Google’s been taking bad press about Chinese search result filtering for years, and now it looks like the company simply fed up: it’s going to stop filtering Google.cn and it may pull of out the country entirely. The move comes on the heels of coordinated attacks on Gmail, which Google says were aimed at accessing the accounts of prominent human rights activists — and Google also [...]

An indignant China said Friday the U.S. “seriously hurt the feelings of the Chinese people” when Congress passed a resolution calling on Beijing to stop cracking down on Tibetan dissent and talk to the Dalai Lama.Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu labeled the resolution anti-Chinese, saying it misrepresented Tibet’s “history and modern reality.” “The Chinese side [...]

On a cloudless day near the top of the world, Swiss tourist Claude Balsiger had just finished a late-morning cup of tea and stepped out onto the streets of Tibet’s capital. Buddhist monks had been marching against Chinese rule all week, but today seemed calmer.Suddenly, Tibetan youths started hurling paving stones at police, who tried to protect themselves with their riot shields.Over the next [...]

China called the Dalai Lama a “wolf in monk’s robes” Wednesday and said it was locked in a “life-and-death battle” with his supporters after protests marking the biggest challenge to Chinese rule in Tibet in almost two decades.State media, meanwhile, reported more than 100 people had surrendered to police in and around Tibet’s regional capital of Lhasa, where peaceful [...]