Category Archives: Elsewhere on the Web

• Trump scrubs climate change from White House web site; environmentalists fume 21 January 2017 | Stuart Leavenworth no comments

  The web site change took down Obama’s Climate Action Plan, replacing it with Trump’s “America First Energy Plan,” eliminating policies for renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gases. ...

• Secret files: Untold story of CIA covert operations in Tibet 13 December 2016 4 comments

  The intervention was harmful, siad the Dalai Lama, because it was primarily aimed at serving American interests rather than helping the Tibetans in any lasting way. ...

• Principles, not impulsiveness, needed for China-US ties 12 December 2016 no comments

  One must, whether an individual or a country, have principles when interacting with others. For China, the One China principle is one of the foremost preconditions for building formal ties. ...

• Will Trump test the limits of China’s patience by meeting with Dalai Lama? 8 December 2016 no comments

  It is unclear whether Donald Trump will meet with the Dalai Lama, who has been invited to the White House several times in the last decades. ...

• Britain urged to honor its commitments on Tibet 4 November 2016 no comments

  Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying commented on meeting between Lobsang Sangay, "prime minister" of the "Tibetan government in exile," and John Bercow, speaker of Britain's House of ...

• Commentary: South China Sea arbitration another plot hatched by US to reinforce hegemony 15 July 2016 | Zhu Junqing no comments

  The so-called South China Sea arbitration is just a start key for the United States having ulterior motives to agitate the South China Sea situation to reinforce its hegemony. ...

• Tibet development forum opens in Lhasa 7 July 2016 no comments

  The Forum on the Development of Tibet opened on Thursday in the regional capital Lhasa. ...

• Tibet Airlines receives its first A330 4 July 2016 | Theodore Koumelis no comments

  Lhasa-based Tibet Airlines has received its first widebody aircraft, the first A330-200 in China, which allows airlines to operate from the most demanding high altitude airports. ...

• Qinghai-Tibet Railway boosts Tibet’s economy 29 June 2016 | Li Jianhua no comments

  Over the past decade, the 2000-kilometre railway linking Xining, capital of Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, capital of the Tibet region, has brought a big difference to the lives of people living in Tibet. ...

• “Tibetans in-exile” cannot speak Tibetan: Whose fault? 22 June 2016 no comments

  All Tibetan schools practice bilingual education. Pastoral areas and some village schools teach simultaneously in both languages, with main classes taught in Tibetan. ...