Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

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China’s PLA complicates troop disengagement over Ladakh. It has a condition

While the PLA has transgressed into the Indian perception of LAC on the north bank, the Indian Army is holding ground on its perception of the LAC on the southern bank of the Pangong Tso. Shishir Gupta, Hindustan Times. Oct 06, 2020. … Continued The post China’s PLA complicates troop disengagement over read more →

China’s climate commitment: How significant is it for planet Earth, and India?

Amitabh Sinha for The Indian Express. Read the original article here. President Xi Jinping has promised China would be carbon net-zero by 2060, and apparently advanced the deadline for reaching emissions peak. How significant are these commitments for the planet, … Continued The post China’s climate commitment: How significant is read more →

High time UN intervenes and forces China to leave Tibet alone

Brig KG Behl for Times of India. Read the original article here. The history of Tibet shows that it had never been a part of China and was an independent state with its own spiritual rule. Right from the Yarlung … Continued The post High time UN intervenes and forces read more →

Before Trying to Get into Eastern Ladakh, China Built itself Forcefully Occupying 45% of Land. Here’s How

The Central Tibetan Administration claims historical Greater Tibet has a land area of 2.5 million square kilometers and the bulk of historical Tibet lies outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. China had already merged more than half of the Greater Tibet … Continued The post Before Trying to Get into Eastern read more →

UK-China Relations: From Gold to Dust

The rapid recent souring of British perceptions of China has as much to do with domestic factors as American pressure. By Thomas des Garets Geddes | The Diplomat |October 02, 2020 | Read the news here In just a few months, … Continued The post UK-China Relations: From Gold to Dust read more →

New report exposes fraudulent “anti-gang” trial of “Sangchu 10” Tibetans

International Campaign for Tibet | 1 October 2020 | Read the original report here Ten Tibetans have received harsh prison sentences in a trial that reveals how China uses “anti-gang” measures to silence Tibetans and deny them fair trials, the … Continued The post New report exposes fraudulent “anti-gang” trial read more →

When China talks of peace, India must prepare for war

Utpal Kumar | 30 September 2020 | Read the news here  The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. —Theodore Roosevelt. Nothing explains this better than the SinoIndian relations. If one wants to know … Continued The post When China talks of peace, India read more →

Big tech firms may be handing Hong Kong user data to China

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington | The Guardian | Read the news here Big technology companies may already be complying with secret Chinese requests for user information held in Hong Kong and ought to “come clean” about the vulnerability of the data they hold … Continued The post Big tech firms may be handing read more →

How did an NYPD officer from Tibet end up accused of spying for China?

Source: The Guardian Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch Tue 29 Sep 2020 10.00 BST Baimadajie Angwang, accused of ‘reporting on activities of Chinese citizens’, targeted a community center in Queens, stoking divisions in the community For staff of the Tibetan community centre in the New York neighbourhood of Woodside, the read more →

Propaganda War: The undue influence of the Chinese govt over Indian media is a matter of deep concern and requires urgent intervention

K Bhattacharjee for OpIndia. Read the original article here. The efforts launched by the Chinese government to capture global imagination and shape the narrative about China is an open secret. Towards that end, the Chinese Communist Party has sought to … Continued The post Propaganda War: The undue influence of read more →

‘Xi Jinping Thought’ Now Required Learning For Young Tibetans

Radio Free Asia. Link to the original article here. In a job sector already marked by limited opportunities, young Tibetans seeking government workers are being required to join the ruling Chinese Communist Party and to closely study the political thought … Continued The post ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ Now Required Learning read more →

China’s new game? Sports complex comes up at gulag site in Tibet Autonomous Region

Col Vinayak Bhat (Retd) for India Today. Read the original article here. latest satellite images of September indicate that all visible signatures of a concentration camp, that was built in 2011, in Chamdo town of the Tibet Autonomous Region have … Continued The post China’s new game? Sports complex comes read more →

China holds simultaneous military drills in four seas, again

In a bid to train a combat-ready military force, China holds military drills periodically, but rarely do multiple exercises happen at the same time. Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times. Sep 29, 2020. Read original news here. Beijing: China began five military exercises … Continued The post China holds simultaneous military drills in read more →

To help defuse US-China tensions, Asian states must agree on America’s role in region

Hugh White | 26 Sep, 2020 | South China Morning Post | Read the original post here In Asia, an old threat to peace is returning. For many decades, it has seemed almost unthinkable that the region’s major powers could again engage … Continued The post To help defuse US-China tensions, Asian read more →

China uproots ethnic minority villages in anti-poverty fight

By Sam McNeil |  AP | September 23, 2020 | Read the original news here CHENGBEI GAN’EN, China — Under a portrait of President Xi Jinping, Ashibusha sits in her freshly painted living room cradling her infant daughter beside a chair labeled a … Continued The post China uproots ethnic minority villages in read more →