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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 →
Tibet monks jailed with no apparent evidence of wrongdoing, says HRW
The Guardian, 6 July 2021 Read the original article here. Four Tibetan monks were sentenced to up to 20 years jail in secret trials with no apparent evidence of criminal wrongdoing after a violent raid on a monastery in 2019, according to a report from Human Rights Watch, which calls read more →
Why China Wants To Choose The Next Dalai Lama
By Thubten Samphel, Published in East Asia Gazette, 2 July 2021 On Tuesday, 6th July, 2021, the Dalai Lama turns 86. Tibetans in Tibet and those in exile will celebrate the occasion and wish him continued good health and long life. Tibetans and people along the Buddhist Himalayan belt will read more →
A S Bhasin’s new book offers archival insights into Tibet, China & Nehru
By Sandeep Dikshit, The Tribune – 4 July 2021 At a time when the Chinese “perfidy” is again on display on the borders, AS Bhasin’s book touches squarely on these frontiers and is a timely reminder that educating the public opinion about the correct position is the only way to read more →
China’s ‘Post-Dalai Lama’ Plan: India Needs a Clear Tibet Policy
By Yeshi Dawa, The Quint – 1 July 2021 China has been leaving no stone unturned to sell its claims — through various means — in installing the next Dalai Lama despite zero credibility. They called the Dalai Lama a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” and used indigestible derogatory remarks against read more →
China’s Communist party has rewritten its own past – but the truth will surface
By Rana Mitter, The Guardian, 1 July 2021 A new museum commemorating the history of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) opened in June in Beijing as part of the runup to the party’s 100th anniversary. Online images of its collections show reverential black-and-white photos of the dozen or so young read more →
After a Hundred Years, What Has China’s Communist Party Learned?
By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 1 July 2021 Beijing reverts to a belief that paranoia and suspicion are the best policies. Not so long ago, the Communist Party of China—which celebrates its hundredth anniversary this week—believed in the power of eclectic influences. In 1980, the Party’s propaganda chiefs approved read more →
Don’t ignore the plight of Tibet under the Chinese Communist party
Terry Philpot Limpsfield Chart, Surrey Your otherwise excellent editorial on the centenary of the Chinese Communist party (29 June) ignores entirely, as do so many commentaries on China, the appalling suffering of the Tibetan people, citing only the oppression of the Uyghurs. Tibet’s plight under Chinese rule goes back even longer. Tibet read more →