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• How the global economic crisis could bring down the Chinese government
  By Joshua Kurlantzick
  BEIJING, China, 18 November 2008 (The New Republic) – 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 (Indian Express) – 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 (Pipe Dream) – 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 (The Times) – 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 (Wall Street Journal) – 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 (Huffington Post) – 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 (Idaho Mountain Express) – 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 (The Inquirer) – 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 (New York Times) – 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 (Australia.to) – 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 (The Guardian) – 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 (The Pioneer) – 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 (World Tribune) – 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 (UPI) – Nepal wants to maintain a balanced relationship with both of its neighbors ...
• China: What after the Games?
  By Claude Arpi
  INDIA, 24 August 2008 (Sify) – The glittering function is over, ... What is the future of China? ...
• After the Games, Tibet
  By Nicholas D. Kristof
  BEIJING, China, 14 August 2008 (New York Times) – 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 (Tibet Sun) – 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 (The Guardian) – 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 (Charles Bremner) – 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 (NYT) – 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 (YaleGlobal Online) – 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 (Taipei Times) – 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 (GNN) – Over the last 19 years since the last significant pro-independence protests in Tibet, the Chinese government has weathered a growing Tibet movement ...