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The Crisis In Tibet: Six Decades And Counting
By Tenzin Lhadon | StratNewsGlobal | 10 March 2021 DHARAMSHALA: “Tibet has become a place unimaginable for people living outside China, for every step that you take and every move that you make is censored and could possibly place you in interrogation camps,” said Rigzin (name changed to protect identity) who read more →
Communist China’s Strategic Thinking towards Tibet and the Himalayas
By Tsewang Dorji – Research Fellow of the Tibet Policy Institute | Taiwan Times | 10 March 2021 Today is the 62nd anniversary of the 1959 Tibet National Uprising Day – the Chinese military at the time brutally cracked down on Tibetan’s nationwide peaceful protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s read more →
Rally held in Taipei to commemorate Tibet National Uprising Day
Taiwan Focus | 7 March 2021 Taipei, March 7 (CNA) Hundreds of people, including dozens of Tibetans, took to the streets of Taipei on Sunday, calling for stronger public advocacy against the decades of Chinese oppression in Tibet, as they marked the 62nd anniversary of an uprising against Chinese rule. read more →
Free Tibet: A voice from Assam
By Novanita Sharma | The Hill Times | 6 March 2021 On the 10th of March 1959, the people of Tibet came out to the streets of Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet in the largest peaceful resistance against repression of their rights and the forceful occupation of their motherland by read more →
Crush Inner Mongolia language revolt, Xi demands
By AT CONTRIBUTOR | 6 March 2021 | Authorities in Inner Mongolia must “solve ethnic problems” and push the use of the Mandarin language, Chinese President Xi Jinping has said, months after the region was rocked by protests over a new rule that would reduce the use of the local language. read more →
New UK-US Alignment Can Reshape Transatlantic Cooperation
Chatham House | 2 March 2021 When Joe Biden was elected as US president, many observers thought the UK would struggle to establish a close relationship with him, and that British diplomats feared being sidelined by the new administration – especially as Biden had referred to British prime minister Boris read more →
Covid: Dalai Lama urges others to get vaccinated as he receives first shot
BBC | 7 March 2021 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine while urging others eligible to “take this injection”. “This is very very helpful, very good,” he said as he was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab at a facility in the Indian read more →
Antony Blinken says China poses 21st century’s greatest geopolitical challenge
China is the biggest geopolitical challenge that United States faces in the 21st century, one that pales beside the likes of Russia or the Middle East, the US secretary of state said on Wednesday in an address outlining the Biden administration’s foreign policy priorities. If the US does not push read more →
Uighurs, Tibet and Hong Kong issues not in the essence of human rights: China
Wion. China has said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) govt welcomes the UN high commissioner (for human rights Michelle Bachelet) to visit Xinjiang but she should not use this opportunity to engage in political operations to pressure the country. Earlier, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet had said read more →
Will Ensure That America Not China Sets The International Agenda: White House
PTI | NDTV | 4 March 2021 Washington:The Biden Administration has said that by restoring US credibility and reasserting forward-looking global leadership, it will ensure that America, not a more assertive and authoritarian China, sets the international agenda, working alongside countries like India to shape new norms and agreements globally read more →
Erasing memory in China’s Tibet
GRAEME SMITH | 1 March 2021 | The Interpreter This article draws from the “Tibet: Colonialism with Chinese characteristics?” episode of The Little Red Podcast, which features interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Evolving from an organisation that almost no one had heard about five years ago, the United read more →
Water Imperialism and Future Water Wars – Why China Has Colonised Tibet
The modern day China, in future, can scale up water war through its control of the Tibetan water. SANTOSH CHAUBEY, CNN-NEWS18. MARCH 03, 2021. Historically, when China used to colonise Tibet, the main intention of Chinese rulers was to create a buffer state for security. The onslaught by the Communist read more →
China in Tightened Security Clampdown in Tibet’s Capital Lhasa and on the Border
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. March 3, 2021. Chinese authorities in Tibet are tightening security and carrying out arrests in the regional capital Lhasa and along Tibet’s border with Nepal in the run-up to a month of read more →
Tibet should be core issue for India: Dr Lobsang Sangay
The Sentinel | 3 March 2021 GUWAHATI: Dr Lobsang Sangay, the President of exile Tibetan government, also known as the ‘Central Tibetan Administration’ (CTA), has asserted that Tibet should be a core issue for India as it is for China, and urged India to acknowledge its importance and discuss the read more →
Foreign journalists in China see ‘rapid decline in media freedom’: survey
Reuters | 1 March 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row, no journalists read more →