Why China wants to erase ‘Tibet’
November 28, 2023By Khedroob Thondup for Taipei Times. China has started to call Tibet “Xizang” instead of Tibet for several reasons. First, China wants to assert its sovereignty and legitimacy over Tibet, which it claims as an integral part of its territory and history. China argues that the term Xizang, which read more →
As Tibet Becomes Xizang, Delhi Faces a New Concern
November 23, 2023-By Claude Arpi for Deccan Chronicle Communist China often changes the names of the people, places and even nations. It is the case of Tibet, which is now called Xizang On November 10, Xinhua reported that the State Council Information Office had just released a white paper on the governance read more →
Preserving the Abodes of Tibetan Buddhist Deities
November 23, 2023-By Bikash K. Bhattacharya for the Earth Island Journal Under increasing climate pressures in Northeast India, monks and monasteries safeguard local lakes and forests. A singular, seventeenth-century thangka painting adorns the central hall of Ganden Namgyal Lhatse, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India. The painting depicts a haggish figure read more →
The False Panchen Lama Ordains Monks in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery—for the Communist Party
November 22, 2023By Lopsang Gurung for Bitter Winter. He told them to “be grateful to the Party, listen to the Party, follow the Party, promote the Party.” The Tibetans know the story and readers of “Bitter Winter” know it too. In the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug tradition, the Panchen Lama is the second read more →
China Spending Massively on Surveillance in Tibet, Say Scholars
November 21, 2023The Hindu Bureau. The nature and extent of surveillance that the Chinese government has on people in its restive provinces was in focus on the second day of the three-day All India Conference of Chinese Studies at the University of Hyderabad. Apa Lhamo, research fellow at the Centre for China read more →
Biden Urged to Press Beijing to Return to Direct Dialogue with Tibetan People
November 18, 2023A readout of the meeting issued by the White House said Biden did raise the issues with Xi during the summit meeting in Woodside, California. -by Deccan Herald San Francisco: Expressing concern that the issue of Tibet did not come up during the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting, the International Campaign read more →
Tibet’s Government-In-Exile Urges Australia not to ‘compromise’ on China’s Human Rights Record
November 18, 2023-By Daniel Hurst for The Guardian Australia must not compromise on human rights as it improves its relationship with China because “the truth must be told”, a minister from the Tibetan Government-in-exile has said during a visit to Canberra. Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in read more →
4 Tibetans Sentenced to Prison for 2nd Time for Religious Activities
November 18, 2023Previously, authorities detained them for 11 months on the same offence. -by Radio Free Asia China has sentenced four Tibetans from Sertar county in Sichuan province to two years in prison each for engaging in religious activities — the second time they have been arrested and given jail time, said read more →
China’s New ‘White Paper’ on Tibet: Ominous Silence Amid Barrage of Party Language
November 17, 2023-by International Campaign for Tibet The new “White Paper” on Tibet released on Nov. 10, 2023 by China’s State Council unsurprisingly presents an overwhelmingly flowery image of the situation in Tibet, while its barrage of figures and alleged achievements, along with language characteristic to the Communist Party under Xi Jinping, read more →
China Is Slowly Erasing Tibet’s Name
November 16, 2023By Micah McCartney for News Week. The Chinese government is gradually dropping the name “Tibet” in official English-language references in favor of the region’s Mandarin Chinese name—”Xizang”—with experts saying the move is in line with Beijing policies aimed at erasing Tibetan culture. The propaganda department of China’s State Council, its central read more →