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Climate Change Crisis: Tibetan Plateau to Get Spotlight at the COP26 Summit
By IANS – 27 October 2021 To adapt to the effects of climate change impacting the Tibetan Plateau—the world’s ‘third pole’—a group of Tibetans will explain its role in the global climate system and why it should be part of the conversation at the upcoming two-week United Nations conference, COP26, read more →
Chinese tourists crowd Tibet’s Lhasa amid COVID surge in Chinese provinces
Radio Free Asia-Reported by Sangyal Kunchok and Taring Tenzin Norbu for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. Chinese tourists must show only negative COVID tests, while Tibetan travelers are often barred from entry. Tourists from China are pouring into Tibet’s capital Lhasa in read more →
Posters with Tibetan flag reported removed outside Chinese Embassy in Denmark
Reuters COPENHAGEN, Oct 26 (Reuters) – A Danish election candidate said 10 election posters of himself standing next to the Tibetan flag were removed shortly after he put them up outside the Chinese Embassy in a suburb of the capital Copenhagen. Thomas Rohden, a candidate in upcoming local elections and read more →
China continues to suppress Uyghurs, Tibetans through new mechanisms
BEIJING: China has created fresh internal and external mechanisms to further monitor and control the Uyghur population in the Western province of Xinjiang by instituting a new system of involving ‘managers’ who are responsible for monitoring Uyghur households, creating fake families from the Han Chinese majority, a media report said. Writing in The Sunday read more →
“Xizang”: China Is Stealing from Tibet Even Its Name
By Lopsang Gurung, Bitter Winter – 26 October 2021 On October 20, the readers of English-language Chinese propaganda mouthpiece Global Times could read the following news item: “Chinese officials spoke highly of the rapid development and prosperity of… Xizang Autonomous Region under the successful governance of the Communist Party of read more →
The Perils of an Unresolved Boundary
By Nirupama Rao, The Hindu, 26 October 2021 The India-China relationship is in a difficult place, with the past shadowing the present. The period from 1949 to 1962 is crucial as Jawaharlal Nehru sought, albeit unsuccessfully, to establish a workable relationship with the Chinese. Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary and read more →
‘We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders
The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them by Lauren Hilgers, The Guardian, 26 October 2021 Tt was a pleasant, breezy day in late September 2020 when the FBI showed up outside the read more →
China has no role in choosing next Dalai Lama, says head of Arunachal monastery
The Week China has no authority at all to get involved in choosing the next Dalai Lama as it does not believe in religion and the succession plan is entirely a spiritual matter and not a political issue for the Tibetan people, the head of the Tawang monastery in Arunachal read more →
China Steps Up Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities by Banning Languages in Schools
By Peh Hong Lim, Voice of America – 24 October 2021 TAIPEI — After experiments aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, the Chinese government now is moving to apply its cultural assimilation policy for managing all minority populations by eliminating classroom instruction in native languages. read more →
Tibet’s Government-in-exile President Says ‘China Should Re-evaluate Foreign Policy’
By Riya Baibhawi, Republic News-24th October, 2021 Penpa Tsering, President of the Tibetan government in exile in India, on Saturday, said that China should work towards becoming a better global partner. The President of the Tibetan government in exile in India, Penpa Tsering, on Saturday, said that China should re-evaluate its foreign policy read more →
The Tibetan Plateau: A Solution to the Global Climate Crisis
By Tempa Gyaltsen Zamlha*, Global Order live – 25 October 2021 As world leaders prepare to gather in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), arguably the biggest annual summit on climate change, Tibetans are once again warning the the United Nations, that there can never be read more →
Celtics games are pulled in China after Kanter’s pro-Tibet posts
Written By: Raymond Zhong Boston Celtics games were abruptly pulled from the Chinese internet Thursday after a center on the team, Enes Kanter, said on social media that the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, was a “brutal dictator,” citing his government’s repressive policies in Tibet. The incident could spell fresh trouble for read more →
Chinese media removes Boston Celtics games after center Enes Kanter’s ‘Free Tibet’ statements
ESPN – 21 October 2021 Boston Celtics games have been pulled off Chinese media after center Enes Kanter tweeted a two-minute video of himself expressing support for Tibet and wore shoes with the phrase “Free Tibet” on them during Wednesday night’s game against the New York Knicks. “I’m here to read more →
Not China, Next Dalai Lama Will Be Chosen By Present Dalai & Tibet: Tawang Monastery Abbot
By Kamal Joshi, Republic News – 21 October 2021 Gyangbung Tulku Rinpoche, Abbot of Tawang Monastery, on Thursday said that Xi Jinping administration had no right to decide the next Dalai Lama as the current Dalai could make the decision and called India’s support essential for it. He claimed that read more →
U.S. China ambassador nominee Burns takes tough line on dealings with Beijing
By Patricia Zengerle and Micheal Martina – Reuters, 21 October 2021 WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, took a tough line on dealings with China at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, saying “genocide in Xinjiang,” abuses in Tibet, read more →