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• Self-sacrifice in the desperate fight for Tibet
  By Michael Danby
  ON THE WEB, 3 February 2012 – The international community must accept the futility of its indifference to the plight of the Tibetans, because surely they are prepared to continue their ceaseless and largely peaceful fight. ...
• Why India must be prepared to face China militarily
  By Colonel Anil A Athale (retd)
  ON THE WEB, 2 February 2012 – Indians need to take a long hard look at our northern neighbour. For far too long the media focus has been on the failing State to our West. ...
• The New Year saga: China dampens Tibetan's celebration
  By Jagannath P Panda
  ON THE WEB, 24 January 2012 – In general, the New Year tales narrate the grave battles through which the Tibetan and Chinese cultures are trying to settle their political debate. ...
• Lasting lesson of 1962: don’t be caught off-guard again
  By Brahma Chellaney
  ON THE WEB, 23 January 2012 – The lasting lesson of 1962 is that India must be ready to repulse any kind of attack, including by undercutting the aggressor where it is the weakest. ...
• The tragedy of exile
  By Kanchan Gupta
  MUMBAI, India, 21 January 2012 – It's only when your country disowns you that you realise what exile means. Nothing can be more tragic than that. ...
• Burning with despair
  By Jeff Jacoby
  ON THE WEB, 18 January 2012 – The Tibetan monks and nuns consigning themselves to the flames cannot know whether their self-sacrifice will lead to a similar upheaval in China's totalitarian empire. But they know the anguish of their people. ...
• Why are Tibetan monks setting themselves on fire?
  By Lois Parshley
  ON THE WEB, 18 January 2012 – To the 15 Tibetans who were willing to burn in protest, the significance of their actions, and all they were willing to give up to be heard, was already plain. ...
• Western perspectives on the Tibetan issue and Nepal's one-China policy
  By Mohan Nepali
  ON THE WEB, 30 December 2011 – Can anybody give me a piece of evidence that the U.S. administration, including the EU members, have ever declared their official stance that Tibet must be an independent nation? ...
• Why is Nepal cracking down on Tibetan refugees?
  By Jon Krakauer
  ON THE WEB, 29 December 2011 – Friction between Chinese authorities and the five million Tibetans who live within the borders of China is on the rise, and nowhere is the strife more apparent than in the neighboring nation of Nepal. ...
• Pak is China's low-cost hedge against India
  By Vikram Sood
  MUMBAI, India, 22 December 2011 – It was a very perturbed Sardar Patel who wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 November 1950, pointing out that by our silence at the UN we had accepted Chinese suzerainty over Tibet. ...
• Wen Jiabao visit to enhance bilateral relations
  By Sharachchandra Bhandary
  ON THE WEB, 11 December 2011 – The visit of Chinese Prime Minister is taking place at the time when Nepal is under a transitional period, faced with two historical tasks, successful completion of peace process and constitution drafting. ...
• Tibet's old way of life is slowly dying.
  By Pankaj Mishra
  ON THE WEB, 9 December 2011 – Not even self-immolation will change that. Tibet's desperate protests cause embarrassment rather than anxiety in China. Britain too is looking the other way. ...
• Before the storm
  By Gordon G. Chang
  ON THE WEB, 5 December 2011 – After 35 years of virtually uninterrupted growth, the Chinese economy has reached an inflection point. The deterioration has been as rapid as it was unexpected. In short, the wheels are coming off the Chinese economy. ...
• Return of Buddha
  By Shobhan Saxena
  ON THE WEB, 4 December 2011 – Are Buddhist nations coming together to form a bloc that is as much religious as it is political? And is India ready to assume leadership of the group? If it is, China is clearly unhappy about it. ...
• Can you hear the Chinese whispers grow louder?
  By Brahma Chellaney
  ON THE WEB, 4 December 2011 – China has upped the ante on the Dalai Lama because it recognizes that he remains a major strategic asset for India. And to contain the Dalai Lama, it brazenly demands India's cooperation. ...
• Making sense of self-immolation
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 29 November 2011 – No lie is too big or small for the paid posters of Chinese propaganda, especially when it comes to attacking His Holiness the Dalai Lama ...
• Buddhism: India, China battle it out in the open
  By Vijay Kranti
  NEW DELHI, India, 28 November 2011 – The sudden decision of India and China to drop the meeting of their special representatives only a day before it was scheduled in Beijing has brought a cold war on Buddhism out in the open. ...
• Waiting for a Tibetan Spring
  By Susan Hogan
  ON THE WEB, 17 November 2011 – President Obama spoke of the importance of building a "cooperative partnership" between the US and China and preserving Tibetan culture. But for that to happen, the human rights abuses must stop. ...
• Tibetan waters: Crucial for India and other South Asian countries
  By Pran K Vasudeva
  CHANDIGARH, India, 17 November 2011 – The water resources of Tibet should be accepted as a global commons. Any distortion in its delicate river system is likely to affect the global environment. ...
• Goodbye Tibet?
  By John Graham
  ON THE WEB, 15 November 2011 – What the Chinese are doing in Tibet tells us a lot about what we can expect from them as their power grows. ...
• The flag still flies
  By Kaushik Barua
  ON THE WEB, 15 November 2011 – Under intolerable repression, Tibetans are using the only weapon they have left: their bodies. ...
• Martyrs burning bright
  By Shobhan Saxena
  ON THE WEB, 13 November 2011 – With thousands of "riots" in the country every year, China has been showing signs of social unrest for some time, and recent calls for a 'Jasmine Revolution' has begun to make Beijing nervous. ...
• Chinese repression to blame for immolations in Tibet
  By Lobsang Sangay
  ON THE WEB, 4 November 2011 – The international community must press China to restore freedom and resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue for the mutual benefit of the Tibetan and Chinese peoples. ...
• India must wake up to Chinese threat
  By Shishir Gupta
  ON THE WEB, 20 October 2011 – Defence minister AK Antony and his friends in UPA would have to shed their cold warrior mindset as the Beijing's string of pearls strategy could practically choke New Delhi both from land and sea. ...
• China is fuelling the fires of Tibetan resistance
  By Ed Douglas
  ON THE WEB, 17 October 2011 – This campaign of attempted or actual suicide is a new and horrific development. Suicide is morally problematic for Tibetan Buddhists, but "to have to relinquish our identity and culture is to relinquish the point of living for [we] Tibetans." ...
• Has the dragon swallowed South Africa yet?
  By Tashi Wangyal
  MONTREAL, Canada, 6 October 2011 – The decision to disallow the Dalai Lama to visit South Africa for the second time in three years is indeed a huge political misstep. ...
• China's power should not make it immune to criticism over Tibet
  By Simon Bradshaw
  ON THE WEB, 29 September 2011 – Strangely, the West's penchant for all things Tibetan is yet to be matched by any real concern for the wellbeing of the six million Tibetans. ...
• Why China wants to become a Dalai Lama-making factory
  By Jayadeva Ranade
  MUMBAI, India , 28 September 2011 – The Dalai Lama's announcement that he will decide on his own successor is likely to upset Chinese calculations and harden resistance by Tibetans inside China. ...
• An analysis on Kalons nomination
  By Tashi Wangyal
  MONTREAL, Canada, 19 September 2011 – Take a look at the ministers of Sangay's cabinet and see if they represent both genders and all three provinces of Tibet. If yes, has Dr Sangay compromised quality for equality? Not in my opinion. ...
• India's road to China must pass through Tibet
  By Jabin T Jacob
  ON THE WEB, 9 September 2011 – Tibet needs to be converted from a frontier separating India and China into a meeting place where mutual interests are fulfilled. ...
• Tibet today, as I saw it
  By Tashi Phuntsok
  By email, 15 August 2011 – China's shrewd ethnic cleansing policy of promoting a massive Han population transfer into Tibet is more dangerous than denying political and religious freedom. ...
• Undermining the Dalai Lama at Tibet's 60th bash
  By Jayadeva Ranade
  ON THE WEB, 15 August 2011 – Beijing expects that a weakened movement will compel the XIVth Dalai Lama's successors to find new methods at accommodation. ...
• Lobsang Sangay steps in as Tibet's legitimate leader
  By Bhuchung D Sonam
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 11 August 2011 – No matter how hard Beijing imposes its increasingly harsh rule over Tibet, Tibetans inside and outside Tibet put their trust in the leadership of Lobsang Sangay for a future free Tibet. ...
• Remembering India's capitulation on Tibet
  By Ajai Shukla
  NEW DELHI, India, 9 August 2011 – India's many angry Tibetan youngsters are held back for now by their enormous respect for the 14th Dalai Lama, but his passing on will create a problem for China. ...
• Now, a chance to end Tibet stalemate
  By Lobsang Sangay
  ON THE WEB, 7 August 2011 – Through peaceful dialogue and communication, I genuinely believe we have the opportunity to meaningfully create a solution that would satisfy both Tibetan and Chinese interests. ...
• 'Thank you Communist Party of China'
  By Bhuchung D Sonam
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 28 July 2011 – After my nearly three decades in exile, I still remember the lyrics of The East is Red — the only entertainment we had during those times of terrible hardships in Tibet. ...
• Why Xi Jinping's visit to Tibet is important
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 26 July 2011 – Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, who will takeover as president next year, seems to have realised that the past policy of repression can't solve the long-pending Tibetan issue. ...
• Talking tough to China can be costly
  By David Akin
  ON THE WEB, 20 July 2011 – Would it be too much for Canada to remind China they are invaders and occupiers of Tibet and not liberators? How much money will it cost Canada to say something like that? ...
• Tibet, East Turkistan continue to haunt Chinese leadership
  By B Raman
  ON THE WEB, 20 July 2011 – The situation in the Chinese-controlled East Turkistan region of China and in the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region continues to haunt the leadership of the Communist Party of China. ...
• Despite denials, China has a big problem in Tibet
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 19 July 2011 – Washington prefers to receive the Dalai Lama and ignore Dr Lobsang Sangay, the new 'elected' Kalon Tripa. It is more convenient to receive a 'religious' leader. ...
• Troubling T-shirts in holy times: The impropriety of being political
  By Topden Tsering
  By email, 19 July 2011 – If you thought it's only in China-occupied Tibet that perils can be brought upon your head for asserting your Tibetanness, think again! ...
• Finally, the right thing by President Obama
  By Lobsang Wangyal
  MCLEOD GANJ, India, 18 July 2011 – Obama earned respect, Tibetans felt reassured and Chinese authorities got what it sought — the territorial claim over Tibet. And as a bonus, an opportunity to learn. ...
• Upsurge of Tibetan democracy and Beijing propaganda
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 16 July 2011 – Once a satisfactory agreement with China is reached, the Central Tibetan Administration in exile will be dissolved and the Tibetans in Tibet will be given charge of the Tibetan affairs. ...
• Letter to the Editor: Kalden Lodoe's reprehensible act!
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 15 July 2011 – It is ironic that such a reprehensible and tragic incident occurred amongst us Tibetans, and that too in Washington DC — capital of the world's most powerful democracy! ...
• Why is China afraid of the Dalai Lama?
  By Fred Hiatt
  ON THE WEB, 15 July 2011 – A half-century of exile has not tempered the Dalai Lama's optimism. Chinese intellectuals and party members understand the contradictions in the current state of affairs. "Things will change". ...
• Names you need to know: Lobsang Sangay, Tibet's new leader
  By Gordon G Chang
  ON THE WEB, 11 July 2011 – There is no shortage of evils bedeviling the Tibetans or confronting Lobsang Sangay, unfortunately. He must, in the face of devils, protect his people and lead them back to their mountain homeland. ...
• What China could learn from the Dalai Lama
  By Lobsang Sangay
  ON THE WEB, 6 July 2011 – Beijing's leadership has a golden opportunity to prove its sincerity, garner good will and improve the image of China if it would, as the Dalai Lama devolved his political authority, devolve its power to Tibetans in Tibet. ...
• On the difference between big and grand
  By Thierry Dodin
  HUALIEN, Taiwan, 3 July 2011 – What has the Communist Party of China's PRC got that can offer more? The endless, self-praising speeches during the National People's Congress sessions? The many monuments to national unity? ...
• The democracy conundrum
  By Tenzing Sonam
  ON THE WEB, 1 July 2011 – The recent attempts to devolve the Dalai Lama's political responsibilities have highlighted just how difficult — and critical — such reforms are for the Tibetan exile community. ...
• Minnesota Tibetans gather for unprecedented election
  By Lobsang T Namru
  MINNEAPOLIS, US, 1 July 2011 – History is made with election of Tibetan officials at the local level in Minnesota, US. ...
• China strengthens hold on Nepal, comes to India's doorstep
  By Jayadeva Ranade
  ON THE WEB, 24 June 2011 – China proposes a development plan for Nepal with far-reaching implications, especially for Tibetans and for India. ...
• The legitimacy and role of the Central Tibetan Administration
  By Kelsang Gyaltsen
  ON THE WEB, 22 June 2011 – The change of the title in Tibetan of our Administration only reemphasises this basic position of the Central Tibetan Administration without renouncing the legitimacy of representing the voice and aspiration of the people of Tibet. ...
• Ai Weiwei: The reasons behind his arrest?
  By Malcolm Moore
  SHANGHAI, China, 11 May 2011 – "I'm ready for [prison], because I believe the core value of an artist must be to express yourself freely and fight for the freedom of others." ...
• Dalai Lama: Osama bin Laden deserves compassion
  By Ishaan Tharoor
  ON THE WEB, 9 May 2011 – The Dalai Lama said that, as a fellow human being, even bin Laden deserves our compassion and forgiveness. But, he stressed, "forgiveness doesn't mean to forget what happened." ...
• Leaks of Tibetan election results
  By Tashi Wangyal
  BY EMAIL, 26 April 2011 – Some people are basically waiting for the official results only to see if they match the numbers they already have in hand. ...
• India's China fears
  By Michael Kugelman
  ON THE WEB, 7 April 2011 – Delhi's alarm about China is building at the highest levels, fueled by concerns over natural resources competition, border conflicts, and China's military activities and policy of encirclement. ...
• Dragon's terrorist designs - Part I
  By Lobsang Yeshi
  BYLAKUPPE, India, 22 March 2011 – From the much abused clichés of 'liberation' and 'globalisation', 'terrorism', today has emerged as the latest global tool of tyranny and subjugation, and China is using it to the hilt ...
• Who can carry the Dalai Lama's legacy?
  By Dibyesh Anand
  ON THE WEB, 12 March 2011 – While a flourishing democracy in exile could give the diaspora a moral edge vis-a-vis the Chinese people, it could also create a chasm. ...
• India must apologise to the Karmapa Lama
  By Shobhan Saxena
  ON THE WEB, 18 February 2011 – The Himachal government has committed a Himalayan blunder by casting aspersions on the Karmapa in particular and the Tibetans in exile in general. ...
• We are electing the best of "right" men, I think!
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  WYOMING, US, 17 February 2011 – What makes Lobsang Sangay click among the voters is his leadership qualities — his charisma, intelligence, assertiveness, confidence, and his ability to reach out to people from all walks of life. ...
• Is the Karmapa Lama an agent of Beijing or a political scapegoat?
  By Brahma Chellaney
  ON THE WEB, 11 February 2011 – The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama has revived old suspicions about his links with China ...
• Why India is investigating a reincarnated Tibetan Lama
  By Ishaan Tharoor
  ON THE WEB, 4 February 2011 – Though the Karmapa seems to be handling the scrutiny with calm and grace, this expression of Indian distrust may have negative consequences for New Delhi. ...
• Karmapa does not deal with donations
  By Youdon Aukatsang
  NEW DELHI, India, 4 February 2011 – There is plenty of speculation in the media about His Holiness the Karmapa, that he may be a Chinese spy. Such talk is totally baseless. ...
• Buddha's not smiling
  By Dibyesh Anand
  ON THE WEB, 2 February 2011 – The (Indian) media have gone berserk with speculations about the Karmapa Lama. Sadly, the coverage has failed to do any groundwork research. ...
• What I want from my Kalon Tripa candidate
  By Tashi Phuntsok
  BETHLEHEM, US, 27 January 2011 – There were a few questions I wanted to ask the candidates if I had been able to attend the debate in New York city. ...
• Pound for pound analysis - Kalon Tripa New York debate
  By Tashi Wangyal
  MONTREAL, Canada, 10 January 2011 – Description and analysis of the much-anticipated debate for Kalon Tripa 2011 organized by the New York and New Jersey Tibetan Association ...
• Rise of Tibetan soft power
  By Tsering Namgyal
  MINNEAPOLIS, US, 6 January 2011 – In the years ahead, we are going to see a continued rise in Tibetan nationalistic aspirations along with the flourishing of Tibetan culture and civilization, in tandem with the rise of China as a global power. ...
• The end of Shangrila
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 2 January 2011 – A new highway being built in southern Tibet, close to MacMahon Line, has ominous implications for India's national security. ...
• Why US, China must listen to each other
  By George Soros
  NEW YORK, US, 2 January 2011 – Unless a deliberate effort is made by United States and China to reach a better understanding, the world faces a turbulent time in 2011 and beyond. ...
• Will 2011 be an 'Ooh-la-la' year?
  By Chime Tenzing
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 31 December 2010 – In our world we define success by the things we have, not by the people we've become. The more self-awareness we develop the more likely we are to grow and help others. ...
• The hundred ways and thousand strategies
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  WYOMING, US, 30 December 2010 – Tibetan culture is so subtle, complex and varied that it can withstand any challenges that we face in our lives, including China's desperate attempt to wipe out our culture and identity! ...
• India rises on global stage in 2010
  By Lalit Mansingh
  ON THE WEB, 26 December 2010 – Today, India as a nation with political stability, military strength and a growing economy, why should we be so hesitant to act as a world power? ...
• Big stick, no carrot: weni, widi, wici?
  By Bharat Karnad
  ON THE WEB, 19 December 2010 – It is little wonder that Indian strategy is in the doldrums and Chinese leaders such as Wen Jiabao return home feeling reassured that India can't hack it as a great power. ...
• Dalai Lama is right to put climate change first
  By Isabel Hilton
  ON THE WEB, 18 December 2010 – For Tibet, climate change is a far more urgent issue than independence — its very survival is at stake. ...
• An open letter to Wen Jiabao
  By Tenzin Tsundue
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 16 December 2010 – Wen Jiabao, you have a saying in Chinese: The man at his death tells the truth. It's time the true wishes of the Chinese people be expressed. And there's no one who can do it more effectively than you, Mr Wen. ...
• What to expect from Wen Jiabao's visit
  By Srikanth Kondapalli
  ON THE WEB, 11 December 2010 – Dr Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao can use their great personal rapport to enhance relations between India and China when the latter visits Delhi. ...
• Checks and Balances: "Obama of China"
  By Rinchen
  By email, 25 November 2010 – As a strong and vocal supporter of Dr Lobsang Sangay la, I considered it necessary to dig deeper into this "Obama Of China" quote reported initially by Jamyang Norbu la. ...
• A new approach to human life
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  WYOMING, US, 24 November 2010 – If we could overcome anger, hatred, jealousy, fear, insecurity plaguing our world—the true manifestations of global warming—I think we can overcome all the problems our human world is facing. ...
• The hard truth about China's 'soft power'
  By Stephen Minas
  ON THE WEB, 24 November 2010 – The recently finished Shanghai World Expo was China's second coming out party, so-called, in three years. Some had grander hopes for the Expo — that it would 'showcase China's soft power'. ...
• "Chinese Obama": A mountain out of a molehill
  By Samdup Tenzin
  EDINBURGH, United Kingdom, 14 November 2010 – Dr Lobsang Sangay was likened to a "Chinese Obama" by his angry detractors who accuse him of harbouring duplicitous ambitions during a panel discussion in 2008. ...
• Dr Lobsang Sangay-la and the "Obama of China" statement
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  By email, 11 November 2010 – Much has been said and written about Dr Lobsang Sangay's "Obama of China" statement. The respected and influential essayist Jamyang Norbu-la interpreted it as meaning "giving up Tibetan independence." ...
• An open letter: Stop China's annihilation of Tibetan identity
  By Jigme Ugen
  MINNEAPOLIS, US, 25 October 2010 – An Open Letter to the United States House of Representatives: Stop China's annihilation of Tibetan identity, religion and culture in Tibet. ...
• The Chinese threat to India
  By Raghav Bahl
  ON THE WEB, 21 October 2010 – Is there an "India card" that America can play against China? Is there an "America card" that India can play against China? And is China getting increasingly wary about these chimerical cards? ...
• Reflections on Kalon Tripa primary election
  By Tenzin Yeshi
  By email, 18 October 2010 – After a great deal of hype, publicity, and discussion, the final curtain on the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) primary election came down, leaving many of us with the question "what next?" ...
• Keeping the pressure on China
  By Wu'er Kaixi
  ON THE WEB, 12 October 2010 – Liu Xiaobo's Nobel peace prize must be the first of many steps by the west to encourage real political reform in China. ...
• The spirit of Tibet
  By Sunanda K Datta-Ray
  ON THE WEB, 8 October 2010 – With or without a Dalai Lama and no matter what China says, the Tibetan diaspora will evolve into a state without territory ...
• For their own freedom, Nepalis should protest seizure of Tibetan ballot boxes
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  By email, 6 October 2010 – The seizure of Tibetan ballot boxes by Nepal police has clearly shown China's overbearing influence on Nepal, and has proved that it is a failed state. ...
• The Dalai Lama, international pop star
  By Roy Strider
  By email, 29 September 2010 – Beijing is falsely hoping that after the present Dalai Lama disappears, his charisma, which daily influences millions of people, will too. Unfortunately, the comrades are mistaken! ...
• Untruths and hypocrisy in Chinese media
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 23 September 2010 – China complains about alleged biases in the Western media, but Chinese ideas of "fairness" apparently lie in having others saying what they want them to say. "Fairness" lies in being free to say something. ...
• A chance for a new voice: The chocho who I know...
  By Tenzin Youdon
  BOSTON, US, 22 September 2010 – It is a critical time in the history of the Tibetan Diaspora as we choose a candidate for the position of Kalon Tripa (prime minister). I take this opportunity to introduce someone. ...
• Where are the petitions from Tibet?
  By Tenzin Nyinjey
  By email, 16 September 2010 – Petitions are being received by the Tibetan government-in-exile, but were never made public. Thus the question of transparency and accountability arises. ...
• China and Tibet
  By Nicholas Kristof
  11 September 2010 – Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama’s representative in Washington, has a good op-ed in the South China Morning Post. In particular, he makes two points that I think Beijing just doesn’t "get." First: ...
• Exposing China's propaganda and lies
  By Tsering Wangchuk
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 10 September 2010 – In June, this writer published a response to Du Xinyu's article denouncing Tibetan democracy as a PR stunt meant for scoring political brownie points. ...
• Speaking the tongue of the devil
  By Chime Tenzing
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 6 September 2010 – However well-versed you are in any other languages, if you do not know Tibetan you are like a one-eyed man. It began to dawn on me how important it is to know Tibetan to be Tibetan, not only as an individual, but also as a community. ...
• Obama administration turns focus on Tibet
  By B Raman
  ON THE WEB, 30 August 2010 – In its annual report on Tibet, the Obama administration has called for a substantive dialogue without pre-conditions between the Dalai Lama and Beijing on the Tibetan issue, and called upon the Government of Nepal to honour its past commitment to travel by Tibetans. ...
• Obama's timidity on Tibet
  By Ellen Bork
  ON THE WEB, 20 August 2010 – American officials should know by now that nothing is gained by acquiescing to China's overbearing behaviour on Tibet or any other issue. To be credible, America must clearly and publicly pursue a well-established policy on Tibet. ...
• Rivers run through it
  By Syed Iqbal Hasnain
  ON THE WEB, 17 August 2010 – Tibet's waters are the water towers for all Asia. Should China be the lone arbiter of their use? What happens to downstream nations that depend heavily on these rivers? ...
• America's obligation to Tibet
  By Greg Bruno
  ON THE WEB, 13 August 2010 – The US must not turn a blind eye to Chinese pressure on Nepal to close its borders to fleeing Tibetan dissidents. ...
• Next Kalon Tripa: Old wine in a new bottle?
  By Chime Tenzing
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 15 July 2010 – I do not have any reservation against those who prefer old wine in a new bottle either! So I would only say — be wise in deciding, wiser in electing! After all, we need a leader who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ...
• Three environmentalist brothers
  By Tenzin Norsang
  DELHI, India, 8 July 2010 – Is China able to protect the wildlife of Tibet under its own Wildlife Protection Law? If not, if laws aren't put into practice, then there is absolutely no use of policies and laws. ...
• Son of India
  By C Raja Mohan
  ON THE WEB, 7 July 2010 – In continuing to declare that he is a "Son of India", the Dalai Lama draws the fury of the Chinese media. The Dalai Lama has been exiled in India for the last 51 years. That, however, is not the main reason why the Dalai Lama calls himself a son of India. ...
• Is Tibetan democracy only 'skin deep'?
  By Tsering Wangchuk
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 28 June 2010 – The Chinese state manufactures lies, while the Chinese people fake buying them. ...
• Why I was attacked by Chinese security guards
  By Russel Norman
  ON THE WEB, 22 June 2010 – Last Friday, in the lead up to the arrival of the Chinese Vice President, I held up a Tibetan flag at the bottom of the steps in front of parliament. My purpose was to draw attention to the shocking human rights abuses suffered by the Tibetan people. ...
• The Brand Vultures – Keds & Co.
  By Chime Tenzing
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 22 June 2010 – Keds' new line of sneakers called "Tibetan Buddhist Shoes," bearing images of the Dalai Lama, the Buddha, holy mantras, the Tibetan national flag and other sacred images, is a gross denigration of the faith which has millions of followers around the globe! ...
• How China manipulates media
  By Claude Arpi
  ON THE WEB, 21 June 2010 – The bosses of the People's Republic of China have recently decided to invest in propaganda (sorry, publicity) to highlight the "Chinese Model' of governance. And Beijing is ready to pour a few billion dollars into the venture. ...
• Chinese nitpicking on Tibetan democracy
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 19 June 2010 – If one were to go by the recent barrage of official Chinese rhetoric, the elections held by the Central Tibetan Administration are anything but democratic. ...
• Letter to the editor: Outlook India
  By Dawa Tsering
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 18 June 2010 – I am still in shock as to the extent Ms Dogra had gone in churning out a heavily distorted, biased and, in some matters, outright malicious description of issues grappling the Tibetan community in Dharamshala. ...
• Tibet's watershed challenge
  By Uttam Kumar Sinha
  ON THE WEB, 14 June 2010 – The enormous storehouse of freshwater on the Tibetan plateau is of course vulnerable to environmental challenges, but gives rise to an array of political issues as well. ...
• Beauty, brains and boldness
  By Chime Tenzing
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 8 June 2010 – To our young and beautiful ladies — If you have the package of beauty, brains, and boldness, you should pull up your socks from now on to make a roaring appearance at the next Miss Tibet contest. ...
• The pendulum of hope and fear -- KT 2011
  By Tashi Wangyal
  MONTREAL, Canada, 8 June 2010 – If a Kalon Tripa has no independent decision-making power, and can not overturn the parliament's mandate to press his/her own opinion, then what critical role the Kalon Tripa play in the administration? ...
• Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet?
  By Mayank Chhaya
  ON THE WEB, 1 June 2010 – There is no reason for China to be so insecure about Tibet as to feel obliged to raise it with a visitor whose influence in Indian policymaking cannot be understated. ...
• London witnesses subtle Tibetan election campaign
  By Tsering Passang
  LONDON, UK, 29 May 2010 – Tibetans in London have been talking about the Tibetan Leaders' Debate, and they are now looking forward to hearing from Tibetan Kalon Tripa "candidates". ...
• Many faiths, one truth
  By Tenzin Gyatso
  ON THE WEB, 24 May 2010 – Harmony among the major faiths has become an essential ingredient of peaceful coexistence in our world. ...
• The faith divide
  By Eboo Patel
  ON THE WEB, 17 May 2010 – The Dalai Lama spoke of the importance of "coming together", emphasizing that when people interact positively with each other they learn how similar they are. ...
• China still hooked on 'son of India'
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 7 May 2010 – Tibetans had never reckoned themselves Chinese, or Tibetan-Chinese for that matter, even when questioned at the tip of bayonet. ...
• Moments of tragedy and test for Beijing
  By Chime Tenzing
  By emial, 21 April 2010 – During this time of crisis, the relief effort made by Beijing is crucial in determining how the rest of the world perceives them. It is in Beijing's best interest to engage in rescue work as it would help rebuilding its image. ...
• Golf, cricket and the Dalai Lama
  By Lobsang Wangyal
  MCLEOD GANJ, India, 20 April 2010 – What has the Dalai Lama to do with golf and cricket? Nothing really. But due to his public profile, visits to the US and the current IPL cricket matches, he has been linked to the sports by the media. ...
• Race for Tibet
  By Roy Strider
  By email, 9 April 2010 – The Tibetans should turn straight to the people, not the governments so that everybody would demand their politicians to take action in the matter of Tibet. ...
• "Kelsang Gyaltsen" confuses Chinese media
  By Dhundup Gyalpo
  DHARAMSHALA, India, 29 March 2010 – The world is already relatively aware of the inaccurate and unfair reporting delivered by the Chinese media, often riddled with mistakes. The question is: who's listening? ...
• As China prepares for post-Dalai Lama Tibet, what is India to do with the Tibetan Exiles?
  By Abanti Bhattacharya
  ON THE WEB, 26 March 2010 – India needs to raise with China the issue of the future of the exiled Tibetan population in India, as their long-term presence in India could prove to be troublesome in terms of internal peace. ...
• China is attempting to wipe out Buddhism
  By Robert Thurman
  ON THE WEB, 21 March 2010 – The intense and violent Maoist campaign of "thought-reform" brainwashing and cultural destruction from 1959 to 1979 failed to eradicate the Buddha Dharma and the love of the Dalai Lama from the Tibetan heart. ...
• China's revolutionary hope?
  By Minxin Pei
  ON THE WEB, 15 March 2010 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Nepal wants to maintain a balanced relationship with both of its neighbors ...
• China: What after the Games?
  By Claude Arpi
  INDIA, 24 August 2008 – The glittering function is over, ... What is the future of China? ...
• After the Games, Tibet
  By Nicholas D. Kristof
  BEIJING, China, 14 August 2008 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Over the last 19 years since the last significant pro-independence protests in Tibet, the Chinese government has weathered a growing Tibet movement ...