Preventing Chinese espionage at America’s universities
May 23, 2018By Josh Rogin May 22 2018 (Read Original Story Here) As part of America’s overdue awakening to China’s foreign influence operations campaign inside the United States, the intelligence community and lawmakers are shining new light on how the Communist Party is … Continued
China jails Tibetan-language advocate Tashi Wangchuk for 5 years for “inciting separatism”
May 22, 2018Hong Kong Free Press, 22 May 2018 A Tibetan who has campaigned to preserve his region’s ancestral language was jailed for five years in China on Tuesday for “inciting separatism” in a case Amnesty International denounced as “beyond absurd”. Tashi Wangchuk was … Continued
China: Activist Convicted for Promoting Tibetan Language
May 22, 2018Human Rights Watch – Read Original Story Here (New York) – The Chinese authorities’ baseless prosecution of a Tibetan language rights activist demonstrates the government’s contempt for the rights of minority peoples, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 22, … Continued
The Chinese Revolution directly impacted Chinese authority in Tibet.
May 22, 2018Sunday Guardian – (read original story here) Tibet’s tempestuous political history and upheavals of its past are well recorded and archived. The 14th (present) Dalai Lama arrived in India on a yak by crossing the border at Khenzimane on … Continued
How Chinese mining in the Himalayas may create a new military flashpoint with India
May 21, 2018China has begun large-scale mining operations on its side of the disputed border with India in the Himalayas, where a huge trove of gold, silver and other precious minerals – valued at nearly US$60 billion by Chinese state geologists – … Continued
Railroaded: The Chinese High-Speed Train Network No One Else Really Wants
May 20, 2018Wall Street Journal -18 May 2018 (Read Original Story Here) Terrain is easy, negotiations hard, as construction begins on politically fraught route through Southeast Asia PANG-ASOK, Thailand— Li Guanghe has built some of the most technically complex railroads in China. … Continued
Former CIA officer accused of selling top secret information to China
May 19, 2018By Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post – Read Original Story Here A former CIA officer sold top secret and other classified documents to Chinese intelligence officials, according to charges filed Thursday in Alexandria federal court. Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, … Continued
Release the young Lama, urge Tibetans
May 18, 2018MYSURU: Demanding that China come clean on the whereabouts of the 11th Panchen Lama, members of the Tibetan Youth Congress and Regional Tibetan Women’s Association of Bylakuppe, Hunsur and Kollegal said that the Chinese authorities had abducted Gedhun Choekyi Nyima … Continued
China’s south-east Asia push threatened by new Malaysia regime
May 17, 2018By Ben Bland – May 15, 2018 Financial Times (Read Original Story Here) Chinese president Xi Jinping and former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak thought they had devised the perfect “win-win” deal. Beijing pledged tens of billions of dollars in … Continued
Warning sounded over China’s ‘debtbook diplomacy’
May 16, 2018The Guardian – 15 May 2018 Read original here China’s “debtbook diplomacy” uses strategic debts to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the US state department has been warned in an independent report. The academic … Continued