News From Other Sites
An Open Letter by a Tibetan Cadre : High Peaks Pure Earth
High Peaks Pure Earth Read original article here High Peaks Pure Earth has translated an open letter to the Chinese leadership written by Luo Feng, a Tibetan cadre, about the Communist Party Secretary of Ngaba (Ch: Aba), Shi Jun. The … Continued
House of Representatives Passes the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act Introduced by Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA)
The Medium, 25 September 2018 Read original news here Congressman McGovern’s remarks upon passage, as delivered: “Mr. Speaker, today is a great day for human rights. The House is about to approve our bipartisan bill –The Reciprocal Access to Tibet … Continued
How China Is Losing the World
Kerry Brown, September 25, 2018 Read original news here We are in treacherous times. Everyone seems to agree: From Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama to former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, all have recently said that the current time is an … Continued
From Illiteracy to PhD: How Exiled Tibetan Buddhist Nuns Are Ensuring Gender Parity
The Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute hosted 46 nuns taking their ‘Geshema’ exams from August 15-26. The four-year ‘geshe’ degree is considered the highest academic degree in Tibetan Buddhism, the equivalent of a PhD. “Some feminists from the West could … Continued
China has silenced American academics for years. Now they’re pushing back.
By Fred Hiatt, Editorial page editor, September 23 at 7:50 PM Read original news here When it comes to China, Americans are victims of an insidious kind of censorship that stunts the debate they hear and read in nearly invisible ways. The … Continued
Maldives voters throw out China-backed strongman president
Michael Safi, The Guardian, 24 September 2018 Read original news here Voters in the Maldives have thrown out the incumbent president, Abdulla Yameen, in an extraordinary rebuke to a leader who jailed political opponents and judges and drew his country closer to … Continued
Making a Deal with the Devil
Thubten Samphel, Tibet Policy Institute, Read the original news here This month the Vatican and China signed a provisional agreement that allows the Holy See to approve bishops appointed by the Chinese Communist Party. Some commentators say the Vatican just … Continued
Vatican signs historic deal with China on bishop appointments
China and the Vatican have reached a historic agreement on the appointment of Chinese bishops, with Pope Francis recognising seven clerics ordained by Beijing without the approval of the Holy See in a move that could help ease tensions in … Continued
Rare Tibet Trip Shows China Only Wants a Dalai Lama It Can Control
Bloomberg News September 22, 2018, 2:30 AM GMT+5:30 For three centuries, a succession of Tibetan spiritual and political leaders known as Dalai Lama ruled from a crimson-and-white castle overlooking the city of Lhasa. The Potala Palace — as it’s known — was the start of a rare tour of Tibet read more →
US trade hawks seize their chance to reset China relations
Rana Foroohar Financial Times, 23 Sept 2018 Read original news herehttps://www.ft.com/content/a42e0402-bd7a-11e8-94b2-17176fbf93f5 It would be easy to see the latest $200bn round of US tariffs against China, set to go into effect on Monday, as just another provocative shot fired off … Continued
A Boiling Pot: The CCP’s Increasingly Intrusive Surveillance in Tibet
China’s repressive campaign in Xinjiang is now well-known. But what about Tibet? For the past few years, the intensity and the diversity of China’s surveillance systems in Tibet have been growing to an unprecedented scale. Findings from numerous rights groups … Continued
Shinzo Abe Gets One Step Closer to Becoming Japan’s Longest-Serving Premier
Sept. 20, 2018 TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a commanding victory in a vote for the leadership of Japan’s governing party on Thursday, moving him closer to his dream of becoming the longest-serving prime minister in the country’s … Continued
Are Xi Jinping’s demands for Communist Party loyalty a bigger threat to China than Donald Trump’s trade war?
Beijing’s centralisation campaign could end up sapping dynamism from the world’s second-biggest economy, critics say As Chinese officials prepared a response to US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs, they spent hundreds of hours over the past few months on another … Continued
Cyberspace controls set to strengthen under China’s new internet boss
Nectar Gan, 20 September 2018 Read original news here The new chief of China’s powerful internet regulator has vowed to “unswervingly” strengthen Communist Party control over the world’s largest online population. Zhuang Rongwen, who last month was appointed as director … Continued
Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers
The Intercept, Ryan Gallagher, September 15 2018 Read original news here GOOGLE BUILT A prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier for the Chinese government to monitor people’s queries, The … Continued