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China Replaces ‘Tibet’ with ‘Xizang’ in Latest Diplomatic Documents
The move is seen as ‘completely politically-driven, to legitimize the occupation and rule of Tibet,’ say experts. -by Radio Free Asia China has replaced the use of the term “Tibet” with “Xizang” as the romanized Chinese name on official diplomatic documents, a recent speech by the Foreign Minister Wang Yi read more →
China’s Latest White Paper for a ‘Global Community of Shared Future’: Another Sugar-Coated Saber
The white paper is all about what China is not. But if China truly embraces this vision instead of hiding its dirty hands behind it, the world could have peace. By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya China under the CCP regime is perhaps among the countries who had issued the largest number read more →
Tibetan Language Classes Banned in Kardze
Notification circulated by Education Bureau in September bans Tibetan language classes from primary to high secondary schools. -by Tibet Watch The Bureau of Education of Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture issued a notification in early September this year forbidding Tibetan language classes from primary to high secondary schools in the prefecture. read more →
China’s Repressive New Law on Religious Activity Venues: A Tibetan View
Order No. 19 that came into force on September 1 negatively affects all Chinese territory and all religions. But it is even worse for Tibet and other occupied regions. by Arya Tsewang Gyalpo The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership has announced that “Order No.19,” “Administrative Measures for Religious Activity Venues,” has read more →
China Shuts Down Lhasa Temples During National Day Holiday Period
Tibetans are told they will lose their jobs or be expelled from schools if they visit religious sites. -by Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have closed some of Tibet’s holiest Buddhist sites during the National Day holiday week and have been searching people on the streets of Lhasa, two Tibetans read more →
Xi Jinping’s New law on Religion is Nothing but ‘Communistization’ of Region
International experts call upon world community to stop Chinese government from implementing new law on religion before it is too late. -by Vijay Kranti for CHASE New Delhi, New York, London, Taipei : October 2 A group of leading international experts on China has drawn the attention of world community read more →
Authorities Arrest Tibetan Man Twice for Possessing Dalai Lama Photo
He was sentenced to 2 years in a prison in China’s Sichuan province. -by Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have arrested a Tibetan man for a second time for being in possession of a photo of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, sources with knowledge of the situation read more →
Returning Tibetans See a Changing Homeland
By RFA Tibetan and Jim Snyder for RFA Investigative On his first visit back to the Tibetan Plateau in nearly a decade, Sengmo was surprised to hear his youngest nieces and nephews converse in Chinese rather than their native tongue. As a member of the Tibetan diaspora, Sengmo knew about read more →
Tibet Was The Buffer Between India And China, Now It Can Be Bridge: Penpa Tsering, Tibetan President-in-Exile
Nayanima Basu for ABP LIVE Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, believes that Tibet had been for the last many decades considered to be the “buffer state” between India and China, but it can now play the role of a “bridge” between New Delhi and Beijing. Tsering, who is officially read more →
Tibetans want more autonomy, not independence or political separation from China: Dalai Lama
SUHASINI HAIDAR for Hindu Tibetans are asking for more autonomy, but not political separation, asserted Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, and said that while he wishes to revisit Lhasa, he would prefer to live on in Dharamshala. Speaking to journalists at his home in Dharamshala on Monday, ahead of what read more →
ICT Calls for Information on Disappeared Tibetans at UN Human Rights Council
-by International Campaign for Tibet BERLIN—At the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) has once again highlighted the worrying pattern of enforced disappearances and arbitrary arrests in Tibet. In his statement on Sept. 19, 2023 on behalf of the Helsinki read more →
China Bars Tibetans from Attending Buddhist Kalachakra Sermon
-by Lhuboom Tash for RFA Tibetan, 14 September 2023 Chinese authorities have barred Tibetans from attending a key Buddhist event called the Kalachakra out of fear that the gathering of more than 100,000 people could pose a threat to the government, according to Tibetans in the region. The move to read more →
China’s Nomenclature Aggression, Erasing Tibet from the World Map
-By Arya Tsewang Gyalpo* Abstract: Chinese Communist party leadership has acquired a new vile passion to wipe off Tibet from the people’s memory and the world map. To this effect, in order not to invite the international community’s ire, it used the Chinese and foreign academicians’ shoulders to shoot the gun. read more →
UN Envoys Tour Tibet on China-Organised Trip amid Rights Scrutiny
By Emma Farge and Laurie Chen. GENEVA/BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) – A group of U.N. ambassadors are touring Tibet on a trip arranged by China, diplomats said, an apparent push by Beijing to counter mounting criticism of its human rights record ahead of a review by the global body in early 2024. Photos read more →
Democratic World Needs to Stop Communist China from Erasing All That is Tibetan
-By N C Bipindra Last Updated:August 28, 2023 17:54:01 IST The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is infamous for its repressive tactics against the people it rules, especially concerning suppressing the minority population. What is glaring is that Tibetans, specifically, seem to be at the receiving end of the CCP stick read more →