landscape hardly seems to have room for the nostalgic notion of a Shangri-la. Do not forget the ancient and the future reside side-by-side in China. In Beijing and eastern China in general it is not uncommon to go for days […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: The sudden rise of a travel industry here in remote western Sichuan Province has all the markings of a fairy tale, one complete with beautiful sisters and an errant knight who arrives from far away, changing their lives forever. That was the past, though, distant by all of eight years. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese police detained prominent dissident Hu Jia on Thursday morning, his family said, adding to the list of human rights activists held or harassed by the country’s dissent-wary government. Hu was taken away by plain-clothes police early in the morning, his wife Zeng Jinyan told Reuters. She said […]
Read MoreFrom Council on Foreign Relations: With much fanfare, China opened the world’s highest railroad (AP) connecting Beijing with the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, on July 1, the Chinese Communist Party anniversary. An engineering feat, the high-tech train reaches heights of more than 16,500 feet and carries passengers in sealed cars pumped with oxygen across the […]
Read MoreFrom Spiegel: Zhang Qingli, the head of the Communist Party in Tibet, talks about the role of the Dalai Lama, Beijing’s difficult relationship with the Buddhist region and China’s policies on religion. SPIEGEL: Mr. Zhang, Tibet is traditionally a deeply religious country, whereas the Chinese Communist Party is secular. Marx called religion the opium of […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Thousands of Mongolians have flocked to a monastery in Ulan Bator to welcome the Dalai Lama, as China protested to its neighbor over the Tibetan spiritual leader`s visit. Several thousand people cheered loudly as the Dalai Lama wearing traditional saffron and maroon robes — smiled and waved to them in the grounds of […]
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