The public cheeriness that usually accompanies summit conferences between China and the European Union is on ice this year after Beijing called off the annual meeting, exposing rifts that go well beyond the tiff over Tibet. Last week, China pulled out
Japan’s Emperor Akihito and other members of the royal family are unlikely to attend the Beijing Olympics amid concerns here about China’s crackdown in Tibet and other issues, a report said Wednesday. The Japanese government thinks it is not a good time
A rundown two-story building in this Himalayan hill station might not seem to be the command center of a subversive group jangling the nerves of neighboring China. Monkeys clamber over the rooftop, and any stranger may walk through its front door.
China has indefinitely postponed a summit scheduled for next week with the European Union because of European leaders' plans to meet with the exiled leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, EU president France announced Wednesday. The Chinese decision was a dramatic
China criticised a planned meeting between French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, implying on Tuesday that the Tibet issue was an ``unnecessary disturbance'' in bilateral relations. Foreign ministry spokesman
Few rock stars can claim to have been pushed on to the path of musical glory with specific instructions from the Dalai Lama. If it wasn't for the advice of the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, Phil Void might have found himself a scholar today,...
The Chinese Foreign Ministry's comments on Tuesday came as Tibetan exiles were in a week-long meeting in India aimed at mapping out a future strategy for dealing with Beijing. "Our position on Tibet is clear and resolute. Any attempt to separate Tibet
These missing markers of radiation are remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, as in the Naimona'nyi glacier in Tibet. Seasonal runoff from glaciers like Naimona'nyi feeds the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers. In some places, for
China has harsh words for Tibet, saying it will never allow independence for a region that is internationally recognized as part of Chinese territory. Beijing's comments Tuesday came as Tibetan exiles hold a meeting in India to decide the future of their
The meeting was called by the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who has suggested that his efforts to negotiate with China on greater autonomy for Tibet have reached a dead end