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RED CHINA has a complicated relationship with the blue people of “Avatar.” Chinese moviegoers have made it the country’s highest grossing movie, and yet their government can’t decide whether to stymie this global phenomenon or cash in on it

At times like these, I often wonder what normal people might think about the strange behavior of the Chinese government when the Dalai Lama looms on the horizon. President Obama meets all manner of heads of state, even small states,

During a visit to Dharamsala sometime in 2002, I saw a flier of Bhuchung D. Sonam’s book of poems, Dandelions in Tibet, in Gangchen Kyishong, on the bulletin b

Now that the White House has announced that President Obama will receive the Dalai Lama, it is important that he be welcomed not only as a moral and religious leader respected throughout the world but also as a fellow democrat who shares America's deepest values

Of all the world’s potential hotspots, one of the most unlikely is tucked into the folds of the Himalayas. It is a slice of ground that is little more than frozen ro

The previous US president was regarded by many as a bad guy, while his successor is considered by most as a nice fellow. A question however arises: can a

It has been two decades since I left my homeland Tibet. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my parents. It’s been two decades I haven’t seen my fellow Tibetans from my hometown, loss and sadness written all over their faces. Now, Losar is round the corner. I too gave a thought to the Tibetan New Year

In old Hollywood films of intrepid white explorers encountering savages in darkest Africa  (or tribals in benighted Afghanistan) there is usually a decisive moment in the story when the bwanas (or sahibs) are captured and it appears they are done for.

I recently attended a performance of the Hungarian National Ballet in New York City. The opening number portrayed life in Hungary under the Soviet Occupation, with two male dancers, one in a police uniform, the other his prisoner. The prisoner puts up a fight, but the policeman eventually breaks him with torture and hard labor, rendering him an obedient slave. At the end, a huge iron head of Lenin was rolled onto the stage and pummeled by freed prisoners.

he reaction of the Chinese government to the widespread unrest in 2008 was decisive and signaled a pattern devised for use in any ethnic disturbance. That