Will Ensure That America Not China Sets The International Agenda: White House
March 6, 2021PTI | 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
March 5, 2021GRAEME 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
March 4, 2021The 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
March 4, 2021Reported 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
March 4, 2021The 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
March 3, 2021Reuters | 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 →
Xi Mobilizes China for Tech Revolution to Cut Dependence on West
March 3, 2021Bloomberg News | 2 March 2021 For U.S. politicians, China’s potential to dominate sensitive cutting-edge technologies poses one of the biggest geopolitical threats of the next few decades. President Xi Jinping is similarly worried the U.S. will block China’s rise, and this week will unveil plans for greater self-sufficiency. At read more →
China Charges Ahead With a National Digital Currency
March 3, 2021Annabelle Huang | New York Times | 1 March 2021 After joining the lottery through the social media app WeChat, Ms. Huang, 28, a business strategist in Shenzhen, received a digital envelope with 200 electronic Chinese yuan, or eCNY, worth around $30. To spend it, she went to a convenience store read more →
To understand China, first understand Tibet: Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong, CTA
March 2, 2021The Shillong Times | 1 March 2021 SHILLONG, Feb 28: Fifty-two-year-old Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard scholar who has served as Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGiE) for two tenures beginning 2011, is set to relinquish his post by May this year. Sangay read more →
Party leader calls for a Olympic boycott in Parliament
February 28, 2021FreeTibet.org | 26 February 2021 Liberal Democrat Sir Ed Davey told the House of Commons that athletes “under no circumstances” should be “used as propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party” given its rights abuses At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 24 February, Sir Ed Davey called for Team GB to boycott read more →