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China’s PLA plays mindgames in Tibet as Rajnath heads to Dushanbe for SCO meet
Lokmat With the Ladakh tensions in the focus, China has stepped up mind-games with India by demonstrating qualitative improvements in its firepower in Tibet, ahead of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Dushanbe where his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe will also be present. The duo is participating in a defence read more →
China Is Using Tibetans as Agents of Empire in the Himalayas
Robert Barnett for Foreign Policy In April 1998, with the Himalayan passes still more than 6 feet deep in snow, Penpa Tsering, a 22-year-old Tibetan herder, set off to the south from his home in Tibet across a remote 15,700-foot-high pass called the Namgung La. He was leading a train read more →
Risking China’s Anger, Blinken meets Representative of Dalai Lama in India
Reuters, Simon Lewis – 28 July 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with a representative of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in New Delhi on Wednesday, a State Department spokesperson said, a move that is likely to provoke anger in China. Blinken met briefly with Ngodup Dongchung, read more →
Xi Jinping’s Tibet Tour is Chinese Propaganda, But India Must Take No
CLAUDE ARPI, The Quint. 27 July 2021. The Chinese President’s discreet ‘inspection tour’ complicates things for India and Tibetan refugees. President Xi Jinping is back in Beijing from an “inspection tour” of Central and Southern Tibet. He went to Lhasa after a gap of ten years, though he had visited Amdo—one read more →
China’s official Panchen Lama tells Tibetan Buddhists to stay away from separatist forces
South China Morning Post – 28 July 2021 Tibetan Buddhists have been told by a Beijing-appointed leader to stay away from “separatist forces” and adapt their religion to “socialism and Chinese conditions”, according to state media. Gyaincain Norbu, the Panchen Lama chosen by Beijing, made the remarks on a tour read more →
Opinion | On The Margin: Xi throws a challenge from Tibet
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tibet from July 21-23 is replete with significance and should be read right for its strategic implications by those entrusted with India’s external affairs, national security and defence. How New Delhi views this landmark visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) by a Chinese read more →
US red cards China over Xinjiang, Tibet and repression in Hong Kong
Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times, New Delhi While Sherman visited China, the US secretary of state is coming to India on Tuesday evening to deepen bilateral ties with New Delhi. This includes stabilisation of Afghanistan, Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, counter-terrorism and cementing of defence cooperation. United States Deputy secretary of read more →
Ahead of US secretary of state Blinken’s visit, India says ready to engage on human rights
By HT Correspondent PUBLISHED ON JUL 25, 2021 05:24 PM IST India has signalled that it is open to engaging on human rights and democracy with those who recognise the value of diversity against the backdrop of reports that US secretary of state Antony Blinken will raise these issues during his visit to read more →
Xi Tibet visit an expression of frustration, anxiety and arrogance
Vijay Kranti for Sunday Guardian Live. Xi’s visit exposed the hollowness of China’s claim about Tibet being an ‘integral and inseparable part of China’ or that the Tibetans are ‘happy’ and ‘thankful’ to China for ‘liberation’ from the Dalai Lama’s ‘feudal’ rule. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sudden and dramatic visit read more →
Tibet-China, Afghanistan-Pakistan, and climate change jostle for attention in US-India meet under pandemic cover
Chidanand Rajghatta for Times of India WASHINGTON: The United States and India will resume high-level-engagement early next week with clouds relating t Pakistan-Afghanistan, China, and climate change hanging over a aggravating Covid-19 crisis. US Secretary of State Anotny Blinken is heading out to the subcontinent this weekend, with a stopover read more →
Follow party, urges Xi Jinping during Tibet visit
Reuters | Beijing | Published 24.07.21, 12:27 AM China’s President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region as national leader this week, and urged people there to “follow the party”, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Xi’s July 21-22 visit — the first to Tibet by a Chinese read more →
China’s President Xi Jinping Makes Unannounced Visit to Tibetan Capital Lhasa
Reported by Kalden Lodoe, Yangdon, Lobsang Gelek and Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Phakdon and Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. The surprise visit comes amid restrictions on Lhasa residents’ movements and the closing of the Potala Palace, the winter residence of the Dalai read more →
New Scoring System on Entrance Exams Raises Bar For Tibetans Pursuing Native Language Studies
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. The reduced weight of Tibetan language scores means fewer Tibetans will be accepted at top tier secondary schools. A new edict reducing the weight of Tibetan language scores on entrance exams for read more →
Top US official heads to China to seek ‘guardrails’ in tense ties
The Times of India. WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China this weekend to address deteriorating ties, the two countries announced Wednesday, in the highest level visit under President Joe Biden. The trip is going ahead despite near-daily new rifts between the two powers, including read more →
In China, Chinese Now Tops Tibetan
Sophie Richardson for Human Rights Watch The Chinese government has long issued laws and statements declaring its respect for minority languages, including regulations requiring all public signs in minority areas to be bilingual. But the latest evidence from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) indicates Chinese authorities’ real view of minority read more →