Have ever wondered what goes on inside a Tibetan monastery under Han control, and why ACB considers it to be a crime against humanity? Now's your chance to find out.
Could Japan be the critical flashpoint in the 2008 Olympic torch procession? If the actions of sponsors are anything to go by, the answer might well be YES.
Shorter than had originally been intended, and surrounded by the kind of security that is more usually associated with a Presidential visit to a war zone, the Beijing 2008 torch carries on around the World.
Anybody who knows anything about totalitarian regimes be they real regimes such as those found in Soviet Russia, fictional regimes such as found in George Orwell's 1984 will probably be aware of the term "Re-Education". As will anybody whom is famili
ACB can't speak for everybody, but this blogger finds the following cry for Tibetan freedom to be 100 times more powerful, and 1000 times more meaningful, than Bjork's 3 second protest in shanghai.
These days, when it comes to giving explanations for uncomfortable truths, there are two tactics that Beijing often like to use; "Play the victim" and "Blame the victim".
Beijing has this week announced that it is stepping up plans to help the development of the Tibetan economy, but, for some at least, China's tactics in the mountain kingdom seem to bare an uncomfortable similarity to those employed by Imperial Japan.
China is increasingly keen to see the return of artifacts stolen from it by foreigners, and is using both the law and its new found wealth to achieve this end, but is this really doing China any good, or is it nothing more than a nationalist plot?
As anybody who has ever spent any time in China will know, there are many different types of Ex-Pat there. But which one are you?
Dare you take the quiz to find out?