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The protests and confrontations in and around Tibet are a nightmare for China's top leadership, but one, some diplomats believe, that could not have taken anyone in the central government completely by surprise. The leadership in Beijing is pitted against its domestic opponents, who include not only Tibetan dissidents...
The critical issue now front and center is just how far angry Tibetan activists will push, and how harshly the Chinese government will push back. The leaders in Beijing face what's an unusual dilemma for them: maintain order, but in a gentler way than they are accustomed to doing...
Today's China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. In those days Beijing could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather. No longer. Security forces have been working overtime to limit the reporting of the scattered Tibetan protests - preventing foreign journalists from entering Lhasa...
China's leadership, the senior Western diplomat says, appreciates that the world is carefully gauging how it responds to the unrest. He notes that initial reports out of Lhasa had the People's Armed Police, an antiriot squad, responding to the demonstrations - not the potentially much more lethal People's...
China's central government recognized early on that an investment bubble was likely forming. In 2004, for both economic and environmental reasons, authorities in Beijing began pressuring provincial and local officials to curb spending on aluminum, steel and cement factories; state-owned banks were periodically told to stop lending for...