Tag Archives: Politics

• Tibetan woman elected president of Canadian university, Chinese students create drama 15 February 2019 This post has 3 comments

  Chemi Lhamo, 22, got thousands of hateful comments after becoming University of Toronto Scarborough student president. ...

• Xi Jinping’s tough talk on Taiwan unification backfires, as Tsai Ing-wen’s support surges 1 February 2019 | Ralph Jennings and Johnson Lai This post has no comments yet

  Chinese President Xi Jinping sought to push Taiwanese closer to unification with a new year speech mixing carrots and sticks. ...

• Tibetan leader calls for dialogue with China 26 January 2019 This post has 5 comments

  A Tibetan political leader has urged the Chinese government to resume dialogue, saying that is the only way Beijing can guarantee true autonomy for the Tibetan people. ...

• China issues travel warning for Canada after “arbitrary detention” of national 15 January 2019 | Michael Martina and Philip Wen This post has 4 comments

  China on Tuesday issued a travel advisory for Canada, warning its citizens to “fully evaluate risks” and exercise caution when travelling there. ...

• Making history, Nancy Pelosi elected US House Speaker again 4 January 2019 | Michael Mathes This post has no comments yet

  Veteran Democratic lawmaker Nancy Pelosi was on Thursday elected speaker of the House again for a second term in her political career, the only woman ever to be the Speaker of the US House. ...

• Taiwan president defiant after China calls for reunification 2 January 2019 | Yimou Lee This post has 3 comments

  Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday the island would not accept a "one country, two systems" political arrangement with China. ...

• China’s Xi threatens Taiwan with force but also seeks peaceful ‘reunification’ | Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee This post has 2 comments

  China reserves the right to use force to bring Taiwan under its control but will strive to achieve peaceful “reunification” with the self-ruled island that has a bright future. ...

• Tibet Act a gargantuan bluff by US 21 December 2018 This post has one comment

  The US is the first choice of many Chinese students who want to study abroad, but they need to be more cautious from now on. ...

• China says ‘resolutely opposes’ new US law on Tibet | Philip Wen This post has 14 comments

  China denounced the United States on Thursday for passing a new law on restive Tibet, saying it was “resolutely opposed” to the US legislation on what China considers an internal affair. ...

• Tibet Act may further jeopardize China-US relations 13 December 2018 | Ling Shengli This post has no comments yet

  No side would win in a Sino-US confrontation, be it cold war, hot war or trade war. Only when the two can make mutual compromise and move in the same direction, can they promote stability. ...