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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 →
Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | India’s Tibet policy
The Hindu -9 July 2021 In this episode of Worldview, our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar takes a deeper look at whether India is rethinking its Tibet Policy and the impact of Tibet on India-China relations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has caused quite a ripple by announcing for the first read more →
India has consistent policy to treat Dalai Lama as an honoured guest: MEA
Times of India New Delhi: India has a consistent policy of treating the Dalai Lama as a respected religious leader and an honoured guest in the country, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. The assertion, in response to a question, came two days after Prime Minister Narendra read more →
Party presence mobilised through grassroots recruitment of Tibetans and three-year training
Source: Tibet Watch July 8, 2021 History propaganda enhanced through video games and augmented reality TV series Celebration of the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary continues both in mass media and public spaces. The party history campaign aims to cement the CCP’s version of its own history and promote a read more →
Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Dies At 87
NDTV – 8 July 2021 Shimla: Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Virbhadra Singh died in Shimla in the early hours of Thursday after a prolonged illness. He was 87. The veteran leader died at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) at 3.40 am, senior medical superintendent Indira read more →
Xi Jinping’s Claims Over Next Reincarnation Of Dalai Lama are Ridiculous and Of No Consequence: International experts at an international webinar on future of Dalai Lama institution
By Vijay Kranti and Anjali Mishra New Delhi- Dharamshal – Washingron (DC), 6th July 2021: When President Xi Jinping talks of Tibetan Buddhism ‘with Chinese characteristics’ then he only reveals China’s intentions of destroying and subsuming Tibet’s unique cultural identity into communism. And his claims about exclusive rights of the read more →
A Tibetan monk’s journey from Chinese jail to country NSW
Eryk Bagshaw, Sydney Morning Herald – 7 July 2021 Venerable Bagdro, the Tibetan monk, sits alone in the former Catholic monastery in Mayfield. The orange trumpet vines are persisting through the Newcastle winter, so too are the relics on his mantelpiece that have travelled with him from Lhasa to country read more →
China Must Recognise Dalai Lama Key To Resolving Conflict: Tibet’s President-In-Exile
NDTV The Chinese government should recognise that the Dalai Lama is the key to resolving the Sino-Tibetan conflict and should invite him to “Tibet and China on pilgrimage without any precondition”, the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile Penpa Tsering said today. He was speaking at a ceremony to mark the read more →
Dalai Lama turns 86, still longs for Wutai Shan pilgrimage in China
By Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times – 6 July 2021 At the first India-China senior military commanders meeting after the Indian Army captured strategic heights on Rezang La-Rechin La on Kailash Range between August 29-31 last year on south banks of Pangong Tso, the PLA commander insisted that India removed the read more →