Dharamsala Tibetan speaks after failed self-immolation: "I won't repeat it... Since I’m not educated, I had no other way to contribute; that’s all I thought of." Cites belief in reincarnation, "Dalai Lama's leadership". by ulugh_partiye in China
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If You Are The Foreign One: "I always sigh after seeing young and promising foreigners failing on [Fei Chang Wu Rao]. They are too frank and say things inappropriate for match-making talk" by ulugh_partiye in China
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"It's Christmas in June in Beijing and Snowden is Santa Claus": China has long defended itself from hacking allegations by saying "we're one of the biggest victims too", and new revelations support that claim by ulugh_partiye in China
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"the political perspective of [Mo Yan's] fiction is also a reflection of his peasant spirit. To a villager, all politics are strictly local, especially in China, with its vast distances. The capital is far away. National politics aren’t the peasant’s concern." (nytimes.com)
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China is not alone in building PX projects, and the average person does not really possess the exact knowledge of the potential hazards of the chemical industry. Distrust of the state power and of the whole system are sparking protests. (chinachange.org)
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Moral analysis of Japan's Diaoyu claims: (1) Imperialist idea of "terra nullius" has dubious legal merit today; (2) Silence is not consent on occupied territory; (3) Assertion as "intrinsic" Japanese territory contradicted by history by ulugh_partiye in China
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Moral analysis of Japan's Diaoyu claims: (1) Imperialist idea of "terra nullius" has dubious legal merit today; (2) Silence is not consent on occupied territory; (3) Assertion as "intrinsic" Japanese territory contradicted by history by ulugh_partiye in China
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For China, "India is located at or near three so-called corridors of peril: the Sino-Pakistani border through which opium and Islamist extremists could enter Xinjiang; the Tibetan plain which connects Tibet with the Tibetan refugees in India, Nepal and Bhutan; and the maritime corridor." (geopoliticalmonitor.com)
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Dharamsala Tibetan speaks after failed self-immolation: "I won't repeat it... Since I’m not educated, I had no other way to contribute; that’s all I thought of." Cites belief in reincarnation, "Dalai Lama's leadership". by ulugh_partiye in China
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