Human rights talks with China ‘absurd’
Australia’s annual human rights talk with China, just completed, is an “absurdity” which not only fails to deliver results but helps China avoid international criticism of its human rights record, according to a leading Australian academic.
Chilean Newspaper Analyzes Tibet-China Contact
El Mercurio, a Spanish language daily from Santiago in Chile, has carried a report on the Tibet-China contact with analytical comments by Tibet and China scholars as well as officials of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and the Chinese Government.
India-China trade could benefit Nepal
The decision by India and China to step up border trade is likely to have spin-off benefits for Nepal, home to several historic routes taken by yak caravans while travelling between India and Tibet in past decades.
Tibetan water gives China new reason to control Himalayan region
China, which controls Tibet for strategic and nationalistic reasons, now has yet another motive to hold on to the Himalayan region, as it has more water than any other part of the country.
Nepal Sticks to One-China Policy: PM
Nepali Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa reiterated Thursday in Kathmandu that Nepal will stick to its principled stand of One-China Policy and will not allow any anti-China activities in Nepal’s territory.
No symmetry in annexations of Sikkim and Tibet
In my last column, and in the aftermath of the recent high-level Sino-Indian talks in Beijing, we dealt with the issue of Tibet from a historical perspective. A parallel analytical exercise with regard to Sikkim would perhaps prove equally interesting.