Ceremony matters more than substance for Chinese leader
No one these days seriously expects summits between national leaders to confront and solve irritants between their countries. These panoplies are, at minimum, performance art to reassure the publics with comforting pictures that their leaders are
Global Voices: Meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls Dharamsala home. It isn’t the “rooftop of the world” that Tibet is. But, you could’ve fooled me. Dharamsala is like a mountain stronghold against Beijing’s oppression of Tibetan culture
The forging of a holy man
Was there ever a more unlikely life story? A child is born somewhere too remote to appear on any known map, and his childhood, though taking place in the mid-20th century, is redolent of the Middle Ages
DAMMING TIBET TO SAVE CHINA: HYDROPOWER’S COMING GOLDEN DECADE
China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, for 2011 through 2015, is about to become public.
The ongoing massive infrastructure investments typical of a centrally planned economy wi
China’s Internet Spying
Last June, at about the time of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, several members of the internal investigation unit of a US company assembled at an inter