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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 →
Tibetan Monks Forced to Watch the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Massimo Introvigne for Bitter Winter There are many images of China during the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, but those collected and posted on Twitter by American scholar Timothy Grose are the saddest and most extraordinary I have seen so far. Although Grose also found images of other ethnic-religious minorities, read more →
Six Tibetan Writers, Activists Sentenced by China on ‘State Security’ Charges
Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok Chinese authorities in Tibet have sentenced six Tibetan writers and activists to prison terms from four to 14 years on charges of “inciting separatism” and “endangering state security,” Tibetan sources say. The six were sentenced in September in Sichuan’s Kardze (in Chinese, Ganzi) read more →
Tibetans in Lhasa forced to watch China’s 20th Party Congress
Radio Free Asia – by Sangyal Kunchok Chinese authorities are ordering residents of Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to tune in to television coverage of China’s 20th Communist Party Congress, forbidding them to leave their homes until the sessions end, RFA has learned. Monasteries and schools in Tibetan areas of western Chinese read more →
US Policy on Tibet Has Lost its Way. We Want to Change That
The Diplomat – by Jim McGovern and Michael T. McCaul For years, Chinese officials have attempted to rewrite history. Now 2 Congressmen say the U.S. should push back on the CCP’s distortion of history rather than abetting it. Qin Gang, ambassador to the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), read more →
Nehru and the ‘pending’ case of Tibet in United Nations
Claude Arpi October 11, 2022 13:37:48 IST / Source : firstpost.com A Canadian scholar, Claudia Johnston, went through the old UN files and found out that following India’s assurance that it would ‘sort out the Tibet issue peacefully with China’, the case was still pending in the UN On 30 read more →