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China lectures US on 'responsibility' over debt default
China has lectured the United States on its responsibility to make sure it does not default on its debts, as the political deadlock in Washington forced Barack Obama to pull out of a key summit
China on Monday delivered a stern lecture to the US to live up to its responsibilities as the cornerstone of the world’s economy and keep Washington’s political crisis from spilling over into a global financial calamity.


Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, who has died aged 73 in a violent incident in China, was a Tibetan lama who co-founded the Kagyu Samye Ling monastery in Dumfriesshire, the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the Western world and still one of the few outside Tibet.

By the early 1990s, one important mission for Akong Tulku was the search for the 17th Karmapa, one of the most important figures in Buddhism after the Dalai Lama. In the continuation of the tradition which had found him in the 1940s, Akong Tulku played an important role in the search party for the reincarnation of the Karmapa and settled on Apo Gaga, a seven-year-old from Eastern Tibet. The Karmapa later fled into India amid concerns that the Chinese authorities wanted to influence his teachings and use him as a political mouthpiece.

Three people were killed and at least 60 injured after Chinese security forces fired on a crowd of Tibetan protesters, human rights groups said.

Residents in Dathang, Biru County, had gathered outside the local government office to protest at the arrest of a villager detained for refusing to fly a Chinese flag.

yeah heavy in Tibet

most interesting comment chinese have made, eg 3 or 4 trillion dollar default on early repayment probably would bother the clowns according to international law can only occur in event of a major international conflict e.g. ww3

and so they should worry me thinks

not for long
But yes they were sort of heavy handed weren't they...weren't...

though i read couple interesting stories this evening, see if i can relocate



there was another one, china taking over 5% of Uzbekistan farming land

sorry think was Turkmenistan
Russia not happy about tat

Kiwis resent their raw deal on this side of the ditch



The productivity commissions of Australia and New Zealand completed a joint report last year on the trans-Tasman relationship and found Australia's treatment of Kiwis was unreasonable, unjustified and required change.

they must be trying to create another ned kelly