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| 2008 | Budget |  |
| 14th Mar China plans to increase its military budget by 417.8 billion yuan ($59 billion) or nearly 18% as compared to previous year
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| 2008 | Demonstrations | |
| 14th Mar Lhasa According to a Tibetan who fled Tibet after the demonstrations in Lhasa, knife-wielding Chinese troops attacked Tibetan demonstrators on March 14, and several demonstrators died from gunshot and knife wounds
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| 14th Mar According to Wen Jiabao attacks on non-Tibetan interests in the Tibet Autonomous Region and several other ethnic Tibetan areas occur at about the same time as attacks on dozens of Chinese embassies and consulates
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| 14th Mar Lhasa Tibetan rioters appear to be targeting shops and vehicles owned by Han Chinese, the predominant ethnic group in China, and Hui, who are a Muslim minority
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| 15th Mar Gansu Tibetan riots spread outside of the Tibet Autonomous Region for the first time, demonstrations by ethnic Tibetans and monks take place in the northwest province of Gansu
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| 16th Mar Beijing According to Times Online, in the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, around 100 ethnic Tibetan students organise a sit-in protest in solidarity with the protesters in Tibet
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| 16th Mar Ngawa In Sichuan province, in an area incorporating the traditional Tibetan areas Kham and Amdo, Tibetan monks and police clash in Ngawa county after the monks staged a protest, killing at least one policeman, and setting fire to three or four polic
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| 22nd Mar Lhasa Xinhua reports that 18 civilians and a policeman have died in Lhasa, a total of 382 people were wounded, 58 seriously, according to Xinhua, arsonists set fire to 908 shops, 84 vehicles, seven schools and 120 homes
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| 10th May Wen Jiabao accuses Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, of masterminding the violence, while the Dalai Lama denies the accusation and says the uprisings are caused by wide discontent in Tibet
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| 2008 | Diplomacy | |
| 11th Feb US Justice Department officials announce that a US government official and up to four Chinese nationals are being charged with spying on the USA.index.html title="History of USA">United States and giving US military secrets to the Chinese government
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| 14th Mar China plans to increase its military budget by 417.8 billion yuan ($59 billion) or nearly 18% as compared to previous year
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| 2008 | Disaster | |
| 12th May Sichuan The earthquake that strikes Sichuan Province has a strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale, causing landslides and destroying thousands of buildings
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| 21st May Sichuan According to the Chinese government more than 40,000 people have been killed and 247,645 have been injured in last weeks devastating earthquake near the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province
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| 2008 | Earthquake | |
| 12th May Sichuan The earthquake that strikes Sichuan Province has a strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale, causing landslides and destroying thousands of buildings
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| 21st May Sichuan According to the Chinese government more than 40,000 people have been killed and 247,645 have been injured in last weeks devastating earthquake near the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province
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| 2008 | Rule of Tibet | |
| 16th Mar Beijing According to Times Online, in the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, around 100 ethnic Tibetan students organise a sit-in protest in solidarity with the protesters in Tibet
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| 10th May Wen Jiabao accuses Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, of masterminding the violence, while the Dalai Lama denies the accusation and says the uprisings are caused by wide discontent in Tibet
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