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.

When China talks of peace, India must prepare for war

October 2, 2020

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

October 2, 2020

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?

October 1, 2020

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

October 1, 2020

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

October 1, 2020

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

September 30, 2020

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

September 30, 2020

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

September 29, 2020

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

September 29, 2020

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 →

Mineral exploitation, forced labour: How China continues to strangle Tibet

September 26, 2020

Col Vinayak Bhat Col Vinayak Bhat for India Today. Read the original article here. To reduce the raw material production cost, the Chinese have started using the local Tibetan population in Driru and other parts of Tibet extensively as labour. … Continued The post Mineral exploitation, forced labour: How China read more →