The burden of being Dalai Lama

The monk was unsmiling as he sat in the lotus position, legs crossed and back straightened up in nervous tension. And when the Dalai Lama stroked his furrowed brow, a collective shiver passed through the group of people sitting in front of him in the banquet hall of a Delhi hotel

Endangering the Next Kim Dae-jung

Since taking office President Barack Obama has used strong words to describe the importance he places on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. In July, he told China’s high-powered delegation to the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue that “support for human rights and human dignity