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France's Sarkozy May Boycott Bejing Olympics

France's Sarkozy May Boycott Bejing Olympics

04.05.08 posted by jason 324 views 3 comments image
A first major power is stepping up to warn China that there could be consequences for the Olympics should China not properly address the situation in Tibet. France's leader, Nicolas Sarkozy's, will boycott the opening ceremony Beijing Olympics if China doesn't engage in talks with the Dalai Lama, end th violence in the region and release the political prisoners.
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Rights Group to China: Release Tiananmen prisoners

Rights Group to China: Release Tiananmen prisoners

06.03.08 posted by jason 179 views 1 comment image
About 130 people remain imprisoned for taking part in the 1989 pro-democracy protests centered in Tiananmen Square, though releasing them would improve China's image ahead of the Beijing Olympics this summer, Human Rights Watch said. The prisoners are still being held for their role in the demonstrations that were crushed in a brutal military crackdown.
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Beijing Knife Attack Victim Named

Beijing Knife Attack Victim Named

08.09.08 posted by pondy 64 views 1 comment image
Todd Bachman died during the attack in the center of the Chinese capital as the Games got into full swing. His wife Barbara is in hospital with life-threatening injuries. After the attack in the Drum Tower, the killer jumped to his death from the historic attraction. The American tourists had been with a guide who survived the attack.
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China To Open Museum on Tibet, Will Not Reference Dalai Lama

China To Open Museum on Tibet, Will Not Reference Dalai Lama

04.19.08 posted by jason 262 views 6 comments image
China is soon to open a museum dedicated to Tibet, at least to its version of Tibet. Inside, curators will display antiquities, dynastic records and reproductions to demonstrate China's dominion over Tibet as far back as the 13th century. One subject of note that is missing from the museum - the Dalai Lama, as China does not "recognize him as part of Tibet anymore"
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Russia and China Send Message to the US During Leadership Meeting

Russia and China Send Message to the US During Leadership Meeting

05.24.08 posted by pondy 185 views 1 comment image
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said his country and China will work together to shape global security even if other powers don't approve of it. ``I will say frankly that not everyone likes the strategic cooperation between our two nations but we understand that it's in the interests of our people and we'll strengthen it whether others like it or not,'' he told students at Beijing University today.
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China's Tall Tale on Tibet

China's Tall Tale on Tibet

05.01.08 posted by pondy 210 views 20 comments image
As a triumphal symbol of its rule over Tibet, China is taking the Olympic torch through the "Roof of the World" to Mt Everest. The blunt fact is Tibet was part of China was under the Mongol Yuan dynasty, from 1279 to 1368, and the Manchu Qing dynasty, from 1644 to 1912, and thats all. Yet, revisionist history under communist rule has helped indoctrinate Chinese to think otherwise.
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China to Meet with Envoy of Dalai Lama

China to Meet with Envoy of Dalai Lama

04.25.08 posted by jason 232 views 11 comments image
China, in an abrupt shift, announced that it will meet with representatives of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader Beijing had accused of masterminding deadly anti-government protests in Tibet. China has faced repeated international calls, including from President Bush and the European Union, to open talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader .
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Did China Kill Folk Singer Yu Zhou?

Did China Kill Folk Singer Yu Zhou?

04.20.08 posted by pondy 239 views 3 comments image
Falun Gong members say that more than 1,500 of its supporters have been detained in the run-up to the Olympic Games and that one of them, Yu Zhou, a popular folk singer, has died in custody. Yu's relatives were told he died of diabetes, but he never suffered from the ailment. Many websites in China are abuzz today with reports he was executed.
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Chinese Flee Flood Threat From Quake

Chinese Flee Flood Threat From Quake

05.18.08 posted by chab13 182 views no comments image
Thousands of earthquake survivors fled tent camps and villages across the ravaged landscape of southwestern China on Saturday after the government warned that several lakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing because landslides have blocked water flow.
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Hong Kong blocks Tibet activists

04.29.08 posted by pondy 202 views 15 comments video
Interesting video out of Hong Kong, where three pro-Tibet campaigners were prevented from entering the city on Tuesday and deported by the gov't just days before the Olympic torch relay though the former British colony, activists said. The three were planning to hold a news conference on the situation in Tibet, which convulsed with anti-Beijing protests in March and has been under lockdown since.

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