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Tibet's Self Murder: Tragedy or Transformation?

  • Tue, 07/10/2012 - 22:11

The charred, bodily remains of many self-immolators have been unceremoniously disposed of by local Chinese police, according to reports.

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A Truth Facing the Tanks

  • Mon, 07/09/2012 - 21:16

Let me begin with the photograph of an elderly Uyghur woman striding forward in defiance into the oncoming tanks of the Chinese Army.

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Cultural genocide behind self-immolation

  • Mon, 06/25/2012 - 00:00

The Chinese government must not "eliminate individualism" but instead encourage diversity of religion, culture and language, the Dalai Lama,

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The Logic of China’s Korea Policy

  • Fri, 06/22/2012 - 00:00

Many U.S. and South Korean analysts have become increasingly frustrated, indeed annoyed, by China’s policy toward North Korea.

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China's forgotten famine

  • Fri, 06/22/2012 - 00:00

The Chinese government does not like to talk about certain parts of its past - like the worst-ever famine caused by man.

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‘Axis Shift’ or ‘Axis Balancing’: Prospects of Recent Visits between Ankara and Beijing

  • Fri, 06/22/2012 - 00:00

It is still under clouds of suspicion, for the mainstream media and academia, whether Turkey is facing a shift in its foreign policy orientation; from the tradition of facing primarily toward the West,

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China’s Expanding Core

  • Fri, 06/22/2012 - 00:00

China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China’s 200-mile-wide territorial waters in the South China Sea.

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Forever Shadowing an Elderly Dissident in China

  • Mon, 06/18/2012 - 00:00

The censorati in China have had their hands full already this year, notably with trying to control news of the scandal...

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China Abandons Role of Global Engine

  • Mon, 06/18/2012 - 00:00

Premier Wen Jiabao has an unspoken message to his Group of 20 counterparts in Mexico today: This time, don’t count on a growth bailout from China.

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How dictators have evolved with the times

  • Mon, 06/18/2012 - 00:00

We tend to think of dictators as all-powerful leaders who act with naked cruelty and impunity. Think of Bashar al Assad in Syria. Or, for a celluloid reminder, think of Sacha Baron Cohen as Gen. Admiral Aladeen, a North African despot.

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