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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 →
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 →