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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 →
What people said in Hong Kong on Tiananmen anniversary
Reuters 4 June 2021 Hong Kong police banned a vigil commemorating the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for a second year in a row. Following are some comments on the anniversary, which is particularly awkward for Beijing this year, as it read more →
China’s Xi Jinping calls for greater global media reach
Reuters 2 June 2021 China President Xi Jinping said the country must improve the way it tells its “stories” to a global audience as it seeks to develop an international voice that reflects its status on the world stage, official news agency Xinhua reported. Speaking at a Communist Party study read more →
Propaganda: Beijing’s weapon of mass deception
By Tenzin Tsultrim Asia Times 29 May 2021 The release last week of a white paper on Tibet is an attempt by the Communist Party of China to whitewash the ground reality through propaganda. Since the birth of the CPC, propaganda has been one of its most powerful tools. From Mao Zedong read more →
Don’t take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd
By Karishma Vaswani BBC 29 May 2021 Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Mr Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China read more →
New Tibetan exile president, Penpa Tsering, open to dialogue with China
AP | Taipei Times | 28 May 2021 The new president of the Tibetan exile government yesterday said that he was willing to reach out to the Chinese government to resolve their conflict, although the sides have not had dialogue in more than a decade. Penpa Tsering, former speaker of read more →
New Tibetan Prez Penpa Tsering bowls a googly at China over its ‘white paper’
Naresh K Thakur for Hindustan Times Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday offered to send a team to Lhasa to verify claims made by Beijing in its much-publicised ‘white paper’ on Tibet. “All I can say today is that we are open to sending people (to Lhasa) read more →
Tibetan exile leader warns of Chinese aggression: ‘China will transform you’
By Benjamin Hall | Fox News 20 May 2021 The oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government is well documented – but new reports show that it’s getting worse. China is ramping up its abuses and 500,000 Tibetans are now being held in labor camps as part of a systematic genocidal campaign that read more →
Penpa Tsering sworn-in as president Tibetan government-in-exile
PTI 27 May 2021 Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering was sworn-in as president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Dharamshala-based Tibetan government-in-exile on Thursday. Penpa Tsering said he will reach out to the Chinese government to find a “mutually beneficial” and non-violent solution to the Sino-Tibet conflict. Chief Justice Commissioner Sonam Norbu read more →