With all eyes on Taiwan, tensions are building on another Chinese frontier: India
October 14, 2021By Brad Lendon, CNN – 13 October 2021 Hong Kong (CNN)China’s increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait may have grabbed all the headlines in recent weeks, but thousands of miles to the west, another simmering territorial dispute on the country’s borders looks more likely to boil over first. Just read more →
Claude Arpi: Stop China from erasing ‘the heart of the world’
October 13, 2021-Sourced by Deccan Chronicle Have you heard of the “Hidden Land of Pemako”? It is the area where China is planning to build mega hydropower stations in the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) during its forthcoming 14th Five Year Plan. This project, three times the size of the read more →
Tibetan Sikyong Penpa Tsering calls for closer relations
October 12, 2021Taipei Times – 10 October 2021 Central Tibetan Administration leader Penpa Tsering on Monday expressed hope that Taiwan and Tibet can strengthen mutual ties. “There are many aspects in which we can work together,” said Penpa Tsering, who in May took office as sikyong of the Tibetan government-in-exile. “We still read more →
China’s Communist Party Formally Embraces Assimilationist Approach to Ethnic Minorities
October 11, 2021The Wall Street Journal – 8 October 2021 SINGAPORE—After launching experiments aimed at more forcefully assimilating ethnic minorities in remote regions, China’s Communist Party has moved subtly but decisively to make cultural assimilation the central tenet of its policy for managing minority populations nationwide. An updated blueprint for childhood development read more →
Chinese Government Officially Confirms the Detention of Two Tibetans
October 9, 2021-Sourced by Free Tibet The Chinese government has responded to a letter by United Nations experts, confirming the imprisonment of Rinchen Tsultrim and the detention of Go Sherab Gyatso. The Chinese government has confirmed that two Tibetan men are in its custody and that one of them has already been read more →
Tibetan Teenagers in Central Tibet Start School Year With Military Training
October 8, 2021-From Free Tibet A newly opened camp in Nagchu City held a six-day training on national defence education. Chinese authorities in the central Tibetan province of U-Tsang have announced the opening ceremony of its third military training summer camp for teenage schoolchildren in Nagchu City. On 13 September, the propaganda read more →
China shifts top Tibet official to Beijing ahead of next year’s CPC leadership reshuffle
October 7, 2021PTI – 6 October 2021 The New Indian Express BEIJING: Qizhala, an ethnic Tibetan and Chairman of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, has been shifted to Beijing by the ruling Communist Party for a higher position in the national legislature ahead of the top leadership reshuffle next year and a possible read more →
Over 100 Tibetan Detainees Released in Dza Wonpo after Month-long Torture and Interrogation
October 7, 2021-Sourced by Free Tibet Three still remain in detention while a stone memorial honouring resistance to the 1959 invasion found to be destroyed Tibet Watch reported that around 117 Tibetans from Dza Wonpo Township detained en masse were released one by one from 23 September onwards. The detainees, who had been held read more →
China Pushes New Plan For Tibetan Buddhist Study in Chinese Only
October 7, 2021Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and study centers must begin to translate classroom texts from Tibetan into Mandarin Chinese, China’s “common language,” according to instructions given at a conference held last month in Qinghai, read more →
Tibetan Government-in-exile President Meets Taiwan Ambassador To Discuss ‘mutual Issues’
October 6, 2021Kamal Joshi for Republic World Penpa Tsering, the president or Sikyong of the Himachal Pradesh-based Tibetan government-in-exile, on Monday, October 4, called upon Taiwanese Ambassador H.E. Baushuan Ger. The two discussed issues of mutual concern and interest. “Sikyong Penpa Tsering called upon Taiwanese Ambassador H.E. Baushuan Ger at his office read more →