Michelle Rodgriguez, actress Originally uploaded by PhiloTBG. Pics are starting to flow into ChinaWouldYouShootMeToo.com, including from some celebrities. Michelle Rodriguez, Andre 3000 of Outkast, actor Martin Henderson (The Ring), actress Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and director...

A Tibetan-American reader of the New York Times and this blog sent me a copy of a letter written to Tom Friedman in response to Friedman’s column last Friday. Friedman had called on China to initiate a new Great Leap Forward seemingly not knowing that it was a Chinese Communist Party policy disaster...

An Associated Press article reported that Lhakpa Tsering, a college student and head of RTYC Bangalore, set himself on fire this morning while protesting Hu Jintao outside the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. Lhakpa Tsering and six other Tibetan youths were able to drive right up to Hu’s hotel, the Taj Mahal...

November 30th marks the two month anniversary of the bloody Nangpa Pass shootings. Despite international pressure, over 30 Tibetans, including 14 children, are still missing and are reported to have been detained by Chinese border forces. If Chinese soldiers can get away with shooting innocent children,...

Tom Friedman has authored another column on China and the environment that reveals, at best, his intense lack of knowledge of Chinese history and at worst a morally casual attitude towards the deaths of tens of millions of people. Unfortunately I don’t have time for a line by line breakdown of...

Pankaj Mishra in the New York Times’ Op-Ed page: PRESIDENT Hu Jintao of China, who arrived in New Delhi on Monday to consolidate ties between the world’s two fastest rising economic powers, can feel comfortable that at least one protester won’t be troubling him. When China’s prime minister...

CNN’s footage on Monday’s protest includes short interviews with Lhadon (SFT Executive Director) and Tenchoe (SFT India Program Coordinator). Click here to watch the video. More video footage, including a televised debate on the current status of Indian diplomatic support for the Tibetan...

photo by Tenzin Dasel/Phayul An energetic group of Tibetans returned to Jantar Mantar today to protest the second day of Hu Jintao’s visit to India. Once again, the protests received widespread media coverage with every major news article including mention of the Tibet issue and the protests. The...

CNN-IBN has posted a segment on Tenzin Tsundue’s confinement in Dharamsala during Hu Jintao’s visit. Watch the video here. Read the article here. Technorati Tags: Chalo Delhi, Tenzin Tsundue

Lhadon sends this update after the second day of protesting Hu Jintao’s visit to India. Today was an incredible day of protest against Hu Jintao and China’s occupation of Tibet. The feeling of solidarity and strength amongst the 1000 plus people present at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi was very...