Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

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China’s Economic Growth Mostly Welcomed in Emerging Markets, but Neighbors Wary of Its Influence

BY LAURA SILVER, KAT DEVLIN AND CHRISTINE HUANG, Pew Research Center, 5 December 2019 Read original article here. China has emerged as a global economic superpower in recent decades. It is not only the world’s second largest economy and the largest exporter by value, but it has … Continued The post China’s Economic Growth Mostly Welcomed in read more →

Tibetan Self-Immolator’s Family Are Held by Police For Questioning

Reported by Dorjee Tso for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Read the article here. Police in western China’s Sichuan province detained the family members of a young Tibetan who died in a … Continued The post Tibetan Self-Immolator’s Family Are Held by read more →

US Senator Slams IOC for Sidelining Human Rights Ahead of 2022 Beijing Olympics

BY FRANK FANG, EPOCH TIMES, December 6, 2019. Read the original news here. More than 10 years after Beijing hosted the Olympics Games, China has continued to trample on human rights and press freedom. Now, with less than three years before China … Continued The post US Senator Slams IOC for Sidelining read more →

Why India-Japan ties matter more than ever | Opinion

Brahma Chellaney, Hindustan Times, Dec 04, 2019 Read original news here. Whereas India-China and Japan-China ties are unlikely to become non-adversarial in the near future, the forthcoming summit between prime ministers Shinzo Abe and Narendra Modi will cement the Japan-India relationship … Continued The post Why India-Japan ties matter more than read more →

We Need An Education Of The Heart

Editorial by The XIV Dalai Lama, Speaking Tree, Read original article here.  When the president of the United States says “America first,” he is making his voters happy. I can understand that. But from a global perspective, this statement isn’t relevant. Everything … Continued The post We Need An Education Of The read more →

U.S. House approves Uighur bill, demands sanctions on senior Chinese officials

Reuters, The Hindu. December 5, 2019. Read the original news here. The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown on its Muslim minority, demanding … Continued The post U.S. House approves Uighur bill, demands read more →

Chen Quanguo: Official heading China’s Xinjiang crackdown

AFP, The Times of India. Read the article here. BEIJING: The Chinese Communist Party official facing possible US sanctions for allegedly overseeing the mass detention of Muslims in the Xinjiang region is a soldier-turned politician known as a security enforcer. … Continued The post Chen Quanguo: Official heading China’s Xinjiang read more →

China slams House’s passage of bill backing sanctions on Beijing over mass detention of Muslims

Gerry Shih, The Washington Post. Read the original news here. BEIJING — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill late Tuesday that would impose sanctions on ­senior Chinese officials involved in the country’s mass detention of its Muslim … Continued The post China slams House’s passage of bill read more →

China protests as US House passes Uygur bill demanding sanctions over human rights abuses in Xinjiang camps

Owen Churchill & Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post. Read the article here. China has threatened to respond after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a strongly worded bill paving the way for sanctions against Chinese … Continued The post China protests as US House passes read more →

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West

By Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur for the New York Times. Read the article here. Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent. TUMXUK, China — In a dusty city in … Continued The post China Uses DNA to Map Faces, read more →

US House passes Uygur law demanding sanctions on China over Xinjiang camps

Owen Churchill and Kristin Huang, South China Morning Post, 4 December 2019. Read original news here. China has threatened to respond after the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a strongly worded bill paving the way for sanctions against … Continued The post US House passes Uygur law demanding read more →

Congress condemns China over brutal crackdown on the Muslim Minority

Times. December 4, 2019. Read the article here. (WASHINGTON) — Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill Tuesday aimed at pressuring China over a brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the far west of the country, legislation that follows a similar … Continued The post Congress condemns China over brutal crackdown read more →

Should India be bolder with China?

Suyash Desai, The Hindu. Read the article here. India could strengthen its diplomatic leverages against China by issuing statements on Xinjiang, Tibet, the South China Sea, and Hong Kong.  In my opinion, India’s response to China’s diplomatic offensive of recent … Continued The post Should India be bolder with China? read more →

Dalai Lama’s first children book to be published by Puffin

Heloise Wood, The Bookseller. December 3, 2019. Read article here. Puffin will publish the Dalai Lama’s first children’s book, The Seed of Compassion, in March 2020. “For the first time ever, His Holiness addresses children directly, sharing important lessons from his … Continued The post Dalai Lama’s first children book to read more →

ICT calls on China to allow Tibetans to learn in their mother tongue at UN Forum on Minorities

International Campaign for Tibet. December 3, 2019. Read article here. In a statement delivered last week at the 12th Forum on Minority Issues taking place in Geneva on the theme “Education, Language and the Human Rights of Minorities,” ICT highlighted … Continued The post ICT calls on China to allow read more →