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Is Google giving up in China?
Two months after Google Inc shook the world with its threat to leave China on censorship and hacking concerns, there are increasing signs that an exit is imminent as the two sides refuse to back down.
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China reassures India about Brahmaputra dam
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| India has conveyed its concern to China over its reported plans to build dam on the Brahmaputra River. India has said that such a project may have significant impact on the socio-economic condition of people living downstream and has expressed hope that China won't undertake this project or divert waters. The Chinese side has, however, categorically denied that there's any plan to build such a large scale project on the river. A meeting between Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected on the sidelines of ASEAN Summit on October 23, when this issue and the tension between the two countries on Arunachal Pradesh could be discussed. |
China cautions Obama over meeting Dalai Lama
On the eve of President Barack Obama's first visit to Asia, China floated a potentially provocative comparison, likening serfdom in Tibet to slavery in the US -- an apparent attempt to gain support for its policies in the Himalayan region.
Invoking Obama's African heritage and Civil War President Abraham Lincoln, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that Obama should be more sympathetic to its contention it has brought development and prosperity to Tibet since 1959.
Asked about a possible meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, Qin said the US President should recognize the exiled Tibetan leader -- a Nobel Peace Prize winner -- as the former head of a slave state.
"In 1959, China abolished the feudal serf system just as President Lincoln freed the black slaves. So, we hope President Obama more than any other foreign state leader can have a better understanding on China's position on opposing the Dalai's splitting activities," Qin told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference.
Many Tibetans reject such arguments, saying Tibet was an independent state when Chinese communist troops entered in 1950. They also say that while Tibetan peasants were required to work on feudal estates, they enjoyed considerable freedoms and were not slaves.
The Dalai Lama, who leads a self-declared government-in-exile in India, says he seeks only a high level of autonomy for Tibet within the constitutional framework of the People's Republic of China -- something he terms "the Middle Way."
Responding to Qin's comments, Dalai Lama spokesman Tenzin Taklha called them "the usual accusations.
"China continues to accuse His Holiness of wanting to split the motherland. But His Holiness has been very clear in his position," Tenzin Taklha said.
"The whole world knows that the Dalai Lama is not seeking a separation. These are all baseless accusations," he said.
Chinese officials, including former President Jiang Zemin, have invoked Lincoln before, but usually in the context of unification with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Qin's apparently unscripted remarks were the first known instance of using Lincoln in reference to Tibet and the Dalai Lama.
China routinely excoriates the revered Buddhist figure as a scourge on his people and says his ultimate goal is to overthrow Chinese rule and restore the former feudal theocracy.
Beijing often protests his travel abroad and his meetings with heads of state. This week, the spiritual leader visited a region of India near the Tibetan border, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.
Obama was criticized for not meeting the Dalai Lama when the spiritual leader was in Washington in October, but there is a possibility the two will meet in the future.
Invoking Obama's African heritage and Civil War President Abraham Lincoln, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that Obama should be more sympathetic to its contention it has brought development and prosperity to Tibet since 1959.
Asked about a possible meeting between Obama and the Dalai Lama, Qin said the US President should recognize the exiled Tibetan leader -- a Nobel Peace Prize winner -- as the former head of a slave state.
"In 1959, China abolished the feudal serf system just as President Lincoln freed the black slaves. So, we hope President Obama more than any other foreign state leader can have a better understanding on China's position on opposing the Dalai's splitting activities," Qin told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference.
Many Tibetans reject such arguments, saying Tibet was an independent state when Chinese communist troops entered in 1950. They also say that while Tibetan peasants were required to work on feudal estates, they enjoyed considerable freedoms and were not slaves.
The Dalai Lama, who leads a self-declared government-in-exile in India, says he seeks only a high level of autonomy for Tibet within the constitutional framework of the People's Republic of China -- something he terms "the Middle Way."
Responding to Qin's comments, Dalai Lama spokesman Tenzin Taklha called them "the usual accusations.
"China continues to accuse His Holiness of wanting to split the motherland. But His Holiness has been very clear in his position," Tenzin Taklha said.
"The whole world knows that the Dalai Lama is not seeking a separation. These are all baseless accusations," he said.
Chinese officials, including former President Jiang Zemin, have invoked Lincoln before, but usually in the context of unification with Taiwan, the self-governing island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Qin's apparently unscripted remarks were the first known instance of using Lincoln in reference to Tibet and the Dalai Lama.
China routinely excoriates the revered Buddhist figure as a scourge on his people and says his ultimate goal is to overthrow Chinese rule and restore the former feudal theocracy.
Beijing often protests his travel abroad and his meetings with heads of state. This week, the spiritual leader visited a region of India near the Tibetan border, drawing a sharp rebuke from China.
Obama was criticized for not meeting the Dalai Lama when the spiritual leader was in Washington in October, but there is a possibility the two will meet in the future.
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