Conservative Pulse

McCain meets with Dalai Lama, asks for progress on Tibet

Republican Presidential hopeful John McCain met with Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama recently and read a short statement emphasizing the need for the Chinese government to “engage in talk sand make progress with His Holiness’ representatives” regarding political prisoners and autonomy for Tibet. Tensions have heightened in recent months between Tibetan protestors and the Chinese government [...]

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Discrimination during Beijing Olympics?

This reeks of South Africa or Jim Crow laws over a generation ago in the United States: Hong Kong’s English newspaper The South China Morning Post reported Friday that Chinese authorities have issued a secret ban on blacks, Mongolians and other "social undesirables" from Beijing’s bars during the Olympics. The pledges that Sanlitun bar owners had been [...]

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China mars 2008 Olympics

The recent protests along the route of the Olympic flame have involved Tibetans, citizens of the respective countries, local and national officials, and even the torch-bearers themselves. In London, Konnie Huq both carried the flame and voiced her opposition to Chinese policy; San Francisco is scheduled to receive the torch on April 9, but in [...]

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