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Allow Panchen Lama to live free life: Tibetan government-in-exile to China
Times of India – 25 April 2022 DHARAMSHALA: The central tibetan administration (CTA) on Monday asked the Chinese government to allow the 11th Panchen Lama and his family members, taken into custody by China 27 years ago and not seen in public since then, to live a free life. The read more →
Rinchen Kyi released after eight months in detention
-By Free Tibet The Tibetan teacher and political detainee Rinchen Kyi has been released after eight months in detention. According to information supplied by Tibet Watch, Free Tibet’s research partner, Rinchen Kyi was secretly returned home by police at 8pm local time on Sunday 24 April. Rinchen Kyi is from read more →
Tibet’s leader seeks U.S. action to end China’s ‘cultural eradication’
PHELIM KINE for Politico The head of the Tibetan government in exile is making a rare visit to Washington this week to rally Biden administration support in pressuring China to address decadeslong grievances of Tibetans living under Chinese rule. Sikyong Penpa Tsering wants China to lift a 12-year freeze on official dialogue read more →
Tibetan village leaders told to ‘Speak in Chinese’
Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok and Yangdon Chinese officials in rural areas of Tibet are forcing village leaders to speak in Chinese, as authorities move forward with campaigns aimed at restricting the use by Tibetans of their native language, RFA has learned. Workshops launched at the end of last read more →
Tibet’s New College Admission Rules: No University for Dalai Lama Supporters
Lopsang Gurung for Bitter Winter. CCP propaganda continuously tells the world that, thanks to China, Tibet now has a regular university system, which did not exist under the “backward” Dalai Lama administration. Of course, the university system evolved in the last decades, but the same happened in many Asian countries read more →
Tibet builds makeshift Covid hospitals despite one case since pandemic began
The Guardian – 22 April 2022 Authorities in Tibet are building massive Covid isolation and care facilities in anticipation of further outbreaks in China even though the remote territory has reported only one case during the pandemic. Temporary hospitals – a key feature of China’s Covid response – with at least 1,000 read more →
Demolition of Buddha statues follows tightened control under “law-based governance”
-By International Campaign for Tibet The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered a series of demolitions of structures of religious significance and detentions of Tibetans resisting it in Draggo (Chinese: Luhuo) County in eastern Tibet. The demolitions came a year after the CCP established in late 2020 “Xi Jinping Thought on read more →
UN High Commissioner must uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis
-By Human Rights Watch UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on 8 March that she has secured a visit to China ‘foreseen to take place in May’. Her announcement in an update to the UN Human Rights Council comes three and a half years after she publicly read more →
In Trade, China Has a Sharp Edge Over India, and Sharp Things Can Be Weaponized
By Krzysztof Iwanek – The Diplomat – 28 March 2022 If there were to be an India-China conflict, would we see them engage in economic warfare, as now seen between the West and Russia? As I am writing this, in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we can see read more →
China’s Costly Exceptionalism
By Michael Schuman, The Atlantic – 18 April 2022 America has long thought itself exceptional, a blessed place destined to bring freedom to the world. China has an even longer history of self-proclaimed exceptionalism and, spurred by its many modern achievements, is more assertively promoting its brand of governance as a read more →
Authorities free 3 Tibetans jailed for running ‘illegal’ land rights group
-By Radio Free Asia Another 3 are set to be freed in June, but the remaining trio was resentenced to 7 years in prison. Authorities in China’s Qinghai province have released three of the nine Tibetans who received prison terms in 2018 for running an “illegal organization” promoting land rights. read more →
Chinese authorities transport supplies from Tibet to pandemic hit Shanghai, label it ‘donation’
ANI for The Print. Lhasa [Tibet], April 19 (ANI): China has been transporting supplies from Tibet, including Yak meat and drinking water to COVID-19 hit Shanghai while labelling the exercise a ‘donation’, media reports have said. “Anti-epidemic supplies” including 100 tonnes of dried yak meat and 3,000 tonnes of drinking read more →
70 Years In Tibet And Beyond: World Must Be Wary Of China’s Renewed Sinicization Drive
-By Ommcom News The recently concluded Winter Olympic Games in Beijing were in the news for many reasons. While a Russian biathlon participant took her grievance about meagre and unpalatable food to social media, another fellow Russian courted controversy after she tested positive for a banned substance. The journalists who read more →
Hydro-hegemony: China’s Plans for Disrupting Regional Power Balance in Asia
By Jamphel Shonu, Global Order – 14 April 2022 Amidst all the talk of tech and the AI (artificial intelligence) taking over the world, there is a growing uncertainty about how the future world might look like. Speculation is rife with predictions that the country with the most advanced technology read more →
The salt of the earth
Jag Bahadur Budha – Nepali Times – 9 April 2022 While it is unclear when and how salt was first introduced to Nepal’s culture and cuisine, what is clear is that Tibetan salt was once the foundation of our Himalayan economy and livelihood. From the Walung, Lhomi, Bhote, Sherpa, Byasi read more →