The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response
June 7, 2021Blog post by Tenzin Dorjee Council on Foreign Relations In a post published on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog on March 29, Tibetologist Robert Barnett admonishes what he sees as the blurring of lines between advocacy and scholarship in the discourse on Tibet. The article, whose stated goal is to dispel read more →
Beijing Must Invite Current Dalai Lama to China Before Choosing a Successor, Says Tibet’s New Leader
June 7, 2021Sputnik News 5 June 2021 Penpa Tsering, the new president of the India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), last week took charge as the 17th leader of the parliament-in-exile. Tibetans dispersed across 25 countries voted to elect Tsering as their next leader in what was only the second democratic election for read more →
What people said in Hong Kong on Tiananmen anniversary
June 6, 2021Reuters 4 June 2021 Hong Kong police banned a vigil commemorating the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for a second year in a row. Following are some comments on the anniversary, which is particularly awkward for Beijing this year, as it read more →
China’s Xi Jinping calls for greater global media reach
June 3, 2021Reuters 2 June 2021 China President Xi Jinping said the country must improve the way it tells its “stories” to a global audience as it seeks to develop an international voice that reflects its status on the world stage, official news agency Xinhua reported. Speaking at a Communist Party study read more →
Propaganda: Beijing’s weapon of mass deception
June 3, 2021By Tenzin Tsultrim Asia Times 29 May 2021 The release last week of a white paper on Tibet is an attempt by the Communist Party of China to whitewash the ground reality through propaganda. Since the birth of the CPC, propaganda has been one of its most powerful tools. From Mao Zedong read more →
Don’t take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd
June 1, 2021By Karishma Vaswani BBC 29 May 2021 Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Mr Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China read more →
New Tibetan exile president, Penpa Tsering, open to dialogue with China
June 1, 2021AP | Taipei Times | 28 May 2021 The new president of the Tibetan exile government yesterday said that he was willing to reach out to the Chinese government to resolve their conflict, although the sides have not had dialogue in more than a decade. Penpa Tsering, former speaker of read more →
New Tibetan Prez Penpa Tsering bowls a googly at China over its ‘white paper’
May 29, 2021Naresh K Thakur for Hindustan Times Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday offered to send a team to Lhasa to verify claims made by Beijing in its much-publicised ‘white paper’ on Tibet. “All I can say today is that we are open to sending people (to Lhasa) read more →
Tibetan exile leader warns of Chinese aggression: ‘China will transform you’
May 29, 2021By Benjamin Hall | Fox News 20 May 2021 The oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government is well documented – but new reports show that it’s getting worse. China is ramping up its abuses and 500,000 Tibetans are now being held in labor camps as part of a systematic genocidal campaign that read more →
Penpa Tsering sworn-in as president Tibetan government-in-exile
May 28, 2021PTI 27 May 2021 Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering was sworn-in as president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Dharamshala-based Tibetan government-in-exile on Thursday. Penpa Tsering said he will reach out to the Chinese government to find a “mutually beneficial” and non-violent solution to the Sino-Tibet conflict. Chief Justice Commissioner Sonam Norbu read more →