Kyrgyz police disperse anti-Chinese rally
January 18, 2019Reuters, 18 January 2019 Read original news here BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyz police detained more than a dozen people on Thursday as they dispersed a hundreds-strong anti-Chinese rally in the capital, Bishkek, the biggest public protest to date in Central … Continued
ICT to name its Tibetan Empowerment programs to honor the contribution of Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari
January 18, 2019International Campaign for Tibet, JANUARY 16, 2019, Read original news here The Boards of the International Campaign for Tibet have decided to name the different Tibetan empowerment programs undertaken by our organization as the Lodi Gyari Tibetan Empowerment Program to honor … Continued
Tide is turning against autocrats, human rights group says
January 18, 2019By Rob Picheta, CNN, January 17, 2019 Read original news here (CNN)The global tide of populism is being reversed as protesters, politicians and international organizations confront autocratic leaders, NGO Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The group pointed to protests and sanctions … Continued
Xi Jinping deploys China’s legal system to bully the West
January 18, 2019The Washington Post, John Pomfret, January 17 2019 Read original news here China’s game of international chicken over the apprehension of a Chinese telecommunications executive in Canada got deadly serious this week. On Monday, a court in the northeastern Chinese city of … Continued
Chinese Moves to Organize Via WeChat Worry Local Communist Authorities
January 17, 2019Epoch Times, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Officials in Muchuan County, in southwestern China, are telling local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations to prevent people from organizing through WeChat, a popular Chinese social-media site. On Jan. 10, the … Continued
U.S. Universities Shut Down Confucius Institutes
January 17, 2019China Digital Times, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Amid rising concerns of curtailed academic freedoms, U.S. universities are increasingly closing down Confucius Institutes, which are Chinese government-funded centers offering Mandarin-language and cultural courses that at one point numbered over 100 in … Continued
Brexit: Theresa May’s deal is voted down in historic Commons defeat
January 16, 2019BBC, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the … Continued
Huang Qi, Online Dissident and Rights Advocate in China, Faces Trial
January 15, 2019By Ian Johnson, New York Times, 14 January 2019 Read original news here BEIJING — One of China’s most prominent human rights activists, the blogger Huang Qi, went on trial on Monday on charges of leaking state secrets, and American diplomats … Continued
Canada issues China travel alert as tensions escalate
January 15, 2019Al Jazeera, 15 January 2019 Read original news here Canada has warned its citizens of the risk of “arbitrary enforcement” of local laws in China after a Canadian man convicted of drug trafficking was suddenly retried and sentenced to death, … Continued
Politics of Tourists Visits Figures in Tibet
January 14, 2019On January 10th 2019, at the opening day of the 2nd session of the 11th Tibetan People’s Congress in Lhasa, Chinese officials released an annual report detailing the arrival of 33.68 million tourist to Tibet. The Chinese government refers to the Tibet Autonomous Region … Continued