Dalai Lama and the Tibet question: Time for a new approach?
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists around the world and, in practice, their political leader, too, has been ailing lately. Considering the intensity of the tide of criticism that...
View ArticleRecession, American style. Recession, Japanese style.
So far, no one in the Bush administration has dared to pronounce the R word publicly or officially. Yesterday, though, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released the results of a survey it...
View ArticleTibetans discuss their future, as China holds firm against “lies”
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and the head of the Tibetan government in exile – it’s based in the Indian hill town of Dharamsala – has been ailing in recent months. In...
View ArticleSolving the Pakistan problem: Weaken or eliminate the country?
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that, lately, a proposed new map of the South Asia region “has been making the rounds among Pakistani elites.” This map shows Pakistan “reduced to an elongated...
View ArticleTibetans’ strategy: Accept status quo or seek independence?
The news that China’s leaders have decided to postpone a December 1 summit meeting in Lyons, France, with their European Union counterparts because, as Beijing sees it, the E.U. has been cozying up too...
View ArticleTerrorist attacks in Mumbai: Time for “zero tolerance”?
Arko Datta/Reuters Last night, as a result of the terrorist attacks, flames rose from the Taj Mahal Hotel, one of Mumbai’s iconic buildings As disturbing and violent as the attacks (which started on...
View ArticleMumbai attacks postmortem: Anger, tension and shifting geopolitical power
Punit Paranjpe/Reuters Yesterday, some 10,000 Mumbai residents turned out to mourn the dead from last week’s terrorist attacks and to demand more responsiveness from India’s political leaders Yesterday...
View ArticleRice and India talk tough to Pakistan on terrorism – and Islamabad responds
Mumbai Fire Brigade handout, via Reuters The charred interior of the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai; India has identified representatives of the militant-Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is based in...
View ArticleTo throw or not to throw: The shoes, aimed at Bush, felt round the world
AP The Iraqi journalist Muntadar Al Zaidi hurled one, then a second shoe at Bush this past Sunday in Baghdad, where the self-styled “war president” showed up at a press conference alongside Nouri Al...
View ArticleBush’s shoe-throwing critic: For many, an instant hero
As we noted on Tuesday, Muntadar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw his shoes at George W. Bush this past Sunday, when the lame-duck, self-styled “war president” took part in a press conference in...
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