UN: China Responds to Rights Review with Threats
April 2, 2019Human Rights Watch, 1 April 2019 Read article here (Geneva) – China used pressure and warnings to stifle criticism of its poor human rights record throughout the United Nations Human Rights Council session that concluded on March 22, 2019, in Geneva, Human … Continued
What Does the Punishment of a Prominent Scholar Mean for Intellectual Freedom in China?
April 1, 2019-A ChinaFile Conversation. Read the original article here. This week, Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University who in recent months has penned a series of essays critical of policies of the Chinese Communist Party and of its current … Continued
Our love for the Dalai Lama should be affirmed by the government
March 30, 2019Recent Indian governments have been too wary of openly honouring him, for fear of offending the Chinese By Ramachandra Guha for The Telegraph India. Read the original news article here. In the last week of March 1959 — exactly 60 years … Continued
It’s Time to Address Paid Chinese Disinformation in US Newspapers
March 29, 2019By Joshua Philipp for The Epoch Times | Read the original news article here. Major news outlets in the United States helped create more than two years of hysteria and political attacks about rumors that President Donald Trump had colluded … Continued
Deeply concerned by lack of ‘meaningful’ autonomy for Tibetan people: US
March 28, 2019By Daily Excelsior | Read the original news here. WASHINGTON, Mar 27: The US is deeply concerned over the lack of “meaningful” autonomy for the people of Tibet, the Trump administration has said. The US’ policy on Tibet respects China’s territorial … Continued
Tibet’s continued isolation belies Chinese claims in new white paper on Tibet’s development
March 28, 2019International Campaign for Tibet | Read original news here. China’s new white paper on Tibet, “Democratic Reform in Tibet – Sixty Years On,” is an acknowledgment that Chinese government policies have failed to win the hearts and minds of … Continued
Conversation with Members of Club 1880
March 27, 2019Read original news article here. Thekchen Chöling, Dharamsala – A group of eighty-five people from Singapore, including Singaporeans, Americans, Australians, Britishers, Indians, Canadians, Chinese, French, Swiss and several from other countries, came to visit His Holiness the Dalai Lama this … Continued
How China’s new media offensive threatens democracy worldwide
March 27, 2019Read the original news here. China has been actively trying to establish a new world media order in which journalists become nothing more than “state propaganda auxiliaries,” press watchdog Reporter Without Borders (RSF) said in a report published on Monday. … Continued
Tibetans and Uighurs Urge Macron to Pressure Xi Jinping on Human Rights
March 27, 2019By Mike Woods Read the original news here. Paris: Several hundred Uighurs, Tibetans and other Chinese minorities gathered in Paris on Monday to urge French President Emmanuel Macron would raise their issues as he welcomes his Chinese counterpart for an official visit. … Continued
US says China ‘Systematically’ Impedes Tibet Access
March 26, 2019AFP | Washington Read the original news here China “systematically” impedes access to Tibet with restrictions that have prohibited diplomats, journalists and ordinary citizens from visiting, the United States said in a report Monday. The State Department documented access problems to the Himalayan region in a report … Continued