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December 2008 - Elsewhere on the Web

• Bao Tong on Deng Xiaoping
  ON THE WEB, 30 December 2008 (Time)
  Bao Tong was formerly a top adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party secretary who was purged in 1989. After the Tiananmen crackdown Bao was sentenced to seven years in prison. ...
• Chronology of China's reform era
  ON THE WEB, 18 December 2008 (AP)
  Chronology highlights important milestones since the start of economic reforms 30 years ago that have transformed the country into a global economic and trading power. ...
• Sorry, I don’t boycott French goods
  WUHAN, China, 15 December 2008 (QZone)
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy ignored the Chinese government’s repeated patient communications and multiple stern protests in granting an audience on Dec. 6 to the Dalai Lama ...
• Tibet’s Enemy Number One: His name is the Dalai Lama
  ON THE WEB, 15 December 2008 (New Europe)
  The Dalai Lama wowed the European Parliament with his traveling road show preaching tolerance, patience, humility and free lunches, ...
• Dalai Lama in Poland – review of a week-long visit
  15 December 2008 (The News.pl)
  The religious and political leader of Tibet, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, spent seven days in Poland. Magdalena Jensen went along to an audience with the charismatic Tenzin Gyatso in Warsaw. ...
• Anniversaries offer Beijing little to celebrate
  ON THE WEB, 15 December 2008 (The Age)
  China's immense progress is jeopardised by its inability to pursue reforms. ...
• Beijing looks at Obama
  WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, 10 December 2008 (Washington Times)
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• Activists detained: New crackdown or one-off?
  ON THE WEB, 9 December 2008 (Time)
  The statement below is from Human Rights in China. Not a good sign, though not exactly surprising either. The questions is, as HRIC notes, whether this is the start of a more general battening down of the hatches ...
• China economy at crossroads after 30 years of reform
  BEIJING, China, 8 December 2008 (Reuters)
  Who would have thought a few months ago that China might end up remembering 2008 not for the Beijing Olympics or May's Sichuan earthquake but for the demise of the country's model of economic development? ...
• China milestones since 1978
  ON THE WEB, 8 December 2008 (Reuters)
  China this month marks 30 years since the launch of economic reforms that have transformed the country from an isolated backwater to the world's fourth-largest economy. ...
• China and Tibet - reply to "Beijing’s Blind Spot"
  RIVERSIDE, California, 4 December 2008 (New York Times)
  In "Beijing’s Blind Spot" (editorial, Nov. 27), you wonder why China’s rulers will not accept the Dalai Lama’s “middle way,” which seems so obviously "in Beijing’s clear interest," ...
• Welcome to the future, Hu Jintao
  ON THE WEB, 2 December 2008 (The Epoch Times)
  Two events shadowed China's President, Hu Jintao, as he arrived in America on Nov. 14 to attend the week-long G-20 summit. Both prefigure the inherent instability that the Chinese government brings to the world community. ...
• Why China keeps picking on Sarkozy
  PARIS, France, 2 December 2008 (Time)
  In much of the world, President Nicolas Sarkozy enjoys a reputation for being something of a diplomatic dynamo. In China, the energetic French leader has a strikingly different standing: he is Beijing's favorite international whipping boy. ...
• As Rome burns, China won't talk
  ON THE WEB, 1 December 2008 (Washington Post)
  So the global economy is in meltdown, Europe and China are both facing the prospect of a seriously ugly downturn. They'd scheduled a summit for this week. You'd think both sides would want to participate. Not China. ...
• When Dalai Lama preached tolerance
  LAGOS, Nigeria, 1 December 2008 (This Day)
  His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, last Thursday was in his electrifying element as he delivered a thought-provoking lecture in Nigeria. ...
• Britain’s position on Tibet, autonomy and rights
  LONDON, Britain, 1 December 2008 (New York Times)
  Robert Barnett accuses the British government of rewriting Tibet’s history (“Did Britain Just Sell Tibet?,” Op-Ed, Nov. 25). We believe the accusation to be unfair. ...