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ICT to name its Tibetan Empowerment programs to honor the contribution of Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari
International Campaign for Tibet, JANUARY 16, 2019, Read original news here The Boards of the International Campaign for Tibet have decided to name the different Tibetan empowerment programs undertaken by our organization as the Lodi Gyari Tibetan Empowerment Program to honor … Continued
Tide is turning against autocrats, human rights group says
By Rob Picheta, CNN, January 17, 2019 Read original news here (CNN)The global tide of populism is being reversed as protesters, politicians and international organizations confront autocratic leaders, NGO Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The group pointed to protests and sanctions … Continued
Xi Jinping deploys China’s legal system to bully the West
The Washington Post, John Pomfret, January 17 2019 Read original news here China’s game of international chicken over the apprehension of a Chinese telecommunications executive in Canada got deadly serious this week. On Monday, a court in the northeastern Chinese city of … Continued
Chinese Moves to Organize Via WeChat Worry Local Communist Authorities
Epoch Times, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Officials in Muchuan County, in southwestern China, are telling local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations to prevent people from organizing through WeChat, a popular Chinese social-media site. On Jan. 10, the … Continued
U.S. Universities Shut Down Confucius Institutes
China Digital Times, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Amid rising concerns of curtailed academic freedoms, U.S. universities are increasingly closing down Confucius Institutes, which are Chinese government-funded centers offering Mandarin-language and cultural courses that at one point numbered over 100 in … Continued
Brexit: Theresa May’s deal is voted down in historic Commons defeat
BBC, 16 January 2019 Read original news here Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the … Continued
Huang Qi, Online Dissident and Rights Advocate in China, Faces Trial
By Ian Johnson, New York Times, 14 January 2019 Read original news here BEIJING — One of China’s most prominent human rights activists, the blogger Huang Qi, went on trial on Monday on charges of leaking state secrets, and American diplomats … Continued
Canada issues China travel alert as tensions escalate
Al Jazeera, 15 January 2019 Read original news here Canada has warned its citizens of the risk of “arbitrary enforcement” of local laws in China after a Canadian man convicted of drug trafficking was suddenly retried and sentenced to death, … Continued
Politics of Tourists Visits Figures in Tibet
On January 10th 2019, at the opening day of the 2nd session of the 11th Tibetan People’s Congress in Lhasa, Chinese officials released an annual report detailing the arrival of 33.68 million tourist to Tibet. The Chinese government refers to the Tibet Autonomous Region … Continued
Globe editorial: For China’s government, the rule of law is a foreign concept
Globe and Mail, 14 January 2019 Read original news here Who knew the Chinese government was so woke. As part of its spat with Ottawa over the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last month, it has accused Canada of … Continued
In China, they’re closing churches, jailing pastors – and even rewriting scripture
China’s Communist party is intensifying religious persecution as Christianity’s popularity grows. A new state translation of the Bible will establish a ‘correct understanding’ of the text Lily Kuo in Chengdu, Sun 13 Jan 2019, The Guardian Rush hour in the centre of … Continued
How the State Is Co-Opting Religion in China
Foreign Affairs, By Ian Johnson, January 7 2019, Read original news here. The message reached me in early December via Signal, an encrypted messaging service that many Chinese use to bypass the closely monitored social media app WeChat. The day that many … Continued
US, China leave next steps for trade talks unclear
By Joe McDonald and Paul Wiseman | AP, January 10 at 5:46 AM BEIJING — The United States and China gave no indication of their next step after wrapping up talks aimed at resolving a tariff fight that threatens to chill global … Continued
‘This is sacred space’: An open letter to Xi Jinping from the the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Hong Kong Free Press, 9 January 2019, Read original news here Taiwan’s unification with the mainland is “inevitable”, China’s President Xi Jinping said on January 2. Xi warned against efforts to promote the island’s independence, adding that Beijing would not … Continued
Ignoring climate change in the Himalayas
The Third Pole.net, Climate change has already made the mountain communities in the Tibetan Plateau and the Nepali villages in the west that border it very vulnerable, and new infrastructure adds to the risk. This is the second part in … Continued