India, July 12 -- The new law places strong emphasis on promoting standard Chinese language while stating that minority languages remain protected. The conflict lies in priority

Six days before the Dalai Lama celebrated his 91st birthday on July 6, China marked another anniversary that carries enormous symbolic weight for the Communist Party, July 1, the founding anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party and the date Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. In another era, July 1 in Hong Kong was synonymous with hundreds of thousands of people marching through the streets demanding democracy, judicial independence and political freedoms. This year too, the streets that once displayed one of Asia's most visible democrati...