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Democracies Should Help Liberate Tibet – For All Humanity
Tsering Samphel for Taiwan Times. Sixty years ago, on March10, 1959, in Lhasa, the holy city, in the capital city of Tibet, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans formed a massive barricade around Norbulingka, the summer palace of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to safeguard him and their country from falling read more →
Quad summit | Small cliques will destroy international order, says China
Ananth Krishnan | The Hindu | 15 March 2021 In a strong reaction to Friday’s first leaders’ summit of the Quad — India, the United States, Japan and Australia — and the upcoming visits this week of the U.S. Secretary of Defence to Japan, South Korea and India, China’s Foreign Ministry hit out read more →
‘Tibet Hill’ Proposed For Site Near New Chinese Embassy in London
Reported and translated by Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. March 16, 2021. Diplomats working at a Chinese Embassy to be built in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London’s East End should be reminded each day of their government’s treatment of Tibetans and read more →
Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China
Washington Post | 16 March 2021 HONG KONG — Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information. As of Tuesday, users of the app within read more →
The Right Way to Boycott the Beijing Olympics: Opinion I Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney for The New York Times. As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, it is increasingly clear that China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party does not deserve an Olympic showcase. Because it is too late to move the Winter Games scheduled for Beijing next February, some have read more →
‘Discipline Committees’ Boost Surveillance, Tighten Security in Tibet
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Hundreds of so-called Discipline Committees set up by Chinese authorities are imposing tightened security measures across Tibet, with almost 2,000 “inspectors” deployed in rural areas to oversee the functioning of villages and read more →
Breaking WeChat ban: Three Tibetan teens go missing, one hospitalised
India Blooms News Service,13 Mar 2021, 10:56 am Lhasa: Three Tibetan teenagers went missing and even one remained hospitalised with two broken legs after reportedly failing to register a WeChat text group chat with local authorities, as per a report published by a Tibetan advocacy group. On the evening of read more →
Geneva shows the film China wants no one to see
Ai Weiwei’s film Coronation is being shown at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva this weekend. This is a first for the documentary, which delves into the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Swissinfo.ch | March 12, 2021 | “The read more →
US designates five Chinese companies as security threats
TOI | 14 March 2021 | WASHINGTON: In light of the worsening relations between the United States and China, Washington has labeled Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, as national security threats. “The (US) Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau today released a list of communications equipment and services that have been deemed a threat read more →
Quad summit: US, India, Australia and Japan counter China’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ with pledge to distribute a billion doses across Indo-Pacific
Simone McCarthy | South China Morning Post | 13 March 2021 The United States, India, Australia and Japan have pledged to deliver a billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine throughout the Indo-Pacific by the end of 2022 in what is widely seen as a bid to counter China’s influence in the read more →
Chinese govt. should have no role in succession process of Dalai Lama, says U.S.
Previous president Donald Trump had signed into law a bill which called for establishing a U.S. consulate in Tibet. The Chinese government should have no role in the succession process of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, the Biden Administration said on Tuesday. “We believe that the Chinese government should read more →
Quad leaders made history at summit. Expect pushback from China
Shishir Gupta | Hindustan Times | 13 March 2021 The first summit of Quad leaders, described by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a ‘force of global good’, is expected to raise pressure on countries in the Indo-Pacific, particularly China to follow the rule of law and desist from any unilateral show of force in read more →
Nancy Pelosi accuses China of destroying Tibet’s culture and history
WION | 11 March 2021 | Speaking on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of Tibetan Uprising Day against the Chinese occupation of the remote Himalayan region, the US house of representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi said the US will continue standing in support of the Tibetan people. Pelosi also accused read more →
China violating Tibetans’ rights with heightened censorship, surveillance: CTA
Reported by Hindustan Times Censorship and surveillance in Tibet have reached unprecedented levels further escalating the violation of the Tibetan people’s fundamental rights, president of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) Lobsang Sangay said on Wednesday. Sixty-two years ago, on this day (Tibetan National Uprising Day), thousands of Tibetans in Lhasa rose read more →
China’s Himalayan Salami Tactics
BRAHMA CHELLANEY | Mar 9, 2021 | Project Syndicate China is applying the same strategy on the roof of the world that has driven its expansion in the South China Sea: gradual territorial encroachments followed by militarized construction. So far, this slice-by-slice approach is proving just as effective on land read more →