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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 →
Talks possible if China allows Dalai Lama to visit Tibet, says president of Tibetan govt-in-exile
Times of India ANI / Jul 14, 2021, 12:51 IST NEW DELHI: Penpa Tsering, president of the Tibetan government-in-exile on Wednesday, hinted that talks with China are possible if it allows Dalai Lama to visit Tibet on a pilgrimage. “His holiness wishes to visit China and also his birthplace and the capital of read more →
The foreigners in China’s disinformation drive
Foreign video bloggers denouncing what they say is negative coverage of China on highly controversial subjects such as Xinjiang are attracting large numbers of subscribers on platforms like YouTube. In recent years, the “vloggers” have been increasingly presenting themselves as China-lovers, spreading Communist Party disinformation. YouTube labels Chinese state media read more →
Lhasa building boom heightens divisions in Tibet
By AFP, Times of India – 13 July 2021 LHASA: Under towering mountains, cranes and newly-built blocks of flats stretch up to blue skies around the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, as a construction boom creates a two-tier system of property wealth between state workers and everyone else. A huge infrastructure read more →
PM Modi’s call to Dalai Lama sends a message to China, says Penpa Tsering, President of Tibetan govt-in-exile
Sidhant Sibal for WION The new president of the Tibetan government-in-exile or the Central Tibetan administration Penpa Tsering has welcomed the announcement of PM Modi’s call to Dalai Lama on his birthday saying it sends a message to China. Speaking to WION’s Principal Diplomatic Correspondent Sidhant Sibal, Tsering said,”we know read more →
US Blacklists More Chinese Companies Over Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
Reported by Adila for RFA’s Uyghur Service. Written in English by Roseanne Gerin. The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 14 Chinese companies to its Entity List, for direct involvement in human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), saying they have “enabled Beijing’s campaign of repression, mass read more →
China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women
Reuters, 7 July 2021 A Chinese gene company selling prenatal tests around the world developed them in collaboration with the country’s military and is using them to collect genetic data from millions of women for sweeping research on the traits of populations, a Reuters review of scientific papers and company read more →
PM Modi’s Call to Dalai Lama is a Message to China on Succession Issue
Claude Arpi, The Quint – 8 July 2021 Late one evening in August 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an unheralded meeting in Delhi, with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan religious leader living in exile in India since March 1959. Apparently, the meeting did not go too well; the reason read more →