In Brief
John Garnaut writes an excellent column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about a Chinese government official with a sophisticated understanding of the current situation in Tibet. What’s more he reports that the official shared his views with Australian diplomats.
The column draws largely from Ben Hillman’s Far Eastern Economic Review piece written in April titled Money can’t buy Tibetans’ love. This is a great piece and if what John Garnaut says is true, Hillman's piece is being read high up in the Chinese bureaucracy and hitting home.
ANU’s China program gets some positive publicity in the piece. . .