Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN As the Asian Games scheduled to be held in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) in the Guangdong province from November 12 to 27 approach, the Tibetan students’ protests against the introduction of Mandarin as the medium of instruction in the Tibetan schools have spread from the [...]
BEIJING TIGHTENS UP CONTROL OVER MONASTERIES & MOSQUES
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Acting jointly, China’s Ministry of Public Security and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China have tightened up their control over the Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan areas of China and over the mosques in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. While the [...]
INDIA’S FS CALLS ON DALAI LAMA
July 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Mrs.Nirupama Rao, India’s Foreign Secretary, arrived in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh on July 10 and called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She was reportedly with him for about an hour. His Holiness lives in Dharamsala, where his Tibetan-Government-in-exile is located. Senior advisors of His Holiness, including his Prime [...]
QUAKE-HIT TIBETANS WANT DALAI LAMA TO VISIT & CONSOLE THEM
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN Tibetan monks and others, who have survived the April 14,2010, earthquake in the Qinghai Province , the birthplace of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, have appealed to President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabo to allow His Holiness to visit the quake-hit areas to supervise the rescue and relief [...]
BEIJING WANTS REINCARNATION OF A DALAI LAMA IN CHINESE COLOURS
April 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN (Text of an E-mail interview given by me to a journalist writing for " Avvenire" , a Catholic journal of Italy ) Question:Since the end of the Olympic Games silence has fallen about the situation in Tibet. What is really happening today? Answer:The violation of the human rights of the [...]
TIBET: TWO YEARS AFTER THE UPRISING OF 2008
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN The Chinese are less tense and more relaxed as Tibet and Tibetans observe the second anniversary of the uprising of March 10,2008, which started in Lhasa and spread across the Tibetan areas. They have made many preventive arrests in Tibet to prevent anything untoward happening, but the high tension, which [...]
The Last of the Black Tents
November 17, 2009 By
RFAVideo November 17, 2009 This 4-minute video segment looks at the changing lives of the Tibetan nomadic people living on the Qinghai plateau. Their way of life has been untouched for centuries. But Chinese authorities are…
The Source of the Mekong
November 17, 2009 By
Radio Free Asia November 11, 2009 Dzachu, Tibetan for the Mekong River, is said to be sacred by nomads living on the Qinghai plateau.
INDIA/CHINA: Dalai Lama’s Border State Visit: Purely Spiritual?
November 12, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Nov 12 (IPS) – It is hard to say whether the Dalai Lama’s sojourn this week in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state—which China claims as southern Tibet—is a purely spiritual exercise or a trip with a deep political mission. "The problem is that every [...]
RIGHTS: Rising China Poses Danger to Peace, Say Nobel Laureates
October 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (IPS) – An ascendant China that ignores human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang, poses a danger to world peace, say Nobel laureates Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Jody Williams. ‘’We do not want to see a China that pursues the path of hegemony [...]
