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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 →
Why US Is Raising Pressure on China Over Treatment of Tibetans, Uyghurs
Ralph Jennings for The Voice of America SAN FRANCISCO — Human rights advocates are welcoming what they see as increased U.S. attention to Chinese behavior in its volatile Tibet and Xinjiang regions, suggesting that lobbying by rights groups may have contributed to the surge of pressure on Beijing. A law, read more →
US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues receives letter of congratulations from Dalai Lama
ANI Washington [US], December 30 (ANI): US Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya has said that she received a letter of congratulations from Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on her appointment as US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. “Thank you to His Holiness the @Dalai read more →
Xi Jinping’s Pursuit of Dictatorial rule through Digital Totalitarianism
Modern Diplomacy-By Tenzin Dalha In the age of rapid technological advancement, as the news outlets in China increasingly goes digital, and as television goes mobile, the digital ecosystem has become one of the major concerns to the Chinese leadership and its rule. As part of its political propaganda, Beijing has read more →
China making Tibet dumping ground for toxic waste, not providing resources to protect ecosystem
ANI-29 December 2021 Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): The Chinese Communist Party is exploiting Tibet by making the region a dumping ground for toxic waste and has failed to provide the area with the resources needed to protect its fragile ecosystem and unique biome, said a report. The CCP’s wanton read more →