It's a local browser, for local people
While the Internet is a global phenomenon that connects people together in a web of information, the ways in which people like to interact with that information is likely to be heavily influenced by...
View ArticleTibetans hail "Serfs Emancipation Day"
More than 380 legislators in Tibet unanimously endorsed a bill Monday to mark March 28 as "Serfs Emancipation Day", the date when about one million serfs and slaves in the region were freed in 1959...
View ArticleWhat we don't hear about Tibet
While the world moralises over China's occupation, feudalism and abuse in Tibetan culture has been conveniently forgotten. Sexual abuse and oppressive feudalism in traditional Tibetan society has been...
View ArticleChina Objects to U.S. Resolution on Tibet
The Chinese government lodged a formal complaint to the Obama administration on Thursday over a resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that calls on China to "cease its repression of...
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World's tallest and shortest men meet, and this time only one of them is Chinese
Does anyone here remember the good old days when the world's tallest and shortest men were both Chinese (and from the same region in Inner Mongolia)? Le sigh. These days, Bao Xishun (鲍喜顺) isn't even...
View ArticleChina's repression undoes its charm offensive
Great powers often try to use culture and narrative to create soft power that promotes their advantage, but it is not an easy sell when it is inconsistent with their domestic realities. For example,...
View ArticleThe limits of power: Why China is a ‘bad neighbour’
China’s “good neighbour” policy is under unprecedented pressure; indeed, it is at its nadir since the Cold War’s end. One after another, frictions with neighbouring countries have arisen recently. From...
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