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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 →
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 →