News From Other Sites
Chinese authorities transport supplies from Tibet to pandemic hit Shanghai, label it ‘donation’
ANI for The Print. Lhasa [Tibet], April 19 (ANI): China has been transporting supplies from Tibet, including Yak meat and drinking water to COVID-19 hit Shanghai while labelling the exercise a ‘donation’, media reports have said. “Anti-epidemic supplies” including 100 tonnes of dried yak meat and 3,000 tonnes of drinking read more →
70 Years In Tibet And Beyond: World Must Be Wary Of China’s Renewed Sinicization Drive
-By Ommcom News The recently concluded Winter Olympic Games in Beijing were in the news for many reasons. While a Russian biathlon participant took her grievance about meagre and unpalatable food to social media, another fellow Russian courted controversy after she tested positive for a banned substance. The journalists who read more →
Hydro-hegemony: China’s Plans for Disrupting Regional Power Balance in Asia
By Jamphel Shonu, Global Order – 14 April 2022 Amidst all the talk of tech and the AI (artificial intelligence) taking over the world, there is a growing uncertainty about how the future world might look like. Speculation is rife with predictions that the country with the most advanced technology read more →
The salt of the earth
Jag Bahadur Budha – Nepali Times – 9 April 2022 While it is unclear when and how salt was first introduced to Nepal’s culture and cuisine, what is clear is that Tibetan salt was once the foundation of our Himalayan economy and livelihood. From the Walung, Lhomi, Bhote, Sherpa, Byasi read more →
‘Middle Way’ approach for Tibet not just about politics: Dalai Lama
Translated with additional reporting by Tenzin Dickyi for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Written in English by Richard Finney. A Middle Way approach to the question of Tibet’s status under Beijing’s rule does not concern politics alone and will benefit both the Tibetan and the Chinese people, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai read more →
State Department report documents China’s wide-ranging human rights abuses in Tibet
-By International Campaign for Tibet The State Department’s 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices say the Chinese government committed significant human rights violations against the Tibetan people last year, including credible reports of unlawful or arbitrary killings, extrajudicial killings, torture, and cases of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. The read more →
Tibetan parents forced to learn Chinese language to teach children
-By Tibet Watch The Chinese government’s campaign to push Mandarin Chinese as the main spoken and written language for Tibetans now includes giving parents the responsibility for teaching their children. Tibetan parents, mostly nomads and farmers, whose mother tongue is Tibetan, are being forced to attend workshops and classes. The read more →
Tibet continues to witness human rights violation: Report
ANI for The Print Lhasa [Tibet], April 12 (ANI): Human Rights Violation continues to take place in Tibet despite the Chinese Communist Party’s promise to improve it on many occasions, a Canada-based think tank, International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS).Lhasa [Tibet], April 12 (ANI): Human Rights Violation continues to read more →
Forcible recruitment of Tibetans by PLA won’t help China, say refugees living in India
– By The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: China has been recruiting Tibetans into the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for a few years now. It is learnt that some of the conscripts have not even hit their teens. The objective of recruiting them in the PLA is for deployment along read more →
How China’s Authorities Aim to Control Tibetan Reincarnation
Human Rights Watch – by Sophie Richardson Lama’s Death Shrouded in Government Campaign of Secrecy, Persecution. Despite draconian controls on the flow of information between Tibet and the outside world, word recently emerged of the death of an 86-year-old lama named Tulku Dawa in Lhasa, and attempts by the Chinese government read more →
Across South Asia, U.S. and India Push Back Against China
By C Raja Mohan – Foreign Affairs – 6 April 2022 When Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar and Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh hold a so-called two-plus-two dialogue with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington on Monday, managing the discord between their read more →
The Collision: New Insight Into The Formation Of Himalayas
Asian Scientist – By Sukanya Charuchandra AsianScientist (Apr. 5, 2022)– The lofty Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau formed when the Eurasian and Indian continental plates collided. These plates are large independently moving tracts of the Earth’s surface. A new study reports that the Indian continental plate likely tilts downward under the read more →
Ukraine invasion revived memories of Chinese occupation of Tibet: International jurist
ANI for The Print. California [US], April 3 (ANI): The war between Russia and Ukraine revived the memories of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, said an international law jurist. Prof. Michael Van Walt Van Praag, an international law jurist who specializes in international conflict resolution, said “an interesting outcome of read more →
China continues to forcibly induct Tibetans into PLA
Times Now – By Srinjoy Chowdhury The Chinese attempts to forcibly enlist Tibetans have been going on for a while. The Tibetans are better suited to handling the cold and high altitude than the Han Chinese from the coastal areas. Beijing’s efforts to press gang Tibetans into the People’s Liberation read more →
Tibet man attempts self-immolation near monastery in Qinghai
By Sangay Kunchok for Radio Free Asia. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Written in English by Paul Eckert. A Tibetan man set himself on fire near a police station in a Tibetan region of northwestern China’s Qinghai province and was immediately taken away by authorities with no read more →