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New Chinese ambassador to Tokyo will improve relations
Cheng Yonghua kicked-off a new diplomatic mission to Tokyo this morning. The new Ambassador arrived on Sunday and will be busy from the beginning. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is planning on making an official state visit to Japan in the spring. The announcement of Cheng as Beijing’s representative to Japan is expected, in some ways to bridge the divide between the two major economies of Asia.
Junk-producing China set to surpass Japan in 2010
Japan might be overtaken by China in 2010 as the second biggest economy based on GDP, but in all the areas that matter, China continues to be a third world country, producing the world’s dollar store bargains
The story of Dhondup Wangchen, filmmaker jailed in China
Dhondup Wangchen’s trial reportedly started behind closed doors in September this year. According to Amnesty International he is being charged for “subversion and incitement to separatism” and has contracted Hepatitis B in prison for which he has received no treatment. After his Beijing lawyer was forced by the Chinese government to stop representing Dhondup Wangchen, local lawyers were appointed, leaving little hope of a fair trial
Woeser, Tibet’s most famous poet and intellectual dissident, is now available in English translation and should be read by all freethinkers
Next week, on March 10th, it’s the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s flight from Tibet. Here Denchen Pemba evaluates the aesthetic and political contributions of Woeser, one of Tibet’s most celebrated artists and freethinkers, who’s works were recently bought out in English translation under the title, “Tibet’s True Heart”.
The story of William Huang, Falun Gong and human rights activist, imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese Communist dictatorship
Hoi Yan Lam talks to William Huang in the US and tells his tragic story of imprisonment, torture and brainwashing at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, all for practicing his chosen religion, Falun Gong, and speaking out for human rights.
Divine Performing Arts shows another side of China’s culture and history
Divine Performing Arts shows Westerners there is more to China than Communism and oppression.
Hillary Clinton’s spineless toadying to the Chinese dictatorship
Hillary Clinton was feted as a human rights advocate, but she’s shown this was all a lie.