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China deploys new tank in Tibet, near India border
By Elizabeth Shim, UPI – 12 June 2017 June 12 (UPI) — China deployed its latest military tank, the Xinqingtan, in an area of Tibet near the Indian border. Chinese news site Guancha reported Monday Beijing is increasing military buildup in Tibet in a show of force designed to deter read more →
Why China Is No Climate Leader
Chinese President Xi Jinping By Elizabeth Economy, Politico Magazine – 12 June 2017 When President Donald Trump yanked America’s support for the Paris Climate Accords, pundits were quick to hail China as the world’s new environmental leader. Two veteran journalists wrote that the decision was “the greatest strategic gift to read more →
Pink Hearts Can’t Conceal Repression in Tibet Propaganda
By Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch, New Campaign Aimed at Increasing Loyalty to Party, China To many people’s ears the phrase “Four Loves” probably invokes images of a pop music act or a self-help philosophy – not an authoritarian regime’s latest campaign for political loyalty. But the Chinese Communist Party read more →
Slums to schools: How a Tibetan monk turned himself from a refugee to a guardian angel of 100 poor kids
The monk then set up the Tong-Len Charitable Trust, a residential establishment in Sarah village 15 km from Dharamshala. Now, 107 children, most of the ragpickers from neighbouring Kangra Valley stay at the trust. Tibetan monk Lobsang Jamyang was 24 when he escaped from Tibet in 1997. Jamyang had only read more →
China’s dangerous ethnic policies in Xinjiang
By Ben Hillman, Asia Times, Short-term security solutions in ethnic minority regions may ripple through to Muslim neighbors, which could fan the flames of extremism targeting Belt and Road projects In the latest tightening of the screws on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region, authorities have banned the use of several read more →
Modi’s China Policy Changes Quickly Between 2 Major Summits
By Sudheendra Kulkarni, NDTV, The distance between Beijing and Shanghai is 1318 kms, about the same as that between Delhi and Mumbai. Take the bullet train, and you will go from China’s political capital to its commercial capital in five hours flat. The difference between the two cities is palpable. read more →
Panama to Establish Ties With China in Latest Blow to Taiwan
by Michael D McDonald and Keith Zhai, Bloomberg news, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela together in Panama City in June 2016. Photographer: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP via Getty Images Panama is opening diplomatic relations with China, the latest blow to Taiwan as Beijing’s leaders seek to isolate read more →
Josephites’ short film on Tibetans goes big
New Indian Express – 11 June 2017 BENGALURU: How would you feel if you had a home but could never go back to it because it was occupied by a foreign power? Sandeep Chandrashekhar, one of the makers of Rangzen, a student documentary film on Tibetan exiles living in Bylakuppe read more →
Opinion: UCSD Chinese Should Welcome Dalai Lama—Not Parrot Party Line
By Yang Jianli, Times of San Diego What do Richard Spencer, Ann Coulter, and the Dalai Lama have in common? Each of them has been the target of college student protests opposing their speeches on campus. But unlike Mr. Spencer and Ms. Coulter, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was read more →
How a monk brought children out of slums to schools
By Varinder Bhatia, Indian Express, Dharamshala, Lobsang Jamyang with students. (Source: Express photo by Kamleshwar Singh) In 1997, when Lobsang Jamyang escaped from Tibet and arrived in Dharamsala, the 24-year-old had two “goals in life”: to meet the Dalai Lama, which he did soon after arriving; and study religion, which read more →
TSGAP appeals Centre to confer Bharat Ratna on 14th Dalai Lama
By Newsonair, FILE PHOTO: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama watches a dance performance on the last day of his teachings in Tawang in the northeastern Indian state of Arunchal Pradesh November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo The Tibet Support Group of Arunachal Pradesh has appealed to the Centre read more →
Hong Kong and south China brace for Typhoon Merbok
By Reuters, DNA, Typhoon Merbok edged towards Hong Kong and the China’s south coast on Monday, bringing strong winds and rough seas, with the Hong Kong observatory raising its third-highest typhoon warning signal. Financial markets, schools, businesses and non-essential government services close when the signal, No. 8, or above is read more →
President Trump, Don’t Forget About Tibet
UNSPECIFIED, CHINA – APRIL 23: Tibetan Buddhist monks use iphone in the courtyard of the Kumbum Monastery on April 23, 2017 in Xining, Qinghai Province. Kumbum was founded in 1583 in a narrow valley close to the village of Lusar in the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo. (Photo by Wang read more →
China-India border tension remains despite growing economic ties: US
By PTI, DNA, The Pentagon has said that tension continues to exist along the disputed portions of India-China border even though the economic relationship between the two countries have increased in recent years. According to Pentagon, China’s use of force in territorial disputes has varied widely throughout its history. “Tensions read more →
China labour activists suspected of sending “industrial secrets” abroad
By Reuters, DNA, Three labour activists in China who scrutinized a company making Ivanka Trump-branded shoes are being investigated on suspicion of providing industrial secrets to a foreign organisation for money, state media reported on Wednesday. China on Tuesday rejected a call from the U.S. State Department for the release read more →