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China's five-year plan raises a lot of questions. China's ambassador to the EU, Song Zhe, writes in European Voice that China's latest central plan has “similar ideas”...

Vincent Metten on why his work monitoring developments in Tibet is important for Europe, and a full-time job. When Vincent Metten was recruited to set up a Brussels office...

Chris Patten understates the nature of US engagement on the issue of Tibet, an engagement that the EU could learn from Chris Patten is right that China's rise should be good...

Climate-change negotiators need to discuss how to save our 'third Pole'. In a recent opinion piece, Björn Conrad rightly gave China great credit for its pursuit of a...

EESC becomes focus of EU-China contacts; visit welcomed by China,Tibet and the EU. Since China cancelled its regular summit with the EU last December in protest at the...

A second strong signal has been sent to Beijing by its ‘autonomous' regions in little more than a year. In terms of casualties, the ethnic violence in Xinjiang, which left...

China is reluctant to find solutions to difficult problems. Writing in

In the face of China's consistently intense pressure, the EU needs to end its equivocation and put up a united front. China's cancellation of its summit with EU leaders in...

Dalai Lama calls on EU to press China to hold talks on autonomy for Tibet, and says his faith in the Chinese leadership is waning. The Dalai Lama has urged the European...

Beijing is tearing hundreds of thousands of Uighur women from their homes, and yet the West's leaders are passing silently over this new Chinese crime and attending the...

The EU could use its unique experience of crisis prevention and management to help the Chinese and Tibetan sides. The Tibetan crisis has certainly had a negative impact on...

The century ahead will not be a struggle between China and the US for global leadership; there will, however, be a battle of ideas. We all remember one phrase from the...

Chinese offer overshadows highest-profile visit ever made to China by European Commission. China's decision to resume talks with an envoy of the exiled Tibetan leadership...

MEPs have urged EU leaders to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, unless Chinese authorities talk to the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet. In a...

There was a tell-tale edge of hysteria to Beijing's denunciation of a British newspaper editorial which last week (23 March) compared the Chinese regime to the Nazis and the...

The highest point in the Baltic states is Big Egg Mountain in Estonia, at a towering 318 metres above sea level, about one-thirtieth of the height of Everest. That aside,...

The Dalai Lama, who visited the EU's institutions last week, had a simple message for EU policymakers: do not forget Tibet. China, the world's most populous country and the...

The EU's dialogue with China on human rights risks becoming a "gimmick", a representative of Tibet's government-in-exile has warned. Lobsang Nyandak Zayul, the Tibetan...

THE EU envoy for the Dalai Lama, the Buddhist spiritual leader, has criticized the Union's institutions for failing to adopt a common stance on Tibet. While Kelsang Gyaltsen...

THE EU should formally recognise Tibet's ‘government-in-exile', according to a Buddhist teacher who was imprisoned for 38 years. Takna Jigme Sangpo is urging the Union's...