Dalai Lama alone will have final say on reincarnation: CTA chief Penpa Tsering
September 17, 2021Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times Against the backdrop of China’s repeated efforts to portray a role for itself in the selection of the next Dalai Lama, the Sikyong or head of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Penpa Tsering, has said the Tibetan spiritual leader alone will have the final read more →
India Must ‘Liberate’ Its Tibet Policy, Raise Human Rights Violations On The ‘Roof of the World’
September 16, 2021Rahul Kashyap, ABP. 14 September, 2021. In 1951, a tragedy was played out on the Roof of the World, on the most peaceful people on Earth. Irony died in shame as Tibet’s annexation by brute force, by one of the most ruthless regimes in the history of the planet, was read more →
China Closes Tibetan School in Qinghai, Leaving Many Students Adrift
September 16, 2021Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Authorities in a Tibetan-populated county of northwestern China’s Qinghai province have shut down a Tibetan-run private school, forcing some students to enroll in government schools but leaving others who have no families to fend read more →
UN experts raise cases of detained and “disappeared” Tibetans
September 16, 2021International Campaign for Tibet-September 14, 2021 Four independent UN human rights experts and bodies have raised the cases of the detained Tibetans Rinchen Tsultrim and Go Sherab Gyatso in a communication to the Chinese government that became public today. In the communication, the UN Working Group on Involuntary and Enforced read more →
Xi Jinping praises ‘model’ PLA battalion in Tibet
September 15, 2021Reported by Sutirtho Patranobis and edited by Amit Chanda for The Hindustan Times President Xi Jinping has paid glowing tributes to a border battalion of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) deployed in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which shares a long and disputed boundary with India. Responding to a letter read more →
The Importance of Tibet – ‘Ethnic Work’ in Progress
September 15, 2021Claude Arpi for The Weekend Leader Why are Members of the politburo of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee so attracted by Tibet these days? During the last two months, ten out of the twenty-five members of the politburo travelled to the Roof of the World. One remembers read more →
China’s genetic profiling research faces pushback from academic journals over ethics concerns
September 14, 2021Linda Lew, South China Morning Post. Some of the world’s biggest academic publishers are investigating research papers containing genetic or facial information on minorities amid allegations of ethical violations in the gathering of the data. Much of the research in question stems from China. Concern about such profiling of marginalised groups read more →
Chinese military commanders conduct exercise in Inner Mongolia
September 14, 2021WION Web Team Beijing Published: Sep 12, 2021, 05:18 PM(IST) According to reports, Chinese military commanders conducted an exercise in Zhurihe training base. The commanders reportedly belonged to military units linked to Beijing, Tibet and Xinjiang as they conducted a three-day exercise in Zhurihe in Inner Mongolia. Last month, the People’s Liberation Army‘s (PLA) Tibet military read more →
Chinese institutes infiltrate Indian educational institutions
September 11, 2021The Statesman – 9 September 2021 A Law and Society Alliance report, through meticulous research and data collection, has managed to show that China has made significant inroads into numerous Indian sectors in the past few years. China has been using subtle tactics to spread its influence and propaganda on read more →
How China Weaponized the Press
September 11, 2021The Atlantic – 9 September 2021 Early one morning a couple of years ago, at the height of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy protest movement, Ta Kung Pao, a Chinese-government-owned newspaper based in Hong Kong, published what it claimed was a major scoop. An American diplomat had met with a group of read more →