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New US Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Xinjiang
Shishir Gupta for Hindustan Times The US Agency for Global media shall increase funding for Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur and Cantonese language services to counter China’s aggressive media investment in western countries. The United States in its new Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Taiwan, Hong read more →
101 Nobel laureates call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
The Guardian 21 April 2021 A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to help tackle the climate crisis. In an open letter to world leaders published on Wednesday former presidents, scientists, novelists and read more →
Chinese crackdown on prominent activists across Serthar
ICT 21 April 2021 In what appears to be a crackdown on activists in eastern Tibet, Chinese security officers have recently detained six Tibetans across Serthar (Chinese: Seda) County in Sichuan province. Although sources in exile have confirmed their detentions, the reason or campaign driving the string of targeted detentions read more →
Federal government tears up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China
The Guardian 22 April 2021 The Morrison government has used its sweeping new foreign veto laws to tear up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China, in what the Chinese embassy has denounced as a “another unreasonable and provocative move”. The foreign minister, Marise Payne, said she would cancel those read more →
Australia cancels Belt and Road deals; China warns of further damage to ties
Reuters Kirsty Needham 21 April 2021 Australia on Wednesday cancelled two deals struck by its state of Victoria with China on Beijing’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, prompting the Chinese embassy in Canberra to warn that already tense bilateral ties were bound to worsen. Under a new process in Australia, read more →
‘Follow the Party Forever’: China Plans a Communist Birthday Bash
By Javier C. Hernández New York Times 19 April 2021 Movie theaters in China are being ordered to screen patriotic films with titles like “The Sacrifice” and “The Red Sun.” Elementary students in some cities are being told to create paintings and calligraphy extolling the “Chinese dream.” Buses and subways are read more →
Tibetans detained and interrogated for burning incense
Freetibet.org 15 April 2021 The detentions in eastern Tibet led to the arrest of Thubten Phuntsok. Free Tibet has learned that four Tibetans were detained and interrogated by local police in Dzato County last month for burning incense and praying on a mountain. Four Tibetans took part in the ritual read more →
Ladakh standoff: China refuses to withdraw troops from Hot Springs, Gogra, say reports
China has reportedly told India that it should be happy with ‘what has been achieved’ during the disengagement process. Scroll India. April 19, 2021. Representative image: Indian Army personnel drive during a military exercise in Ladakh. | Mohd Arhaan Archer/AFP China has refused to withdraw its troops from Hot Springs and read more →
Biden should appoint special envoy to Tibet: Sangay
News Today 16 April 2021 Washington: Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) President Lobsang Sangay said that the administration of US President Joe Biden should appoint an envoy to Tibet, who will not only access the ground situation but will also future play a pivotal role in arriving at a solution acceptable read more →
China tried to wage ‘undeclared war’ against India through cyberattacks, military chief Bipin Rawat says
Kunal Purohit for South China Morning Post. 15 April 2021. China is using disruptive technologies to provoke other nations into starting a conflict, according to India’s General Bipin Rawat. General Bipin Rawat, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Indian Army, told the Raisina Dialogue that China’s creation of ‘disruptive read more →
Taiwan says China’s activities threaten regional stability
AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES. April 16, 2021. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has told a visiting US delegation of former senior officials that the Chinese military’s activities had threatened peace and stability in the region, and pointed to what she said were recent “provocations”. “We are very willing to work read more →
China controls the IOC and Olympic sponsors the way it governs its citizens: Through fear
Washington Post 14 April 2021 Noted East Asia scholar Perry Link once called China “the anaconda in the chandelier.” You wouldn’t knowingly let a snake into your home. Yet it got in. Or, rather, Procter & Gamble and other Olympic sponsors let it in. They unlocked your door and allowed read more →
FBI opens a new investigation into China ‘every 10 hours,’ bureau director says
By Mike Conte, Christian Sierra and Ben Westcott for CNN. April 15, 2021 Dramatic videos show Chinese naval exercises amid rising tensions over Taiwan(CNN)The FBI has more than 2,000 investigations that tie back to the Chinese government and is opening a new one “every 10 hours,” the bureau’s director told read more →
U.S., India Step Up Fight With China Over the Next Dalai Lama
Sudhi Ranjan Sen for Bloomberg Business News Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama—the spiritual leader of Tibetans, who lives in exile in India—turns 86 in July. The choice of his successor is shaping up to be a struggle between India and the U.S. on the one hand and China on read more →
Chinese Police Arrest Six Prominent Tibetans in Kardze
Reported by Lobe Socktsang for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese police in Sichuan’s Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture have arrested six Tibetans considered prominent in their communities in recent weeks, with the reasons for their arrests unknown, a Tibetan living in exile read more →