From AFP: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday urged the Chinese government to “exercise restraint” in responding to protests in Tibet and called for the release of detained monks. Rice said she was...
Read MoreFrom Shanghai-based blogger Chow, translated by CDT: The riot scenes on the evening news attracted my attention. But the news only had those one-sided words from the government. I came back home in the night, got online and...
Read MoreUPDATE (March 14): Ongoing protests in Lhasa have turned violent, according to AP. The Christian Science Monitor sums up various news accounts of events there, The Times also has a detailed account, while the BBC reports that at...
Read MoreTibetan demonstrators were stopped in their tracks as they began a protest walk from India to Tibet, reports the Associated Press. Indian police barred several hundred Tibetan exiles from marching to Tibet on Monday to protest...
Read MoreFrom BBC News: More than 100 Tibetan exiles have begun a march from India to Tibet to protest against Chinese rule in the region. The marchers left Dharamsala on the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet...
Read MoreKosovar independence could be bad news for China, writes Antoaneta Bezlova in Inter Press Service: Kosovo’s example is unsettling for China because it revives memories of the Chinese Communist Party’s own promises to minorities...
Read MoreChinese Olympic authorities have finally gone public with their reaction to American mega-director Steven Spielberg’s decision to resign as artistic director for the 2008 Games, and it boils down to this: Too bad, but we...
Read MoreAccording to the Telegraph, Prince Charles has said he will not be attending the Olympics in Beijing, while indirectly implying it is because of human rights concerns: The Prince made his decision known to campaigners for a free...
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: The Pentagon assumes the Chinese were angered by US sales of anti-missile systems to Taiwan (hardly shocking given the Chinese missiles targeting Taipei) or by President George W. Bush’s meeting...
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: Germany and China agreed Monday to heal a rift that opened after Beijing suspended most high-level contacts to protest Chancellor Angela Merkel’s meeting last year with the Dalai Lama and her human rights policies. The thaw was announced after it was confirmed that Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, had […]
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