Chinese Leaders Blog
In 2012 the current generation of China’s leaders will retire to make way for a new generation. Chinese Leaders Blog is an area for Tibet experts to mull over and discuss what this change will mean for Tibet, who will be next to take the helm and what impact will the fifth generation of Chinese Leaders have on Tibet and China in general.

• Predictions and guesses for China’s 5th Generation Politburo Standing Committee
  - 15 May 2012 by Alison Reynolds

In a few months China is due to change its top leadership. Rumours and intrigue have seen recent reports stating that China’s current leaders are considering delaying the handover. What will this mean for China, who remain anxious to dispel talk of infighting among senior leaders? How will they balance the factions, ideologies, power-bases and roles on this increasingly consensus-driven body?
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• Taking on China: Kirkby, UK versus Hangzhou, Zhejiang
  - 14 May 2012 by Anthony O’Brien

UK manufacturers have been shifting to China attracted by the cheap labour. But with wages and overheads escalating in China a move back to British manufacturing has become an increasingly attractive option; for one UK businessman at least.
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• China Challenged by Tibetans: Lead Up To 1959 Uprising Anniversary
  - 7 March 2012 by Alison Reynolds

In the lead up to anniversary of Tibetan National Uprisings of 1959 and 2008, when thousands of Tibetans took to the streets to protest China’s occupation of Tibet, Chinese officials sink to an all time low, maligning Tibetans who are calling for freedom.
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• Xi Jinping Visits US While Tibet Burns
  - 17 February 2012 by Wangchuk Shakabpa

In light of the recent self-immolations in Tibet, and the increased Western media attention to China’s crackdown on protests in Tibetan areas (which have resulted in the deaths and wounding of dozens of Tibetans shot by Chinese police), Wangchuk Shakabpa takes a look at some of China’s claims about the unrest on the Tibetan Plateau.
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• The China Magic at work
  - 14 February 2012 by Jonathan Mirsky

In the last 12 months more than twenty Tibetans have set fire to themselves to protest Chinese rule. There have been only muted expressions of concern from Western leaders. It is therefore astounding that Washington and London openly denounced China and Russia after they alone vetoed the United Nation’s planned sanctions on Syria….
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• What will Xi mean for Tibet?
  - 10 February 2012 by Alison Reynolds

As China’s President-in-waiting Xi Jinping touches down on US soil, at the forefront of China’s abysmal human rights record is the current crisis in Tibet, where 21 monks, nuns and laypeople have set light to themselves, calling for freedom for Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama…
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