The list of issues hanging over Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing positively boggles the mind: Indian displeasure over China’s alliances with Pakistan and Burma, Chinese displeasure with...
Read MoreA story from BusinessWeek looks at why a growing number of successful urban professionals are flocking to Buddhism: Buddhism is booming — quite a paradox given the Communist Party’s official atheism and its troubled relationship with the Dalai Lama. The faith’s growing popularity reflects a yearning for meaning among China’s yuppies, who increasingly are attracted […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Navy said it was “befuddled” by Beijing’s last-minute November denial of a long-arranged port call for the Kitty Hawk carrier group in Hong Kong. This turndown was on top of China’s refusal to provide shelter for two U.S. minesweepers seeking refuge from a storm, and its rejection of […]
Read MoreChina has been opening up to the rest of the world since the 1970s, but its government has continued to exert an influence on journalism. One example of this is the idea of “Marxist journalism,” a concept introduced by the Party in 2001. From the Washington Post: About 200 Tsinghua University journalism students filled a […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online: The recent decision by India’s ruling United Progressive Alliance government to bar ministers from attending a felicitation ceremony for the Dalai Lama is an indication not only of the blunders committed by the government in its foreign policy decision-making, but more perilously it exposes the flawed nature of India’s policy towards […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: Amid an ongoing feud over human rights between Beijing and Berlin, one of Germany’s leading news magazines said Friday it had cancelled a week of cultural events in China due to official “censorship.” Der Spiegel said it would not hold the series of workshops, debates and lectures scheduled next week on the invitation […]
Read MoreGlobal media have blanketed French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first official visit to the Middle Kingdom, with the French government describing Sarkozy’s meeting with Hu Jintao as a “nice pingpong game.” The results of game so far? Unprecedented successes for French business, vague promises on currency reform, and even vaguer promises on human rights. To wit: […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Newspeak blog: Yesterday, the State Council appeared to abandon the approach of seeking credibility through the opinion of a sole expert. It released a signed article entitled “Has the Dalai Lama truly given up ‘Tibetan Independence’?”, distributed by Xinhua and planted on page ten of today’s China Daily. The author’s name was given […]
Read MoreFrom Globe and Mail: The Chinese government has warned that Canada could damage its relations with China if Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes ahead with his plan to meet the Dalai Lama today. He will join a growing group of Western leaders who have deliberately chosen to greet the Tibetan spiritual leader in official venues, […]
Read MoreFrom Boston Globe: The Chinese have never really understood why the West makes such a fuss about Tibet. China has crushed Tibet, and brought in settlers to swamp its culture. But by their lights they have brought modernity and a better life to a feudal society groaning under the rule of lamas. They call the […]
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