Wandering through the rambling streets and markets of Lhasa, watched over by the majestic Potala Palace, I found myself preoccupied with the thought that there must be more fire extinguishes per capita here than in any other city in the world. Soldiers and security...
It’s become a matter of routine that every year the United States and China – from their respective positions of moral superiority – take part in a diplomatic tit-for-tat in which they each document the other’s human rights violations. In America, this...
The Dalai Lama suggests he’ll be the last of his line, and in doing so challenges Chinese imperialism. If one stands at the foot of the Potala Palace – once the residence of the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa – and looks south, the beauty of the surrounding...
Chinese are certainly richer, but can prosperity alone eradicate the roots of public discontent? There’s a widespread misconception in the West that the 1989 student protests that begun in Beijing and spread to other parts of China can be neatly categorized as a...
China is watching the developments in the Ukraine closely and what happens there may well inform her foreign policy in the future, writes Tim Robertson. Since the Chinese Communist Party came to power they’ve stayed out of the affairs of other States, yet for many in...