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‘China started work on border villages long before LAC standoff began’: Researchers
Hindustan Times – 29 November 2021 A year before China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) attempted to unilaterally alter the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh sector, Chinese authorities were putting in place measures to use border villages to buttress their territorial claims and keep an eye on the Indian read more →
Is there hope for Taiwan–Tibet relations?
East Asia Forum-Dolma Tsering, National Cheng Kung University Taiwan and the exile Tibetan community share a unique relationship amalgamated by the nexus of China, historical baggage, the relationship between the United States, China and India, and the growing influence of Tibetan Buddhism. The recent high-level meeting between the new Sikyong (political leader) read more →
Damage to Tibet’s Environment is Dangerous for Entire Humanity
By Vijay Kranti and Anjali Mishra New Delhi: China’s desperation to dominate and exploit Tibet has gone too far as it has been carrying out multiple projects which have seriously impacted not only the Tibetan plateau’s fragile ecology but have also severely exposed the whole of Asia to imminent environmental read more →
Tibet Leader-in-exile Concerned Over Construction Of Dams On Brahmaputra River By China
-Republic World Tibet govt-in-exile president stated that the mega construction project may pose serious damage to lower riparian countries including India and Bangladesh. President of the Tibetian government-in-exile, Penpa Tsering, on Saturday, November 27, raised concerns over the construction of a dam on the Brahmaputra River by China. He further read more →
Planning ‘direct channel’ with China, we’re dying a ‘slow death’: Tibetan govt-in-exile president
NAYANIMA BASU for The Print New Delhi: Tibet is planning to have a “direct and official channel” of communication with the Chinese government in order to deal with Beijing effectively and firmly, according to Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan government-in-exile. “We really want to play the traditional role of being read more →
‘How Do You Say That Again?’: The Grief & Guilt Of Language Loss For Second-Gen Immigrants
Refinery29-Pema Bakshi “How to say ‘coat’ in Tibetan” I googled with my phone brightness turned all the way down. The results were few, and the frustration quickly turned to shame that I had forgotten in the first place, so I just sat quietly in my grandmother’s company, gesturing that I read more →
EU extends human rights sanctions, including on Chinese officials
Reuters, Brussels, NOV 24 2021. European Union ambassadors approved on Wednesday the first renewal of the bloc’s new global human rights sanctions, including those on four Chinese officials and one Chinese entity, two diplomats said. Others on the list, which was created in December 2020 to combat serious rights abuses read more →
Taste Tibet nominated in BBC Food and Farming Awards
-By Oxford Mail A POPULAR Tibetan restaurant is set to find out if it has won a prestigious national award. Magdalen Road eatery Taste Tibet opened last year after spending almost a decade serving festivalgoers across the country. In July, Yeshi Jampa and Julie Kleeman found out the restaurant had read more →
Former Japan envoy says awareness of human rights violations low in China
Japan Times Awareness of human rights violations is low among the Chinese public despite growing criticism from the international community over the issue ahead of the Beijing Olympics in February next year, a former Japanese ambassador to China has said. Yuji Miyamoto, who filled the ambassador position at the time read more →
Tibetan university graduates can’t find work despite promises of opportunity
Sangyal Kunchok for Radio Free Asia Tibetan university graduates are finding it hard to get work in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, with Han Chinese flooding the job market and public-sector employment kept largely out of reach, according to complaints received online by a Chinese government office in the city, Tibetan sources read more →
China could be preparing for ‘water war’ in Asia after completing serial dams in Tibet
Major floods in several parts of South and Southeast Asia this year are a wake-up call for countries such as India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand among others. Experts said that such floods could become a regular feature and that countries in the region must get together to resolve one of read more →
‘The Fractured Himalaya’ Rightly Returns Tibet to the Centre Stage of India-China Conflict
Kyle Gardner – Published in The Wire, 17 November 2021 Arriving just ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Sino-Indian War, Nirupama Rao’s The Fractured Himalaya examines the consequential 13 years that preceded 1962, a period that has shaped and constrained relations between the two countries ever since. Combining a read more →
Cornyn Leads U.S. Congressional Delegation to India
Published on Cornyn.Senate.gov – 15 November 2021 U.S. Senator and India Caucus Co-Chair John Cornyn (R-TX) returned yesterday from leading a congressional delegation (CODEL) to India and other countries in southeast Asia. The delegation, which included Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Representatives Tony read more →
Xi Jinping’s War on Tibetan Buddhism
-The Wall Street Journal: by Dhondup T. Rekjong Beijing wants future lamas and monks to learn the faith only in Mandarin. The Chinese Communist Party recently adopted a landmark resolution hailing the country’s accomplishments under President Xi Jinping. The communiqué, published after last week’s Sixth Plenum meeting, made clear that Mr. Xi’s read more →
Local Tibetans, Chinese officials in scuffle over land grab
By-Radio Free Asia Villagers ask when compensation will be paid for land seized for a development project. Tibetan villagers and Chinese officials clashed this month over the failure of authorities to pay compensation for land taken for a construction project, with at least one scuffle breaking out at the worksite, read more →