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Communist Party Meeting in Tibet Underscores China’s Assimilation Drive
Chinese Communist Party officials in Tibet this month reaffirmed Beijing’s hardline policies pushing for Tibet’s complete assimilation into China’s dominant Han culture, calling for “political education” to further weaken Tibetans’ loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to state media reports. Meeting in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa on read more →
MEPs set out their vision for a new EU strategy for China
Press Releases 15-07-2021 – 12:25 The EU should continue talking to China about global challenges like climate change and health crises, while raising its concerns over systemic human rights violations. In a report adopted on Thursday, by 58 votes in favour, 8 against with 4 abstentions, the Foreign Affairs Committee outlines six read more →
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
By ERIC TUCKER, AP News. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations. The announcements, though not read more →
What Beijing wants to tell the rest of the world
Vijay Gokhale for The Indian Express Yan Xuetong and Wang Jisi, considered to be two of the high priests of the Chinese foreign policy community, have written recent pieces in Foreign Affairs. It is no coincidence these were timed to dovetail with Xi Jinping’s speech for the 100th anniversary of read more →
Europe closes Confucius Institutes
Mark O’Neill for ejinsight Germany’s Education Ministry recently called on the country’s universities to end co-operation with the Confucius Institute (CI), the state-backed body that offers courses in Chinese language and culture. “I do not want the Chinese government to influence our universities and our society,” said Anja Karliczek. “We read more →
Long game with Beijing: China wants to dominate its periphery. India should expect intermittent border clashes
Swagato Ganguly for The Times of India. Foreign minister S Jaishankar reiterated the Indian position – that the LAC standoff cast a negative light on the entire India-China relationship and that improvement in the latter depended on the standoff being resolved soon – at an SCO meet in Dushanbe on read more →
China Using Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation For Political Purposes: Tibetan Prez Penpa Tsering
By Gloria Methri, Republica – 17 July 2021 The President of the Tibetan government in exile, Penpa Tsering spoke exclusively to Republic TV on Saturday, and shed light on China’s repressive actions against Tibetans, the reincarnation of the next Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government’s relation with India. Speaking of read more →
G-7’s counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative is welcome, but needs more coherence
Pravakar Sahoo for The Indian Express G-7 leaders finally came around with the proposed Build Back Better World (B3W) to counter China’s rising influence across 100-plus countries through Belt Road Initiative (BRI) projects. The proposal, though at a nascent stage, aims to address the infrastructure investment deficit in developing and read more →
Lal Bahadur Shastri was to recognise the ‘Tibetan Government in Exile’ soon after his return from Tashkent. Was Lal Bahadur Shastri’s mysterious death linked to his move on Tibet?
VIJAY KRANTI for Voice of the Nation: Organiser. New information, coming out of the latest biography of Dalai Lama, the exiled ruler and supreme spiritual leader of Tibet, indicates that the mysterious death of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Tashkent in 1966 could also be related to some read more →
China Targets Another Region in Ethnic Assimilation Campaign: Tibet
Liza Lin, Eva Xiao and Jonathan Cheng for The Wall Street Journal. MAQEN, China—A quiet state-run campaign is ramping up the assimilation of one of China’s most recognizable minorities. At Lari, a small Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the Qinghai province, devotees spin prayer wheels under the watchful eye of surveillance read more →
‘It’s mine, it’s mine’: How do you find a Dalai Lama?
By Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald – 15 July 2021 He’s been at the helm of Tibetan Buddhism for eight decades. But the Dalai Lama reckons he’ll be around for at least two more. The spritely 86-year-old often cites an 18th century prophecy that he, the 14th Dalai Lama, will read more →
Six Years After the Death of Tulku Tenzin Delek, Tibetans Still Wait For Legal Rights
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Phakdon. Story contribution by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. July 15, 2020. Six years after the death in a Chinese prison of a popular Tibetan religious teacher, fair treatment under the law is still being denied read more →
China’s Relentless Persecution of Tibet Must End Now
Sam Brownback and Ngodup Tsering, Former US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom; Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Washington DC Newsweek, 14 July 2021 In His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s last meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1955, Mao drew close to him and said, read more →
U.S. Senate passes bill to ban all products from China’s Xinjiang
Michael Martina for Reuters WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China’s Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what U.S. officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups. The Uyghur read more →
Two Tibetans Arrested For Celebrating Dalai Lama’s Birthday
Reported by Lobe for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese officials in a Tibetan-populated region of Sichuan have arrested two Tibetans for celebrating the 86th birthday this month of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Tibetan sources say. The pair, a man named read more →