Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

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China slams House’s passage of bill backing sanctions on Beijing over mass detention of Muslims

Gerry Shih, The Washington Post. Read the original news here. BEIJING — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill late Tuesday that would impose sanctions on ­senior Chinese officials involved in the country’s mass detention of its Muslim … Continued The post China slams House’s passage of bill read more →

China protests as US House passes Uygur bill demanding sanctions over human rights abuses in Xinjiang camps

Owen Churchill & Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post. Read the article here. China has threatened to respond after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a strongly worded bill paving the way for sanctions against Chinese … Continued The post China protests as US House passes read more →

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West

By Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur for the New York Times. Read the article here. Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent. TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in … Continued The post China Uses DNA to Map Faces, read more →

US House passes Uygur law demanding sanctions on China over Xinjiang camps

Owen Churchill and Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post, 4 December 2019. Read original news here. China has threatened to respond after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a strongly worded bill paving the way for sanctions against … Continued The post US House passes Uygur law demanding read more →

Congress condemns China over brutal crackdown on the Muslim Minority

Times. December 4, 2019. Read the article here. (WASHINGTON) — Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday aimed at pressuring China over a brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the far west of the country, legislation that follows a similar … Continued The post Congress condemns China over brutal crackdown read more →

Should India be bolder with China?

Suyash Desai, The Hindu. Read the article here. India could strengthen its diplomatic leverages against China by issuing statements on Xinjiang, Tibet, the South China Sea, and Hong Kong.  In my opinion, India’s response to China’s diplomatic offensive of recent … Continued The post Should India be bolder with China? read more →

Dalai Lama’s first children book to be published by Puffin

Heloise Wood, The Bookseller. December 3, 2019. Read article here. Puffin will publish the Dalai Lama’s first children’s book, The Seed of Compassion, in March 2020. “For the first time ever, His Holiness addresses children directly, sharing important lessons from his … Continued The post Dalai Lama’s first children book to read more →

ICT calls on China to allow Tibetans to learn in their mother tongue at UN Forum on Minorities

International Campaign for Tibet. December 3, 2019. Read article here. In a statement delivered last week at the 12th Forum on Minority Issues taking place in Geneva on the theme “Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities,” ICT highlighted … Continued The post ICT calls on China to allow read more →

China bans US military visits to Hong Kong over human rights act

Tsukasa Hadano, Nikkei Asian Review. December 3, 2019. Read article here. BEIJING — China suspended visits by U.S. military vessels and aircraft to Hong Kong on Monday and hinted at further retaliatory steps against American legislation supporting anti-government protesters in the city. Beijing also … Continued The post China bans US military visits to read more →

China accuses UN rights chief of emboldening Hong Kong protesters

Aljazeera News. Decemebr 2, 2019. Read article here. China has accused the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of emboldening “radical violence” in Hong Kong by suggesting the city’s leader conduct an investigation into reports of excessive use of force by police. … Continued The post China accuses UN rights chief of read more →

China due to introduce face scans for mobile users

BBC News. December 2, 2019. Read article here. People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of the country’s hundreds of millions of … Continued The post China due to introduce face scans read more →

It’s been a horrible week for China’s president Xi Jinping and the Communist Party

New Zealand Herald. Read the article here. It’s been a rough week for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with a series of events putting a dent in his strongman image and that of the Chinese Government. In Australia, one of Beijing’s … Continued The post It’s been a horrible week for read more →

China Has Lost Taiwan, and It Knows It

New York Times, 1 December 2019 Read original news here. “Not a chance,” the president’s tweet said, in Chinese characters. That was the message from Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of Taiwan, on Nov. 5, after the Chinese government announced a string of … Continued The post China Has Lost Taiwan, and It read more →

China Adopts Malicious “Cybersecurity” Rules

by Gordon G. Chang, Gatestone Institute, November 30, 2019, Read original news here. After all these “cybersecurity” rules are in place, no foreign company may encrypt data so that it cannot be read by the Chinese central government and the Communist Party … Continued The post China Adopts Malicious “Cybersecurity” Rules appeared read more →

‘Only Dalai Lama will decide his reincarnation; no govt has any right to interfere in his selection’

 Varinder Bhatia,The Indian Express. November 29, 2019. Read article here.   The president of the Central Tibetan Administration (Sikyong) Dr Lobsang Sangay of the Tibetan parliament in exile tells The Indian Express that reincarnation is a matter of faith and … Continued The post ‘Only Dalai Lama will decide his read more →