[Denis Shatokhin]
Following the protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, and especially since the violent suppression of dissenters by Chinese security forces, there are an increasing number of calls for a boycott of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. This boycott would supposedly put the Chinese government under immense pressure and force them to improve their human […]
Let the sleeping dragon lie?
Don’t forget North Korea
[Tom Hammond]
Leon Trotsky once delighted in telling his political opponents that they had been ‘consigned to the dustbin of history.’ Leaving aside the cruel irony that Trotsky himself was soon to be the victim of Stalinist retouching of the past, much of world opinion might seem to wish the same fate on the presidency of […]
Is Tibetan violence justified?
[Patrick Rolfe]
On the 10th of March peaceful protesters took to the streets of Lhasa and other cities. They remained there for five days, some demanding formal autonomy from China as the Dalai Lama himself has done, some demanding outright independence. On the fifth day, the gatherings turned violent. Symbols of the Chinese state – police […]