Opinions

The concept of mianzi or "face" in dealing with the Chinese is being stressed in many orientation briefings to foreigners visiting China where face is generally equ

Therefore to say that Tibet belongs to, and is an integral part of, China is very much open to debate. For these two reasons, among many, Tibet is not an internal affair, but very much a matter for international dialectic.

President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama provoked fury in Beijing even though the American leader had informed President Hu Jintao when he visited China in November that this would happen

I have not been able to cover as many Tibetan films as I would have liked here. There was the problem of time, length and the fact that much of what is produced in Tibet is not available to us in exile

After the latest 9th dialogue, Zhu Weiqun, Vice-Minister of the United Front of China, in his usual vitriolic press conference, had the audacity to state that "the so-called 'Tibet government-in-exile' is utterly illegal. It can neither represent Tibet nor the Tibetan people."

The importance given to Tibet’s stability at a strategy meeting in Beijing last month was suggestive of the authorities’ reaction to the widespread demonstr