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If you are seeking the old, magical Tibet, now trampled by Chinese rule and depredations, venture to this pine-green, far-flung valley guarded by snowy Himalayan peaks and peopled by lamas and pious laity.

Dharamsala, India and Kathmandu, Nepal - When astronaut Yang Liwei rocketed into space on China's first manned spaceflight, he carried with him the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games banner and China's national flag.

Sherlock Holmes in one of his pithier stories remarks on the singular incident of the dog in the night time: which was that the dog did not bark when a crime was committed. Holmes concluded that the dog did not bark because it knew the criminal

The big question is whether today’s cooperation between China and the US will prove to be no more than a diversion from Asia’s enduring strategic reality — China’s emergence as the region’s dominant power

China's new Premier, Wen Jiabao, is visiting Canada for the first time and as fate would have it, he arrives in our nation's capital on International Human Rights Day.

Tibetan refugees trek for weeks across the frozen Himalayas, slipping past Chinese border guards in search of freedom and a glimpse of the Dalai Lama. Yet soon after finding their way to this bucolic colonial hill station, the new arrivals search for a way out.

During Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's current visit to the United States he is certain to hear calls asking him and his colleagues to work out a resolution to what would seem to be a solvable problem

They had waited for him since dawn, sun-drenched along an uneven mountain road. But when the Dalai Lama’s motorcade swept by, his passing wave left many vaguely disenchanted.

Unlike in the democratic countries, under the Chinese communist regime, the people do not enjoy the right to adult suffrage, that could well be inferred as one of the many needs of the Chinese people.

A few years ago when we first started to organize our boycott campaign, and even last year when we first launched it internationally, we were essentially speaking to a world quite happy to go on buying cheap Chinese products and one that didn't really care about the consequences.