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Extra! Extra! More government surveillance and Dalai Lama sneaking closer towards China's borders

The Dalai Lama made a week-long visit to Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, where he held a massive ceremony with an audience of 30,000 people. The Chinese government condemned the visit, as it claims that Arunachal is in fact Chinese territory. [BBC]

An editorial piece in which Arthur Ronsfeld discusses how greatly Mahmoud Vahidnia, who stood up against Iran's president, epitomizes the necessity for discussion on government and social morality in the largest states in the world (i.e. China). [Huffington Post]

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Today's Links: Harvesting organs, 3G phones and drunk driving

Organ trafficking stirs concern [Global Times] "The number of organ transplants from deceased donors in China is only 130 since the first case in 2003, one of the country's leading transplant experts said at a seminar yesterday. About 11,000 transplant operations are performed each year in China, including both living- and all deceased-donor transplantations, including executed prisoners, making the country the second-largest in the world to the US in total number. But that number it is far from enough to meet demand, Chen Zhonghua, the Chinese Medical Association's deputy director for transplanting, said…"

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