News From Other Sites

Financial Times Raffaello Cantucci, 16 Nov 2018 Countries that criticise the Belt and Road Initiative overlook the real need in developing nations for foreign investment There is a narrative of pushback against the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s programme to finance and build infrastructure in about 88 countries around the world. More

Radio Free Asia, 13 November 2018, Read original news here The Chinese law firm raided at the start of a nationwide police operation targeting rights attorneys, law firms and activists in July 2015 has now "ceased to exist," RFA has learned. More

By Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer, 14 November 2-18 Read original news here TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, at 95 years old, made a visit to China last week where he met with several top communist party officials and was greeted as “an old friend of the Chinese people” by party Chairman Xi Jinping. More

Huileng Tan | @huileng_tan, 14 November 2018 Read original news here The dollar-yuan will strengthen to 6.82 by end-2019: Standard Chartered Bank  18 Hours Ago | 02:08 Market uncertainty tied to the ongoing U.S.-China trade war has spurred more transactions than ever before between the American dollar the Chinese yuan in recent months. More

Claude Arpi The Pioneer, 12 November 2018 | Read original news here Though China is keen to become the world leader in promotion of Buddhism, it will never happen because of the gap between the Marxist theory and repression on the ground China is a country full of dichotomies. Take Buddhism. On one side, China promotes Buddhism; on the other hand, Beijing severely represses the Buddha dharma. More

Amnesty International, 12 November 2018 Read original news here Amnesty International announced today that it has withdrawn its highest honour, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, from Aung San Suu Kyi, in light of the Myanmar leader’s shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for. More

By Nick McKenzie, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Zach Dorfman & Fergus Hunter, 11 November 2018, Read original news here Earlier this year, a petite 62-year-old woman dubbed the ‘‘queen of the Australian-China social scene’’ walked out of a US federal prison. More

Alex Joski, The Sunday Morning Herald, Read original news here In 2009, a student called Wang Xiangke came to the Australian National University as a visiting PhD scholar. It was a year after the Olympic torch relay passed through Canberra, attracting thousands of Chinese students who organised with the Chinese embassy to protect the so-called sacred flame. More

By Dave Lawler, Axios, 9 November 2018 Read original news here China’s government is cracking down on dissent at an alarming pace and detaining up to 1 million Muslims in “re-education camps,” but at a UN Human Rights Council review this week, many countries saw fit to applaud China’s human rights record, rather than criticize it. More

By rukor-admin, November 9, 2018 Read original news here MORE HYDRO DAMMING, POWER GRIDS & CLOUD SEEDING GEOENGINEERING IN TIBET Updating recent www.rukor.org  reports: RUKOR ANALYSIS: New hydro dams on Tibetan rivers, new propaganda for geoengineering, by cloud seeding the source area of China’s great rivers in Tibet. More

AFP, 8 November 2018 Read original news here China faced harsh critic­ism over its rights record during a review before the UN yesterday, with countries voicing alarm at the country’s mass detain­ment of ethnic Uighurs and its crackdown on civil liberties. More

By Nandita Natrajkumar, November 7, 2018 Read original news here India and China will soon have a hotline linking their military and regional bases. The final decision will be made next Tuesday during the talks between the defence secretaries of both the nations. More

Lily Kuo, 6 November 2018 Read original news here China has defended its human rights record after the first UN assessment since 2013 criticised the mass detention of lawyers and the continuing use of internment camps. More

International Campaign for Tibet, 6 November 2018 Read original news here The Chinese government aggressively denied its human rights violations during today’s Universal Periodic Review of its record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. More

CNBC, Reuters, 6 November 2018 Read original news here The United States and China will hold a delayed top-level security dialogue on Friday, the latest sign of a thaw in relations, as China's vice president said Beijing was willing to talk with Washington to resolve their bitter trade dispute. More

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters, 4 November 2018 Read original news here GENEVA (Reuters) - Activists called for U.N. member states to pressure China this week to account for alleged human rights violations, including the suspected mass detention of one million Muslim Uighurs in far-western Xinjiang province. China’s record will be examined by the U.N. More

JAYADEVA RANADE, Sunday Guardian Live, November 3, 2018, Read original news here Chinese leadership has been paying increased attention to Tibet. More

ucanews.com reporter, China, November 2, 2018 Read original news here Human Rights Watch condemns 'abhorrent new levels' of government intrusion in religion Tibetan Buddhist monks take part in Monlam, otherwise known as the Great Prayer Festival of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at the Rongwo Monastery in Tongren County on March 1. More

Read original news here The second largest rainforest in the world — in Central Africa’s Congo Basin — is disappearing at an alarming rate, despite local laws against deforestation. A new study out of the University of California names China and the United States as the primary culprits. More

Analysis by James Griffiths, CNN, Updated 0634 GMT (1434 HKT) November 2, 2018 Hong Kong (CNN)Speaking before an elite audience in Washington in March 2000, then US President Bill Clinton summarized much of Western thinking on the internet when he hailed a new century in which "liberty will be spread by cell phone and cable modem. More