Month: October 2018

DEVELOPMENT AS A TIBETAN HUMAN RIGHT Blogging on the one human right trumping all other rights: 1 of 2 What do we think when “China” and “human rights” arise in the same sentence? A storm cloud assembles: coercion, torture, denial, repression, closure, censorship, bullying. China’s record as a member of the UN Human Rights Council […]

IS TIBET DEVELOPED? Blogging on the one human right trumping all other rights: 2 of 2 China says it has developed Tibet, and uses its statistics on economic development of Tibet as justification for its repression of civil and political rights, as they are officially secondary, in China’s hierarchy of rights. China has issued official […]