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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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
‘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,
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.
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...
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.
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.










