From Reuters: The Olympics have so far failed to catalyze reform in China and pledges to improve human rights before the Games look disingenuous after a string of violations in Beijing and a crackdown in Tibet, Amnesty...
Read MoreFrom AP: Turning attention from efforts to calm the U.S. credit crisis, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson meets Wednesday with China’s new point man on strained trade ties with Washington — a former star banker who Paulson...
Read MoreFrom BBC: French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he has not ruled out boycotting the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in China over the situation in Tibet. His aides said France was still opposed to a full boycott but that...
Read MoreSupporters of Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party celebrates after Ma won the presidential elections. Photo by Andrew Wong / Getty Images.Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Magnier reports from Taipei:...
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Taiwan’s voters choose a new president today in an election that will set the pace of improving relations with China after eight years of confrontation under the pro-independence rule of Chen Shui-bian....
Read MoreAct of Defiance: In spite of attempts to stop them, Tongren monks still sometimes manage to carry out incense rituals on the mountain near their monastery, from NEWSWEEK.Jonathan Ansfield writes an on-scene report from a...
Read MoreIn an op-ed piece in Xinhua, Zhou Yan questions the response of some Western media outlets to the recent protests in and around Tibet: Some Western media are swinging behind a few “rights groups” as if they have...
Read MoreFrom Associated Press: U.S. House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, wearing a symbolic yellow scarf around her neck, delivered a speech in Dharamshala, India. Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama to help shed “the bright light of...
Read MoreStephen Blank, a professor at the US Army War College, argues at EurasiaNet.org that recent protests in and around Tibet provide a “repression blueprint” to other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Group. “It...
Read MoreThe Save Darfur Coalition, which is critical of China’s relationship with the Sudanese government, has been hacked over the last month. Hackers have entered e-mail accounts and the advocacy group’s web server. As a...
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