Canada calls for UN to have ‘immediate, meaningful, and unfettered access’ to Xinjiang
June 25, 2021By Martin Greene Taiwan News 23 June 2021 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Canada led a charge at the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (June 22), speaking for over 40 countries when it demanded China open up Xinjiang Province to human rights inspectors from the international body, while issues related to read more →
Surprise! The EU knows how to handle China
June 25, 2021BY BRUNO MAÇÃES The Politico June 22, 2021 “Do we need a new adversary?” With those words, Armin Laschet summed up the European response to Joe Biden’s efforts to convince Europeans to get tougher on China. As the politician best placed to become the next German chancellor, Laschet’s open rebuke of the read more →
Opinion: It’s time to sound the alarm over Chinese intrigues in the Himalayas
June 23, 2021Opinion by Robert Barnett June 21, 2021 Washington Post China’s increasingly assertive approach to international diplomacy has been widely discussed with regard to strategic stress points such as the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait. But tensions have also been increasing between India and China along their 2,100-mile border in the read more →
History tells us Himalayas hold key to controlling Asia; India must continue to be wary of China
June 22, 2021Tsewang Dorji Firstpost 21 June 2021 For the past few years, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has upgraded its high-tech weapons and conducted a series of live-fire military exercises along the Himalayan borders and in Tibet. For Instance, Global Times reported on 5 January, 2020 that “China’s latest weapons including the Type 15 read more →
Tibetan Scholar Arrested for His Writings Has Been Held Without Trial for Two Years
June 22, 2021Reported by Sangay Kunchok for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney 18 June 2021 A Tibetan writer arrested on unspecified charges two years ago has still not been brought to trial, and family members are being kept in the dark about his fate, read more →
AP PHOTOS: Tourism boom pressures Tibet’s historic sites
June 22, 2021By MARK SCHIEFELBEIN and SAM McNEIL 21 June 2021 LHASA, China (AP) — Tourism is booming in Tibet as more Chinese travel in-country because of the coronavirus pandemic, posing risks to the region’s fragile environment and historic sites. The number of visitors is limited to 5,000 per day at the read more →
Claude Arpi | India must back Dalai’s choice on his successor
June 20, 2021Claude Arpi Deccan Chronicle 16 June 2021 The issue of the Dalai Lama’s succession has been in the news for quite some time, especially after the Tibetan diaspora elected Penpa Tsering as the new “Sikyong”, or president; incidentally, this election must have irritated no end Communist China that always proclaims read more →
AP Interview: Tibet exile leader hopes to resume China talks
June 19, 202117 JUNE 2021 Last Updated at 10:08 PM | SOURCE: PTI Dharmsala, Jun 17 (AP) The new president of the Tibetan exile government said on Thursday he will do his best to resume a dialogue with China after more than a decade, and that a visit by the Dalai Lama to read more →
One Hundred Years of Devastation
June 19, 2021Brahma Chellaney Project Syndicate 17 June 2021 The Communist Party of China’s 1951 annexation of the water-rich Tibetan Plateau – the starting point of Asia’s ten major river systems – gave China tremendous power over Asia’s water map. In the ensuing decades, the country has made the most of this read more →
China offers glimpse of Tibetan life without the Dalai Lama
June 17, 2021By SAM McNEIL AP 16 June 2021 LHASA, China (AP) — A brisk wind ruffles yellow prayer flags as dozens of Tibetans, some on crutches, circle a shrine in a time-honored Buddhist ritual. Across the street, a red banner spells out a new belief system, one being enforced with increasing read more →