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

It's Thursday, February 18, 2010, and U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting a meeting at the White House with Tibet's Dalai

The Dalai Lama has led a non-violent campaign of resistance to Chinese occupation of Tibet since 1959. Tibet is not free. Therefore this campaign has not worked. This is the sad truth

When a friend asked me what I thought of the long-awaited meeting between the Dalai Lama and United States President Barack Obama, I immediately replied, "It is good

This week's meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama is generating an unusually vocal uproar from Beijing. That uproar, for those who listen carefully, is a sign that Mr. Obama's policies on Tibet and