In Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria argues against a boycott of the Olympics: At first glance, China’s recent crackdown in Tibet looks like a familiar storyline: a dictatorship represses its people. And of course that’s part...
Read MoreBritain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown is now the second world leader to withdraw from attending the opening ceremony of the Olympics, according to AP: The confirmation from Brown’s Downing Street office means he is...
Read MoreHere is an extensive report on Der Spiegel’s English website: Part 1: China Loses Control of the Games Part 2: ‘Journey of Harmony’ Part 3: The Boycott Taboo Part 4: And the Screen Went Dark Simon Elegant also...
Read MoreThree demonstrators with Students for a Free Tibet were arrested in San Francisco today after they climbed the Golden Gate Bridge and hung a protest banner that read, “”One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 08”....
Read MoreFrom China National News: A Chinese protection force and scores of British police ringed Olympic torch carriers on their ceremonial run through London Sunday but could not prevent a high-profile pro-Tibet demonstration from...
Read MoreRobert Kagan, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes in The New Republic about a changing world in which Russia and China are proving that autocratic rule is a viable model for economic...
Read MoreFrom Pacific Forum CSIS: Surprises and exciting finishes are the rule in Taiwan’s elections. In the months before the presidential election on 22 March, Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou led Democratic Progress Party...
Read MoreIn a recent speech at Georgetown University, Yahoo’s Jerry Yang goes out of his way to assure peole the company had made a break with it’s pockmarked past of collaboration with Chinese Internet control efforts. From...
Read MoreRick Morrissey writes on Chicago Tribune, saying that Boycotts don’t seem to accomplish much when it comes to the Olympics. The rumble of protest is growing louder. Outrage over China’s treatment of Tibetans has led...
Read MoreThe following blog post was signed as written by “a student from the Central University of Nationalities”. Translated by CDT: I’ve wanted to write something for a while in the wake of the latest developments in...
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