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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 →
Chinese President Xi Jinping tells officials to look to Qinghai as model for governing Tibet and Xinjiang
Jun Mai South China Morning Post 10 June 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a three-day tour of the northwestern province of Qinghai on Wednesday by stressing its importance for maintaining order in neighbouring Xinjiang and Tibet. He said the province, where around a quarter of the population are ethnic Tibetans, was a read more →
Covid reorders the world’s strategic landscape – but not as China expected
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD The Telegraph 3 June 2021 The democratic West did not lose the pandemic after all. The US will probably emerge in better fundamental shape from the events of the last 18 months than Xi Jinping’s China. This is an enormous geopolitical upset. It was universally assumed after Wave read more →
Tibetan Private Language Schools Closed Down in Sichuan
Reported by Sangay Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. School closings further tighten China’s restrictions on language rights in Tibetan areas. Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province are closing down private Tibetan schools offering classes taught in the Tibetan language, forcing read more →
Politicians push Beijing Winter Olympics ‘diplomatic boycott’ across 11 Western countries
By Finbarr Bermingham SCMP 7 June 2021 A group of politicians across Europe and North America launched coordinated legislative actions on Monday, calling for a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Spanning 11 countries and parliaments, the actions look to pressure governments, elected officials and heads of state read more →
32 years after Tiananmen Square protests, China’s internal security is still Xi’s biggest concern: Vijay Gokhale
Suhasini Haidar, The Hindu. June 06, 2021 ‘Mao Tse Tung, Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping are dominant figures, but even their times have seen factionalism and rivalry within the party’ China’s internal situation remains its biggest concern 32 years after the Tiananmen Square protests, says former Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, read more →
The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response
Blog post by Tenzin Dorjee Council on Foreign Relations In a post published on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog on March 29, Tibetologist Robert Barnett admonishes what he sees as the blurring of lines between advocacy and scholarship in the discourse on Tibet. The article, whose stated goal is to dispel read more →
Beijing Must Invite Current Dalai Lama to China Before Choosing a Successor, Says Tibet’s New Leader
Sputnik News 5 June 2021 Penpa Tsering, the new president of the India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), last week took charge as the 17th leader of the parliament-in-exile. Tibetans dispersed across 25 countries voted to elect Tsering as their next leader in what was only the second democratic election for read more →