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Cultural Genocide to become more serious under Xi Jinping
International experts express fears in an international webinar on “FATE OF CHINA’S COLONIES UNDER NEW XI JINPING” By: VIJAY KRANTI Expert speakers at an international webinar expressed deep fears of further escalation of the ongoing process of what they termed as ‘cultural genocide’. The discussions were focused on China’s forcibly read more →
Chinese bots flood Twitter in attempt to obscure Covid protests
Dan Milmo and Helen Davidson in Taipei. Monday 28 November 2022. Activity indicates ‘first major failure’ to stop government interference under ownership of Elon Musk Mourners in Hong Kong hold blank sheets of paper during a vigil for the victims of the Ürümqi fire in China. Photograph: Jérôme Favre/EPA Twitter has been read more →
China asserts dominance and intensifies surveillance in Tibet
ANI for The Print Lhasa [Tibet], November 23 (ANI): Reports have surfaced that China is sparing no tactics in asserting its dominance in the China-occupied Tibet region. This comes at a time when the surveillance tactics employed by the Chinese Communist Party in that region are almost choking the lives read more →
Human rights violations shoot up as China increases mass DNA testing in Tibet: Report
Lhasa [Tibet], November 17 (ANI): Surveillance has tightened up across China as the authorities have increased the DNA mass tests, including the arbitrary collection of DNA from residents in many towns and villages throughout the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), several media reports said. Citing the survey of a report from read more →
Head of Tibetan exile govt renounces ‘One China Policy’ during visit to city
The Shillong Times. Nov 14, 2022. Sikyong Penpa Tsering. Alongside is Tsering Dolma, Tibetan Parliamentarian. SHILLONG, Nov 13: The Sikyong (president) of the Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Penpa Tsering, who took over from Lobsang Sangay in May 2021, was on a two-day visit to Meghalaya. read more →
Commission: Congress, Administration Should Promote Tibet-China Conflict Resolution
-By International Campaign for Tibet The US Congress and the Biden administration should push for a resolution to China’s decades-long conflict against Tibet, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China says in its new annual report. The report, released today, Nov. 16, 2022, says China’s officials “continue to show no interest in read more →
Popular Tibetan Video-sharing App to be Shut Down
GangYang’s creator cites growing expenses, but a rights group points to a Chinese clampdown. Radio Free Asia – By Sangyal Kunchok The creator of a popular Tibetan language video-sharing app abruptly announced on Thursday he was shutting it down for financial reasons, a source inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region said. read more →
China imprisons 2 Tibetan monks for sending donations to Dalai Lama
Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Eugene Whong. Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced two monks from the Kirti monastery in Sichuan province to prison for sending prayer offerings to the Dalai Lama and the abbot of their monastery, both living in exile in India, Radio Free Asia read more →
Can the US live in Xi Jinping’s world?
John Sudworth for the BBC Ten days ago Xi Jinping walked out in front of the world’s media – depleted somewhat by his government’s growing intolerance of foreign reporters – as the most powerful Chinese leader in decades. A tradition that limited his recent predecessors to two terms had been read more →
Authorities allow Tibetans in Lhasa to travel in region amid COVID wave
-By Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities have relaxed severe COVID-19 lockdowns in parts of the far-western Tibet region, allowing Tibetans residing temporarily in the regional capital Lhasa for work or other reasons to return to their hometowns beginning Monday, sources in the region said. A wave of coronavirus infections hit read more →
China Covid: Videos emerge of rare protests in Tibet
BBC News. October 28, 2022. Footage has emerged showing what appear to be rare large-scale protests against strict Covid-19 measures in the Tibetan regional capital, Lhasa. Multiple videos on social media show hundreds demonstrating and clashing with police. They are said to be mostly ethnic Han Chinese migrant workers. The read more →
Protests break out in Tibetan capital against China’s strict Covid restrictions
-By Radio Free Asia Tibetans take to Lhasa streets in first demonstrations since 2008 Tibetan Uprising. Angry residents in the Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the harsh COVID-19 lockdown that Chinese authorities have imposed on them for more than two months, Radio read more →
China accused of illegal police stations in the Netherlands
By Anna Holligan for BBC News, The Hague. The Chinese government has been accused of establishing at least two undeclared “police stations” in the Netherlands. Dutch media found evidence that the “overseas service stations”, which promise to provide diplomatic services, are being used to try to silence Chinese dissidents in read more →
Outside of China, concern exceeds optimism as Xi Jinping begins third term as ruler
By Paul Eckert for Radio Free Asia, 2022.10.23. From U.S. relations to human rights to Uyghur repression, many experts see more potential trouble than hope. The Chinese Communist Party wrapped up its 20th National Congress at the weekend, granting an unprecedented third five-year term to CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping. read more →
Xi Jinping’s extended term as supreme leader sparks warning to China’s ethnic groups
-By Radio Free Asia The Chinese Communist Party leader omits all mention of ethnic regional autonomy in his report to party congress. Xi Jinping’s third term in office as Chinese Communist Party supreme leader will likely mean more suffering for ethnic minority groups in China, exiled activists warned in recent read more →