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China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity Toughened
Human Rights Watch, 11 September 2019 Read original article here. (New York) – A Chinese Communist Party notice banning retired Tibetan government employees from taking part in religious activities violates China’s commitment to religious freedom, Human Rights Watch said today. The notice obtained by … Continued The post China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity read more →
Rights Group Calls for Action on Fate of Missing Panchen Lama, Other Disappeared Tibetans
Richard Finney, Radio Free Asia. Read the article here. A Finland-based rights group renewed calls this week for information on the fate of missing Tibetan religious leader the Panchen Lama, urging that he and other Tibetans who have disappeared in … Continued The post Rights Group Calls for Action on read more →
India Is Changing The Game For China And Pakistan In Kashmir
Panos Mourdoukoutas, Forbes, September 12 2019 Read original article here. The US-China trade war has provided Indian Prime Minister Modi with an opportunity he couldn’t refuse: to change the game in Kashmir for China and Pakistan. Back in August New Delhi terminated Article … Continued The post India Is Changing The Game For read more →
US Lawmakers Ask Pentagon for List of Chinese Companies That Conduct ‘Economic Espionage’
The Epoch Times, 12 September 2019 Read original article here. WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers asked the Pentagon on Sept. 12 to name companies owned by the Chinese military operating in the United States, as they seek to curb what they … Continued The post US Lawmakers Ask Pentagon for List read more →
Indian, Chinese soldiers get into scuffle in Ladakh
Rajat Pandit, Times of India. Read the article here. NEW DELHI: Border tensions between India and China flared up yet again on Wednesday with a prolonged confrontation between the rival troops in eastern Ladakh, even as the Indian Army gets all set … Continued The post Indian, Chinese soldiers get into scuffle read more →
China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity Toughened
Human Rights Watch, 11 September 2019, Read the original article here. Scrap Limits on Former Officials’ Freedom of Religion (New York) – A Chinese Communist Party notice banning retired Tibetan government employees from taking part in religious activities violates China’s commitment to religious freedom, … Continued The post China: Ban on Tibet Religious Activity read more →
Miami Dade College is shutting down its Confucius Institute
By ANDREW ATTERBURY, Politico.com, 09/06/2019 Read original article here TALLAHASSEE — Miami Dade College on Thursday terminated its contract with the Confucius Institute, effectively shuttering the last of four branches the organization, affiliated with the Chinese government, operated in the Sunshine State. The move, … Continued The post Miami Dade College is shutting down read more →
Kashmir: China may pose bigger challenge than Pakistan
Prabhash K Dutta, India Today. Read the article here. China is already occupying 20 per cent of land belonging to Jammu and Kashmir. While Pakistan has failed to find support over Kashmir move, China, on the other hand, may hold … Continued The post Kashmir: China may pose bigger challenge read more →
‘We can’t do anything’: China accused of muffling voices of Hong Kong supporters
Lily Kuo, The Guardian. Read the article here. Advocacy groups say activists in mainland China are being threatened or detained for posting messages of support or retweeting news stories. Chen Siming, a 58-year-old Chinese activist, has followed the protests in Hong … Continued The post ‘We can’t do anything’: China accused read more →
China readies for next Dalai Lama. Why India should be worried
Claude Arpi, DailyO. Read the article here. On August 18, a video addressed to members of the Minnesota Tibetan Association, which received wide circulation on social media, brought joy to the Dalai Lama’s followers — the Nobel laureate said that … Continued The post China readies for next Dalai Lama. read more →
Nepal Deports 6 Tibetan Asylum Seekers to China
By Kunsang Tenzin, Radio Free Asia, 9 September 2019, Read the original article here. Nepal deported six Tibetans who had crossed into the Himalayan country to seek asylum, handing them over to Chinese police shortly after they crossed the border … Continued The post Nepal Deports 6 Tibetan Asylum Seekers read more →
Tibetans want Aussie law to get access
AAP, 7News, 9 September 2019,Read the original article here. Before China was putting Uighur Muslims into “re-education centres”, it was occupying Tibet and banning foreigners from visiting the mountainous region. The Australian Tibetan community wants to remind the world of … Continued The post Tibetans want Aussie law to get read more →
Peaceful talks needed in Hong Kong: Dalai Lama
By Staff Writer, Taipei Times, 8 September 2019, Read the original article here ‘I FEEL A LITTLE WORRIED’:The Dalai Lama praised the democracy, freedoms and religious knowledge in Taiwan, saying such assets are the way to defeat totalitarianism Tibetan spiritual … Continued The post Peaceful talks needed in Hong Kong: read more →
Caught between human rights and trade, Angela Merkel lands in China
By Ben Westcott, CNN, 6 September 2019, Read the original article here. Hong Kong (CNN)Angela Merkel was welcomed by Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on Friday amid calls for the German Chancellor to take a stronger line on China’s human rights … Continued The post Caught between human rights and trade, read more →
Inside China’s Crackdown On Human Rights Advocates
By Emily Feng, National Public Radio, 6 September 2019, Read the original article here. Cheng Hao is struggling to understand why his younger brother was arrested. The 50-year-old retiree and occasional deliveryman says he was living a quiet, unremarkable existence … Continued The post Inside China’s Crackdown On Human Rights read more →