Follow party, urges Xi Jinping during Tibet visit
July 25, 2021Reuters | Beijing | Published 24.07.21, 12:27 AM China’s President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the Tibet Autonomous Region as national leader this week, and urged people there to “follow the party”, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Xi’s July 21-22 visit — the first to Tibet by a Chinese read more →
China’s President Xi Jinping Makes Unannounced Visit to Tibetan Capital Lhasa
July 24, 2021Reported by Kalden Lodoe, Yangdon, Lobsang Gelek and Tashi Wangchuk for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Phakdon and Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. The surprise visit comes amid restrictions on Lhasa residents’ movements and the closing of the Potala Palace, the winter residence of the Dalai read more →
New Scoring System on Entrance Exams Raises Bar For Tibetans Pursuing Native Language Studies
July 23, 2021Reported by Sangyal Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. The reduced weight of Tibetan language scores means fewer Tibetans will be accepted at top tier secondary schools. A new edict reducing the weight of Tibetan language scores on entrance exams for read more →
Top US official heads to China to seek ‘guardrails’ in tense ties
July 23, 2021The Times of India. WASHINGTON: US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China this weekend to address deteriorating ties, the two countries announced Wednesday, in the highest level visit under President Joe Biden. The trip is going ahead despite near-daily new rifts between the two powers, including read more →
In China, Chinese Now Tops Tibetan
July 23, 2021Sophie Richardson for Human Rights Watch The Chinese government has long issued laws and statements declaring its respect for minority languages, including regulations requiring all public signs in minority areas to be bilingual. But the latest evidence from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) indicates Chinese authorities’ real view of minority read more →
Communist Party Meeting in Tibet Underscores China’s Assimilation Drive
July 22, 2021Chinese Communist Party officials in Tibet this month reaffirmed Beijing’s hardline policies pushing for Tibet’s complete assimilation into China’s dominant Han culture, calling for “political education” to further weaken Tibetans’ loyalty to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to state media reports. Meeting in Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa on read more →
MEPs set out their vision for a new EU strategy for China
July 21, 2021Press Releases 15-07-2021 – 12:25 The EU should continue talking to China about global challenges like climate change and health crises, while raising its concerns over systemic human rights violations. In a report adopted on Thursday, by 58 votes in favour, 8 against with 4 abstentions, the Foreign Affairs Committee outlines six read more →
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
July 21, 2021By ERIC TUCKER, AP News. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration and Western allies formally blamed China on Monday for a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software and asserted that criminal hackers associated with the Chinese government have carried out ransomware and other illicit cyber operations. The announcements, though not read more →
What Beijing wants to tell the rest of the world
July 21, 2021Vijay Gokhale for The Indian Express Yan Xuetong and Wang Jisi, considered to be two of the high priests of the Chinese foreign policy community, have written recent pieces in Foreign Affairs. It is no coincidence these were timed to dovetail with Xi Jinping’s speech for the 100th anniversary of read more →
Europe closes Confucius Institutes
July 20, 2021Mark O’Neill for ejinsight Germany’s Education Ministry recently called on the country’s universities to end co-operation with the Confucius Institute (CI), the state-backed body that offers courses in Chinese language and culture. “I do not want the Chinese government to influence our universities and our society,” said Anja Karliczek. “We read more →