Category: China related

When is it OK to shut down a place of worship?

Apparently, when it becomes a training ground for Jihad. Chinese authorities have…closed down 41 “illegal” places of worship (in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province). These places of worship were used as training ground for...

China’s claim over Tibet is questionable

From a Sify report on a seminar held last Friday at IIC on ‘1914 Shimla Convention Agreement and Consequences’ (emphasis mine): The fact that the Chinese refused to ink the 1914 Shimla Convention agreement...

Crisis in Darfur – Who will bell the cat?

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the crisis in Darfur quoted in Guernica, June 2008: …I was there (in Darfur)…just one year ago nearly to the day, smuggling myself across the border with Chad, crossing 500, 600 kilometers of...

With “allies” like these, who needs enemies?

This analysis of�attitudes that the communist parties have�towards vital matters of national interest reveals why they are probably the most dangerous�element in the current political landscape… Excerpts from Red Star over South Block�(emphasis mine)...