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Police Confiscate Passports in Parts of Xinjiang, in Western China
The New York Times, 1 December 2016 Police officers in parts of the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been ordering residents to hand over their passports since October, according to residents interviewed by telephone this week and online photographs of orders from local police departments. At least four read more →
China slaps new fees on Mongolian exporters amid Dalai Lama row
Reuters, 1 December 2016 A major border crossing between China and Mongolia has imposed new fees on commodity shipments between the two countries, amid a diplomatic row sparked by the visit to Ulaanbaatar of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last week. The Dalai Lama is cherished as a read more →
Erasing Tibet: Censorship on Chinese Video Sharing Site Youku
30 November 2016, Tibet Action Institute Dharamsala – Tibet Action Institute released a report on November 30th, 2016 titled, Erasing Tibet: Censorship on Chinese Video Sharing Site Youku, documenting censorship of Tibet-related content on the popular Chinese video sharing site Youku. All social media companies operating in China must follow read more →
Tibetan spiritual leader visits Tawang
Times of India, 30 November 2016 Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu with His Eminence 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Photo/TOI Itanagar: More than 20,000 people from across Tawang district in Arunachal Pradesh gathered at the High Altitude stadium on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of Tibetan spiritual leader Ogyen read more →
Intimidation as Governance in Tibet
By Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch – 25 November 2016 Monks debating, breathtaking landscapes, the Potala Palace against a clear blue sky: these are images many around the world commonly associate with Tibet. And on occasion there are street protests against Chinese rule. Yet Chinese authorities in the region increasingly read more →
China Takes a Chain Saw to a Center of Tibetan Buddhism
A Buddhist nun with a prayer wheel in Larung Gar, a monastic camp where thousands of nuns and monks live and study, in Sichuan Province, China. Credit Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times By EDWARD WONG NOV. 28, 2016 – The New York Times LARUNG GAR, China — Atop read more →
Chinese naval ships in Pakistan’s Gwadar port call for a rethink of India’s regional policy
By MK Bhadrakumar, Scroll.in – 28 November 2016 Regional alignments are shifting with China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran coming together. The transformation of Gwadar port on the Pakistan coast as a base for Chinese Navy ships was long expected, but when media reports actually appeared on Friday to that effect, read more →
China’s Demographic Collapse
By Sidney Leng, South China Morning Post – 26 November 2016 Call for China to further ease birth control policy amid fears of population decline in 2018. NGO says number of mainland women aged 22 to 30 – the peak time for childbirth – will fall 40 per cent in read more →
China Cancels Mongolia Talks Indefinitely After Dalai Lama Visit
Bloomberg, 25 November 2016 China postponed bilateral meetings with Mongolia indefinitely after its North Asian neighbor allowed a four-day visit by Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The two sets of talks originally scheduled for next week were seen as crucial for Mongolia to access badly-needed Chinese loans and development read more →
On the Great Significance of the Dalai Lama’s latest visit to Mongolia
Bhuchung K. Tsering, International Campaign for Tibet, 23 November 2016 Mongolian Buddhists waiting to welcome the Dalai Lama in the capital UlaanBaatar on November 19, 2016. (Photo: Tenzin Taklha, OHHDL) One of the outcomes regarding the Dalai Lama in the post-1959 period is the clarity that has emerged about the read more →
Dalai Lama says will visit Trump in move bound to anger China
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama addresses those gathered at Buyant Ukhaa sport palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, November 20, 2016. REUTERS/B. Rentsendorj Reuters, 23 November 2016 – Wednesday Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that he would visit U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a meeting read more →
The Dalai Lama’s Visit to Mongolia Indicate Shape of Things to Happen
The bold action of Mongolia in receiving the Dalai Lama is bound to become a trend setter in the coming days, with more countries emboldened to encourage the visit of the Dalai Lama. by N.S.Venkataraman ( November 20, 2016, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Dalai Lama’s recent visit to Mongolia read more →
Canada should be ready to press China over Tibet, says exiled PM
Lobsang Sangay, Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Wattie Reuters, 22 November 2016 OTTAWA: The Canadian government can show China how to treat a region seeking autonomy and should use its experience in dealing read more →
Dalai Lama: “I have no worries’ about Trump’s election
Associated Press, 23 November 2016 ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama says he has “no worries” about Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president and expects the businessman will align his policies with global realities. Commenting at the conclusion of a four-day visit to Mongolia, the read more →
The empire strikes back? China’s new racial sovereignty
By Vicente Gonzalez, Guest Editorial – Political Geography, Elsevier .com “In the best of Chinese traditions, generations of overseas Chinese never forget their home country, their origins, or the blood of the Chinese nation flowing in their veins” (Xi, 2014, p. 69). It is often argued that the territoriality of read more →