Oct
20

CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TIBETAN LANGUAGE LEADS TO PROTESTS

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GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN In the wake of the first  Xinjiang Work Conference held  at Beijing from May 17 to 19, 2010, to draft a blueprint for the  Chinese-controlled province’s economic  development until 2020, the Chinese authorities had embarked on a campaign in Xinjiang, which de-emphasised the Uighur ethnic identity of the province and highlighted…
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Oct
20

AGENDA FOR OBAMA’S VISIT: COUNTER-TERRORISM

GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components:     * Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of Ronald Reagan when some officers of  the Intelligence Bureau (IB)   and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) were sent initially to the UK and then…
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Oct
20

CHINA: On the Thousand Mothers March

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ida Karlsson STOCKHOLM, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – Rebiya Kadeer has taken up a campaign for the rights of a people usually far from world headlines: the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China. Before she was arrested and imprisoned for nearly six years for criticising…
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