In the International Herald Tribune, Howard French writes: The pre-Olympic crisis in Tibet has revealed China and the West to each other in disturbing new ways. Even before concerns over serious human rights abuses in Tibet...
Read MoreAs they did with fierce anti-Japanese protests in 2005, it appears China’s leaders are now moving to control the outpourings of nationalist sentiment they helped unleash in the wake of Tibet-related protests. From the BBC:...
Read MoreThe South African government has said that it cannot interfere with a shipment of arms from China to Zimbabwe that is currently docked in Durban, according to a report from BuaNews, via AllAfrica.com: According to media reports...
Read MoreFrom RFA Unplugged: One by one, people file quietly into the home of Zhao Ziyang, the late former Communist Party leader who fell from grace in the wake of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Zhao’s family have set up a...
Read MoreChinese anger over the Tibet riots and Western media’s coverage of them has now been immortalized in a rap song. Entitled “Dragon’s Roar” (龙哮), the song and an accompanying video have been circulating...
Read MoreThese updates of recent events in Tibet and Tibetan areas of China have been posted on Woeser’s blog (Chinese). They have been provided by sources inside China and have not been independently verified. April 2 The 11th...
Read MoreWenran Jiang, the acting director of the China Institute, University of Alberta, says, “Failing to understand the deep-rooted emotions on both sides will only hinder potential solutions.” From The Globe and Mail:...
Read MoreThe BBC’s Asia bureau chief Paul Danahar, who is based in Beijing, responds to a flood of criticism from Chinese readers over Tibet and other issues after the news services website became accessible in China for the first...
Read MoreJeffrey N Wasserstrom, a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, writes on OpenDemocracy.org: The Chinese government’s plans for the Olympic games did not include a revolt in Tibet. The immediate...
Read MoreDavid Barboza reports on The New York Times, via the International Herald Tribune: In life, the five young women who burned to death in a Chinese clothing store during rioting in Tibet on March 14 were not the types who would...
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