Tibet has always been free: India needs to change the narrative in the ongoing LAC standoff talks – Part 1
May 4, 2021TOI 1 May 2021 Historically Tibet has always been an independent State and a Buffer between India and China. Thus India’s Border Is With Tibet (Not China?) Source: Collection of author’s maps 1. The word has had two views on Tibet’s freedom. One view is that Tibet is a part read more →
Claude Arpi | China’s new weapon is ‘political archaeology’
April 30, 2021Claude Arpi Asian Age 28 April 2021 In February this year, the Communist Party of China (CPC) started a new campaign called “Party History Learning and Education”; it will continue in full swing through the year as the CPC celebrates its centenary in July. Neican, a weekly brief on China read more →
Melting Glaciers Threaten China’s Plan to Build Massive Dam Over Brahmaputra in Tibet: Report
April 30, 2021News 18 Melting glaciers and barrier lakes could threaten China’s plan to build the world’s biggest hydroelectric dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet close to the Arunachal Pradesh border, a media report said on Wednesday. The proposed dam which one Chinese official said has “no parallel in history will read more →
2020 Annual Report: Human Rights Situation in Tibet
April 27, 2021TCHRD 26 April 2021 The 2020 Annual Report on the human rights situation in Tibet, released online today in three languages: Tibetan, Chinese and English, presents a disturbing picture of deprivation and abuses, marked by persistent and grave human rights violations, including, absence of independent space for free speech owing read more →
EU slams China’s ‘authoritarian shift’ and broken economic promises
April 27, 2021Politico 25 April 2021 The European Union’s stance on China is hardening, and that should go down well in Washington. Only four months after Beijing and Brussels concluded the principles of a landmark investment agreement, a high-level internal report seen by POLITICO shows the EU is now increasingly pessimistic about keeping read more →
New US Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Xinjiang
April 24, 2021Shishir Gupta for Hindustan Times The US Agency for Global media shall increase funding for Radio Free Asia’s Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur and Cantonese language services to counter China’s aggressive media investment in western countries. The United States in its new Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Taiwan, Hong read more →
101 Nobel laureates call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
April 24, 2021The Guardian 21 April 2021 A hundred and one Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, are calling for governments around the world to sign up to a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty to help tackle the climate crisis. In an open letter to world leaders published on Wednesday former presidents, scientists, novelists and read more →
Chinese crackdown on prominent activists across Serthar
April 24, 2021ICT 21 April 2021 In what appears to be a crackdown on activists in eastern Tibet, Chinese security officers have recently detained six Tibetans across Serthar (Chinese: Seda) County in Sichuan province. Although sources in exile have confirmed their detentions, the reason or campaign driving the string of targeted detentions read more →
Federal government tears up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China
April 23, 2021The Guardian 22 April 2021 The Morrison government has used its sweeping new foreign veto laws to tear up Victoria’s Belt and Road agreements with China, in what the Chinese embassy has denounced as a “another unreasonable and provocative move”. The foreign minister, Marise Payne, said she would cancel those read more →
Australia cancels Belt and Road deals; China warns of further damage to ties
April 23, 2021Reuters Kirsty Needham 21 April 2021 Australia on Wednesday cancelled two deals struck by its state of Victoria with China on Beijing’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, prompting the Chinese embassy in Canberra to warn that already tense bilateral ties were bound to worsen. Under a new process in Australia, read more →