Kinsey Wright taught English in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang region. She writes about her experience watching coverage of early July's Uighur civil unrest while in north India with exiled Tibetans.
All Posts Tagged With: "Tibet"
Perspectives
September 2, 2009
Chinese Uighurs and Tibetans in the same boat
Perspectives
July 15, 2009
Tibetan refugees seek livelihoods in Ladakh, India
A vibrant and enterprising community of Tibetans lives in Ladakh, the easternmost area of the contested state of Jammu and Kashmir. Thousands of essentially stateless Tibetans have migrated westward to Ladakh since Chinese forces conquered Tibet in 1959.
Video
March 30, 2009
Chinese cyber spies hack into government computers
Over the weekend, a Canadian research group reported that a cyber spy network based mainly in China had hacked into the computers and secret documents of governments and organizations in 103 countries. Keith Epstein of BusinessWeek discusses the implications of cyber spying.
Blogwatch / Video
March 25, 2009
China blocks YouTube and calls violent Tibet video a fake
China blocked the video-sharing network YouTube and the government denounced footage from a Tibetan exile group appearing to show security forces beating Tibetans in Lhasa last year.
Blogwatch / Video
March 10, 2009
Dalai Lama blasts China on Tibet anniversary
Orville Schell of the Asia Society discusses the Dalai Lama's recent outspoken comments about the Chinese government and the future of the dispute between China and Tibet.
Video
November 28, 2008
China cancels EU summit meeting over Tibet
Robert Barnett of Columbia University discusses developments in Tibetan attitudes towards China and the Dalai Lama as well as prospects for Tibetan autonomy.
Blogwatch
November 21, 2008
Tibetan youth call for shift in strategy
A group of exiled Tibetan leaders are partway through a week-long meeting in northern India to discuss new strategy in the struggle against Chinese rule.
