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A Thousand-Year-Old Tibetan Buddhist Temple Destroyed in Shanxi
The Fuyun Temple in the northern province of Shanxi was demolished after several attempts by the government to rectify it. by Wang Yong | Bitter Winter | 15 September 2020 | Read the news here Located in Yuci district’s Wujinshan … Continued The post A Thousand-Year-Old Tibetan Buddhist Temple Destroyed read more →
Tibetan School Year Begins Under New Restrictions, Mandarin-only Instruction
Radio Free Asia | September 12 2020 | Read the original article here The school year for children living in Tibetan areas of China has started under harsh new restrictions, with children in one Qinghai county ordered by authorities out … Continued The post Tibetan School Year Begins Under New read more →
Govt sets up group under cyber security head to probe China Watching, will report in 30 days
Manoj C G, Liz Mathew, Shubhajit Roy for The Indian Express. Read the original article here. The expert committee, led by Lt Gen (retd) Rajesh Pant, India’s chief coordinator on cybersecurity, will evaluate the “implications” of the digital surveillance by Data Information Technology … Continued The post Govt sets up group under cyber read more →
All 20 biodiversity targets missed as pollution, climate change rage on: UN report
Deutsche Welle. September 16, 2020. Read original news here. The world has failed to meet any of its biodiversity targets, the UN said in a landmark report published every five years. Extinction rates would likely have been three to four … Continued The post All 20 biodiversity targets missed as read more →
It is time India gave its policy on Tibet some strategic coherence
Nitin Pai for Live Mint. September 13, 2020. Read original news here. Beijing is in a strong position but New Delhi should resist China’s efforts to consolidate its current hold on Tibetan politics In a development that attracted relatively little … Continued The post It is time India gave its read more →
It’s Time for Britain to Reassess its Capitulation on Tibet
Chris Law MP and Nima Binara | 14 September 2020 | Byline Times | Read the original Oped here China’s refusal to respect autonomy in Tibet and Hong Kong resembles an attempt to revive a colonial past – one which Britain … Continued The post It’s Time for Britain to Reassess read more →
Nine Tibetans sentenced for separatism by Kardze court
By International Campaign for Tibet| September 14, 2020 | Read the article here The San Francisco-based prisoners right advocacy group Duihua has reported that nine Tibetans have been “convicted of inciting splittism” by the Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Intermediate People’s … Continued The post Nine Tibetans sentenced for separatism by read more →
Op-Ed: Dalai Lama: It’s up to us — and especially politicians — to save our planet
By THE DALAI LAMA | Los Angeles Times | SEP. 14, 2020 | Read the post here Buddha was born as his mother leaned against a tree for support. He attained enlightenment seated beneath a tree and passed away as trees … Continued The post Op-Ed: Dalai Lama: It’s up to read more →
Review: The End of an Era; India Exits Tibet by Claude Arpi
By Thubten Samphel | Hindustan Times | 11 September 2020 | Read the article here Claude Arpi’s four volumes on Tibet’s relations with India show how China developed its Tibet playbook that includes encroachment, occupation, and the spinning of a narrative of … Continued The post Review: The End of an Era; read more →
‘We made the ocean our home’: The islands fighting climate change
How a culture and history of resilience is inspiring Pacific islanders in their fight against cyclones and rising seas. Nick Clark for Al Jazeera. 11 Sept 2020. Read original news here. There is nothing like certainty in uncertain times.Every September, … Continued The post ‘We made the ocean our home’: read more →
The Chinese Communist Party’s Dangerous Bid for the U.N. Human Rights Council
By JIMMY QUINN. September 13, 2020. Read original news here. The conditions that allow the Chinese delegation to run the table are structural. The Chinese party-state is engaged in a years-long campaign to wipe out ethnic minority identities within its borders, to … Continued The post The Chinese Communist Party’s Dangerous Bid read more →
China invokes 1962 memories to put India on a defensive. It won’t work
Shishir Gupta for Hindustan Times. Read the original article here. While both India and China, through their foreign ministers have decided to disengage from Ladakh, the exercise is very complicated and will take time despite the best efforts of both … Continued The post China invokes 1962 memories to put read more →
How India and China bought peace – for now
Vikas Pandey | BBC | 12 September 2020 | Read the news here After months of worsening tensions on their contested Himalayan border, India and China surprised many by announcing that troops are to quickly disengage. The joint announcement followed a … Continued The post How India and China bought peace read more →
U.S. May Ban Cotton From Xinjiang Region of China Over Rights Concerns
The potential move, which could come as soon as Tuesday, comes amid reports of the use of forced labor in Xinjiang, where China has carried out a crackdown against mostly Muslim minorities. The Xinjiang region of China is a major … Continued The post U.S. May Ban Cotton From Xinjiang read more →
California wildfires growing bigger
Experts say fire behaviour is driven by drought and warming temperatures AP. SEPTEMBER 10, 2020. Read original news here. When it comes to California wildfires, it now takes days, not decades, to produce what had been seen as a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. … Continued The post California wildfires growing bigger appeared first read more →