Demolition of Buddha statues follows tightened control under “law-based governance”
April 22, 2022-By International Campaign for Tibet The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ordered a series of demolitions of structures of religious significance and detentions of Tibetans resisting it in Draggo (Chinese: Luhuo) County in eastern Tibet. The demolitions came a year after the CCP established in late 2020 “Xi Jinping Thought on read more →
UN High Commissioner must uphold principled and coherent response to China’s human rights crisis
April 21, 2022-By Human Rights Watch UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on 8 March that she has secured a visit to China ‘foreseen to take place in May’. Her announcement in an update to the UN Human Rights Council comes three and a half years after she publicly read more →
In Trade, China Has a Sharp Edge Over India, and Sharp Things Can Be Weaponized
April 21, 2022By Krzysztof Iwanek – The Diplomat – 28 March 2022 If there were to be an India-China conflict, would we see them engage in economic warfare, as now seen between the West and Russia? As I am writing this, in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we can see read more →
China’s Costly Exceptionalism
April 21, 2022By Michael Schuman, The Atlantic – 18 April 2022 America has long thought itself exceptional, a blessed place destined to bring freedom to the world. China has an even longer history of self-proclaimed exceptionalism and, spurred by its many modern achievements, is more assertively promoting its brand of governance as a read more →
Authorities free 3 Tibetans jailed for running ‘illegal’ land rights group
April 21, 2022-By Radio Free Asia Another 3 are set to be freed in June, but the remaining trio was resentenced to 7 years in prison. Authorities in China’s Qinghai province have released three of the nine Tibetans who received prison terms in 2018 for running an “illegal organization” promoting land rights. read more →
Chinese authorities transport supplies from Tibet to pandemic hit Shanghai, label it ‘donation’
April 21, 2022ANI for The Print. Lhasa [Tibet], April 19 (ANI): China has been transporting supplies from Tibet, including Yak meat and drinking water to COVID-19 hit Shanghai while labelling the exercise a ‘donation’, media reports have said. “Anti-epidemic supplies” including 100 tonnes of dried yak meat and 3,000 tonnes of drinking read more →
70 Years In Tibet And Beyond: World Must Be Wary Of China’s Renewed Sinicization Drive
April 19, 2022-By Ommcom News The recently concluded Winter Olympic Games in Beijing were in the news for many reasons. While a Russian biathlon participant took her grievance about meagre and unpalatable food to social media, another fellow Russian courted controversy after she tested positive for a banned substance. The journalists who read more →
Hydro-hegemony: China’s Plans for Disrupting Regional Power Balance in Asia
April 16, 2022By Jamphel Shonu, Global Order – 14 April 2022 Amidst all the talk of tech and the AI (artificial intelligence) taking over the world, there is a growing uncertainty about how the future world might look like. Speculation is rife with predictions that the country with the most advanced technology read more →
The salt of the earth
April 16, 2022Jag Bahadur Budha – Nepali Times – 9 April 2022 While it is unclear when and how salt was first introduced to Nepal’s culture and cuisine, what is clear is that Tibetan salt was once the foundation of our Himalayan economy and livelihood. From the Walung, Lhomi, Bhote, Sherpa, Byasi read more →
‘Middle Way’ approach for Tibet not just about politics: Dalai Lama
April 16, 2022Translated with additional reporting by Tenzin Dickyi for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. A Middle Way approach to the question of Tibet’s status under Beijing’s rule does not concern politics alone and will benefit both the Tibetan and the Chinese people, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai read more →