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Surprise! The EU knows how to handle China
BY BRUNO MAÇÃES The Politico June 22, 2021 “Do we need a new adversary?” With those words, Armin Laschet summed up the European response to Joe Biden’s efforts to convince Europeans to get tougher on China. As the politician best placed to become the next German chancellor, Laschet’s open rebuke of the read more →
Opinion: It’s time to sound the alarm over Chinese intrigues in the Himalayas
Opinion by Robert Barnett June 21, 2021 Washington Post China’s increasingly assertive approach to international diplomacy has been widely discussed with regard to strategic stress points such as the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait. But tensions have also been increasing between India and China along their 2,100-mile border in the read more →
History tells us Himalayas hold key to controlling Asia; India must continue to be wary of China
Tsewang Dorji Firstpost 21 June 2021 For the past few years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has upgraded its high-tech weapons and conducted a series of live-fire military exercises along the Himalayan borders and in Tibet. For Instance, Global Times reported on 5 January, 2020 that “China’s latest weapons including the Type 15 read more →
Tibetan Scholar Arrested for His Writings Has Been Held Without Trial for Two Years
Reported by Sangay Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney 18 June 2021 A Tibetan writer arrested on unspecified charges two years ago has still not been brought to trial, and family members are being kept in the dark about his fate, read more →
AP PHOTOS: Tourism boom pressures Tibet’s historic sites
By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN and SAM McNEIL 21 June 2021 LHASA, China (AP) — Tourism is booming in Tibet as more Chinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites. The number of visitors is limited to 5,000 per day at the read more →
Claude Arpi | India must back Dalai’s choice on his successor
Claude Arpi Deccan Chronicle 16 June 2021 The issue of the Dalai Lama’s succession has been in the news for quite some time, especially after the Tibetan diaspora elected Penpa Tsering as the new “Sikyong”, or president; incidentally, this election must have irritated no end Communist China that always proclaims read more →
AP Interview: Tibet exile leader hopes to resume China talks
17 JUNE 2021 Last Updated at 10:08 PM | SOURCE: PTI Dharmsala, Jun 17 (AP) The new president of the Tibetan exile government said on Thursday he will do his best to resume a dialogue with China after more than a decade, and that a visit by the Dalai Lama to read more →
One Hundred Years of Devastation
Brahma Chellaney Project Syndicate 17 June 2021 The Communist Party of China’s 1951 annexation of the water-rich Tibetan Plateau – the starting point of Asia’s ten major river systems – gave China tremendous power over Asia’s water map. In the ensuing decades, the country has made the most of this read more →
China offers glimpse of Tibetan life without the Dalai Lama
By SAM McNEIL AP 16 June 2021 LHASA, China (AP) — A brisk wind ruffles yellow prayer flags as dozens of Tibetans, some on crutches, circle a shrine in a time-honored Buddhist ritual. Across the street, a red banner spells out a new belief system, one being enforced with increasing read more →
China: UN human rights experts alarmed by ‘organ harvesting’ allegations
GENEVA (14 June 2021) – UN human rights experts* said today they were extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China. The experts said they have received credible information that detainees from ethnic, linguistic or read more →
‘Xi Jinping is my spiritual leader’: China’s education drive in Tibet
Martin Pollard Reuters 12 June 2021 Under clear blue skies, rugged peaks and the spectacular Potala Palace, one image is ubiquitous in Tibet’s capital city Lhasa: portraits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and fellow leaders. In a rare and tightly chaperoned government tour of the region last week, a Reuters read more →
G7 commits to removing forced labor from global supply chains – U.S. says
Reuters 13 June 2021 CARBIS BAY, England, June 13 (Reuters) – The G7 committed to removing forced labour from global supply chains, a briefing document released by the United States on Sunday said, naming China’s Xinjiang region as the main source of concern. “The United States and our G7 partners read more →
5G and the Contested China-India Border
By Tenzin Dalha June 11, 2021 The Diplomat China today is one of the biggest spenders on research and development (R&D) in the world. In 2020, China’s spending on R&D increased by 10.3 percent to 2.44 trillion renminbi ($378 billion), accounting for 2.4 percent of its GDP. In March 2021, during the annual read more →
How China went from celebrating ethnic diversity to suppressing it
Thomas S Mullaney 10 June 2021 China’s mass detention of Uyghur Muslims – the largest of a religio-ethnic group since the second world war – is not the inevitable or predictable outcome of Chinese communist policies towards ethnic minorities. I’ve spent the past 20 years studying ethnicity in China and, read more →
Do Nothing: Civil Disobedience In China
Thubten Samphel for East Asia Gazette 9 June 2021 Something is happening in China. It is not a revolution, nor a movement. It is a new attitude to life. This new attitude is coalescing into revulsion at crony capitalism and the hectic pace of life in China where money is read more →