Hillary Clinton is a hypocrite on China. Plain and simple. These days, I try not to dabble with politics too much on the Vance Report but sometimes I just cannot help it. This is one of those situations.
Last week, on her first trip to Asia as Secretary of State, she made it abundantly clear that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tibet’
Why Clinton and Obama are Big Hypocrites on China
Posted by Robert Vance on February 27th, 2009
Posted in The Vance Report 
Tags: CCP, China, China Human Rights, hillary clinton, olympics, persecution, President Obama, Tibet 
5 Comments »The Paradoxical Land of China
Posted by Robert Vance on August 27th, 2008
Recently, I was invited to be a guest author on the website TransitionsAbroad.com, an online magazine that provides helpful and timely information about living and traveling abroad. This month, the well known and award winning website featured a webzine on Asia which includes an article that I wrote entitled This is China, Living Abroad in a [...]
Posted in Living in China Tags: China, China information, china travel, chinese history, lhasa, Living in China, Study Chinese, Tibet, travel in China No Comments »Questions Linger After 2008 Olympic Games Finish in Beijing Tonight
Posted by Robert Vance on August 24th, 2008
The 2008 Olympics came to a close tonight in Beijing amidst another spectacular and dazzling performance that featured beautifully choreographed dancing, flying drums and sparkling rappellers descending from a leaning tower, as well as scenes from British culture that featured the likes of David Beckham and Led Zepplin’s Jimmy Page. This time it appeared that [...]
Bargaining in China to Avoid the Foreign Discount
Posted by Robert Vance on August 8th, 2008
During my early days in China, I often fell victim to what other ex-pats in China have called the “foreigner discount.” Whether buying fruit, pens, taxi rides, or dogs from the pet market, I frequently discovered later that I had paid 5 or sometimes even 10 times more than a local would have paid. This [...]
Why the Dalai Lama Is Important For All of China
Posted by Robert Vance on July 27th, 2008
Most Chinese people hate the Dalai Lama with a passion; my friends and students certainly are not bashful about saying so. Why do they hate him so much? Well, there are many reasons, of course but the events of yesterday in the United States is a prime example. Yesterday, in Aspen, Colorado, the Dalai Lama met [...]
Searching for the Olympic Spirit in China
Posted by Robert Vance on July 15th, 2008
Robert Vance here. With under a month remaining before Beijing basks in the glorious light of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, I am in search of something that has gone missing in China. I have been faithfully searching for it but it continues to elude me. It was here just a few short months ago. I know it was; [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, Carrefour, China, Olympic Games, olympic opening ceremony, olympic spirit, protests, robert vance, Tibet No Comments »Weaning Myself Off China Travel Guidebooks
Posted by Robert Vance on July 8th, 2008
I always used to carry a Lonely Planet Guidebook with me wherever I traveled. Then one tragic day, while I was journeying in western India, I discovered that I had left my precious guidebook in the hotel where I had last stayed. I desperately called the hotel and begged them to send me the book. [...]
Does China Owe an Apology to the World?
Posted by Robert Vance on June 27th, 2008
For months, my friends and students in China have been accusing the world, and especially the United States, of trying to inject politics into the 2008 Olympics Games.Those who have dared to mention to mention the words Tibet’ and ‘Olympics’ in the same sentence are accused of mixing the sacred with the profane. The Olympics Games [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, China, Chinese Politics, dalai lama, Olympic Games, Tibet 7 Comments »16 ‘Brainwashed’ Tibetan Monks are Arrested in China
Posted by Robert Vance on June 7th, 2008
The Chinese government propaganda’s machine was in full swing this week in its latest attempt to portray the Tibetan people and their spiritual leaders as terrorists. According to Xinhua, China’s state owned media and official mouthpiece for the PRC, 16 Tibetan monks have been arrested in connection with some alleged bombing and bomb plots that have taken place in Tibet this year. The [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 16 monks arrested, 2008-Olympics, Buddhism, China, China Human Rights, dalai lama, Tibet, Tibet Protests No Comments »Beijing Slams Britain for Meeting with Dalai Lama
Posted by Robert Vance on May 25th, 2008
It was back to ‘business as usual’ for the Chinese government on Saturday when it condemned Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and members of the British Parliament for meeting with the Dalai Lama. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing was quoted as saying that the meeting in Britain “interferes in China’s internal affairs and hurts the [...]
Posted in The Vance Report Tags: 2008-Olympics, Britian Dalai Lama, China, dalai lama, Gordon Brown, hu jintao, Tibet 72 Comments »
