MP questions council’s links with China

ESSEX County Council’s close links with China have been bought into question by an MP who called on the authority to re-think the relationship due to the country’s “brutal regime.”

Pro-Tibet Group Protests At Capitol

The demonstration, organized by the Tibetan Association of Connecticut, was prompted by a series of protests in Tibet this month connected to the Olympic torch run for the

Nepal protest

A Nepalese police go after a Tibetan monk protestor with a baton during a protest rally in front of the visa section of Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal, 25 March 2008. Nepalese police on Tuesday arrested over 100 out of several hundreds of demonstrating Tibetans targeting the Chinese embassy as their campaign against Chinese rule in their homeland continue since their protests started nearly two weeks ago. (Photo: EPA/NARENDRA SHRESTHA)

Something Darker Rising

If we take any sobering message from the Chinese Government’s recent military and media clampdown of Tibet, it is that all of us should be deeply frightened by the fact