September 8, 2024

China and Tibet: the Truth A woman friend who has an Indian guru,  likes to walk into strangers’ homes wherever she goes  and, somehow, they never seem to mind. Recently came back from a visit to Lhasa after staying at guesthouse on the far right corner in this photograph: She told me of visiting Tibetans’ […]

 REVIEW of TOMBSTONE by Yang Jisheng   Have Mao and his party kept their oath or broken it? Have they endured the people’s hardships first and enjoyed their benefits last? Or have they been the callous, self-interested megalomaniacs that Mao is accused of being and concealed their gross failures? If the answer is ‘no’ you

People often ask, “Is China’s Constitution Democratic?” Here’s what China’s constitution says about democracy in China: The National People’s Congress and the local people’s congresses at various levels are constituted through democratic elections. They are responsible to the people and subject to their supervision. All administrative, judicial and procuratorial organs of the State are created

  Revisiting Tiananmen Square today, here’s what we find: Imagine it’s midsummer. Students from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Radcliffe, Columbia, Vassar, Smith, Brown, Wellesley, Cornell Dartmouth and Penn are demonstrating outside the White House and flooding the Washington Mall with Dolce & Gabbana hoodies.They’ve been there for six weeks and, as their number has grown, their

What is the Return on our $100 billion bet on Bad China? Since 1945, in addition to billions on military adventures, we’ve spent $100 billion[1] on Bad China, the country where only bad things can happen. A land of regimes and mouthpieces, brutal crackdowns and chilling atrocities. A land whose exploited, resentful drones dream of

What was the role of China in the Korean War? by Sir John Pratt, KBE, CMG What did China do in the Korean War? Sir John Pratt, KBE, CMG, is an authority on China. He held appointments in the Foreign Service at many places in China and was for 13 years Adviser on Far Eastern