From the New York Times Magazine: Early one morning in April 1998, a middle-aged Tibetan named Thupten Ngodup poured gasoline over himself in a public toilet in downtown New Delhi and struck a match. Outside, the Indian police were breaking up a hunger strike organized by the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest pro-independence organization among […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times Online With much publicity and drum-beating in local media, China announced last month the completion of one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in its history: the Qinghai-Tibet (or Qingzang) Railway (see map below), which connects enclosed, remote Tibet with the rest of China via the city of Golmud, in Qinghai province. […]
Read MoreFrom the Standard: Beijing has good reasons to believe that Washington is a city of counter- revolutionaries, with troublemakers running amok. Washington, a long-time prime destination for those with “anti-China” sentiment, has been unusually busy in recent weeks. A number of high-profile “enemies of China” have taken turns coming to town to bad-mouth China. Taiwan’s […]
Read MoreFrom Ap, via CBS News: Hollywood star Jackie Chan won the Golden Rooster best actor award in the first year that mainland China’s prestigious film awards have tried to upstage rival Taiwan’s by opening up to ethnic Chinese actors in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The Golden Rooster ceremony came a day before Taiwan’s Golden […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: In the privacy of the Yellow Oval Room in the White House residence overlooking the Washington Monument one day last week, President Bush hosted one of China’s archenemies. The Dalai Lama gave him a white scarf called a khata as a token of respect. Bush served tea and sipped from a […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Science has always fascinated me. As a child in Tibet, I was keenly curious about how things worked. When I got a toy I would play with it a bit, then take it apart to see how it was put together. As I became older, I applied the same scrutiny […]
Read MoreFrom The Epoch Times: Today (November 8) is the fourth day since the barbaric persecution by individuals from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice against my firm and myself became public. I had just returned from defending renowned journalist Zheng Yichun, who had been sentenced and illegally detained for his speech, when I received a […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via ABC News: After years of fierce lobbying and months of secrecy, Beijing unveiled five mascots for the 2008 Olympics on Friday, opening a marketing blitz that is expected to reap record profits. In an elaborate, nationally televised gala at a Beijing sports arena to mark the 1,000-day countdown until the Games, senior […]
Read MoreFrom BBC NEWS : It was a curious battle of flags, complete with a British tolerance for the other point of view. President Hu Jintao of China was to be accorded the finest of welcomes to the UK: An official hello from the Queen, a carriage ride up the Mall, flanked by the Household Cavalry, […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: He was herding goats high up the creases of sacred Mount Kawagebo when the morning light seemed right, recalled Ananzhu, an ethnic Tibetan from an isolated village of southern China. So he took out his...
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