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CHINA ON THE DEFENSIVE AS ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COMES UNDER SCRUTINY
Chinese delegates try to play down and suppress evidence of Beijing’s repression in Tibet Over the past few days the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has reviewed China’s efforts to combat and eliminate racial discrimination. The Committee’s … Continued
Tibetan Family Denied State Benefits Over Dalai Lama Photo
Authorities in a Tibetan-populated county of western China’s Sichuan province have refused state benefits to a needy family found in possession of a photo of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Tibetan sources say. Married couple Tsering and Lhamo, residents … Continued
Video: In full – Activist Andy Chan says Hong Kong independence is the only path to democracy at press club talk
Pro-independence activist Chan Ho-tin delivered a sold-out speech at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, after the club resisted pressure from Beijing to drop the event. It took place amid protests from pro-Beijing and pro-democracy groups outside the venue in Central. Read Chan’s speech in full: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. If read more →
China flat out denies the mass incarceration of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs as testimonies trickle out
By Isabella Steger, 13 August, 2018 For months, foreign media have relentlessly reported on the mass incarceration and cultural suppression of China’s Muslim Uyghur minority in the far western Xinjiang region—allegations that Beijing just vehemently denied in a global forum … Continued
China’s war on religion, academia: President Xi Jinping moves to reassert Communist Party dominance
PRESIDENT Xi has had enough. Censorship is rife. The Bible is banned. And he has put millions of people in detention camps. CHINA’s Communist Party doesn’t like difference. So it has set about eradicating any trace of it among its … Continued
China Uighurs: Beijing denies detaining one million
China has said reports it is holding a million Muslim Uighurs in detention in Xinjiang are “completely untrue”. Uighurs enjoyed full rights but “those deceived by religious extremism… shall be assisted by resettlement and re-education”, officials said. The rare admission from Beijing – at a UN meeting in Geneva – read more →
Dalai Lama voices commitment to revive ‘Nalanda-tradition’
PTI | Aug 10, 2018 BENGALURU: Ruing that India has lost the ‘Nalanda tradition’, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday expressed his commitment to revive the ancient Indian knowledge. The Tibetan spiritual leader emphasised that modern India needed this ancient … Continued
Tibetans committed to be part of China if allowed to preserve culture: Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday asserted that Tibetans are ready to be part of China, if they would be allowed to preserve their culture and language. The spiritual leader while addressing ‘Thank You Karnataka’ event, said, “Tibetan … Continued
Dalai Lama thanks Karnataka for providing refuge to Tibetans
By Express News Service BENGALURU: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and Tibetans in Karnataka expressed their gratitude to the state for accommodating Tibetans at five settlements in the state here on Friday. The event, which Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy also … Continued
Are We Ready If China Suddenly Collapsed?
by Peter Mattis, The National Interest If Washington is concerned that the CCP is approaching its twilight, then asserting a moral stake in China’s development requires nothing less than a substantial effort to understand China’s political landscape beyond day-to-day policy-making concerns and … Continued
Dalai Lama: China, Tibet can co-exist in EU-like arrangement.
TNN | 9, August 2018, 03:24 IST Sakhali: The Dalai Lama on Wednesday hinted at a European Union-like arrangement for China and Tibet to co-exist. He said that getting independence for Tibet “will be difficult”, as even if it achieves freedom, … Continued
A Malware Campaign Targeting the Tibetan Diaspora Resurfaces
By Geoffrey Alexander, Matt Brooks, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Etienne Maynier, John Scott-Railton, and Ron Deibert, August 8, 2018 Key Findings This report analyzes a malware campaign active between January to March 2018 that targeted Tibetan activists, journalists, members of the Tibetan Parliament in exile, and the Central Tibetan … Continued
Dalai Lama says ‘institution of Dalai Lama’ no longer politically relevant, Tibetans to decide if tradition should continue
First Post, PTI, 9 August 2018 Panaji: Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the “institution of Dalai Lama” is no longer politically relevant and it was up to the people of Tibet to decide whether the age-old tradition should … Continued
A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter
By Li Yuan, The New York Times, Aug. 6, 2018 HONG KONG — Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies. He plans to study chemistry in Canada … Continued
Australia’s China reset
John Garnaut, The Monthly, August 2018 The rest of the world is watching how we counter Beijing’s campaign of influence It’s no secret that Professor Francis Fukuyama got it wrong in his classic “End of History” treatise, published in the … Continued