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EU extends human rights sanctions, including on Chinese officials
Reuters, Brussels, NOV 24 2021. European Union ambassadors approved on Wednesday the first renewal of the bloc’s new global human rights sanctions, including those on four Chinese officials and one Chinese entity, two diplomats said. Others on the list, which was created in December 2020 to combat serious rights abuses read more →
Taste Tibet nominated in BBC Food and Farming Awards
-By Oxford Mail A POPULAR Tibetan restaurant is set to find out if it has won a prestigious national award. Magdalen Road eatery Taste Tibet opened last year after spending almost a decade serving festivalgoers across the country. In July, Yeshi Jampa and Julie Kleeman found out the restaurant had read more →
Former Japan envoy says awareness of human rights violations low in China
Japan Times Awareness of human rights violations is low among the Chinese public despite growing criticism from the international community over the issue ahead of the Beijing Olympics in February next year, a former Japanese ambassador to China has said. Yuji Miyamoto, who filled the ambassador position at the time read more →
Tibetan university graduates can’t find work despite promises of opportunity
Sangyal Kunchok for Radio Free Asia Tibetan university graduates are finding it hard to get work in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, with Han Chinese flooding the job market and public-sector employment kept largely out of reach, according to complaints received online by a Chinese government office in the city, Tibetan sources read more →
China could be preparing for ‘water war’ in Asia after completing serial dams in Tibet
Major floods in several parts of South and Southeast Asia this year are a wake-up call for countries such as India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand among others. Experts said that such floods could become a regular feature and that countries in the region must get together to resolve one of read more →
‘The Fractured Himalaya’ Rightly Returns Tibet to the Centre Stage of India-China Conflict
Kyle Gardner – Published in The Wire, 17 November 2021 Arriving just ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Sino-Indian War, Nirupama Rao’s The Fractured Himalaya examines the consequential 13 years that preceded 1962, a period that has shaped and constrained relations between the two countries ever since. Combining a read more →
Cornyn Leads U.S. Congressional Delegation to India
Published on Cornyn.Senate.gov – 15 November 2021 U.S. Senator and India Caucus Co-Chair John Cornyn (R-TX) returned yesterday from leading a congressional delegation (CODEL) to India and other countries in southeast Asia. The delegation, which included Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Representatives Tony read more →
Xi Jinping’s War on Tibetan Buddhism
-The Wall Street Journal: by Dhondup T. Rekjong Beijing wants future lamas and monks to learn the faith only in Mandarin. The Chinese Communist Party recently adopted a landmark resolution hailing the country’s accomplishments under President Xi Jinping. The communiqué, published after last week’s Sixth Plenum meeting, made clear that Mr. Xi’s read more →
Local Tibetans, Chinese officials in scuffle over land grab
By-Radio Free Asia Villagers ask when compensation will be paid for land seized for a development project. Tibetan villagers and Chinese officials clashed this month over the failure of authorities to pay compensation for land taken for a construction project, with at least one scuffle breaking out at the worksite, read more →
Biden raises human rights with China’s Xi during four hour meeting
By Brett Samuels, 16 November 2021 – The Hill President Biden on Monday raised concerns about China’s human rights record, specifically its treatment toward Uyghur Muslims and the people of Hong Kong, during an hours long meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The virtual meeting ran a gamut of topics, read more →
China’s Communists Expand Restrictions on Teaching Tibetan Language to Tibetan Children
-By Vision Times: November 14, 2021 Chinese authorities have placed a ban on teaching Tibetan language to children in the Qinghai province. The law bans even informal lessons being taught to children in Tibetan language. Local Tibetans living in the region see this policy as a method to suppress their read more →
China’s Communist Party passes resolution amplifying President Xi’s authority
-By Reuters: November 12, 2021 China’s ruling Communist Party approved a rare resolution on Thursday elevating President Xi Jinping’s status in its history, in a move seen as consolidating his authority and likelihood of securing an unprecedented third leadership term next year. The resolution on the party’s “achievements and historical read more →
Former Tibetan political prisoners tracked by government-issued cell phones
Radio Free Asia-By Sangyal Kunchok Use of the phones is required, with former prisoners forbidden to use phones of their own. Chinese authorities in Tibet are giving cell phones to former Tibetan prisoners in a move aimed at monitoring their movements and conversations following their release, RFA has learned. Launched read more →
‘Tibet Under China Risks Losing Culture, Religion & Way Of Life’: Dy Speaker Dolma Tsering
By Republic World: 12th November, 2021 Dy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Dolma Tsering, said that Tibet’s culture, religion, and way of life, is at risk under the Chinese administration. Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, Dolma Tsering, stated that Tibet’s culture, religion and way of life, which is founded on Buddhism, is at risk under the read more →
COP26: Why Is the World Silent on China’s Monopoly on Tibet’s Rivers?
-The Quint (by Yeshi Dawa) As COP26 wraps up, the world is again ignorant about the importance of Tibet’s role in combating the global climate crisis. Despite all the hue and cry, the stakeholders failed to recognise the urgency and weightage of “The Third Pole” in this collective mission – not just “The read more →