Outside of China, concern exceeds optimism as Xi Jinping begins third term as ruler
October 27, 2022By Paul Eckert for Radio Free Asia, 2022.10.23. From U.S. relations to human rights to Uyghur repression, many experts see more potential trouble than hope. The Chinese Communist Party wrapped up its 20th National Congress at the weekend, granting an unprecedented third five-year term to CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. read more →
Xi Jinping’s extended term as supreme leader sparks warning to China’s ethnic groups
October 27, 2022-By Radio Free Asia The Chinese Communist Party leader omits all mention of ethnic regional autonomy in his report to party congress. Xi Jinping’s third term in office as Chinese Communist Party supreme leader will likely mean more suffering for ethnic minority groups in China, exiled activists warned in recent read more →
Tibetan Monks Forced to Watch the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
October 22, 2022Massimo Introvigne for Bitter Winter There are many images of China during the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, but those collected and posted on Twitter by American scholar Timothy Grose are the saddest and most extraordinary I have seen so far. Although Grose also found images of other ethnic-religious minorities, read more →
Six Tibetan Writers, Activists Sentenced by China on ‘State Security’ Charges
October 20, 2022Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced six Tibetan writers and activists to prison terms from four to 14 years on charges of “inciting separatism” and “endangering state security,” Tibetan sources say. The six were sentenced in September in Sichuan’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) read more →
Tibetans in Lhasa forced to watch China’s 20th Party Congress
October 19, 2022Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok Chinese authorities are ordering residents of Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to tune in to television coverage of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress, forbidding them to leave their homes until the sessions end, RFA has learned. Monasteries and schools in Tibetan areas of western Chinese read more →
US Policy on Tibet Has Lost its Way. We Want to Change That
October 18, 2022The Diplomat – by Jim McGovern and Michael T. McCaul For years, Chinese officials have attempted to rewrite history. Now 2 Congressmen say the U.S. should push back on the CCP’s distortion of history rather than abetting it. Qin Gang, ambassador to the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), read more →
Nehru and the ‘pending’ case of Tibet in United Nations
October 17, 2022Claude Arpi October 11, 2022 13:37:48 IST / Source : firstpost.com A Canadian scholar, Claudia Johnston, went through the old UN files and found out that following India’s assurance that it would ‘sort out the Tibet issue peacefully with China’, the case was still pending in the UN On 30 read more →
As China doubles down on ‘zero-COVID’, some have had enough
October 15, 2022The digital tools used to tackle the virus are intruding deeply into people’s lives, but there is no sign that Beijing will relax the rules. In advance of the Communist Party’s 20th Congress, China has reiterated its commitment to stamping out COVID [File: Florence Lo/Reuters] By Frederik Kelter, Aljazeera News. Published read more →
China’s 100-day “crackdown on crimes” and Tibet ahead of Party Congress
October 14, 2022-By International Campaign for Tibet On June 25 2022, China’s Ministry of Security launched a 100-day crackdown labelled “Hundred Days Action” targeting illegal activities related to crimes against women, children, the elderly, the disabled and powerless groups in society.[1] While reportedly prompted by a public outcry over police inaction in response read more →
Japan Must Get Tough on China to Help Persecuted Minorities Survive
October 12, 2022“We need more people to join us in this fight. We need to use the conscience of Japan to help make up for what is broken inside of China.” ーYoshiko Sakurai October 9, 2022. By Jason Morgan for JAPAN Forward. Panelists in the seminar on Tibet, Uyghur and Southern Mongolia. read more →