From Reuters: China has cancelled an annual German-China human rights dialogue meeting scheduled for December, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, declining to comment on the reasons. She would also not comment on a report in Der Spiegel news magazine that said China scrapped the meeting in retaliation for Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is questioning the loyalty of ethnic Tibetan members of the ruling Communist Party, accusing many of swearing their true allegiance to the Dalai Lama, according to an internal memo. The Sept. 4 memo, issued by the Party’s Discipline and Inspection Commission, highlights ongoing concerns about stability in Tibet, the largely Buddhist western […]
Read MoreSlovenia’s favorite philosophical son turns his iconoclastic eye on the Chinese government’s much-discussed new rule that puts management of Buddhist reincarnation in officials’ hands. From the New York Times’ Op-Ed page: Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Chinese government is not antireligious. Its stated worry is social “harmony” ” the political dimension of religion. In […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: In the hall of the so-called “Tibetan government in exile” in Dharamsala, India, there is a large map of the supposed “greater Tibet area”. The area covers the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, one-fifth of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, one-third of Gansu Province, two-thirds of Sichuan Province and one-fourth of […]
Read MoreBBC’s reporter Michael Bristow finished his trip in Tibet and contributed three articles “looking at the economic, cultural and religious impact of being governed as an autonomous region of China.” Below is a part of his answers to the questions readers asked about his trip: …It is very hard for me to understand how you […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: Chinese President Hu Jintao said here Wednesday that China is ready to work together with Mongolia to push forward the partnership of good-neighborliness and mutual trust between the two countries. Mongolia hopes to enhance cooperation with China in large projects in such areas as infrastructure construction, transportation, energy and mining. [Full Text] [Image: […]
Read MoreAccording to this report, Beijing’s new rules effectively exclude the Dali Lama from any role in recognising a living Buddha of Tibet: Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: A group of Tibetans were arrested in western China after public calls for the return of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama , reports say. The incident took place on 1 August at a festival in Litang town in western Sichuan, Radio Free Asia and the International Campaign for Tibet said. […]
Read MoreMcClatchy Newspapers is reporting that the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans from remote, rural areas to “socialist villages,” which they must build and pay for themselves: The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.” Its stated aim is to present a more modern face for this ancient region controlled by […]
Read MoreFrom The Asian Age: One passion of Chinese diplomacy is to go in for numbered policy pronouncements, like the “ten-pronged strategy” unveiled in the joint declaration with India during President Hu Jintao’s visit last November. Another fetish is to enunciate diplomatic principles with another state and later, at an opportune time, reinterpret them unilaterally to […]
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