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.

Twitter Removes Chinese Misinformation Campaign

June 13, 2020

By Kate Conger for The New York Times. Read the original article here. The company said the latest misinformation effort came with a new wrinkle: extolling the Chinese government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. OAKLAND, Calif. — China has stepped up its … Continued The post Twitter Removes Chinese Misinformation Campaign appeared read more →

Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law”

June 13, 2020

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, author of China| AXIOS| 10 June 2020| Read original news here The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held a Zoom event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the June … Continued The post Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese read more →

Tibet to become China’s data gateway to South Asia

June 12, 2020

Rita Liao| Tech Crunch| 8 June 2020| Read original news here A sprawling 645,000-square-meter data facility is going up on the top of the world to power data exchange between China and its neighboring countries in South Asia. The cloud computing … Continued The post Tibet to become China’s data gateway read more →

China’s military adventurism is meant to distract from origins of Covid: Tibetan President

June 11, 2020

NAYANIMA BASU for The Print| 10 June 2020| Read original news here Lobsang Sangay, President of the Tibetan government-in-exile, says China is doing to India and its other neighbours what it did to his country in the 1950s. New Delhi: The Chinese … Continued The post China’s military adventurism is meant to read more →

Border incursions, tensions will continue till Tibet issue is resolved: PM of Tibetan govt-in-exile

June 11, 2020

Rahul Kanwal| India Today| 9 June 2020| Read original news article here A resolution of the Tibetan issue is the way to peace on the India-China border, says Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Lobsang Sangay in an exclusive interview … Continued The post Border incursions, tensions will continue till read more →

Countries in free world must join hands to hold China accountable for coronavirus blunders: Dr Lobsang Sangay

June 11, 2020

By Shri Ram Shaw for Asianet News| 9 June 2020| Read original news here New Delhi: ‘‘China’s cover-up allowed the coronavirus to spread exponentially in just weeks, causing a global pandemic. Chinese leaders deliberately suppressed crucial information and reprimanded key voices. Now, China … Continued The post Countries in free world must join read more →

Hong Kong 2020 Commemoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre In Pictures

June 10, 2020

Pressenza Hong Kong. June 9, 2020. Read original news here. Defying a government ban, thousands of people in Hong Kong attended the traditional commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and suppression of the Chinese Students’ democratic movement. For the first … Continued The post Hong Kong 2020 Commemoration of the read more →

To counter China, look for options beyond LAC | Opinion

June 10, 2020

C Uday Bhaskar for Hindustan Times. Read the original article here India and China are currently engaged in an opaque military stand-off across the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern Ladakh region. The meeting between the two … Continued The post To counter China, look for options read more →

Nato chief urges nations to stand up to ‘bullying’ as China power rises

June 10, 2020

Financial Times| 8 June 2020| Read the original article here Jens Stoltenberg says threats posed by Beijing demand a ‘more global approach’  Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg: ‘The [Chinese are] coming closer to us in cyber space, we see them in … Continued The post Nato chief urges nations to stand read more →

MPs from eight countries form new global coalition to counter China

June 9, 2020

By Latika Bourke| Sunday Morning Herald| 5 June 2020| Read original news here London: What does the chair of the Australian Parliament’s intelligence committee have in common with a German Greens MP, a former Japanese defence minister and a former Liberal Canadian attorney-general? … Continued The post MPs from eight countries form new read more →