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Why New Chinese Propaganda on Tibet Should Worry India
Beijing has begun increasingly referring to Tibet as ‘Xizang’ amid its recent ‘white paper’ showcasing Tibet’s development under Chinese president Xi Jinping -Ashish Mukherjee for India Today Amidst the debate in New Delhi’s power corridors about calling India’s northern border in the Himalayas as its ‘border with Tibet’ instead of read more →
‘China Destroying Our Identity’, say Tibetans as Beijing Refers to Tibet as ‘Xizang’ in White Paper
-The Times Of India New Delhi: The Chinese media is increasingly beginning to refer to Tibet as ‘Xizang’, days after Beijing– in its continued efforts to assert wider control over the western region of the country– issued a white paper titled “CCP Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the read more →
Use China’s ‘Internal’ Pro-Democracy Forces for Positive Change: Tibetan Leader
By Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times. Penpa Tsering said India needed to speak out clearly on issues such as China’s interference in choosing the Dalai Lama’s successor and Beijing’s belligerence NEW DELHI: Democratic nations should work with China’s “internal” pro-democracy forces such as Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kong residents to read more →
Tibet ‘Dying A Slow Death’, Democratic Nations Must Stand Up To China: Penpa Tsering
-Deccan Herald New Delhi: Tibetan people are “dying a slow death” in the face of China’s repression and the democratic nations must stand up to the Chinese belligerence, the president of Tibet’s Government-in-Exile Penpa Tsering has said. Tsering said democratic nations around the world must look at the “internal forces” read more →
Two Sisters Devoted to Community Service Detained in Eastern Tibet
Tsomo and Nyidon were detained after sending voice messages in chat groups, encouraging virtuous actions. -by Tibet Watch Two Tibetan women, known for helping the poor and needy in their village were detained on 23 October after sending voice messages in chat groups on the social media application WeChat, encouraging read more →
Leader of Tibetan Government in Exile Warns France over China’s Policies
Penpa Tsering, the political leader of Tibet’s government in exile, was in Paris this week to raise awareness about the increased repression faced by Tibetans living in Chinese-controlled areas. He spoke to RFI about issues such as intense surveillance and the destruction of Tibetan cultural identity. -by Jan van der read more →
China Requires Job Applicants in Tibet to Denounce Dalai Lama
-by Radio Free Asia Tibetans who want to get public sector jobs must comply with a harsh Chinese rule requiring them to denounce the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The move would seem to violate China’s constitution, which officially protects the freedom of religion. An official directive from Beijing read more →
Erasing Tibet Chinese Boarding Schools and the Indoctrination of a Generation
China’s brutal treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the western region of Xinjiang has won tremendous international attention in recent years, with human rights groups decrying the systematic detention in internment camps of a million people, as well as the Chinese state’s attempts to suppress Uyghur culture and the practice of read more →
Why China wants to erase ‘Tibet’
By Khedroob Thondup for Taipei Times. China has started to call Tibet “Xizang” instead of Tibet for several reasons. First, China wants to assert its sovereignty and legitimacy over Tibet, which it claims as an integral part of its territory and history. China argues that the term Xizang, which read more →
As Tibet Becomes Xizang, Delhi Faces a New Concern
-By Claude Arpi for Deccan Chronicle Communist China often changes the names of the people, places and even nations. It is the case of Tibet, which is now called Xizang On November 10, Xinhua reported that the State Council Information Office had just released a white paper on the governance read more →
Preserving the Abodes of Tibetan Buddhist Deities
-By Bikash K. Bhattacharya for the Earth Island Journal Under increasing climate pressures in Northeast India, monks and monasteries safeguard local lakes and forests. A singular, seventeenth-century thangka painting adorns the central hall of Ganden Namgyal Lhatse, the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in India. The painting depicts a haggish figure read more →
The False Panchen Lama Ordains Monks in Tashi Lhunpo Monastery—for the Communist Party
By Lopsang Gurung for Bitter Winter. He told them to “be grateful to the Party, listen to the Party, follow the Party, promote the Party.” The Tibetans know the story and readers of “Bitter Winter” know it too. In the Tibetan Buddhist Gelug tradition, the Panchen Lama is the second read more →
China Spending Massively on Surveillance in Tibet, Say Scholars
The Hindu Bureau. The nature and extent of surveillance that the Chinese government has on people in its restive provinces was in focus on the second day of the three-day All India Conference of Chinese Studies at the University of Hyderabad. Apa Lhamo, research fellow at the Centre for China read more →
Biden Urged to Press Beijing to Return to Direct Dialogue with Tibetan People
A readout of the meeting issued by the White House said Biden did raise the issues with Xi during the summit meeting in Woodside, California. -by Deccan Herald San Francisco: Expressing concern that the issue of Tibet did not come up during the Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting, the International Campaign read more →
Tibet’s Government-In-Exile Urges Australia not to ‘compromise’ on China’s Human Rights Record
-By Daniel Hurst for The Guardian Australia must not compromise on human rights as it improves its relationship with China because “the truth must be told”, a minister from the Tibetan Government-in-exile has said during a visit to Canberra. Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in read more →