The article published by Los Angeles Times, January 09, 2017 / Reporting from Aba prefecture, China By Jonathan Kaiman Contact Reporter It was a road trip through one of China’s most tightly controlled regions. We drove uphill and deeper into the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, an area of …
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Tibet in Agony: Lhasa 1959, written by Jianglin Li and translated by Susan Wilf, is the first detailed assessment of the events leading up to the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet into exile in 1959 that draws extensively on Chinese civil and military sources that have become available in …
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WASHINGTON TIMES: China’s extensive dam-building would give it control of Southeast Asia’s rivers Just when Asia was getting accustomed to the Chinese threat to the oceans of Southeast Asia, there’s another water worry for Asians. The government in Beijing controls the health of six major South and Southeastern Asian rivers, …
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Source Depending on who you ask, anywhere from a few hundred thousand to upwards of seven million Han (ethnically Chinese) have immigrated into Tibet Autonomous Region since it was invaded by China in 1950—but according to an international team of researchers, these Han are having a hard time reproducing in …
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Bloomberg News. Dexter Roberts. As China’s economy settles into slower growth, President Xi Jinping has been touting the benefits of what he calls the “new normal,” including a more equitable distribution of income and less pollution. But one region isn’t ready to give up on double-digit growth. “We must grow …
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Recent developments in cross-strait relations raise interesting questions for Tibet’s leadership in exile. November 24, 2015: The historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou is relevant to the Tibet issue in many ways. In 1979, when the post-Mao Chinese leadership decided to “solve old problems,” …
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