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Chinese military commanders conduct exercise in Inner Mongolia
WION Web Team Beijing Published: Sep 12, 2021, 05:18 PM(IST) According to reports, Chinese military commanders conducted an exercise in Zhurihe training base. The commanders reportedly belonged to military units linked to Beijing, Tibet and Xinjiang as they conducted a three-day exercise in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia. Last month, the People’s Liberation Army‘s (PLA) Tibet military read more →
Chinese institutes infiltrate Indian educational institutions
The Statesman – 9 September 2021 A Law and Society Alliance report, through meticulous research and data collection, has managed to show that China has made significant inroads into numerous Indian sectors in the past few years. China has been using subtle tactics to spread its influence and propaganda on read more →
How China Weaponized the Press
The Atlantic – 9 September 2021 Early one morning a couple of years ago, at the height of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy protest movement, Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese-government-owned newspaper based in Hong Kong, published what it claimed was a major scoop. An American diplomat had met with a group of read more →
Under Xi Jinping, the private life of Chinese citizens isn’t so private anymore
CNN – 8 September 2021 Analysis by Nectar Gan and Steve George Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard. Since celebrating its centennial with great fanfare in July, the party has read more →
Xi Jinping and Pomegranate Seeds
Claude Arpi for Rediff News On June 8, China’s Core Leader Xi Jinping visited the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Meeting a group of Tibetan villagers relocated in one of the Xiaogang villages (‘moderately well-off’ villages, looking more like ghettos), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist party read more →
Tibetans in Nepal Observe ‘Democracy Day’ Under Close Watch by Police
Reported by Lhuboom for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetans living in Nepal observed Tibet’s Democracy Day under close watch by local police who kept Tibetan gatherings out of the public eye for fear of offending Nepal’s powerful northern neighbor China, an read more →
Oppressed Tibetans are warning to Taiwan: Tibetan representative
Focus Taiwan – 3 September 2021 Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) The decades-long Chinese oppression of Tibetans should serve as a warning to Taiwanese, Kelsang Gyaltsen Bawa, representative of the Tibetan government-in-exile to Taiwan, said Thursday during a book launch event at the Legislative Yuan. Over the years, intellectuals from Tibet read more →
Tibetan President calls to end deadlock in Parliament-in-exile
Hindustan Times – 3 September 2021 Penpa Tsering, Sikyong (president) of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday called to end the impasse in Parliament-in-exile, which arose after the 22 newly elected MPs refused to take oath, stating that it may lead to the collapse of the Tibetan administration. The Sikyong read more →
Tibetans, Uyghurs Remember Those Who ‘Disappeared’ at China’s Hands
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service and by the Uyghur Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Rights groups called on the world on Monday to remember the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and members of other groups who have been forcibly “disappeared” at the hands of read more →
Two Tibetan Students Detained for Opposing Chinese-Only Instruction in School
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Middle School students Gyuldrak and Yangrik had opposed a new Chinese education policy mandating classroom instruction only in the Chinese language. Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province have detained two Tibetan students read more →
Claude Arpi | China’s new ethnic ploy in Tibet: Unity via marriage?
Claude Arpi for The Asian Age China wants us to believe that it liberated Tibet 70 years ago. It didn’t really happen like that. It’s true that on May 23, 1951, Tibet and China signed an “Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”, also known as the 17-Point read more →
Mass Arrest of Tibetans in Sichuan Over Dalai Lama Photos
Reported by Pema Ngodup for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Police in western China’s Sichuan province arrested about 60 Tibetans found with photos of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama this week, intensifying a campaign against possession of the banned images, read more →
China’s PLA conducts large scale military drills in Tibet plateau
WION Web Team, Aug 26, 2021. According to China’s state-run Global Times, People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Tibet military command recently conducted large-scale joint exercises in the Tibet plateau region The Chinese army reportedly practised “multidimensional tactics with the goal of target elimination”. The military exercise was held at an elevation of 4,500 meters named “Snowfield Duty-2021”. At read more →
How China’s ultra-loyal web army silences Beijing’s critics
Bloomberg news. August 26, 2021. Chinese virologist Zhang Wenhong, is among a slew of recent high-profile targets in a campaign by nationalist web users to harass anyone they deem critical of China’s government and pressure officials and websites to censor them. They say Zhang undermined Beijing’s Covid-zero strategy by suggesting that read more →
China warns Tibet climate risks could soar despite short-term gains
Reporting by David Stanway, Editing by Christian Schmollinger for Reuters. 24 August 2021. SHANGHAI, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Rapid climate change in China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau could destabilise water supplies and cause more frequent disasters, even though warmer temperatures have improved conditions in the short term, scientists said after an expedition read more →