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Amid standoff with India, China conducts genetic study of altitude adaptation in Tibetans
India Today, published 7 August 2021 China has reportedly opened the world’s largest “plateau human genetic resources biological sample bank” in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for medical researchers to study “plateau diseases” and improve the country’s health support capabilities in the region. According to a report in the state-owned Global Times, read more →
Xi Jinping’s Tibet visit militarily significant
By Jayadeva Ranade, The Tribune, Published 5 August 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping’s July 21-23 visit to Tibet — his third to the region — was important. It was the first visit to Tibet in 30 years by a leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) holding all three top read more →
China’s LAC Aggression: It is as much about Tibet and internal restructuring as it is about sending India a message
Rudroneel Ghosh, The Times of India. August 5, 2021. The 12th round of corps commander-level talks between the militaries of India and China recently concluded with a joint statement carrying the usual homilies about enhancing mutual understanding and resolving the remaining disputes along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern read more →
Tibetan Students Forced to Take Military Training During Summer Break
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Schoolchildren in Tibet are being forced by Chinese authorities into programs of military training during summer vacation in a move aimed at weakening their ties to their own culture and further indoctrinating read more →
China’s high-speed train in Tibet carries out maiden military mission: Report
Hindustan Times, Published 4 August 2021 The newly opened Lhasa-Nyingchi Railway carried new recruits of a combined arms brigade affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Tibet Military Command to an exercise field at an elevation of 4,500 meters. China’s recently launched high-speed train connecting Tibet’s provincial capital Lhasa with read more →
New Military Education Camps For Tibet’s Youth Constructed in Nyingtri
Free Tibet 3rd August 2021 Targeted programmes are aimed at students aged from eight to 16 New targeted military camps for the younger generation of Tibetans have been established in Nyingtri (Ch:Linzhi), the southeastern Tibetan region across the border from Arunachal Pradesh in India. They appear to have been constructed read more →
Local Government in Gansu Shuts Down Tibetan Temple, Evicts Monks, Nuns
By Qiao Long, Xiaoshan Huang, and Chingman for Radio Free Asia. The monks and nuns have protested being forced to return to secular life, according to video clips posted to social media sites. Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu have forcibly shut down a Tibetan monastery in the read more →
As Winter Olympics Near, China Ups Intimidation of Foreign Media
William Gallo for Voice of America SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – In six months, throngs of foreign media will arrive in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. They may be welcomed by a wide-ranging Chinese government campaign to foment public anger against Western journalists, who have been increasingly harassed because of read more →
India must revisit Tibet policy to stop Beijing bullying
The Sunday Guardian – 2 August 2021 The last few weeks have been eventful as far as Tibet is concerned. From June 21 to 23, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) visited Central and Southern Tibet after a gap of ten years. When the Chinese read more →
How to Serve Humanity
The Dalai Lama in conversation with Daniel Goleman, Tricycle Magazine – Fall 2021 Thirty years ago, the cover subject of Tricycle’s premiere issue was Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, photographed by Herb Ritts (1952-2002). His Holiness had won the Nobel Prize in 1989 and was touring the world in 1991 to read more →
Interview: Beijing Olympics Means ‘Patting Xi Jinping on the Back’ Amid Xinjiang, Tibet Horrors
“If the Olympic Committee remains resolute, we should boycott it,” Rep. Chris Smith says of the Feb. 4-20 winter games in the Chinese capital. Tashi Wangchuk for Radio Free Asia’s Tibetan Service. 1 August, 2021. Rep. Chris Smith, a 21-term Republican congressman from New Jersey and co-chair of the Congressional Tom read more →
Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama
Hannah Ellis-Peterson, The Guardian, 31 July 2021 A couple of years ago, during a meeting of Tibetan leaders in Dharamshala in India, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was asked about his reincarnation. Addressing the room of monks, religious teachers and Tibetan politicians, the Dalai Lama asked them to look read more →
Bid to recruit Tibetans in China PLA may backfire
Claude Arpi for The Asian Age China has a serious problem. Beijing claims that it “liberated” Tibet 70 years ago, but in the recent confrontation in eastern Ladakh, it was the Tibetan troops serving with the Indian Army who successfully fought against the Chinese. When China’s overlord Xi Jinping, who read more →
Chinese Authorities in Tibet Demand Information on Relatives Living Abroad
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese authorities in Tibet are ordering Tibetan residents to turn over the names and other personal information of relatives living in exile communities outside Tibet, threatening loss of state benefits such as read more →
Nobel Prize winners say China tried to ‘bully’ scientists into disinviting Dalai Lama from meeting
WASHINGTON — More than 100 Nobel laureates are expressing outrage over what they say was an attempt by the Chinese government to “bully the scientific community” earlier this year by seeking to censor two Nobel laureates during the Nobel Prize Summit in April held by the National Academies of Sciences, read more →