The “Patriotic Education” of Tibet
Following quickly dampened speculation over a possible shift in Beijing’s policy towards...
Read MorePosted by Grace | Sep 3, 2013
Following quickly dampened speculation over a possible shift in Beijing’s policy towards...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Aug 2, 2013
U.S. officials gave a gloomy assessment following annual bilateral meetings on human rights in Kunming this week. From Tania Branigan at The Guardian: “I think we have continued to see a deterioration in the overall...
Read MorePosted by 不忘初心 | Jul 10, 2013
At The Times of India, Shobhan Saxena profiles Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan dissident writer: Born in Tibet in 1966, Woeser is a poet, writer, blogger and chronicler of Tibetan life and history. Above all, she is a...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 10, 2013
Ta Kung Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper funded by the Chinese Communist Party, published an interview with China Power International Development CEO Li Xiaolin yesterday. Li is the daughter of former prime minister Li Peng, known by...
Read MorePosted by 不忘初心 | Oct 30, 2012
In the New Statesman, Tibetan dissident Tsering Woeser writes about the tightening government control over Tibet as a result of recent protests: Early one summer morning in August, travelling from Golmud to Lhasa on the...
Read MorePosted by 不忘初心 | Jul 10, 2012
The Chinese government has begun work on a £3-billion (approximately US$4.65 billion) theme park on the outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of the troubled Tibetan Autonomous Region. Despite the huge potential economic interests...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Feb 17, 2012
State news site Tibet.cn celebrates a French newspaper’s departure from the Western “double standards”, “biased reports” and “Cold War mentality” often lamented by Chinese officials,...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Jun 28, 2011
The Australian examines a Chinese mining company’s “land grab” in New South Wales, following purchases of coal-rich farmland amounting to AU$213 million. Michael Clift is a sixth-generation Liverpool Plains...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Aug 4, 2009
The following article was published by the Hong Kong-based Ta Kung Pao, translated by CDT. The Information Office of the State Council recently issued a notice requiring all domestic news websites to implement a real-name...
Read MorePosted by Xiao Qiang | Apr 17, 2009
Baidu Post Bar 百度贴吧, operated by the China’s leading search engine company, Baidu, is one of the country’s most popular online communities, where individual discussion communities (“post bars”) are generated by Baidu...
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