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Why China is losing the coronavirus narrative
Jamil Anderlini for Financial Times. Read the original article here. When Roger Roth received an email from the Chinese government asking him to sponsor a bill in the Wisconsin state legislature praising China’s response to coronavirus, he thought it must … Continued The post Why China is losing the coronavirus read more →
Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak as Europe approaches 100,000 deaths
Alison Rourke and agencies| The Guardian| 19 Apr 2020| Read original news here, Donald Trump has warned that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic, as deaths in Europe from Covid-19 approached 100,000. “It could have … Continued The post Trump warns China over Covid-19 outbreak read more →
Two Tibetan monasteries in Lhokha closed as part of coronavirus prevention
By International Campaign for Tibet|April 17, 2020| Read original news here Even while China claims a gradual return to normalcy from the coronavirus pandemic and reports zero new cases in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), two monasteries in the region have … Continued The post Two Tibetan monasteries in Lhokha closed read more →
China’s Aggressive Diplomacy Weakens Xi Jinping’s Global Standing
Steven Lee Myers for The New York Times. Read the original article here. In the past week officials in France, Britain and nearly two dozen African nations have rebuked actions or statements by the Chinese government. China’s top leader, Xi … Continued The post China’s Aggressive Diplomacy Weakens Xi Jinping’s read more →
China Raises Coronavirus Death Toll by 50% in Wuhan
By Amy Qin| New York Times| April 17, 2020| Read original news here. Officials facing skepticism about their credibility also bumped up their tally of infections in the city where the pandemic emerged. China on Friday raised its coronavirus death toll by … Continued The post China Raises Coronavirus Death Toll by read more →
Mekong river groups urge China to show transparency after dam report
Reuters| 15 April 2020| Read original news here BANGKOK (Reuters) – Groups working to protect the Mekong River have called for greater transparency and cooperation from China after a report that Chinese dams held back water during a damaging drought … Continued The post Mekong river groups urge China to read more →
Tibetan schoolchildren lose fluency in native language as schools switch to Mandarin
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Eugene Whong. Read original news here. Children in the Tibetan Autonomous Region are losing fluency in the Tibetan language as schools in the region … Continued The post Tibetan schoolchildren lose fluency in native read more →
President of Taiwan: How My Country Prevented a Major Outbreak of COVID-19
BY TSAI ING-WEN| Times Magazine| APRIL 16, 2020| Read the original article here Taiwan is an island of resilience. Centuries of hardship have compelled our society to cope, adapt, and survive trying circumstances. We have found ways to persevere through difficult times … Continued The post President of Taiwan: How My Country read more →
Xi fears Japan-led manufacturing exodus from China
By KATSUJI NAKAZAWA| Nikkei senior staff writer| APRIL 16, 2020| Read the original article here TOKYO — Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has proposed building an economy that is less dependent on one country, China, so that … Continued The post Xi fears Japan-led manufacturing exodus from read more →
Land to be confiscated from Tibetans as part of railway project construction
Land confiscation has been met with protests by Tibetans in the past. Free Tibet. 16 April 2020. Read the original news here. Tibetans could be forced off their land as part of a railway construction project running through eastern Tibet. … Continued The post Land to be confiscated from Tibetans read more →
US explores possibility that coronavirus started in Chinese lab, not a market
Josh Campbell, Kylie Atwood and Evan Perez for CNN. Read the original article here. (CNN)–US intelligence and national security officials say the United States government is looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory rather than a … Continued The post US explores possibility that coronavirus started read more →
Op-Ed: In Tibet, it’s a crime to even talk about the value of mother-tongue education
A boy waits in dance class in 2009 at a primary school in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. (Greg Baker / Los Angeles Times) By SOPHIE RICHARDSON| Los Angeles Times| APRIL 15, 2020| Read original news … Continued The post Op-Ed: In Tibet, it’s a crime read more →
Daily Telegraph stops publishing section paid for by China
Content from China Watch, written by state journalists, has also been wiped from website Jim Waterson and Dean Sterling Jones| The Guardian| Last modified on Wed 15 Apr 2020| Read original article here The long-running China Watch section appeared in print supplements … Continued The post Daily Telegraph stops publishing section paid read more →
‘Prayer Is Not Enough.’ The Dalai Lama on Why We Need to Fight Coronavirus With Compassion
BY DALAI LAMA for Time Magazine| APRIL 14, 2020| Read the article here The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile based in Dharamsala, India Sometimes friends ask me to help with some problem in the world, using some “magical … Continued The post ‘Prayer Is Not Enough.’ The Dalai read more →
We Can Make the Post-Coronavirus World a Much Less Violent Place
We Can Make the Post-Coronavirus World a Much Less Violent Place The pandemic has decreased some kinds of crime and increased others. But the world is much safer than it used to be, and we know how to make it … Continued The post We Can Make the Post-Coronavirus World read more →