Drama: No other word quite encapsulates recent happenings so well. It’s only barely an irreverent choice of words, considering the almost comical amount of nothing changing. First off, belated, but… Happy Birthday, His Holiness the Dalai…

The IOC and China are having a gentle tiff. At a ceremony celebrating the torch’s passage through Lhasa, “noted hardliner” Zhang Qingli said: “Tibet’s sky will never change and the red flag with five stars will…

China is getting a little bit of security-itis. They must have caught it from Dick Cheney’s America. The plush lobby of Beijing’s Kerry Center Hotel is usually crowded with foreign guests, many of them listening to…