Tibetan sources in Dharamsala say the Karmapa pleaded to be allowed to stay in India, birthplace of Buddhism, because Beijing's repression in Tibet was making it difficult for him to pursue religious studies and maintain Tibetan culture.
Dry conditions plague China primarily because of decisions made in Beijing.
Even so, the relationship has remained a rocky one in large part because Beijing made promises of never-ending economic expansion.
Yet he should know that the Shanghai Composite rebounded in December principally because Beijing made a political decision to put even more state money into property and infrastructure.
Raedemaeker was initially held in Gansu but was later allowed to live with his partner in a Beijing hotel because of his poor health, media reports say.
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Coercion creeps in from Beijing, mainly because Mr Tung does little to defend Hong Kong's boundaries.
Those receiving the second level of funding have to have finished in the top eight in Beijing or Osaka, while those in the third tier are funded because they have the potential to win medals at next year's World Championships.
Therefore, it ought to play an active and leading role in resolving the crisis, especially because Beijing seems to have the most leverage over North Korea.
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Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said China must do more to address its undervalued currency and dependence on exports, adding that such a move is in Beijing's best interest because it will control inflation.
"The public can of course continue to express scepticism, but we cannot because give up helping compatriots in earthquake-stricken areas of Lushan because of distrust of an organisation, " Beijing Youth Daily commentator Shu Shengxiang adds.
In a sense, he is right because Beijing will, as long as it has the resources, not let its banks fail.
According to the BBC's China analyst, Shirong Chen, they have been pushed to the front of the queue not just because it is a huge public event that carries national pride, but because all the top leaders and dignitaries will be in Beijing.
"So far, so good", said one official at the state-run China International Travel Service in Beijing, when asked about booking cancellations because of the crash.
Because Beijing already requires that all cars being sold in the city meet Euro V emission standards, with other cities following suit, passenger cars are not really the problem.
The strategists in Beijing have propped up the regime both because they fear instability on their border and even more because they worry about a unified Korea, perhaps with American troops hard up against the Chinese frontier for the first time in over 60 years.
And there's the rub, because unless his eloquence has changed minds in Paris, Moscow and Beijing, the Security Council is unlikely to give its approval.
Obviously, this was yet another clumsy attempt by Beijing to influence opinion in the west, and because they were not aware of the traditional tools of public opinion, they were doomed to fail.
According to media reports, around 30 real estate projects in Beijing have failed to get sales licenses as planned because their project pricing was deemed much higher than previous projects, and higher than average home prices of similar size in the city.
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But this year's outbreak has caused unusual nervousness because it comes just three months before the start of the Beijing Olympics in August.
He adds that Beijing could play a crucial role in forging peace in Afghanistan because of its close relations to Pakistan, which has long-standing links to the Taliban, whose leadership is widely believed to operate from the country.
Beijing's wait-and-see approach fails in practice because events often force China to react before it would have preferred.
Because Beijing is halfway round the world, NBC must present most all competition in prime time, insipidly, on a delayed basis.
Wang Lian, a Central Asia expert at Beijing University, notes that superpowers have historically been involved in Afghanistan because it is an Asian crossroads and China would be no exception.
In a speech in Beijing, Li Daokui said China "will not appreciate the yuan solely because of external pressure".
The swimmer, Mohammad Alirezaei, did not compete in the men's 100-meter breaststroke heat Saturday because of illness and not for any other reason, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Beijing told CNN.
Manufacturing in China should help GM bring down the cost of its cars, not least because Beijing imposes a steep duty imports of luxury vehicles.
According to Xinhua, Beijing will "withdraw support for foreign capital in auto manufacturing... because of the need of the healthy development of domestic auto making".
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