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Are Japan and China inching closer to each other to start a new era of political and diplomatic bonhomie? The inhumane Japanese atrocities on the Chinese during the Second World War had embittered the Chinese towards Japan. However, with time being...
China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued in poverty and illiteracy. For 3.5 Yuan ($0.50) thousands of Chinese children are...
The crisis in Zimbabwe is deepening. The Mugabe governemnt is not allowing the declaration of presidential election results because it is rumoured that he is trailing behind MDC leader, Tsvangirai. What is adding fuel to the fire is that China has...
The Tibet protests had initially unnerved the Chinese government. With the Beijing Olympics just a few months away, it could not throw in battalions of PLA soldiers with orders to crush the rebellion brutally. Instead, it is dealing with the rebellion...
As people from every corner of the globe are preparing themselves to be a part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to be held in August this year amidst the slogan – One World, One Dream, some dissidents are urging the global community to boycott this...
One of the reasons why China is panicking over the Tibetan independence 'genie' popping up again is that it has over the years kept many such genies captured in bottles. The Uighurs Muslims in Xingjiang province is another restive group in the...
The Tibetan riots have been a miserable experience for those who have been deeply hurt and injured by the way they were treated by Chinese authorities. Women who expressed their sentiments in the rallies against China, along with the monks, have been...
Parag Khanna is a good writer and like most writers she tends to be more of a disciple of fancy and imagination than of realities and solid historical research. She has set up a tenuous and theoretical parallel between the US and China. In the UK...
These are hard times for the People's Republic of China ahead of the 2008 Olympics in the summer. After days of violent protests in the streets of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, Beijing is moving towards a massive clean-up of the autonomous region to...
No one but a few high-profile celebrities and the Tibetans themselves are interested in Tibet. At least, that is how China would like us all to believe. Years after the Chinese Government forced the Dalai Lama to flee his homeland and take shelter in...
With Taiwan going to the presidential polls on 22 March, it seems that who ever becomes the new President of Taiwan will soft peddle the issue of Taiwan’s separate identity from China.
The controversy surrounding the political status of Taiwan...
Following Steven Spielberg's withdrawal as an artistic adviser from the Beijing Olympics yesterday, China is now being pressurized by the international community to use its influence on ally Sudan to stop atrocities in the Darfur region. This...
Media reports that Christmas is being celebrated in communist China are certainly surprising. Markets appear full with Christmas goodies. Has China suddenly turned liberal, giving its citizens the right to practice their respective religions?
Far from...
Pro-democracy riots in Burma have a clear message: people don't want military bondage anymore. But, their demand fell on deaf ears. Military suppressed the revolt with iron hands to continue its stranglehold on power. Well, deaf needs a bang to hear....
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Tensions in the Korean peninsula have reduced dramatically since the North decided to stop its nuclear weapons programmes in return for economic aid. South Korea's economic help towards its impoverished northern neighbour and international pressure to...
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