Im Rahmen eines schriftlichen Interviews von sda nimmt Kelsang Gyaltsen, Gesandter S. H. des Dalai Lama in Europa, Stellung zu den Konfuzius-Institute in der Schweiz.
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass in China die chinesische kommunistische Partei (KP China) alle politischen, gesellschaftlichen, akademischen, kulturellen und religiösen Institute und Organisationen kontrolliert und dirigiert. Dies ist auch bei den Konfuzius-Instituten der Fall. Die Konfuzius-Institute sind dem chinesischen Konfuzius-Trägerschaft ‚Hanban‘ unterstellt, die wiederum dem chinesischen Bildungsministerium. Frau Liu Yandong hat zurzeit den Vorsitz dieser Trägerschaft und ist gleichzeitig auch ein Mitglied des mächtigen Politbüros der KP China. Frau Liu war vor ihrer Beförderung ins Politbüro die Leiterin der United Front Work Department (UFWD) der KP China. Diese Abteilung der KP China ist zuständig und verantwortlich für die chinesische Politik für Minderheiten und religiöse Gruppen in der VR China. Somit ist Frau Liu Yandong in ihrer Zeit im UFWD an zentraler Stelle verantwortlich für die Unterdrückungspolitik des tibetischen Volkes in Tibet gewesen.
Original Published: 26 January 2012, Central Tibetan Administratio
As Chinese everywhere were celebrating the first couple of days of the Year of Dragon on January 23rd and 24th, 2012. Chinese police fired indiscriminately on hundreds of Tibetans who had gathered peacefully to claim their basic rights in Drakgo, Serthar, Ngaba, Gyarong, and other neighboring Tibetan areas. Six Tibetans were reportedly killed and around sixty injured, some critically.
Because of gruesome acts such as these and the systematic repression of Tibetans, the resentment and anger amongst Tibetans against Chinese government has only grown since the massive uprising of 2008.
Original Published: 11 January 2012, by Wu Zhong, China Editor, Asia Times Online
HONG KONG - The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) greeted 2012 by publicizing a speech by its general secretary, President Hu Jintao that called for effective measures against "ideological and cultural infiltration" by "hostile forces".
Hu’s remarks on cultural infiltration appeared in a lengthy speech given to a party plenum in October, with the unusually toughly-worded rhetoric taking many in and outside China by surprise. Some foreign media saw it as a declaration of war against Western culture.
The speech reminded some Chinese intellectuals of campaigns against "(Western) spiritual pollution" and "bourgeois liberalization" in the 1980s that eventually led to the Tiananmen protests and subsequent crackdown in 1989. Some have read Hu’s statement as a signal that Beijing will tighten ideological controls to suppress dissenting voices.
Original Published: 8 January 2012, by Andrew S. Erickson & Gabe Collins, The Diplomat
China enters the New Year confronting challenges and opportunities that will be shaped in turn by how its government and populace respond to them. Here outlined are twelve key items and issues that will help define 2012 for China, both at home and abroad. 2012 will be a “two-level” year in which internal and external factors are linked ever-more-clearly. As a new generation of leadership prepares to govern China, millions of citizens and netizens and their foreign counterparts will be watching Beijing’s actions more closely than ever before.
Original Published: 30 December 2011, by JONATHAN MIRSKY, The New York Times
“I have no enemies, and no hatred.” Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke those words on Dec. 23, 2009, just before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “incitement of subversion of state power.” It was his fourth jail term since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Liu is the only Chinese citizen to win any Nobel while living in China and, as Perry Link notes in introducing a new collection of Liu’s writings, one of only five Nobel Peace Prize winners unable to appear in Oslo to receive the gold medal: “In 1935, Carl von Ossietzky was held in a Nazi prison; in 1975, Andrei Sakharov was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union; in 1983, Lech Walesa feared he would be barred from re-entering Poland if he went to Oslo; and in 1991, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest in Burma.”
Original Published: 5 January 2012, Interview by Alec Ash, The Browser
The changing relationship between China and America will be one of the defining foreign policy issues of our times. To understand its dynamic, says the sinologist, we must take account of China’s lingering sense of victimhood
You recently organised a cultural exchange festival in Beijing that brought the likes of Meryl Streep to engage with Chinese audiences. Tell us a little about it.
We brought a whole group of American cultural figures to Beijing. Meryl Streep came, and we showed The Iron Lady for the first time in the world. We had 15 people, all from different parts of the arts – Yo-Yo Ma and so on. Alice Waters cooked a meal for 250 people in the US embassy, with organic food. The Coen brothers showed True Grit. Mark Danner came, and the novelist Amy Tan. But in the aftermath, the insanity of finding a place of convergence between the two sides that were in collaboration was a poignant latter-day reminder of the terribly difficult time the US and China have always had finding congruence.
No matter what is going on,
Never give up,
Develop the heart,
Too much energy in your country
Is spent developing the mind
Instead of the heart,
Be compassionate
Not just to your friends
But to everyone,
Be compassionate,
Work for peace
In your heart and in the world
Work for peace,
And I say again,
Never give up,
No matter what is going on around you,
Never give up
(H. H. the 14th Dalai Lama)
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass in China die chinesische kommunistische Partei (KP China) alle politischen, gesellschaftlichen, akademischen, kulturellen und religiösen Institute und Organisationen kontrolliert und dirigiert. Dies ist auch bei den Konfuzius-Instituten der Fall. Die Konfuzius-Institute sind dem chinesischen Konfuzius-Trägerschaft ‚Hanban‘ unterstellt, die wiederum dem chinesischen Bildungsministerium. Frau Liu Yandong hat zurzeit den Vorsitz dieser Trägerschaft und ist gleichzeitig auch ein Mitglied des mächtigen Politbüros der KP China. Frau Liu war vor ihrer Beförderung ins Politbüro die Leiterin der United Front Work Department (UFWD) der KP China. Diese Abteilung der KP China ist zuständig und verantwortlich für die chinesische Politik für Minderheiten und religiöse Gruppen in der VR China. Somit ist Frau Liu Yandong in ihrer Zeit im UFWD an zentraler Stelle verantwortlich für die Unterdrückungspolitik des tibetischen Volkes in Tibet gewesen.
