Biden Must Stand Up to China on Human Rights
November 29, 2020By Sophie Richardson | Foreign Affairs | November 27, 2020 | Read the original news here Raise human rights in meetings with senior Chinese government officials. Speak publicly and clearly about abuses instead of only to diplomats behind closed doors. Put the … Continued The post Biden Must Stand Up to China read more →
Beijing Takes Its South China Sea Strategy to the Himalayas
November 29, 2020By Steven Lee Myers | New York Times | Read the original news here | Nov. 27, 2020 Just in time for its National Day in October, China completed construction of a new village high in the mountains where the Chinese region … Continued The post Beijing Takes Its South China Sea read more →
Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China
November 28, 2020By Reed Albergotti | Washington Post | November 21, 2020 | Read the original news here Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, … Continued The post Apple is lobbying against a bill read more →
By Recognising Tibetan Govt-in-exile US Touched One-China policy, Says CTA President Lobsang Sangay
November 27, 2020Maha Siddiqui | New18 | 25 November 2020 | Read the originally published news here After making attempts for a decade to walk into the White House for a meeting with officials, Tibetan leader Lobsang Sangay finally managed to break … Continued The post By Recognising Tibetan Govt-in-exile US Touched read more →
China slams apps ban; Xi asks PLA to be battle-ready
November 27, 2020The Times of India. Read the original report here. NEW DELHI: Reacting to India’s ban on 43 more Chinese Apps, Beijing on Wednesday said it firmly opposed New Delhi using national security as an excuse even as President Xi Jinping told the armed forces to … Continued The post China slams apps ban; Xi asks read more →
China’s Xi Jinping planning to prohibit ‘religious extremism’
November 27, 2020Wion news | Nov 25, 2020, | Read the originally published news here Chinese President Xi Jinping is mulling to introduce new rules to prohibit ”religious extremism” in the latest crackdown on foreign religious groups and worshipers. Draft rules distributed for the … Continued The post China’s Xi Jinping planning to prohibit read more →
Why India needs to rethink its Tibet policy, if there’s one
November 26, 2020Claude Arpi | The Daily Guardian | Read the originally published news here On 20 November, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) proudly announced that its Sikyong (president), Lobsang Sangay, had entered the White House. Dharamsala called it “a historic feat”, … Continued The post Why India needs to rethink its read more →
Why Xi Jinping’s muscular approach in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong will backfire
November 26, 2020Allen Carlson | South China Morning Post | 24 November 2020 | Read the originally published news here A narrative has taken root around the world that China under President Xi Jinping is making an unprecedented move to strip away the … Continued The post Why Xi Jinping’s muscular approach in read more →
China’s media show new Bhutan border village built in disputed territory
November 25, 2020Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu. November 23, 2020. Read original news here. Global Times confirms that the village of Pangda had been newly built and residents moved there in Sept. Chinese media on Monday claimed that a new border village built by … Continued The post China’s media show new Bhutan border read more →
China takes railway route to tighten grip on Tibet
November 24, 2020Palden Sonam Visiting Fellow, Tibet Policy Institute for The Tribune. Read the article here. Since its occupation of Tibet in 1950, all major infrastructure development in this region has been driven by China’s strategic calculations and security needs for consolidating … Continued The post China takes railway route to tighten read more →