NEWS IN HEADLINES (Updated) July 03, 2009
HIGHLIGHTSJul 03, 2009 On the 12th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on Jul 1, up to 76,000 residents of Hong Kong staged a protest rally, raising a host of issues, including, in particular, the Beijing-picked local government’s backtracking over introducing universal suffrage. Jul 03, 2009 India said it was only seeking to put in place a credible deterrence in boosting its border strength against a fir superior Chinese military capabilities in occupied Tibet and southern China, according to a Times of India report Jul 2. Jul 03, 2009 The Qinghai-Tibet Railway summer holiday service began on Jul 1 with expectations to serve a total of 1.1 million passengers at a daily average of 17,700 passengers, reported China’s online Tibet information service eng.tibet.cn Jul 2. Jul 03, 2009 To heighten it modernization-and-development propaganda about Tibet, China launched on Jul 1 a bilingual (Tibetan and Chinese) journal called “New Tibet, reported China’s official Xinhuanet news service Jul 2. Jul 03, 2009 Amid euphoria over China’s decision to defer the implementation of a rule requiring all personal computers sold in the country from Jul 1 to be preinstalled with a net filtering software called “Green Dam-Youth Escort”, it has been made clear that the rule will be implemented eventually. Jul 03, 2009 Religious items, one of Nepal’s major exports to Tibet, have since Jul 1 come under severe new restrictions, said TibetInfoNet Jul 2. Jul 03, 2009 Moe than 100 villagers, joined by 4,000 others, blocked entrance to the Huangguoshu Waterfall, a famous scenic spot in Guizhou Province, on Jun 30, protesting against unfair treatment in job recruitment at a hotel there, reported China’s official Xinhua news agency Jun 30.
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INSIDE TIBET: ‘Tibet’s new aristocracy worse than the old’; ‘Death sentences on Tibetans inherently flawed’; Rinpoche’s trial a travesty of justice; Chinese lawyers compel police to release monk; No reason cited for three Nagchu monks’ detention; Brothers on the run for peaceful protest held, around 98 sentenced so far in Karze County; Detained Kirti monk’s whereabouts unknown; Three Tibetans jailed, charges unknown; Labrang monk jailed for life for peaceful protest; Four of six detained Lutsang monks sentenced, two others held; Socialist village project being speeded up, Tibetan financial difficulties notwithstanding; Tunnel to pave highway to Metog County; Continued rising rainfall spells flood, geological dangers in Tibet; Bird flu outbreak reported in Qinghai; Death row Tibetans’ whereabouts unknown, trials were neither open nor fair; Current developments in Tibet add to global warming dangers; UPDATE: Labrang students face more patriotic education; High car ownership rate in Chinese Lhasa; Satellite receivers replaced to tighten information control; Nomads to meet over 46% of cost of their compulsory settlement
News in Brief: Tibetans in Gansu Province hard hit by Sichuan earthquake of May 12,’08; New airport to begin operation in Qinghai in Jun’09; China approves airport in Labrang County; Chinese film on Tibet gets Monaco film festival award; All-female Tibetan pop trio debuts at Bird’s Nest
SINO INDIA: Indian air chief sees China as bigger threat than Pakistan; China firm in opposing ADB loan to India over Arunachal; 2009 Nathu La border trade opens with optimism
OUTSIDE TIBET: Tibet looms large at deadlocked EU-China summit; Danish PM to receive Dalai Lama; China warns against Dutch visit by Dalai Lama, shy of spelling consequences; Dutch PM criticized for avoiding Dalai Lama; Labrang monks who protested during Apr’08 int’l media visit reach India; Two Tibetans wanted for Mar’08 protest in Karze escape; Tibetans mark kidnapped Panchen’s 20th birthday; With dialogue deadlocked, Tibetans to reach out directly to Chinese people; China condemns Tibet clauses in US foreign affairs bill; Tibetan spiritual festival held in Tokyo; Russian Buddhists again plead for visa for Dalai Lama; Spanish court seeks to question Chinese leaders over Tibet repression; Riled by a Tibet-sympathetic host, China misses Norwegian lawmakers’ luncheon; New South Africa gov’t welcomes Dalai Lama any time; Tibet situation highlighted at global forum for oppressed; Exile gov’t dares China to prove footage of its troops’ brutality on Tibetan protesters wrong; Dalai Lama to attend world’s largest interfaith meet at Melbourne
News in Brief: Dalai Lama among TIME weekly’s most influential world figures; Dalai Lama to impart introductory Buddhism for young Tibetans in Jun’09; Dalai Lama to join interfaith ceremony in Iceland; Dalai Lama to write new autobiography; Tibetan Dy Speaker attends rights conference in Brussels; Memorial to be erected for Tibetans killed in Chinese repression; Himachal Speaker faults China’s occupation of Tibet; Tibetan Youth Congress marks martyr’s day; Tibetan Lama gets prestigious heritage award in US; Buddha film set for shooting in 2010; Exile Tibetan soccer tournament kicks off May 31
ROUNDUP: Dalai Lama in US: Hundreds to nearly 16,000 turn up to hear the Dalai Lama; Dalai Lama says Tibet situation gloomy, but optimistic about future; Prominent Chinese Americans asked to nudge Beijing on Tibet; Dalai Lama asks people to visit and report on Tibet; Kalon Tripa introduces Tibet issue to new US administration
CRITIQUE: Chinese Political Propaganda and the Currency of Tibet - By WOLFGANG BERTSCH
CHINA WATCH: Hu invited to France as Dalai Lama scheduled to visit Paris; Dalai Lama’s Paris visit to affect, but not impact Sino-French ties; China’s double standard on Tibet issue?; China still smarting from French President’s Tibet stand; Britain’s Miliband calls China indispensable global power; China’s judiciary geared to revere party’s supremacy; Tiananmen Square massacre Jun’89: the Untold story; China infiltrating Hong Kong to undermine its autonomy?; All Chinese delegations to Nepal were uninvited, had Tibet protests on agenda; China behind latest political turmoil in Nepal; China listed among world’s 13 egregious religious freedom violators; China ‘wins’ in farcical UN Human Rights Council election; China’s unemployed graduates may reach 40 percent; China to launch nationwide patriotic education; Students clash with police ahead of massacre anniversary; Massive military drill to underline China’s growing confidence; Chinese face looting, violence in Papua New Guinea; China rejects Obama’s press repression criticism; The Tiananmen protest of 1989 – the Tibetan inspiration – By JEFF BOWE, UK Correspondent; 58,000 protests in China in Jan-Mar’09; Massive rally protests against Taiwan’s pro-China President; Falun Gong followers protest 10 years of persecution in China; Wrested Uyghur orchards to be resold to Chinese immigrants; Slavery and human trafficking continues in modern China
EDITORIAL: Chinese nail Beijing’s lies about Tibet
Tibet in History this Week
July 1942: As World War II raged, Tibet's Foreign Office informed the British that being neutral it could allow the transport through its territory of only non-military supplies.
July 1991: The first official human rights delegation from Australia visited both China and Tibet and made a damning indictment of the situation in occupied country.
July 1, 2006: The Qinghai-Tibet Railway service was inaugurated by Chinese President Hu Jintao and began transporting passengers, in addition to goods it was already transporting. Trains were flagged off from both Golmud and Lhasa with great fanfare.
July 3, 1914: A convention was signed at Simla (India) by the plenipotentiaries of British India and Tibet to ensure that Tibet remained a peaceful buffer zone between Britain, China and Russia.
July 4, 1987: Speaking at the 5th session of the 4th TAR People's Congress, the Panchen Lama demanded that Tibetan be used as the principal language of education in Tibet.
July 1985: The fourth exile Tibetan government's fact-finding delegation, led by the late Mr WG Kundeling, visited Tibet. (2) Ninety-one members of the US Congress signed a letter for Chairman Li Xiannian of the Chinese National People's Congress, calling for direct talks between Beijing and representatives of the Dalai Lama.
July 1988: On a tour of the TAR, China's security chief Qiao Shi announced "merciless repression" of all forms of protest against Chinese rule in Tibet.
News in Quotes
No problem, I have no political agenda.
The Dalai Lama, when asked for his reaction to Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's decision not to meet with him during his visit to the country from Jun 3 to 5, quoted by the AFP in Dalai Lama begins Dutch visit, AFP, Jun 3, 2009.
The Chinese rejected it without providing any legal and rational explanation.
- Sonam N Dagpo, secretary of international affairs of the Tibetan government-in-exile and member the Dalai Lama envoy delegation on talks with the Chinese government, referring to the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People, quoted by the IANS, news service in Tibetan exiles mull ways to break impasse with Chinese, IANS, Jun 22, 2009.
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Will you speak for the Party? Or will you speak for the people?
-Lu Jun, the urban planning development vice director of Zhengzhou in central Henan province, speaking to a China National Radio reporter who broadcasted it on Jun 17, only to earn suspension for Lu, although Internet users nominated the comment as the catch phrase for 2009, quoted by AP in Party or people? China official suspended for slip, eTaiwan News (AP) Jun 22, 2009.
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It was his live broadcast that made me realise that there is a place called Nankang where people produce furniture and aren't afraid of power.
-A blogger with the online name of US.Army, referring to the online posting by "Zhuihulu" of video images of a riot by furniture makers and dealers in Nankang city of Jiangxi province, protesting a move to strengthen tax enforcement on them, resulting in the troll back of the new meauser, quoted by Jonathan Watts in Chinese police arrest riot witness who posted pictures on internet, guardian.co.uk, Jun 17, 2009.
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The chance of a border conflict is not big, if India does not instigate it.
-Sun Shihai of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, criticizing India's plans to deploy additional troops and military equipment in the border state of Arunachal Pradesh, which is claimed by China as part of southern Tibet, quoted by Zhang Haizhou in More India troops in disputed territory, China Daily (China), Jun 10, 2009.
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They know that the 1989 crackdown, shooting their own citizens, was a terrible blow to their legitimacy.
- Zhang Boshu, a philosopher in Beijing, on why the Chinese leaders would rather avoid any discussion of the Jun 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, quoted by Ben Blanchard in China marks Tiananmen protests; U.S. critical, Reuters, Jun 3, 2009.
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It was said that this event was aimed at overthrowing the People's Republic and the CCP. Where is the evidence?
- Late former general secretary Zhao Ziyang of the communist Party of China in his secretly tape-recorded memoir on the violent government crackdown on the Tiananmen Square student protest of 1989, quoted by Sushil Seth in The CCP continues to see ghosts, Taipei Times, May 28, 2009.
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The search does not comply with laws, regulations and policies.
- The message Chinese internet users got when they entered "4 June" in the search box of the photo section of Baidu, China's most popular search engine, quoted by Reporters without Borders in All references to Tiananmen Square massacre closely censored for 20 years, Reporters without Border (Pairs) Jun 2, 2009.
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....harmful information that viciously attacks the CCP and the government, attacks the Justice system, or promotes democracy and human rights needs to be deleted with firm determination!
- Instruction issued to web site owners in China by the State Council Information Office of the Chinese cabinet on May 22, following internet discussion on the stabbing by a waitress at a recreational venue in Badong County in Hubei Province of one of three local communist party officials who gang-raped her, quoted by Tianliang Zhang in Rape Case Reveals Chinese Regime's Dilemma, The Epoch Times (NY) May 26, 2009.
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The government's grasp on power may be absolute, but it is also vulnerable to public opinion.
- Wang Wei in Are China's netizens calling the shots? guardian.co.uk May 29, 2009, referring to the power of China's 400 million and growing internet users exemplified by the forced release on bail of Deng Yujiao, a hotel waitress who stabbed a local party official to death while fighting off his attempt to rape her, after the case was greatly highlighted in internet discussions.
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The local Communist Party leaders have taken the place of the old Mandarins, and they act like true mafia bosses, under the silent cover of the government, the judges and police, especially in the poorest regions.
- Alfonso Pascale in a commentary on a best-selling officially banned book on rural hardship in China by two reporters Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, stated in Report on rural China. Millions farmers are victims of horrible violence, Teatro Naturale, Jun 1, 2009.
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