Tibet and China’s ‘Belt and Road’
September 3, 2016By Tshering Chonzom Bhutia, The Diplomat Magazine, 30 August 2016 Will Tibet become China’s bridge to South Asia under the Belt and Road Initiative? By now, China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) is familiar to scholars and officials around the world. It has become the catchphrase for all of China’s read more →
China’s Top Secret Stealth Fighter Spotted In Tibet Days After It Warned India
September 3, 2016China’s stealth figher J-20 spotted at world’s highest civilian airport at 14,000 feet Written by Vishnu So, 2 September 2016 – NDTV New Delhi: Days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to China for the G-20 summit, an image has appeared of China’s first stealth fighter, the J-20, reportedly at read more →
A longest serving Han party cadre in the TAR promoted to become its new boss
September 1, 2016By Tenzin Tseten, Tibetpolicy.net Wu Yingjie In the latest regional leadership transition, Wu Yingjie, a 59 year Han party cadre was named the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, replacing Chen Quanguo. Wu was a deputy Party Secretary of the TAR before his new appointment. He spent over 40 read more →
Chinese dissidents urge Obama to press Xi Jinping on human rights at G20
September 1, 2016The Guardian, 31 August 2016 Chinese dissidents have urged Barack Obama to confront Xi Jinping over what they called China’s worst human rights crisis since the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown when he travels to the G20 economic summit in Hangzhou this week. During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday read more →
India’s alliance with US may irritate China, Pakistan and even Russia: Chinese media
August 30, 2016India and US today signed denfense logistics suport agreement. (Picture for representation). By Ananth Krishnan, India Today – 30 August 2016 “If India hastily joins the US alliance system,” an editorial in the Global Times suggested, “it may irritate China, Pakistan or even Russia. It may not make India feel read more →
China’s Communist Party names new chief for Tibet in party reshuffle
August 29, 2016The Canberra Times, August 28 2016 Beijing: China’s ruling Communist Party appointed a new senior official on Sunday to run Tibet, considered one of the country’s most politically sensitive positions due to periodic anti-Chinese unrest in the devoutly Buddhist Himalayan region. The official Xinhua news agency named Wu Yingjie as read more →
A woman’s gruesome hanging shocked Tibet — but police have silenced all questions
August 26, 2016Tsering Tso’s grandmother, Lhadhey, 83, and mother, Adhey, 49, on the grasslands outside the small town of Chalong in China’s western Sichuan province. Last October, Tibetans protested in Chalong after 27-year-old Tsering Tso was found hanged from a bridge in the town, prompting mass arrests, beatings and a government crackdown. read more →
Xi’s day at the beach
August 26, 201620 August 2016 – The Economist The leadership’s annual retreat will not have been relaxing RESPLENDENT in a pleated chef’s hat, Yang Zhibin supervises the kitchens of Kiessling’s restaurant in the resort town of Beidaihe, where he has worked since 1971 and where, every August, China’s political elite gathers for read more →
Self immolation could soon be a crime in Tibet
August 25, 2016Indian Express, 24 August 2016 Over 125 Tibetans, including several monks, committed self immolation in the last few years demanding the return of the Dalai Lama from exile. China plans to include self immolation protests in Tibet in separatism-related crimes, officials said even as they refuted reports that monks are read more →
How good is Tibet’s Beijing-backed search engine?
August 25, 2016Yongzim’s ‘news’ sections leads to Chinese state media BBC, 24 August 2016 This week saw the launch of the very first search engine in the Tibetan language. Yongzim, backed by the Chinese authorities, claims to be better at handling complex searches involving several words in the language than any alternative. read more →