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• China's revolutionary hope?
  By Minxin Pei
  ON THE WEB, 15 March 2010 (The Diplomat) – Strange, ritualistic and stuck in a time warp—it's easy to discount the annual People's Congress. And a mistake. ...
• Beijing misses its chance for peace in Tibet
  By Thupten Jinpa
  ON THE WEB, 9 March 2010 (Wall Street Journal) – Nothing guarantees that the question of independence will not come back, with all the attendant emotional power and charge, once the Dalai Lama retires from an active leadership role. ...
• "China-free" this 10 March
  By Tenpa Dugdak
  ON THE WEB, 6 March 2010 (The National Forum) – During the 10 March and Olympics torch protests in 2008, I was kitted out in "Made in China" clothing while I shouted my lungs out at the doorstep of the Chinese embassy in Australia's capital city, Canberra. ...
• Can the Communist Party's greying old men keep pace with China's next generation?
  By Peter Foster
  ON THE WEB, 6 March 2010 (Telegraph) – The grey men of China may well be right to go "slowly but surely", but Grandpa Wen and his friends might have to quicken the pace a bit if they want to keep up with the expectations of Gen-next. ...
• 'World's next top lama' to visit Europe
  By Ed Halliwell
  ON THE WEB, 26 February 2010 (Guardian) – With his rare combination of humour, gentleness, and charisma, the Dalai Lama remains, at 75, the undisputed western poster boy for both Buddhism and Tibet. ...
• Obama might further disorient the Dalai Lama
  By Li Hongmei
  ON THE WEB, 22 February 2010 (People's Daily Online) – Perhaps now that Barack Obama has obstinately hosted the Dalai Lama, he has determined that the disoriented Dalai Lama could still find his way back "home" on exiting the map room. ...
• Obama-Lama meeting mishandled
  By Kelley Currie
  ON THE WEB, 22 February 2010 (Daily Caller) – If President Obama were interested in pursuing a more principled approach to China, Tibet would be as good a place as any to start. ...
• Speaking in the imperial tongue
  By Tsering Namgyal
  By email, 17 February 2010 (Tibet Sun) – Some Indians say the British left India because they could no longer tolerate the massacre of the English language, perhaps the Chinese will start leaving Tibet when Tibetans begin to do the same with Mandarin. ...
• Obama you can change!
  By Lobsang Wangyal
  MCLEOD GANJ, India, 15 February 2010 (Tibet Sun) – If Obama will not address the real issues when he meets the Dalai Lama on Thursday, he will be only betraying American principles, as well as his own. ...
• Dalai Lama: Blackballed from Thailand
  By Patrick Winn
  BANGKOK, Thailand, 12 February 2010 (Global Post) – In the age of growing Chinese influence, there's a simple measure of a country's willingness to test China's wrath. Will they stamp the Dalai Lama's passport? ...
• Why is the Dalai Lama "son of India"?
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 9 February 2010 (Tibet Sun) – The current chart of bestselling conspiracy theories in China is topped by a newfound fear that the Dalai Lama might actually be seeking Indian citizenship. ...
• "Show me what you got?"
  By Tenzin Yeshi
  By email, 8 February 2010 (Tibet Sun) – Before cursing the ongoing Tibet-China dialogue, one should critically analyse whether the alternate approaches, if any, are more viable, feasible, and doable than the current approach. ...
• Yin and Yang in the US-China relationship
  By K Subrahmanyam
  ON THE WEB, 7 February 2010 (Business Standard) – With global economic recovery underway, Obama may have decided to demonstrate that the US is still the world's pre-eminent military power. ...
• Development with Tibetan characteristics
  By Ben Hillman
  ON THE WEB, 31 January 2010 (WSJ) – The achievement of "lasting stability" in Tibet will demand a more sophisticated policy suite that empowers ordinary Tibetans to participate in their region's development. ...
• China vs. film freedom
  By Clayton Dube
  ON THE WEB, 15 January 2010 (USC) – China's constitution proclaims that citizens enjoy free speech and press. However, the limits to what can be said have been dramatically illustrated over the past few weeks. ...
• The realist case for Tibetan autonomy
  By Paula J Dobriansky
  ON THE WEB, 11 January 2010 (The Wall Street Journal) – When President Obama didn't meet with the Dalai Lama during his October trip to Washington, it gave many the impression that human-rights promotion was not central to this administration's foreign policy. ...
• Who's afraid of big bad China?
  By Terry Reis Kennedy
  BANGALORE, India, 10 January 2010 (Tibet Sun) – Chinese government authorities have failed to stop a film on Tibet from being shown at a major international festival in Palm Springs, California, despite pressure on festival organisers. ...
• Reclaiming Tibetan bRla Srog, our consciousness!
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  By email, 3 January 2010 (Tibet Sun) – Tibetans have to re-awaken their submerged consciousness by finding greater pride and honour in our true original roots. They need to know who they, and their ancestors, truly are. ...
• How should we deal with the emergence of China as a superpower?
  By Clifford Coonan
  ON THE WEB, 2 January 2010 (The Independent) – After years of talking about China's emerging status as a global player, the world's most populous nation has taken its place at the top table. ...
• China behaving badly. Yet again
  By Joan Smith
  ON THE WEB, 27 December 2009 (The Independent) – China scupper climate talks, jail dissidents and execute prisoners. Some leaders just don't care what the world thinks. ...
• How China sabotaged Copenhagen climate talks
  By Mark Lynas
  ON THE WEB, 23 December 2009 (The Guardian) – Copenhagen was a disaster. The truth about what actually happened is in danger of being lost amid the spin and inevitable mutual recriminations. The truth is: China wrecked the talks. ...
• Dalai Lama on women in Buddhism
  By Terry Reis Kennedy
  BANGALORE, India, 21 December 2009 (Tibet Sun) – Being female, I don't like that women are barred from the inner sanctums of religions, or that spiritual texts consistently refer to "man" kind and "men." ...
• The Copenhagen kowtow
  By Kelley Currie
  ON THE WEB, 18 December 2009 (The Weekly Standard) – In abandoning their long record of strong support for Tibet, the Danes are following the example of nearly every other Western democracy. ...
• Could carving up provinces happen in China?
  By Chris Devonshire-Ellis
  ON THE WEB, 14 December 2009 (2point6billion) – Following last week's news from India that the state of Andhra Pradesh would be split up, I was left to think, could the same thing happen in China? ...
• Climate insecurity
  By Brahma Chellaney
  ON THE WEB, 12 December 2009 (DNA) – As the Copenhagen summit illustrates, climate change is not just a matter of science but also a matter of geopolitics. ...
• China: S Asia's supercop
  By Chandan Mitra
  ON THE WEB, 6 December 2009 (The Pioneer) – US regards China as the regional superpower. India has significant reasons to worry about its relegation to the junior league in America's foreign policy worldview. ...
• Tibetans host a heartfelt 'Thank You' to mother India
  By Terry Reis Kennedy
  BANGALORE, India, 26 November 2009 (Tibet Sun) – Exile Tibetans from the five Settlements in Karnataka, along with their supporters, remember the kindness of India for sheltering them for the past 50 years. ...
• Beijing in big brother's shoes
  By Reshma Patil
  BEIJING, China, 20 November 2009 (Hindustan Times) – Beijing will maintain a modest public face in certain global affairs but piggyback on the current US backing of its 'responsibility' to speak up. ...
• China gives Obama little
  By Helene Cooper
  BEIJING, China, 18 November 2009 (The New York Times) – US President Barack Obama's trip did more to showcase China's ability to push back against outside pressure than it did to advance the main issues on Mr Obama's agenda. ...
• On the eve of Obama's visit, China reveals an identity crisis
  By Melinda Liu
  ON THE WEB, 15 November 2009 (Newsweek) – China and the US still don't totally understand each other. China's hamfisted style of one-party rule remains at odds with American democracy. ...
• Tension grows between China and India
  By Jeremy Page
  NEW DELHI, India, 12 November 2009 (Times Online) – Asia slips into cold war as China and India struggle for economic and military supremacy. The Asia's two emerging giants are even in a race for the Moon. ...
• Tibetan test for Obama's engagement with China
  By Geoff Dyer
  ON THE WEB, 10 November 2009 (Financial Times) – If Obama stays quiet on Tibet and does not meet the Dalai Lama soon after, China is likely to redouble its efforts to isolate the Dalai Lama. ...
• Tibet is India's legitimate ticket to claim Arunachal
  By Tashi Phuntsok
  ON THE WEB, 9 November 2009 (Rediff News) – As a responsible law abiding nation, India has a moral responsibility to tell the truth that Tibet is an occupied country. ...
• The Dalai Lama question
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 6 November 2009 (Express Buzz) – Nothing could be further from the truth, that the Dalai Lama, along with one lakh of exiled Tibetans, have become a liability, for India. ...
• The bull in China’s shop
  By Prem Shankar Jha
  ON THE WEB, 26 October 2009 (Tehelka) – China doesn't want a conflict any more than India does. But for the two countries to avoid one, New Delhi must fully understand the significance of Tibet for China. ...
• Treading carefully on China and Tibet
  By David L Phillips
  ON THE WEB, 5 October 2009 (Boston Globe) – The decision to defer a meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama is based on careful calculation, possibly working towards restarting negotiations between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama. ...
• Pushing the limits, day after day
  By Brahma Chellaney
  ON THE WEB, 3 October 2009 (The Times of India) – Political modernisation, not economic modernisation, is the central challenge staring at China. If it is to build and sustain a great-power capacity, it has to avoid a political hard landing. ...
• Time for India to play hardball with China
  By Kapil Komireddi
  ON THE WEB, 3 October 2009 (Foreign Policy) – If India can guarantee fundamental rights to its diverse citizens while managing a growth rate not far from China's, why, someone is bound to ask, can China not do the same? ...
• Should David Miliband resign over Tibet suzerainty?
  By Ralph Q Forde
  ON THE WEB, 3 October 2009 (Examiner) – The British Foreign Secretary David Miliband removed the suzerainty status afforded to Tibet, a country that has been illegally occupied by China since 1959. How has this benefited the UK and its stance on human rights globally? ...
• China still has a human rights deficit
  By Ivan Lewis
  ON THE WEB, 29 September 2009 (Guardian) – With China taking its seat at the negotiating table of world economics, the door is surely open to discussions about Tibet. ...
• Time is fast running out for Tibetan people
  By Lord David Steel
  ON THE WEB, 28 September 2009 (The Scotsman) – China is an increasingly important and successful economy, but its reputation in the world would be greatly enhanced if we saw a rejoicing Tibetan people welcoming back the Dalai Lama to Potala Palace. ...
• The thaw at the roof of the world
  By Orville Schell
  ON THE WEB, 27 September 2009 (The New York Times) – It may be too late to change the destiny of Baishui Glacier No. 1. But President Hu, by promising this week to try to cut carbon dioxide emissions, signalled his willingness to act. ...
• Who will succeed Hu Jintao as China's next leader?
  By Simon Elegant
  BEIJING, China, 22 September 2009 (Time) – Xi Jinping, the man widely touted as the most likely successor to President Hu Jintao, was not appointed deputy chairman of the Military Commission at the secretive Fourth Plenum of the 17th Congress. ...
• Celebrating 60 with confidence
  By Joshua Rosenzweig
  ON THE WEB, 17 September 2009 (Far Eastern Economic Review) – China should complement the images of its martial strength with a gesture of compassion, and pardon Chinese prisoners to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. ...
• The danger of the India-China hysteria
  By B Raman
  ON THE WEB, 9 September 2009 (Raman's Blog) – By frequently talking of the Tibetan card, India will only be adding to the suspicions and concerns in the Chinese mind. ...
• Affirmation of Taiwanese democracy
  By Tsering Namgyal
  By email, 4 September 2009 (Tibet Sun) – The real winner of the Dalai Lama's visit to Taipei is the Taiwanese democracy, or the Taiwanese people, and would strengthen President Ma's position as well. ...
• The importance of the Dalai Lama's Taiwan visit
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 31 August 2009 (Rediff News) – The significance of the Dalai Lama's attempt to reach out to ordinary Chinese is that it could pay rich dividends in the long run. ...
• India, don't kowtow to China
  By Kanishk Tharoor
  ON THE WEB, 29 July 2009 (Guardian) – Controversy over Rebiya Kadeer's reported plans to visit India raises questions over the country's relationship with China. ...
• Gift for a simple Buddhist monk
  By Melissa Parke
  FREMANTLE, Australia, 28 July 2009 (Tibet Sun) – The real gift an Australian delegation could give to a simple Buddhist monk was their commitment to continue to pursue the cause of human rights for Tibetans. ...
• Why China will not address the grievances of Tibetans and Uyghurs
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 21 July 2009 (Tibet Sun) – China will try to suppress the truth that Tibetans and Uyghurs also have the right to be free. We must make sure that this truth is not buried. ...
• The echoes of Xinjiang
  By Philip Bowring
  ON THE WEB, 15 July 2009 (The New York Times) – The problems in Xinjiang could prove a bigger international headache for China than Tibet was, as the latter does not have the foreign linkages that Xinjiang do. ...
• Tibet's leadership crisis
  By Gwynne Dyer
  ON THE WEB, 1 July 2009 (The Witness) – The Dalai Lama has been feeding tranquillisers to the Tibetan population for decades. Beijing will miss him when he's gone. ...
• The damming of the Mekong: major blow to an epic river
  By Fred Pearce
  ON THE WEB, 25 June 2009 (Yale Environment 360) – China is building a series of dams on the Mekong river that will restrict its natural flow and threaten the sustenance of tens of millions of Southeast Asians. ...
• Cordial relations between Nepal and China
  By Dirgha Raj Prasai
  ON THE WEB, 16 June 2009 (Australia.to) – For Nepal to recuperate its status as a beautiful, peaceful and great nation, it should increase cooperation in trade and transport with China. ...
• The Miss Tibet Beauty Pageant: a voice of Tibet
  By Tsering Choekyap
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 4 June 2009 (Tibet Sun) – This writer, a simple Buddhist monk, who has received modern education in India could not understand why do our own folks criticise the Miss Tibet Beauty Pageant. ...
• Tale of cyber war: China and Tibet
  By Lobsang Wangyal
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 19 May 2009 (Tibet Sun) – Looking at all the top-level Tibet domains obtained by exile Tibetans, it would seem that Tibetans are web-savvy, and better than China at using the world's new favourite media tool. ...
• Talking with the enemy
  By Matthew Weiner
  ON THE WEB, 8 May 2009 (The Huffington Post) – Though Tibetans have played down their relationship with China as a way to emphasise their unique culture, there were deep relationships between the two nations, through Buddhism. ...
• Nepali chopsuey
  By Jug Suraiya
  ON THE WEB, 6 May 2009 (The Times of India) – This time round, New Delhi should let Kathmandu play its China card. And then trump it by endorsing the idea of a friendly and mutually beneficial merger and acquisition by China of Nepal. ...
• China's Tibet: question with no answer
  By Li Datong
  ON THE WEB, 24 April 2009 (Open Democracy) – The accumulated result of China-Tibet conundrum is stasis. China's political systems and institutions of nationality mean that the Tibetan issue cannot be solved. ...
• Are Tibetans happy? There's no way of knowing
  By Ian Buruma
  CHENGDU, China, 11 April 2009 (The Globe and Mail) – Tibetans will be free only when all Chinese are free. In that sense, all citizens of China hang together. ...
• Facing down the neighbourhood bully
  By Arun Shourie
  ON THE WEB, 8 April 2009 (Indian Express) – The danger will not go away just because we refuse to see it. A clue to the coming years lies in the contrasting attitudes of governments and legislatures in the West. ...
• Balancing China and the Dalai Lama
  By Mike Trapido
  ON THE WEB, 24 March 2009 (Mail & Guardian) – As a frequent critic of South Africa's abysmal approach to foreign policies both here in Africa and across the globe I was not surprised to see the latest brouhaha regarding the Dalai Lama. ...
• India faces a choice: is it a big power or great power?
  By Philip Stephens
  ON THE WEB, 20 March 2009 (Financial Times) – We live in an age of rising powers. The global order is being recast. In this shifting geopolitical landscape old powers are reluctant to cede ground and rising states shun the burdens imposed by their new-found status. ...
• Tibet and China: the past in the present
  By Tsering Shakya
  ON THE WEB, 19 March 2009 (Open Democracy) – China's official commemoration of its "liberation" of Tibet in 1959 is underpinned by a colonial vision that denies Tibetan voice and agency, says Tsering Shakya. ...
• Dalai Lama and a man's passion for Tibet
  By Lobsang Sangay
  ON THE WEB, 17 March 2009 (Boston Globe) – Fifty years ago today the Dalai Lama, dressed as a layman, slipped out of the Summer Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, escaping the gaze of Chinese soldiers. In a nearby house, Luting Namgyal was born. But instead of celebrating his birth, his parents wondered if their son would survive ...
• New script on the prayer flags
  By Gautam Datt
  ON THE WEB, 14 March 2009 (Express Buzz) – Even the Dalai Lama appears to be frustrated with the way China has thrown his proposals out of the window during the last round of talks. Even after eight rounds of dialogue, Beijing looks at him with suspicion and doubts his motives. ...
• Changing Sino-India relation and Nepal
  By Sujit Mainali
  ON THE WEB, 13 March 2009 (Telegraph Nepal) – Within Asia, both China and India takes each other as their major opponent. In political circle of South Asian Region, India's influence is pervasive. However, in the public level, China is more popular. ...
• Fifty years on
  By Thierry Dodin
  LONDON, UK, 9 March 2009 (Tibet Sun) – Fifty years after the failed uprising of 1959, China maintains that it has brought Tibet from backwardness into modernity. A few facts and common sense tell us another story. ...
• China lightens up on Taiwan but leaves Tibet in the dark
  By Marcus Gee
  ON THE WEB, 6 March 2009 (The Globe and Mail) – Lacking a democratic mandate, the Communist Party of China relies on two other sources of legitimacy: its success at delivering ever-rising prosperity to the majority of the Chinese people, and its success at uniting China and keeping it united. ...
• Reporting from behind China's Himalayan curtain
  By Emma Graham-Harrison
  LHASA, China, 1 March 2009 (Reuters) – The message Beijing seemed keen to convey was that Tibet was stable and prospering. Yet the careful attempts at managing our perceptions served only to create the opposite impression. ...
• Clinton and Obama ditch ethics and kiss up to China
  By Gerald Warner
  ON THE WEB, 27 February 2009 (Telegraph.co.uk) – Clinton cynically shed the patina of human rights concern that formerly cloaked the Obama administration by dismissing Chinese abuses in Tibet and elsewhere. ...
• China in denial
  By Sophie Richardson
  ON THE WEB, 22 February 2009 (Far Eastern Economic Review) – Instead of discussing the human rights abuses in China before the UN Human Rights Council this month, Ambassador Li Baodong insisted that China is a country that has freedom and protects human rights. ...
• China and Clinton's Tibet
  By C. Raja Mohan
  ON THE WEB, 21 February 2009 (Indian Express) – As the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Beijing Friday on the last leg of her Asian tour, Tibet has begun to acquire an unexpected profile in the Obama Administration's engagement with China. ...
• China’s choice: India or Pakistan?
  By Dr Yukteshwar Kumar
  ON THE WEB, 19 February 2009 (Sify.com) – Can Wen Jiabao turn himself into an apostle of peace and harmony for the people of India and the world at large? China, after all, is the only country that can pressurise Pakistan to dismantle its terrorist outfits and stop the ISI from anti-India activities. ...
• China's New Propaganda Machine
  By Nicholas Bequelin
  ON THE WEB, 30 January 2009 (The Wall Street Journal) – China is about to embark on a multibillion dollar media expansion overseas, including the establishment of a 24-hour English language all-news channel, for Chinese state media to "go global" and make "the voice of China better heard in international affairs." ...
• Staring down Obama
  By C. Raja Mohan
  ON THE WEB, 30 January 2009 (The Indian Express) – That China and the Obama administration have begun their engagement on a quarrelsome note on the currency issue is not necessarily an indicator of the direction of their bilateral relations in the next four years. ...
• Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama's khata (scarf)
  By Mick Brown
  ON THE WEB, 28 January 2009 (telegraph.co.uk) – In an intriguing footnote to the inauguration last week of President Barack Obama, Buddhist web-sites have been buzzing with the story that as he was being sworn in, Obama was carrying in his pocket a khata, or ceremonial scarf, that had come from the Dalai Lama. ...
• How will China deal with the US adjustment?
  By Michael Pettis
  ON THE WEB, 9 January 2009 (Financial Times) – The post-1997 global balance is breaking down, and the world is lurching drunkenly to find a stable new balance. Until now, Chinese overproduction has balanced US overconsumption, ...
• Seven key dates for China in 2009
  By Malcolm Moore
  ON THE WEB, 2 January 2009 (Telegraph) – 2008 was a difficult year for China, and 2009 is looking little better. The economy is slowing down and there are dark mutterings that as many as 24 million could be jobless by the year's end. ...
• Why has Beijing taken such a tough line on Tibet?
  By Dr. Xiaoxiong Yi
  16 December 2008 (Times Recorder) – China's angry outburst over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Dec. 6 Gdansk, Poland meeting with the Dalai Lama, the 73-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader in exile, was unprecedented. ...
• Dalai Lama leads a better protest
  By Lisa Van Dusen
  ONTARIO, Canada, 29 November 2008 (London Free Press) – The carnage in Mumbai, no matter which group was responsible, was a bloody, unnecessary reminder of the lengths to which some non-state actors will go to try to force new political realities or destabilize existing ones. ...
• India’s Tibet ambiguity
  By C. Raja Mohan
  ON THE WEB, 27 November 2008 (Indian Express) – Sino-Indian relations is beginning to assert itself again. When there is relative tranquility in Tibet, India and China have reasonably good relations. When Sino-Tibetan tensions rise, ...
• Did Britain just sell Tibet?
  By Robert Barnett
  ON THE WEB, 25 November 2008 (New York Times) – The financial crisis is going to do more than increase unemployment, bankruptcy and homelessness. It is also likely to reshape international alignments, sometimes in ways that we would not expect. ...
• Beware of water wars
  By Brahma Chellaney
  DELHI, India, 24 November 2008 (Times of India) – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's disclosure that during his recent Beijing visit he raised the issue of international rivers flowing out of Tibet underscores the enormous implications of China's hydro-engineering projects and plans. ...
• Sino-Indian ties: Troubled times ahead
  By Harsh V Pant
  ON THE WEB, 24 November 2008 (Rediff News) – It is a remarkable spectacle. Both the India and Chinese foreign ministries argue that they are willing to find a solution to the Sino-Indian boundary dispute that is 'fair, reasonable and acceptable' ...
• China: Strategic experts talk about a partial Sino-Indian war
  By D.S. Rajan
  CHENNAI, India, 24 November 2008 (C3SIndia) – Views are being expressed at regular intervals by a section of the strategic community close to the authorities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) that a fresh Sino-Indian border conflict may be possible. ...
• How the global economic crisis could bring down the Chinese government
  By Joshua Kurlantzick
  BEIJING, China, 18 November 2008 (The New Republic) – Normally, the Pearl River Delta, a manufacturing hub in southern China, whirs with the sound of commerce. Alongside massive new highways, clusters of factories churn out toys, electronics, ...
• Cautioning Obama
  By C. Raja Mohan
  12 November 2008 (Indian Express) – If India is anxious about Barack Obama's promised diplomatic activism on Jammu and Kashmir, Beijing has reasons to worry about his approach to Taiwan and Tibet. ...
• The new East and West
  By Kancheng Ketchup Wang
  NEW YORK, USA, 7 November 2008 (Pipe Dream) – Just as the Western media has been “roaring” about the human rights conditions in China and Tibet in the past few months, two important voices have been muted: What do the Tibetan people think ...
• Alice Walker's open letter to Obama
  By Alice Walker
  ON THE WEB, 7 November 2008 (The Times) – You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, ...
• Shangri-la, or not
  By Leslie Hook
  SHANGRI-LA, China, 3 November 2008 (Wall Street Journal) – Tibetan envoys are in Beijing this week for the eighth round of Sino-Tibetan dialogue — and it could be the last such dialogue for a long time. ...
• Aboard the highest train in the world: China's railroad to Tibet
  By Alex Pasternak
  LHASA, Tibet, 21 October 2008 (Huffington Post) – Even after less than a handful of hours of sound sleep, I awoke with a start just before my alarm sounded. Suddenly, the vents began to emit a steady woosh — oxygen being piped in to assist our breathing at some 2700 meters above sea level. ...
• Getting Gandhi to the Chinese
  By Dick Dorworth
  ON THE WEB, 15 October 2008 (Idaho Mountain Express) – I gave to the small library of the small group of Han Chinese studying English my copy of "Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments With Truth." ...
• Living as 'Other' in the U.S.A.
  By Tenzin Shakya
  USA, 25 September 2008 (The Inquirer) – I am a Tibetan, born in Nepal and raised in India until age 8, when I came to the United States. Mine is a typical journey for this second generation of Tibetan "refugees," ...
• Censorship in Chinese media
  By Hung Huang
  BEIJING, China, 25 September 2008 (New York Times) – I think foreigners have this image of a Fu Manchu-like Chinaman, sitting in a dark corner trying to censor everything. ...
• China's nervous transition
  By Kerry Brown
  ON THE WEB, 23 September 2008 (Australia.to) – It is back to reality with a vengeance in China. The effects of a new era of global financial turmoil, and a local scandal over tainted milk-powder, ...
• After the Olympics, will China crack?
  By Catherine Sampson
  BEIJING, China, 17 September 2008 (The Guardian) – Earthquakes, Tibet, financial tremors and the melamine scandal are testing political leaders in the wake of the games ...
• Need to rein in China
  By Swapan Dasgupta
  14 September 2008 (The Pioneer) – Regardless of the contradictory perceptions on the Indo-US nuclear agreement and the Nuclear Suppliers Group waiver, there seems to be a measure of intense satisfaction that the Government of India finally had the guts to tell China where exactly to get off. ...
• When friction between Asia's two behemoths is not a love-in
  By Sol W. Sanders
  8 September 2008 (World Tribune) – The half of the world’s population that lives in China and India are moving toward each other — but it is hard to tell whether it is to be an embrace or a donnybrook. ...
• Nepal's Tibet Dilemma
  By Bhumika Ghimire
  WEST LAFAYETTE, IN, USA, 29 August 2008 (UPI) – Nepal wants to maintain a balanced relationship with both of its neighbors ...
• China: What after the Games?
  By Claude Arpi
  INDIA, 24 August 2008 (Sify) – The glittering function is over, ... What is the future of China? ...
• After the Games, Tibet
  By Nicholas D. Kristof
  BEIJING, China, 14 August 2008 (New York Times) – China’s cup runneth over. The Olympics are a milestone in Chinese history, ...
• Time is running out for China
  By Lobsang Wangyal
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 8 August 2008 (Tibet Sun) – The Beijing Olympics' ordeal which started in 2001 is finally coming to its climax. ...
• Why I'll stay away from the opening ceremony of the Olympics
  By Ai Weiwei
  7 August 2008 (The Guardian) – When I helped conceive Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium, I wanted it to represent freedom, not autocracy: China must change. ...
• Sarkozy bungles Beijing game
  By Charles Bremner
  7 August 2008 (Charles Bremner) – As Nicolas Sarkozy flies to the Olympics opening, he is being hammered in France for flip-flop behaviour that has let Beijing humilitate him. ...
• An olive branch from the Dalai Lama
  By Nicholas D. Kristof
  7 August 2008 (NYT) – When the Olympics open on Friday, the Dalai Lama won't be there. Each side put out feelers about his attendance and was tantalized by the idea, ...
• Taiwan’s success could show the way for Tibet
  By Humphrey Hawksley
  TAIPEI, Taiwan, 31 March 2008 (YaleGlobal Online) – Economic ties and regional democracy could ease Taiwan and Tibet as touchy issues for China ...
• Kosovo, Taiwan, Tibet rattle China
  By Wen Liao
  ON THE WEB, 23 March 2008 (Taipei Times) – Why is China behaving as it is in Tibet? What makes Tibet so important to the government in Beijing? At the heart of the matter is the fact that nothing worries China's rulers more ...
• Is the Dalai Lama's pacifist stance helping or hurting the Tibetan cause?
  By Josh Schrei
  NEW YORK CITY, USA, 20 March 2008 (GNN) – Over the last 19 years since the last significant pro-independence protests in Tibet, the Chinese government has weathered a growing Tibet movement ...