The Dalai Lama leads a sick, satanic, cannibal cult. He’s wanted in China for satanic actions and terrorism, as well as slavery. Go read an article in the Atlantic or something trying to explain how slavery in Tibet “wasn’t really slavery, somehow.� The US has no principles whatsoever, other than trying to push their sickening... Read More

[This piece originally appeared at Asia Times Online on November 6, 2012.� It can be reposted if ATOl is credited and a link provided.� Rehashing the Sino-Indian War, with India's unwise fetishizing of the McMahon Line and the principle of sovereignty over genuine national interests that are strategically and tactically viable, has interesting implications for... Read More

I’ve had several articles up at Asia Times in the last few weeks. Ghosts of Wenchuan marks the third anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, 2008. Two of China’s best known dissident artists, Ai Weiwei and Liao Yiwu, make Wenchuan an important part of their critique of the Chinese political system. Ai focussed... Read More

I have an article up at Asia Times, China yearns for peace on southern flank, that covers China’s efforts at the BRICS conference in Hainan to rebrand itself as “regional leader� (instead of the contentious “***hole of Asia�) as it hunkers down for a politically difficult and dangerous summer of simmering discontent in Tibet and... Read More

I have an article up at Asia Times Online under the pen name Peter Lee entitled Dalai Lama at apex of Sino-Indian tensions. It's keyed to a high profile news item--the Dalai Lama's provocative visit to a border town in territory held by India but disputed by China--and a significant but rather underreported development--the escalating... Read More

I'm not about to say that stories about the Tibet People's Uprising Movement (TPUM) are getting spiked in some kind of journalistic omerta dedicated to keeping the existence of this awkward group out of reporting on the Tibetan disturbances... ...but I was interested enough in the issue to send a query about the absence of... Read More

Amidst the horrific violence of the last few days, somebody’s been working overtime to marginalize the Dalai Lama and undercut him as the leader of the worldwide Tibetan movement. Not just the Chinese. I’m talking to you, Tsewang Rigzin. Tibetan unrest in China is not just a problem for the PRC. It’s a major problem... Read More