W.G. Huang has a very interesting, thoughtful op-ed in the Chicago Tribune. Titled “Without Rights, Pride Is Empty,” Huang confronts Chinese nationalism in the absence of rights for protest and dissent.
Demonstrations by human-rights activists and pro-Tibetan groups outraged the Chinese government. In response, the news media controlled by the Beijing regime stirred up a nationalist […]
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy reports that the Chinese government has begun to hand down public sentences for Tibetans “tried” in connection to protests in Lhasa.
China’s state media today morning announced that 17 Tibetans have been sentenced between three years to life imprisonment in connection with the Lhasa revolt in March 2008. […]
The other day I saw a bumper sticker on a car with a phrase I’ve always found pretty funny:
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
In the context of work or politics, this is often used to characterize the absurdity of some strategic decision regarding a workforce or a constituency. The phrase sounds as crazy as […]
Would you expect anything less than perfection from them? The photos below show two torch runners apparently by themselves along the Marina…hmm…when was that? The second photo shows the Chinese Ambassador giving his triumph speech at the closing ceremonies….held at the airport…outside the gate to the airplane they hastily departed on.
From Xinhua
Two torchbearers with the […]
The Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee are reportedly in crisis talks, after they massively underestimated worldwide ourtage over Beijing’s repressive rule in Tibet. This report is from the Financial Times:
Beijing officials are to hold urgent talks with senior members of the Olympic movement about the torch relay, as concern grows among International Olympic […]
This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3.5 years in prison for subversion. He was arrested in part for co-authoring, with Teng Biao, this open letter on human rights.
The following a translation of the NCCC’s pronouncement made about a week earlier.
(Tuesday, March 25, 2008)
Supporting the Beijing Olympics, Opposing Tibet’s violent separatism.
In order to support the Beijing Olympic Games, NCCC who opposes the violent separatism in Tibet are submitting the pronouncement accordingly as follows:
We are very concerned about the recent riots in Lhasa plotted […]
After a long silence, the Chinese government has finally come out with its “proof” that His Holiness the Dalai Lama was somehow the sole culprit behind the massive, Tibet-wide protests. The “proof” is laughable.
From the NY Times:
Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said the Chinese police had a confession written by an unidentified monk who they […]
We previously discussed (here) how the Chinese government is actively fomenting Chinese ultra-nationalism over Tibet. This is the tactic of fascist governments from Mussolini to Milosevic. The Chinese government is truly playing with fire.
In a similar vein, the Chinese government now claims that Tibetans are planning suicide attacks. Is this some twisted April Fools’ joke? […]
From the great Hold Fast blog:
Jim Yardley has an article in today’s International Herald Tribune about the relationship between Chinese nationalism and the crackdown in Tibet.
“We couldn’t believe our government was being so weak and cowardly,” said Meng, 52, a mother and office worker, who was appalled that the authorities had initially failed to douse […]
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