His Holiness seemed pleased … when visited the Marciana library and found very old maps and documents of the Middle Ages referring of Tibet as an independent country
A Losar Gift for Rangzen Activists
Before the Chinese Communist invasion of 1950 Tibet was a fully functioning and independent state. It threatened none of its neighbors, fed its population unfailingly, year after year, with no help from the outside world.
The China (Proliferation) Syndrome
The recent news of the release from house arrest of Pakistan’s rogue nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan had, as usual, leaders and commentators in the free world blowing hot and cold. The release was universally condemned as “a blow to international security” but as always the behind-the-scenes role of China as the leading proliferator of nuclear weapons and delivery technology to rogue states, was studiously ignored.
A Not So Special Meeting
There’s no denying that I walked into the thing with my “eyes wide shut” – to borrow the title phrase of Stanley Kubrick’s last film.
