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China plans world’s biggest national park on Tibetan plateau
South China Morning Post China is considering turning the entire Tibetan plateau and surrounding mountains into a huge national park to protect “the last piece of pure land”, according to scientists briefed on the project. Dubbed the Third Pole National Park because the plateau and mountains, including the Himalayas, have read more →
Chinese Media blames India for Nepal’s scaling down military drills
by PTI, 21 April, 2017, 1:59 pm Since the 1990s, balanced diplomacy has become the basic principle of Nepal’s foreign strategy. Beijing: Nepal has scaled down the size of its first-ever military exercise with China after facing strong opposition from India, state-run Chinese media claimed on Friday. The 10-day read more →
China limits travel to both Koreas as conflict heats up
By Daniel Meesak, publisher of Jing Travel After deciding to crack down on travel by its citizens to South Korea from March 15, China is now expanding those restrictions to include North Korea as well, with Chinese tour operators suspending sales of tours in the isolated country. Chinese tourists have long made read more →
China and India renew war of words over Tibet
The Dalai Lama waves to supporters at a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh this month © AP By Lucy Hornby in beijing, Aliya Ram in New Delhi – Financial Times, 20 April 2017 India calls Arunachal an ‘integral’ part of its country after Beijing adjusts read more →
Chinese influence in Hollywood has cost me film roles
by Ben Hoyle, Los Angeles, April 20, 2017, The Times In 1993 Richard Gere, a friend of the Dalai Lama, denounced Tibet’s “horrendous human rights situation”MANDEL NGAN/ GETTY IMAGES Richard Gere has spent decades criticizing China’s occupation of Tibet in interviews, at street protests and even from the Oscar read more →
China to host biggest summit of the year on New Silk Road
by Reuters, April 20, 2017 9:01 AM (UTC+8), China will gather its friends and allies together for its biggest diplomatic event of the year in May, a summit on its New Silk Road plan, with most Asian leaders due to attend but only one from a G7 nation, the Italian read more →
The night my father escaped Tibet
By Rignam Wangkhang My father, Tsering Dorjee Wangkhang, was one of the first two Tibetan refugees to come to Canada in 1970. His long journey from Tibet to Canada was full of hardship, suffering, and hope. Tsering was only 13 years old when his entire family uprooted their lives and read more →
Does Tibet connection exist in top-level leadership promotion in China?
Will he be the next to be promoted? Guizhou Communist Party boss Chen Miner at a meeting in Beijing. Photo: Reuters/Stringer By Tenzin Tseten, originally published on Asia Times – April 3, 2017 Leaders connected to Tibet at some stage in their careers get fast-tracked to the Politburo or its read more →
The Brahmaputra River and Sino-Indian Relations
By Asma-Khan Lone The present controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, especially to the Tawang Monastery, a revered symbol of Tibetan Buddhist tradition, is not a stand-alone episode of bilateral bickering between antagonist neighbors India and China, but part of a larger strand of strategic powerplay underscored read more →
Nervous China ramps up religious persecution
by Doug Bandow, Japan Times President Xi Jinping’s China is becoming a more fearful place. The government has cracked down both on dissent and contact with the West. Religious persecution also is rising: the communist god that failed fears competition. A new Freedom House report details how “the authorities have read more →
On the trail of the mighty mountain momo
By Tsering Namgyal, April 15, 2017 – Asia Times Momos, or Himalayan steamed dumplings, must have a long history, but tracing their origin is akin to solving a culinary mystery of Da Vinci Code complexity. In a very short span, momos have become one of the most sought-after types of read more →
Tibet bill introduced in U.S. House and Senate
The Sunday Guardian – 16 April 2017 A bill has been introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the United States of America (USA) seeking unhindered access to Tibetan areas to US officials, journalists and common citizens, something which is routinely denied by the Chinese government. read more →
Cross signals across the Himalayas
By M K Narayanan, The Hindu – 15 April 2017 India must realise that China is no longer willing to remain a status quo power The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was in Arunachal Pradesh recently, which has greatly ruffled China’s feathers. Any reference to Arunachal Pradesh (‘Southern Tibet’ as read more →
Both India and China nominate Tibetan medicine system for Unesco honour
Written by Divya A | New Delhi | Published:April 12, 2017 4:43 am INDIA HAS nominated the Tibetan medicine system of Sowa-Rigpa for inclusion on Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list at a time Beijing too has staked claim to this form of cure by sending a similar entry to the read more →
New India, different China
Ram Madhav – 13 April 2017 – The Indian Express Global Times, one of the most influential media organs in China, carried a provocative editorial on India last week in which it asked the rhetorical question: Is India capable of withstanding a “geopolitical” onslaught from an economically and militarily stronger read more →