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.

China’s Xi Jinping is global threat, says exiled Tiananmen leader; Compares CPC with Hitler’s Nazi party

September 8, 2020

By: Huma Siddiqui | September 7, 2020 | Read the news here The world needs to follow India in fighting Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping’s expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest has said. Zhou … Continued The post China’s Xi Jinping is global threat, read more →

China Plans Building Spree In Tibet As India Tensions Rise: Report

September 6, 2020

China’s President Xi Jinping has said a number of major infrastructure projects and public facilities would be completed, including the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. Reuters. September 04, 2020. Read original news here. Beijing: China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) … Continued The post China Plans Building Spree In Tibet read more →

The Czechs are giving Europe a lesson on how to deal with China

September 5, 2020

Opinion by Dalibor Rohac | Washington Post | September 3, 2020 | Read the original piece here Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute This week, a senior Czech politician, Milos Vystrcil, visited Taiwan and delivered a powerful speech to the … Continued The post The Czechs are giving Europe a read more →

Apple commits to freedom of speech after criticism of China censorship

September 5, 2020

Patrick McGee, Financial Times. September 4, 2020. Read original news here. iPhone maker approves new policy after shareholder pressure Apple has for the first time published a human rights policy that commits to respecting “freedom of information and expression”, following … Continued The post Apple commits to freedom of speech read more →

India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

September 5, 2020

BBC | 3 September 2020 | Read the news here A further 118 Chinese mobile apps have been banned by the Indian government, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. Those on the list include several of Tencent’s … Continued The post India bans PUBG, Baidu and more read more →

Taiwan’s redesigned passport shrinks words ‘Republic of China’

September 4, 2020

BBC | 2 September 2020 | Read the original article here Taiwanese officials have announced changes to the passport design, making the word “Taiwan” larger and shrinking the words “Republic of China”. Authorities said the redesign was to stop confusion … Continued The post Taiwan’s redesigned passport shrinks words ‘Republic read more →

Rare rallies in China over Mongolian language curb

September 4, 2020

BBC | 1 September 2020 | Read the original news here Ethnic Mongolians in northern China have staged rare rallies against measures to reduce teaching in the Mongolian language in favour of Chinese. As schools began a new term on … Continued The post Rare rallies in China over Mongolian read more →

India needs to review its Tibet policy both for strategic reasons and protecting Tibetans

September 4, 2020

SD Pradhan for Times of India. Read the original article here. Since the occupation of Tibet in 1950s, China is systematically trying to eradicate the Tibetan culture and religion through the changes in the demographic pattern and ruthlessly imposing its … Continued The post India needs to review its Tibet read more →

China Provoked India in Latest Clash, U.S. Believes

September 4, 2020

By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior Writer, National Security | US News | Sept. 1, 2020 | Read the original article here The latest faceoff between India and China took place Monday at the southern end of the Pangong Tso Lake, located along … Continued The post China Provoked India in Latest Clash, read more →

President Xi’s call for bolstering defences in Tibet ‘misguided’ and ‘unrealistic’: Lobsang Sangay

September 3, 2020

Rezaul H Laskar Hindustan Times | New Delhi | 1 September 202 | Read the news here Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for bolstering border defences in Tibet and “sinicisation” of Tibetan Buddhism are “misguided” and “unrealistic”, the head of the … Continued The post President Xi’s call for bolstering defences read more →