[LINK] Some links

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• Writing in the Tibetan diaspora webjournal Phiyul, Thubten Samphel reports on the progress made by non-independent nations towards self-government and their implications for Tibet.


• Pollsters Angus Reid examine the similarities between Québécois and Catalonian nationalisms.


• BBC News reports that the government of Kazakhstan is planning to erect a giant tent over large sections of the near-Siberian capital city of Astana.


• Timothy Garton Ash wants a Canada that is inside the European Union; or, at least, he starts out that way.