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India Need Not Worry About China’s Bluster on Tawang and the Dalai Lama
Kanwal Sibal, The Wire, 9 April 2017 China’s policies in Tibet are reprehensible. The destruction of Tibetan patrimony during the cultural revolution was terrible. The suppression of the human rights of Tibetans, the demographic changes being wrought in Tibet through Han migration, the damage being done to the region’s fragile read more →
Dalai Lama Says China Cannot Decide His Successor
NEW DELHI — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said it is up to the Tibetan people to decide whether the institution of the Dalai Lama will continue and that China cannot decide on his successor.He said he will organize a conference to discuss the issue of the next Dalai read more →
People, not China, will decide fate of my office: Dalai Lama in Tawang
India TV News Desk, 8 April 2017 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said that his followers, and not China, will decide whether the office of the Dalai Lama exits in the future. Addressing a huge gathering of his followers at Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, the Dalai Lama said read more →
Dalai Lama Returns To His First Home In India
NDTV, 8 April 2017 TAWANG, ARUNACHAL PRADESH: The Dalai Lama returned to his first home in India, the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, where he had spent three days after fleeing Tibet in 1959. Monks wearing the traditional yellow hat of the Gelug sect of Buddhism escorted the Dalai Lama read more →
Dalai Lama reaches Tawang amid rousing welcome by hundreds
Times of India, 8 April 2017 TAWANG: Overcoming bad weather, the Dalai Lamafinally arrived in Tawang, the second most important seat of Tibetan Buddhism after Lhasa, amid rousing welcome by hundreds of people to the spiritual leader on Friday. Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khanduaccompanied the Dalai Lama during his read more →
Dalai lama reaches Tawang, receives warm welcome
Dirang: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (L) talking to Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu at the Thupsung Dhargyeling Monastery in Dirang, Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday. PTI Photo A large number of devotees who had come from far-flung areas to catch a glimpse of their beloved leader whom they consider read more →
Dalai Lama’s Journey Provokes China, and Hints at His Heir
The Dalai Lama greeted followers Thursday at a monastery in Dirang, in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Credit Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters By Ellen Barry – The New York Times, 6 April 2017 NEW DELHI — It has been a hard journey for the 81-year-old Dalai Lama, perhaps his last read more →
‘India shares boundary with Tibet, not China’: Arunachal CM on Beijing’s protest over Dalai Lama visit
Source: http://m.indiatvnews.com Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu today said that China has no right to object as it is not even the next-door neighbour in this part of India. Launching a scathing attack on Beijing for raising objections to the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, state Chief Minister Pema Khandu read more →
The kingdom of women: the society where a man is never the boss
source: https://www.theguardian.com It’s a place where women rule, marriage doesn’t exist and everything follows the maternal bloodline. But is it as good for women as it sounds – and how long can it last? Imagine a society without fathers; without marriage (or divorce); one in which nuclear families don’t exist. read more →
Dalai Lama’s message for China from Arunachal: Situation inside Tibet tragic
By Manogya Loiwal | Edited by Shashank Shantanu – India Today Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is visiting Arunachal Pradesh amid strong reactions from China. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has described the present situation in his home country as deplorable even as Chinese state media threatened that Beijing read more →
China Uighurs: Ban on long beards, veils in Xinjiang
Beijing says new rules are necessary to fight ‘extremism’ but rights groups have called similar restrictions repressive. China has banned “abnormal” beards and full-face coverings in the remote western region of Xinjiang as part of tighter “anti-extremism” regulations that also prohibit rejecting state media. Xinjiang is home to about 10 read more →
Trump urged to raise Tibet and human rights issues with Chinese president Xi
By PTI | Published: 05th April 2017 10:07 PM | Indian Express WASHINGTON: A bipartisan group of lawmakers have urged US President Donald Trump to raise the issue of human rights violations in China, in particular, those related to Tibet when he meets his Chinese counterpart this week. Simultaneously, influential US lawmakers have read more →
On Eve of Chinese President’s US visit, Congressional Bicameral Bill Calls for Americans to Receive the Same Access to Tibet that Chinese Citizens Enjoy in the United States
International Campaign For Tibet ON APRIL 4, 2017 McGovern, Hultgren, Rubio, Baldwin introduce Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act in both House and Senate of the US Congress to lift restrictions on US citizens’ access to Tibet On the eve of the first summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President read more →
US: China Rights Abuse Overview Ahead of Xi-Trump Summit
(New York, April 4, 2017) – China’s human rights environment continues to deteriorate as Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump prepare to meet at a summit on April 6-7, 2017, at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Human Rights Watch said today. “Torture, disappearances, imprisoning peaceful advocates, destroying religious communities, read more →
Trump and Global Security
Jamie Metzl The United States is facing perhaps the most dangerous moment since the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack or the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. This danger does not stem from terrorism, immigration, or Islamic extremism but instead from the rapid deterioration of the post-World War Two international order. The Trump read more →