Opinions

The attitude of the authorities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetans is reminiscent of the response of Joseph Stalin when the Soviet dictator was advised to avoid conflict with the Catholic church: "How many divisions does the pope have?"

Today there are more than 100 million internet users in China. The Chinese Government is ambivalent towards it. On the one hand, the internet is a tool to make money. On the other, the Communist dictatorship is afraid of freedom of expression

In the hurly-burly of day-to-day politics, Tibet has receded quite a distance in our horizon. Even when we talk about the political environment in our neighbourhood, Tibet rarely figures in it

In one, China denounced Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso for making an offering to the Yasukuni shrine. This

Year 2009 has very special significance in the history of today’s People’s Republic of China (PRC). In October this year the Communist rulers of Beijing will celebrate the 60t

A few rungs lower on the literary ladder we have Tom Grunfeld, author of The Making of Modern Tibet, who also insists that Tibet was not Hilton’s model for Shangri

They were turned away because they were Tibetan, because of their race. Are these isolated cases that happen because of personal prejudice (never mind that Tashi Tsering went

The world is currently in one of its worst recession in the last 50 years. International trade is forecasted to fall by more than 13% in 2009 and the world’s economy

Though coming from markedly different backgrounds, Mr Wu and I have come to the same unwavering conclusion that Tibet was a sovereign kingdom for many years before the Chinese military takeover of 1950s

A more accurate description would be "Chinese-occupied Tibet." We would not, I believe expect to see an article describing a trip to Baghdad referring to the "Iraq region of the United States," would we?