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China’s Apartheid
In an article in the People’s Daily, China’s ambassador to South Africa between 2001 and 2006, Liu Guijin, is quoted as saying of Nelson Mandela, “He once told me that when he was in prison he and his fellow inmates … Continue reading
Unrest in Xinjiang
The Times reports that 17 people were killed by rioters in Lukqun, Xinjiang Province, before police opened fie on the rioters and shot ten of them dead. The notion of China as a nation state is a very recent – … Continue reading
Chinese Taboos
There are somethings which are better left out of any polite conversation with your Chinese colleagues. Politics isn’t necessarily one of them, unless you mention one of the two T words – Tibet and Taiwan. Both these issues hit at … Continue reading
Posted in History, International Relations
Tagged Century of Humiliation, Dalai Lama, One Country Two Systems, Taiwan, Tibet
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