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US expresses concern over reports of China’s actions against Tibetan Buddhists
Hindustan Times-14 January 2022 The statement comes days after reports of China destroying a second Buddhist statue revered by Tibetans in western China’s Sichuan province emerged. The US state department on Thursday expressed concern over reports of China’s actions against Tibetan Buddhists, including the destruction of Buddha statues as a read more →
MI5 issues a rare statement naming a woman it suspects is a Chinese agent and warning British politicians to avoid her
Business Insider – 13 January 2022 MI5 has issued a rare warning to British politicians to avoid a woman suspected of being a Chinese agent. In a letter to British parliamentarians sent on Thursday, the UK’s Security Service named Christine Lee, a solicitor, as having “knowingly engaged in political interference read more →
TIBETAN GRADUATE STUDENT DETAINED FOR EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT TIBETAN LANGUAGE
Free Tibet-12 January 2022 Language advocate Loten has been taken to a reform centre after sharing his views on WeChat. On 12 December 2021, Chinese authorities and security personnel in Matoe County arrested Loten (བློ་བསྟན།), a college graduate student after he spoke in an online messaging group on WeChat expressing read more →
Two Tibetan monks arrested, held with no word to their family
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Lobsang Choephel Two Tibetan monks arrested by authorities in western China’s Sichuan province are incommunicado five months after being taken into custody, with family members increasingly worried about their well-being, RFA has learned. Tenzin Norbu and Wangchen Nyima, who are brothers, were arrested on Aug. 15, read more →
US concerned by China’s attempt to ‘intimidate’ neighbours: White House
Economic Times – Jan 11, 2022 The US is concerned by China’s attempt to “intimidate” its neighbours, including India, as Washington believes that Beijing’s behaviour in the region and around the world could be “destabilising”, the White House has said, asserting that America will continue to stand with its partners. read more →
Tibetan documentary filmmaker visited Denmark to push for a Winter Olympics boycott
ScandAsia-10 January 2022 The Tibetan documentary filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen is travelling through Europe to create awareness about China as the host nation for the Olympic Games and he recently visited Denmark, DR News reports. Dhondup Wangchen is a system critic who, ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, made a documentary read more →
ANOTHER GIANT STATUE OF BUDDHA TORN DOWN IN DRAGO COUNTY
-Free Tibet Monks and civilians arrested and tortured in detention amid a wave of demolitions. Tibet Watch has learned from sources that another giant statue of Buddha was torn down amid a wave of ongoing demolitions in Drago County that has also seen a 99-foot Buddha statue, 45 prayer wheels, and a read more →
MEA Decries China’s Letter To MPs On Attending Tibet Event; ‘tone & Tenor Inappropriate’
Akhil Oka for Republic World On Thursday, the Ministry of External Affairs lambasted the Chinese Embassy’s letter to Indian MPs over their attendance at a reception hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile in December 2021. As per reports, the political counsellor at the Chinese embassy expressed concern over the participation of the read more →
Beijing fines 7-Eleven for calling Taiwan a country
The Guardian-7 January 2022 Beijing has fined and issued a warning to 7-Eleven over its website listing Taiwan as a country and displaying maps it said contained erroneous borders for Xinjiang and Tibet. The Beijing municipal government fined the company 50,000 yuan ($7,842) for the “errors” including “wrongful act of assigning Taiwan read more →
India needs to shed its defensive policies and proactively counter China
Srikanth Kondapalli for First Post Barring a remote possibility of resuming active military hostilities in the border areas, India’s relations with China are headed towards continued armed stalemate in the new year of Tiger, in all likelihood setting back bilateral relations by several years if not decades. There were a read more →
Restrictions on Religious Activities Continue in Tibet
Bitter Winter-Tsering Dolma Statues were destroyed, monks and nuns evicted from their monasteries, new regulations introduced to further limit religious freedom. Recently, as Bitter Winter reported, the Chinese authorities in Kham (a part of historical Tibet, now in Sichuan province) destroyed a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and forty-five prayer wheels around it. According to the read more →
Tibet’s ecosystem being damaged by China
ANI-January 5, 2022 Lhasa [Tibet], January 5 (ANI): The destruction of Tibet’s ecosystem by Chinese authorities is coming under scanner after the international community took notice of Beijing’s wanton destruction of Tibetan culture and identity. While the wanton destruction of Tibetan culture and identity by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) read more →
Tibetan monks, local residents forced to watch destruction of sacred statue
Reported by Sangyal Kunchok and Lobsang Gelek for Radio Free Asia Authorities in China’s Sichuan province last month forced Tibetan monks and other local residents to watch the demolition of a large and venerated Buddha statue following official complaints that the statue had been built too high, Tibetan sources said. read more →
Environmental Impacts of Tso-ngon -Lhasa Railway in Tibet
tibetpolicy.net-Tenzin Youdon Introduction With the acceleration of urbanization and the Chinese government policy in reducing the cost of mineral transportation and other factors, the construction of the Tso-ngon -Lhasa Railway in the Tibet plateau has started at the beginning of 2007. This railroad provides a major access route into Tibet read more →
The China hand
By: Editorial – Indian Express- January 3, 2022 If Delhi had forgotten by some chance that China remains an ever growing challenge for India’s foreign and security policies, it was reminded by a rude missive from the Chinese embassy last week to a number of Indian parliamentarians who had attended a read more →