By Simone McCarthy and CNN Staff Hong Kong (CNN) — For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party ru...
07.03.2025 cnn.com , yahoo.com and 11 sitesRare-earth metals were an afterthought for most world leaders until China temporarily suspended most exports of them a couple months ago. But for almost a half-century, they have received attention fr...
07.05.2025 indiatimes.com , nytimes.com and 1 sites“I need to get my degree safely, ” the student told me. A Chinese national and doctoral candidate in social sciences at an American university, she’d recently heard that her social-media messages migh...
07.02.2025 Yahoo.com and 3 sitesLiberals and progressives are celebrating Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory as proof that New York City is ready for a “democratic socialist” revolution. They’re badly in need of a history ...
07.06.2025 Nypost.comChina's current dominance in rare earth metals—a group of 17 minerals critical for electronics, defence systems, and green energy—was no accident. While many world leaders only recently began focusing on these strategic materials, Beijing has been developing its rare earth strategy for nearly half a century. The foundations of China’s monopoly were laid in the 1970s and 1980s through a series of calculated industrial decisions, scientific investments, and environmental trade-offs, the New York T...
07.06.2025 Moneycontrol.comHis Holiness the Dalai Lama will turn 90 this week. He entered India aged 23 and has spent the last 66 years in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh, where the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) was esta...
07.05.2025 Indianexpress.comSingapore ’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew recognised early on that China demanded respect and equality in diplomacy – a posture that earned him Beijing’s enduring trust, according to veteran n...
07.03.2025 Scmp.com and 2 sites(Nivedita Dash’s post from the INDIA. COM on 04 July 2025. ) Either dead or in prison? Xi Jinping’s oldest enemy ready to end Xi’s rule in China, silent coup on against super powerful Chinese presiden...
07.04.2025 India.com and 1 sitesIn an exclusive interview with India Today Global, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration, addresses critical questions surrounding the succession of the Dalai Lama as ...
07.05.2025 Indiatoday.inChina's powerful Central Military Commission has shrunk to its smallest size in decades under the leadership of Xi Jinping , a Newsweek analysis shows, with analysts saying it highlights the personalisation of his control - and efforts to make the mi...
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