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The Dalai Lama will be coming to Boston April 30th-May 3, 2009 and will be giving a series of lectures as well as being the guest of honor at the new Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. I am going to one of his workshops this upcoming Saturday.
The Tibetan-American community [...]

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Yesterday I blogged about South Africa’s refusal to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg- the reasoning given by the SA government was that it was not in their best interest to allow His Holiness into the country lest it upset China, with whom SA has increasing [...]

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Yesterday, reports of Chinese and US naval maneuvers off the coast of Hainan Island, demonstrate an underlying tension between the two countries. The US Navy was operating in international waters when China began initiating provacative and clearly aggressive actions against the US Ship Impeccable, almost causing a collision between the two vessels:

In a dangerous [...]

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I came across this article in the NY Times the other day about how moving towards more of an international consensus on climate change seemed to be pipe-dream just five years ago, particularly with respect to getting some of the world’s biggest polluters on board (ie. China). However, since President Obama has come out [...]

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