Category Archives: Elsewhere on the Web

• Our national security plan: Racing China to disaster 10 February 2013 | Jay Mazoomdaar no comments

  After Bollywood, distrust of Pakistan and cricket (not necessarily in that order), what unites most Indians is our fear of China. The RSS worries about the Chinese cyber threat. ...

• As self-immolations approach 100, some Tibetans are asking if it is worth it 2 February 2013 | Jim Yardley no comments

  A crowd of Tibetans came here to India's capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet admixture of hope and despair. ...

• Fanning the flames 28 January 2013 | Yan Shuang no comments

  Two Tibetans stood trial Saturday for intentional murder after they confessed to having incited a series of self-immolations in "Tibetan-inhabited Aba prefecture" [Tibetan: Ngaba] of "Sichuan Province" [Amdo], under instructions from the "Dalai Lama clique". ...

• India expands to face China 28 January 2013 one comment

  The source of the current border tensions goes back a century, and heated up when China resumed its control over Tibet in the 1950s. ...

• Tibet to invest over $563m to protect its environment 25 January 2013 | Wang Huazhong and Daqiong no comments

  The government of the Tibet autonomous region plans to invest more than 3.5 billion yuan ($563 million) in 2013, 10.5 percent more than last year, in environmental protection. ...

• Self-immolations in Tibetan region expose Dalai Lama’s political aims 22 January 2013 | Mi Guanghong no comments

  Since last year, there has been a constant stream of cases of young Tibetans in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, dying after setting themselves on fire. ...

• Commentary: Soldiers should prepare for war 17 January 2013 | Guo Jianyue no comments

  As tensions flare up between between China and Japan, China’s has asked its military — People’s Liberation Army — to prepare to fight a winning battle. ...

• Our Views: New round of repression 21 December 2012 no comments

  The resentment of Tibet's people against Chinese Communist oppression is being demonstrated anew by a series of protesters who have set fire to themselves over the last few years. ...

• China dissatisfied with British human rights accusation 20 December 2012 no comments

  A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Wednesday voiced strong dissatisfaction with a statement made by British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire on Monday. ...

• Behind sacked chief’s issue: ties between exile leader and RFA’s female boss 15 December 2012 | Aku Tenpa no comments

  Reported in an article named "Free RFA" on Phayul 4 December, the Tibetan government-in-exile, or the Central Tibetan Administration, is using the influence of the Dalai Lama as bait to manipulate Libby Liu, the boss of Radio Free Asia. ...