China erases memories of popular Tibetan monk who died in prison
October 30, 2021Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese authorities are banning public discussion of a popular Tibetan religious teacher six years after his death in a Sichuan prison, removing him from official religious histories and shutting down an online read more →
Climate Change Crisis: Tibetan Plateau to Get Spotlight at the COP26 Summit
October 29, 2021By IANS – 27 October 2021 To adapt to the effects of climate change impacting the Tibetan Plateau—the world’s ‘third pole’—a group of Tibetans will explain its role in the global climate system and why it should be part of the conversation at the upcoming two-week United Nations conference, COP26, read more →
Chinese tourists crowd Tibet’s Lhasa amid COVID surge in Chinese provinces
October 29, 2021Radio Free Asia-Reported by Sangyal Kunchok and Taring Tenzin Norbu for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese tourists must show only negative COVID tests, while Tibetan travelers are often barred from entry. Tourists from China are pouring into Tibet’s capital Lhasa in read more →
Posters with Tibetan flag reported removed outside Chinese Embassy in Denmark
October 29, 2021Reuters COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – A Danish election candidate said 10 election posters of himself standing next to the Tibetan flag were removed shortly after he put them up outside the Chinese Embassy in a suburb of the capital Copenhagen. Thomas Rohden, a candidate in upcoming local elections and read more →
China continues to suppress Uyghurs, Tibetans through new mechanisms
October 29, 2021BEIJING: China has created fresh internal and external mechanisms to further monitor and control the Uyghur population in the Western province of Xinjiang by instituting a new system of involving ‘managers’ who are responsible for monitoring Uyghur households, creating fake families from the Han Chinese majority, a media report said. Writing in The Sunday read more →
“Xizang”: China Is Stealing from Tibet Even Its Name
October 27, 2021By Lopsang Gurung, Bitter Winter – 26 October 2021 On October 20, the readers of English-language Chinese propaganda mouthpiece Global Times could read the following news item: “Chinese officials spoke highly of the rapid development and prosperity of… Xizang Autonomous Region under the successful governance of the Communist Party of read more →
The Perils of an Unresolved Boundary
October 27, 2021By Nirupama Rao, The Hindu, 26 October 2021 The India-China relationship is in a difficult place, with the past shadowing the present. The period from 1949 to 1962 is crucial as Jawaharlal Nehru sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to establish a workable relationship with the Chinese. Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary and read more →
‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders
October 27, 2021The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them by Lauren Hilgers, The Guardian, 26 October 2021 Tt was a pleasant, breezy day in late September 2020 when the FBI showed up outside the read more →
China has no role in choosing next Dalai Lama, says head of Arunachal monastery
October 26, 2021The Week China has no authority at all to get involved in choosing the next Dalai Lama as it does not believe in religion and the succession plan is entirely a spiritual matter and not a political issue for the Tibetan people, the head of the Tawang monastery in Arunachal read more →
China Steps Up Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities by Banning Languages in Schools
October 26, 2021By Peh Hong Lim, Voice of America – 24 October 2021 TAIPEI — After experiments aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the Chinese government now is moving to apply its cultural assimilation policy for managing all minority populations by eliminating classroom instruction in native languages. read more →