Under Xi Jinping, the private life of Chinese citizens isn’t so private anymore
September 9, 2021CNN – 8 September 2021 Analysis by Nectar Gan and Steve George Even for a powerful authoritarian state, the speed and extent to which the Communist Party is expanding its reach into private lives in China has caught many off guard. Since celebrating its centennial with great fanfare in July, the party has read more →
Xi Jinping and Pomegranate Seeds
September 9, 2021Claude Arpi for Rediff News On June 8, China’s Core Leader Xi Jinping visited the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province. Meeting a group of Tibetan villagers relocated in one of the Xiaogang villages (‘moderately well-off’ villages, looking more like ghettos), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist party read more →
Tibetans in Nepal Observe ‘Democracy Day’ Under Close Watch by Police
September 7, 2021Reported by Lhuboom for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Tibetans living in Nepal observed Tibet’s Democracy Day under close watch by local police who kept Tibetan gatherings out of the public eye for fear of offending Nepal’s powerful northern neighbor China, an read more →
Oppressed Tibetans are warning to Taiwan: Tibetan representative
September 4, 2021Focus Taiwan – 3 September 2021 Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) The decades-long Chinese oppression of Tibetans should serve as a warning to Taiwanese, Kelsang Gyaltsen Bawa, representative of the Tibetan government-in-exile to Taiwan, said Thursday during a book launch event at the Legislative Yuan. Over the years, intellectuals from Tibet read more →
Tibetan President calls to end deadlock in Parliament-in-exile
September 4, 2021Hindustan Times – 3 September 2021 Penpa Tsering, Sikyong (president) of Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday called to end the impasse in Parliament-in-exile, which arose after the 22 newly elected MPs refused to take oath, stating that it may lead to the collapse of the Tibetan administration. The Sikyong read more →
Tibetans, Uyghurs Remember Those Who ‘Disappeared’ at China’s Hands
September 1, 2021Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service and by the Uyghur Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Rights groups called on the world on Monday to remember the Tibetans, Uyghurs, and members of other groups who have been forcibly “disappeared” at the hands of read more →
Two Tibetan Students Detained for Opposing Chinese-Only Instruction in School
August 31, 2021Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Middle School students Gyuldrak and Yangrik had opposed a new Chinese education policy mandating classroom instruction only in the Chinese language. Authorities in northwestern China’s Qinghai province have detained two Tibetan students read more →
Claude Arpi | China’s new ethnic ploy in Tibet: Unity via marriage?
August 31, 2021Claude Arpi for The Asian Age China wants us to believe that it liberated Tibet 70 years ago. It didn’t really happen like that. It’s true that on May 23, 1951, Tibet and China signed an “Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet”, also known as the 17-Point read more →
Mass Arrest of Tibetans in Sichuan Over Dalai Lama Photos
August 28, 2021Reported by Pema Ngodup for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Police in western China’s Sichuan province arrested about 60 Tibetans found with photos of exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama this week, intensifying a campaign against possession of the banned images, read more →
China’s PLA conducts large scale military drills in Tibet plateau
August 27, 2021WION Web Team, Aug 26, 2021. According to China’s state-run Global Times, People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Tibet military command recently conducted large-scale joint exercises in the Tibet plateau region The Chinese army reportedly practised “multidimensional tactics with the goal of target elimination”. The military exercise was held at an elevation of 4,500 meters named “Snowfield Duty-2021”. At read more →