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Tibetans Forced to Celebrate Mao’s 130th Birthday
Chinese officials have spread propaganda showing ‘poor, underprivileged’ Tibetans before Mao’s 1950 invasion. -By Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in Tibet forced locals to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth on Tuesday, crediting the late leader with “the peaceful liberation of Tibet” in 1950, which Tibetan authorities in exile consider read more →
2023 in Review: Resisting Efforts to Erase Tibet
-By International Campaign for Tibet As China tried to wipe the name Tibet off the map in 2023, Tibetans and their allies kept up relentless efforts to protect Tibetan culture while advancing new ways to bring the Tibet-China conflict to a resolution. More than six decades since its occupation of read more →
Tibet’s Exiled Leaders Visit Paris as Chinese Repression Continues
Exiled Tibetan leaders have been travelling to Paris to meet with members of the diaspora as Beijing steps up its forceful integration policies of ethnic minorities. RFI spoke to one of them, exiled foreign minister “Kalon” Norzin Dolma. -By Jan van der Made for Radio France Internationale RFI: What is the read more →
CCP Equates its Ideology with Patriotism
In a new law, China’s citizens are being forced to venerate jingoism By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya for Japan Times. Children dressed as Chinese Red Army soldiers in front of a statue of Mao Zedong at the Revolution Museum in Jinggangshan, China, in 2021 | GILLES SABRIE / THE NEW YORK TIMES read more →
Why New Chinese Propaganda on Tibet Should Worry India
Beijing has begun increasingly referring to Tibet as ‘Xizang’ amid its recent ‘white paper’ showcasing Tibet’s development under Chinese president Xi Jinping -Ashish Mukherjee for India Today Amidst the debate in New Delhi’s power corridors about calling India’s northern border in the Himalayas as its ‘border with Tibet’ instead of read more →
‘China Destroying Our Identity’, say Tibetans as Beijing Refers to Tibet as ‘Xizang’ in White Paper
-The Times Of India New Delhi: The Chinese media is increasingly beginning to refer to Tibet as ‘Xizang’, days after Beijing– in its continued efforts to assert wider control over the western region of the country– issued a white paper titled “CCP Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the read more →
Use China’s ‘Internal’ Pro-Democracy Forces for Positive Change: Tibetan Leader
By Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times. Penpa Tsering said India needed to speak out clearly on issues such as China’s interference in choosing the Dalai Lama’s successor and Beijing’s belligerence NEW DELHI: Democratic nations should work with China’s “internal” pro-democracy forces such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kong residents to read more →
Tibet ‘Dying A Slow Death’, Democratic Nations Must Stand Up To China: Penpa Tsering
-Deccan Herald New Delhi: Tibetan people are “dying a slow death” in the face of China’s repression and the democratic nations must stand up to the Chinese belligerence, the president of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile Penpa Tsering has said. Tsering said democratic nations around the world must look at the “internal forces” read more →
Two Sisters Devoted to Community Service Detained in Eastern Tibet
Tsomo and Nyidon were detained after sending voice messages in chat groups, encouraging virtuous actions. -by Tibet Watch Two Tibetan women, known for helping the poor and needy in their village were detained on 23 October after sending voice messages in chat groups on the social media application WeChat, encouraging read more →
Leader of Tibetan Government in Exile Warns France over China’s Policies
Penpa Tsering, the political leader of Tibet’s government in exile, was in Paris this week to raise awareness about the increased repression faced by Tibetans living in Chinese-controlled areas. He spoke to RFI about issues such as intense surveillance and the destruction of Tibetan cultural identity. -by Jan van der read more →
China Requires Job Applicants in Tibet to Denounce Dalai Lama
-by Radio Free Asia Tibetans who want to get public sector jobs must comply with a harsh Chinese rule requiring them to denounce the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The move would seem to violate China’s constitution, which officially protects the freedom of religion. An official directive from Beijing read more →
Erasing Tibet Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation
China’s brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang has won tremendous international attention in recent years, with human rights groups decrying the systematic detention in internment camps of a million people, as well as the Chinese state’s attempts to suppress Uyghur culture and the practice of read more →
Why China wants to erase ‘Tibet’
By Khedroob Thondup for Taipei Times. China has started to call Tibet “Xizang” instead of Tibet for several reasons. First, China wants to assert its sovereignty and legitimacy over Tibet, which it claims as an integral part of its territory and history. China argues that the term Xizang, which read more →
As Tibet Becomes Xizang, Delhi Faces a New Concern
-By Claude Arpi for Deccan Chronicle Communist China often changes the names of the people, places and even nations. It is the case of Tibet, which is now called Xizang On November 10, Xinhua reported that the State Council Information Office had just released a white paper on the governance read more →
Preserving the Abodes of Tibetan Buddhist Deities
-By Bikash K. Bhattacharya for the Earth Island Journal Under increasing climate pressures in Northeast India, monks and monasteries safeguard local lakes and forests. A singular, seventeenth-century thangka painting adorns the central hall of Ganden Namgyal Lhatse, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India. The painting depicts a haggish figure read more →