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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 →
[Exclusive] Chinese Army using robot vehicles in Tibet
Srinjoy Chowdhury| National Affairs Editor New Delhi: Keeping in mind the difficult terrain of the Tibetan plateau and the difficulties the Han Chinese soldiers have faced because of the cold and the high altitude, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has moved in a large number of unmanned ground vehicles to carry read more →
Travel restrictions tighten in Tibet ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics
Lobsang Gelek for Radio Free Asia. Chinese authorities are ramping up security in Tibet ahead of next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, deploying large numbers of police to regional capital Lhasa and imposing restrictions on Tibetans’ movements in other areas, sources say. The moves follow a Dec. 23 announcement by read more →
Human rights group slams inhumane Chinese secret detention system
WION-Dec 28, 2021 Although detaining a person without disclosing whereabouts or providing legal support should be illegal, it is approved by law in China. Since 2012, police, after changes to Chinese criminal law, have the right to detain anyone, whether foreign or Chinese, for up to six months at a read more →
China replaces Xinjiang Communist Party chief Chen
Reuters BEIJING, Dec 26 (Reuters) – China has replaced Chen Quanguo, who as Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region oversaw a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the name of fighting religious extremism. Chen, in his post since 2016, will move to another role and Ma read more →
China sends Tibetan teens to camps for indoctrination, military training
Rezaul H Laskar for Hindustan Times Chinese authorities have begun sending Tibetan children to special camps to be indoctrinated in a Sinicised worldview and given basic military training in order to prepare them to be inducted into militias amid the standoff with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC). read more →