(Sept01, 2010) Officers of China's Public Security Bureau (PSB) – the Chinese police – had barged unannounced into the Indian pavilion at the World Expo2010 in Shanghai on Jul 12 and seized brochures bearing a map of India, reported the Times of India Aug 29.
Chinese experts have on Aug 30 said military ties between the two countries were strong and powerful and would not be "compromised" by incidents like Beijing's refusal to permit a top Indian Army officer to visit the country, reported PTI news service Aug 30.
China said only one Tibetan died and that too accidentally while the Tibetans were the ones guilty of illegal gold mining which led to the violent incident in Palyul (Chinese: Baiyu) County of Karze (Chinese: Ganzi) Prefecture in Sichuan Province sometime in the middle of August.
China’s brazen use of the Jammu and Kashmir issue in the context of its support for and geopolitical nexus with Pakistan has India finally considering openly using its Tibet card, according to an intoday.in (website of India Today weekly) report Aug 30.
China has ordered all Internet media in the country to establish a “self-discipline commissioner” with the specific responsibility for strictly enforcing the party-government’s censorship orders, according to chinadigitaltimes.net Aug 29, citing Chinese-language Hong Kong Ming Pao.
China has on Aug 28 denied reports that defence exchanges between it and India had been suspended in the wake of its refusal of visa to a top Indian general whom it had said controlled “disputed” Jammu and Kashmir state.
Sino-Pakistan strategic alliance has taken on a new depth with Pakistan having virtually handed over the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in Occupied Kashmir to China which has deployed up to 11,000 troops there, according to the New York Times and other reports Aug 28.
INSIDE TIBET:China uses its Panchen to pick another lama’s reincarnation. Monastery’s head expelled for consulting Dalai Lama over reincarnation. China to leapfrog lithium production in Qinghai. Environmentalist sentenced for pro-Dalai Lama blog on website. Production begun at environment ravaged mine in Lhasa. China now targets cousins of persecuted environmentalist brothers. Families still clueless on Tibetans held in Mar’08. China builds oxygenated barracks for its Tibet border troops. ‘Red relic’ to be rebuilt as part of Tibet’s cultural heritage. Tibet’s Kyirong land port to open China to south Asia. Over 500 Bon religious scriptures reported discovered. China marks 4th anniversary of Qinghai-Tibet railway. Ngari airport declared open. Tibet railway to be linked with Xinjiang for ethnic unity, etc. China to double Lhasa urban area. Reserviour threat to Qinghai-Tibet Railway recedes. China to open Chamdo wider. Sino-Nepal Himalayan tourism to be promoted OUTSIDE TIBET: Rights group says Mar’08 Tibet crackdown warrants international investigation. Tibet struggle to continue, with or without Dalai Lama. China pays Nepal to crackdown on Tibetans. Exile gov’t refutes China on ‘living Buddha’ recognition. India’s foreign secretary visits D’sala. Dalai Lama sure he won’t be reborn under Chinese rule. China reiterates hardline Tibet policy. Indian Foreign Secretary’s D’sala visit raises speculations. Difference over Tibet not to affect Sino-UK tie? China cautions India on Tibet issue. Obama gov’t asked to fill gaps in Tibet, rights policy. Dalai Lama’s Spl Envoy against Kalon Tripa job. 13th Dalai Lama’s letter to the Russian Czar revealed. New Zealand PM apologises to China for Tibet flag protest. EU-China rights dialogue, a forum only to air differences? Kiwi MP told to keep China’s Tibet propaganda to himself. Nepal deports three Tibetan escapees. Tibetans broke evolutionary record to survive on plateau. China in Nalanda’s revival means no role for Dalai Lama. Mary Beth Markey is new President of International Campaign for Tibet
March for Tibet concludes before Chinese Embassy, Washington. Dalai Lama to visit Toronto in Oct’10. India denies US travel permit for Karmapa. Buddhists asked to learn Buddhism, not merely recite scriptures. Library of Congress receives gifts from the Dalai Lama. Tibetan appointed to Washington State’s ethnic affairs commission. Exile Tibetans learn about UN rights system. China refuses to permit Buddha rally from Lumbini to Shanghai via Tibet. Tibetan children learn about the environment in their occupied land. Kalon tripa tours Tibetan settlements in Himachal Pradesh
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CHINA WATCH: China launched 24-hour global English TV channel in new propaganda drive. Canada urged to expel Chinese diplomat. China buying Canadian MPs, officials with money and sex?
China censors UN peace sculpture exhibition in Vienna. China stifles popular, outspoken microblog sites. Xinjiang to be PRC’s most significant oil and gas base. China’s bans rights lawyer from the bar
Inner Mongolia to produce a quarter of PRC’s coals by 2015 .
ROUNDUP: Celebrations, prayers, repression on Dalai Lama’s 75th birthday. China: ‘Can’t remember Dalai’s birthday’ China pleased with Nepal’s Dalai Lama birthday crackdown. Nepal bans public celebrations of Dalai Lama’s birthday
HIGHLIGHT: Lhasa seething beneath official pretence of normality. Benefiting Chinese in the name of helping Tibetans. China justifies remaking Tibet’s ethnography. Tibetan language marginalized in Tibet. China insists real Panchen fine as new report shows how it dictated Gyaltsen’s selection. China reiterates that the next Dalai Lama will be Chinese
SINO-INDIA: China leapfrogging its border strength. India mulls new strike force along Tibet border
EDITORIAL:Tibet’s hope alive, with or without Kosovo
Tibet in History this Week
Aug 24, 2001:: On an initiative by the Polish Parliamentary Group for Tibet, the Polish parliament, the Sejm, adopted a declaration voicing solidarity with the Tibetan people. The declaration was supported by 174 deputies and opposed by nine, with 123 abstentions.
Aug 26, 1935:: A British mission led by FW Williamson (the Political Officer of Sikkim) arrived in Lhasa to demonstrate Britain's interest in Tibet and its problems.
Aug 28, 1934:: The Huang Mission of about eighty people sent by China's Kuomintang regime arrived in Lhasa. Its aim was to induce Tibet to agree to be one of the five races for making up the new Republic of China.
Aug 30, 1996:: Ninety-two monks were expelled from Ganden monastery in Tibet, after protesting against the Patriotic education that had begun in May that year. Over 60 others were expelled the following day, most of them aged below 15.
Aug 31, 1907:: An Anglo-Russian agreement on the division of spheres of influence in Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet was signed at St Petersburg. Both recognized China's suzerainty over Tibet, but engaged to respect the territorial integrity of Tibet and to abstain from all interferences in its internal administration.
Aug 1966: Red Guards from the Nationalities Institute in Tibet and from the Central Institute of Nationalities picked up the Panchen Lama from his Beijing residence and subjected him to Thamzing (struggle session) at the Xiannongtan Sports Stadium, in spite of Zhou Enlai sending the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and Xu Bing, the head of the United Front Work Department, to dissuade the Red Guards from doing so.
Aug 1996:: A Work Team of 180 cadres arrived at Drepung Monastery in Lhasa to carry out a Patriotic Education campaign. It ordered the monks to sign a document denouncing the Dalai Lama before being issued a blue-coloured ID, which ensured for them temporary registration at the monastery. The alternative was expulsion.
News in Quotes
The general British public is more concerned about the economic recovery of their own country than the welfare of Tibetans . - Wang Hui in the commentary Britain will lose by criticizing China on Tibet issue, chinadaily.com.cn, severely criticizing British Foreign Secretary William Hague for expressing concern about the situation in Tibet in his meetings with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo in Beijing, calling it a lose-lose strategy.
It's not unusual that businessmen from other parts of China benefit from Tibet's development, as they help the local economy.
- Hao Peng, 50, deputy secretary of the Communist Party in Tibet and vice-chairman of the regional government, justifying the continued influx of Chinese immigrants in Tibet whose cultural and ethnic identity is thereby continuously eroded with devastating results, quoted by Clifford Coonan in Beijing commits to tackling Tibetan inequality, The Irish Times, July 1, 2010.
Factors such as natural conditions have restricted our receiving capacity.
- Qin Gang, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, when asked why Tibet was off-limits for foreign journalists, quoted in Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Qin Gang's Regular Press Conference on June 29, 2010, MFA China (press release), Jun 30, 2010.
We have no problems here - just look around.
- Gesang Qunpei, president of Tibet University, to a group of foreign journalists brought on a tightly controlled visit to Tibet, claiming Tibetans accounted for 70 per cent of the university’s student population and gesturing towards the campus which was deserted except for security officials, quoted by John Garnaut in Inequality gap closing, say Tibet’s overlords, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Jul 1, 2010.
We are discouraged from talking to students by security guards.
- Clifford Coonan, who was part of a group of foreign journalist brought on a tightly controlled tour of Tibet, referring to his inability to speak to Tibetan students at Tibet University, Lhasa, stated in Behind the facade of Chinese rule in Tibet, ndependent Online (UK) Jul 3, 2010.
We don't think about money like Chinese people.
- A middle-aged teacher in Lhasa, suggesting the Tibetan people were concerned more about their culture and identity than money which China sees as the solution to Tibet's problems, quoted by Ben Blanchard in Modernising Tibet masks deep contradictions, Reuters, Jul 8, 2010.
Merkel cannot avoid mentioning human rights during her visit to China, otherwise she would face criticism in the German Parliament and from civil society back home. But the focus will be on trade and economic issues.
- Fraser Cameron, adjunct professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, in Trade tops Merkel agenda, China Daily (China), Jul 16, 2010, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to China from Jul 16-19, 2010.
It is only democracy and the rule of law that can save China from ever again falling into that kind of fate.
- Yu Keping, 51, the person in charge of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, a Communist Party of China agency dedicated to translating works by Chinese leaders and Marxist tracts from around the world, and the head of China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics, runs policy research organization, that provides advice to China's leadership, referring to the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), quoted by Andrew Jacobs in A Chinese Official Praises a Taboo: Democracy, www.nytimes.com, July 23, 2010.
If you have money, people respect you, and then you will have political power.
- Li Jianqiang, who runs China Shipping's operations in South America, on the strategic consideration underlying his government's investment of tens of billions of dollars in projects in South American counties such as Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, quote by John Pomfret in China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft, Washingtonpost.com, Jul 26, 2010.
'New colonialists' is how we refer to China now.
- Roberto Giannetti da Fonseca, Brazilian ambassador to China in the 1980s and to the US until 2006 and who now represents manufacturers in Latin America's industrial heartland of Sao Paulo, referring to the very difficult terms China imposes for investing in South American countries, quote by John Pomfret in China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft, Washingtonpost.com, Jul 26, 2010.
