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Xi Jinping’s Tibet Comments Show Need for Conflict Resolution: ICT
-by International Campaign for Tibet STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent comments on Tibet should encourage the international community to take stronger action to help resolve the longstanding Tibet-China conflict. According to China’s state media, Xi sent a letter this week to a development read more →
Tibetan Monk Released from Prison in Poor Health after Serving Two-Year Sentence
Sonam Gyatso was sent to jail for ‘sending money for prayer offerings’ to the Dalai Lama. By Sangyal Kunchok for RFA Tibetan 2023.05.25 A Tibetan Buddhist monk serving a jail sentence for “sending money for prayer offerings” to the Dalai Lama and to the abbot of his monastery has been read more →
China Makes Getting a Tourist Visa to Tibet Tougher for Foreign Visitors in Nepal
New rules require in-person interviews and fingerprinting. -by Radio Free Asia China has put in place stricter visa rules and conditions for foreign tourists who want to visit Tibet via neighboring Nepal, according to two travel agencies operating in the Nepalese capital. The Chinese government routinely blocks access to Tibet read more →
G7 Leaders Concerned about Tibetan Human Rights, Forced Labor
-by International Campaign for Tibet Leaders of the Group of Seven nations say that the human rights situation in Tibet is a “major concern to us” and that they will continue voicing their concerns about it. In a communiqué following the group’s just-concluded annual summit, the G7 leaders say: “We read more →
Irrepressible Tibet: Seven Decades of Fighting Chinese Lies with Compassion and Truth
After decades of brutal communist persecution, the people of Tibet remain unmoved and unafraid. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is at the heart of their resilience. May 19, 2023. By Jason Morgan, Reitaku University It is often said that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a totalitarian government. Indeed, it read more →
28 Years Since the Enforced Disappearance of Tibet’s Panchen Lama by the Chinese Government
-by Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) Today, we observe the 28th anniversary of the Chinese government’s arbitrary detention and subsequent enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama Jetsun Tenzin Gedhun Yeshi Trinley Phuntsok Pal Sangpo, widely recognised by his lay name Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who turned 34 read more →
Six Reported Missing After Accident at Copper Mine in Tibet
-By Tibetan Review Six workers have been reported missing after an accident on May 14 at the Julong Copper and Polymetallic mine which is located in Maldrogungkar (Chinese: Mozhugongka) County of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region. Nothing has been stated about the ethnic identity of the missing miners, although mines read more →
State Department Report Says China Oppressed Tibetan Buddhist Leaders, Practitioners
-By International Campaign for Tibet A new US State Department report chronicles China’s oppression of Tibetan Buddhist practitioners and efforts to keep two of the religion’s most prominent leaders out of sight inside Tibet. The State Department’s 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom, released May 15, 2023, documents allegations of read more →
Police Forcibly Remove Imprisoned Tibetan’s Protesting Sister
-by International Campaign for Tibet After being hidden by a large police banner during her protest a little over two weeks ago, Gonpo Kyi (Chinese: Gongbao Ji), elder sister of imprisoned Tibetan former businessman Dorjee Tashi (Douji Zhaxi), returned to protest again on May 10, presumably in front of the read more →
Another Chinese media campaign to smash the image of the Dalai Lama
Rigzin Genkhang, Representative of Office of Tibet Brussels for La Libre Back to this controversy about the Dalai Lama asking a child to “eat his tongue”. The manipulated video and its misinterpretation of facts taken out of context is yet another example of the communication war against a spiritual and political read more →
Renowned Tibetan Filmmaker Pema Tseden Dies at 53
-Radio Free Asia Award-winning Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, best-known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon” and admired by both Chinese and Tibetans for his work showing the living conditions of Tibetans, died in Lhasa on Monday, several sources told Radio Free Asia. He was 53. He died of heart failure, a source read more →
China is Blocking Tibetan Monks and Writers from Spreading Religious Content Online
The move is part of China’s effort to destroy influence of prominent thinkers and religious figures. -by Sangyal Kunchok, Radio Free Asia China has been rigorously barring Tibetan writers, Buddhist monks and other influential people from spreading religious content online without prior approval, sources told Radio Free Asia. The clampdown, read more →
Chinese Medium Education Imposed in Schools Across Ngaba Despite Criticisms from Tibetan Scholars and Educators
-by TCHRD Early this year, Chinese authorities quietly began enforcing an assimilationist education system in Tibetan primary schools in Ngaba (Ch: Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in the Tibetan province of Amdo. The Model 2 education system has been introduced in primary and middle schools across Ngaba read more →
Recentering Tibet in India’s Approach to China
-by Tenzin Lhadon, Tibet Policy Institute Abstract India and China have transitioned into modern states along with their relationship which has seen ups and downs like any other nation states. They have come a long way into forming a considerably stable bilateral relationship that was best reflected in their economic read more →
China’s Narrative War: Impact and Challenges for South Asia
Vijay Kranti, India Foundation Journal. May 1, 2023. It is quite interesting and equally annoying too, to note that with the ever increasing economic and military might of China, the leadership of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is becoming assertive, rather bullying, in forcing its own narratives on the world community. read more →