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With envoys of the Dalai Lama in Beijing today and negotiating with the communist Chinese Regime, a meeting that surprised many following the many months of stalemate, it is natural to speculate as to what factors may have resulted in the re-opening of talks.
On October 22, 2009) Mr. Zhu Weiqun, communist China’s Vice Minister of [...]
Tibet’s exiled Prime Minister, Samdhong Rinpoche today (January 30) briefed a press meeting in Dharamsala, North India claiming the re-launched negotiations with communist China to be an important development in solving the Tibet issue. “We are happy that the process of dialogue is being continued after around 15 months of interval. Of course we don’t [...]
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Were Google’s warning noises about withdrawing from communist China, following hacked accounts and a string of cyberattacks against foreign corrspondents, a genuine ethical response? Had the internet giant arisen from its slumber to make a stand against censorship and covert-espionage, areas of activity which China’s regime specializes in, or was its public condemnation based more [...]
According to a newswire report Communist China sentenced four more people to death Tuesday January 26, for participating in protests in Urumchi, East Turkestan, on July 5, 2009. The four appear to be Uyghurs. The sentence reached by what was little more than a show trial, in which the accused are denied any fair and independent legal [...]
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Tibet’s political leader, the Dalai Lama, has despatched two personal envoys to China in an effort to re-ignite Beijing’s interest in continuing what have been stalled efforts to negotiate. Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen arrive in Beijing tomorrow (January 26) to press the case for accepting Chinese domination in exchange for improvements in so-called autonomy, a [...]
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“The year 2009 was no different when it comes to violation of human rights of the Tibetan people inside Tibet by the Chinese authorities. For Tibetans inside Tibet it’s been yet another year of heightened security, repression, isolation and suppression.”
The Tibetan Center For Human Rights And Democracy has released its annual report on the human [...]
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Secretary of State Clinton yesterday issued a timorous response to communist China’s censorship and violation of internet and privacy rights, rather bizarrely inviting the Chinese Regime to investigate its own covert violations. She also called for a transparent response. Well Hillary here’s Beijing’s reaction, issued today via its Foreign Ministry
“The U.S. has criticised China’s policies [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ’s response to China’s latest campaign of cyber-war intrusion and censorship proved predictably muted. http://mashable.com/2010/01/21/hillary-clinton-google-china/ As the private email accounts of foregn correspondents and individual citizens remain hacked and abused by Beijing’s thought-police, Hillary missed an opportunity to make a call for truth, justice and individual freedom. by attributing responsibility for [...]
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So, the complex and extensive Himalayan glacial system is not now, it would appear, under imminent threat of accelerated retreat, with the associated ecological devestation predicted by environmentalists. The anxiety which surrounded this subject can it seems be sourced to a 2007 report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which cautioned that the total area [...]
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China continues its cyber-attacks against journalists, with reports that once again Google, and individual GMail accounts have been targetted. A report received from the Committee to Protect Journalists January 19, revealed that foreign correspondents in Beijing had informed the CPJ of recent attempts to compromise journalists email accounts, and noted that reporters have operated under the suspicion that [...]
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