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Beijing Must Invite Current Dalai Lama to China Before Choosing a Successor, Says Tibet’s New Leader
Sputnik News 5 June 2021 Penpa Tsering, the new president of the India-based Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), last week took charge as the 17th leader of the parliament-in-exile. Tibetans dispersed across 25 countries voted to elect Tsering as their next leader in what was only the second democratic election for read more →
What people said in Hong Kong on Tiananmen anniversary
Reuters 4 June 2021 Hong Kong police banned a vigil commemorating the 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for a second year in a row. Following are some comments on the anniversary, which is particularly awkward for Beijing this year, as it read more →
China’s Xi Jinping calls for greater global media reach
Reuters 2 June 2021 China President Xi Jinping said the country must improve the way it tells its “stories” to a global audience as it seeks to develop an international voice that reflects its status on the world stage, official news agency Xinhua reported. Speaking at a Communist Party study read more →
Propaganda: Beijing’s weapon of mass deception
By Tenzin Tsultrim Asia Times 29 May 2021 The release last week of a white paper on Tibet is an attempt by the Communist Party of China to whitewash the ground reality through propaganda. Since the birth of the CPC, propaganda has been one of its most powerful tools. From Mao Zedong read more →
Don’t take on China alone, says ex-Australia PM Kevin Rudd
By Karishma Vaswani BBC 29 May 2021 Countries should unite against China’s growing economic and geopolitical coercion or risk being singled out and punished by Beijing, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the BBC. Mr Rudd said governments in the West should not be afraid to challenge China read more →
New Tibetan exile president, Penpa Tsering, open to dialogue with China
AP | Taipei Times | 28 May 2021 The new president of the Tibetan exile government yesterday said that he was willing to reach out to the Chinese government to resolve their conflict, although the sides have not had dialogue in more than a decade. Penpa Tsering, former speaker of read more →
New Tibetan Prez Penpa Tsering bowls a googly at China over its ‘white paper’
Naresh K Thakur for Hindustan Times Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering, president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), on Thursday offered to send a team to Lhasa to verify claims made by Beijing in its much-publicised ‘white paper’ on Tibet. “All I can say today is that we are open to sending people (to Lhasa) read more →
Tibetan exile leader warns of Chinese aggression: ‘China will transform you’
By Benjamin Hall | Fox News 20 May 2021 The oppression of Tibetans by the Chinese government is well documented – but new reports show that it’s getting worse. China is ramping up its abuses and 500,000 Tibetans are now being held in labor camps as part of a systematic genocidal campaign that read more →
Penpa Tsering sworn-in as president Tibetan government-in-exile
PTI 27 May 2021 Dharamshala: Penpa Tsering was sworn-in as president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Dharamshala-based Tibetan government-in-exile on Thursday. Penpa Tsering said he will reach out to the Chinese government to find a “mutually beneficial” and non-violent solution to the Sino-Tibet conflict. Chief Justice Commissioner Sonam Norbu read more →
New Tibetan president-in-exile says he’s willing to reach out to China
By ASHWINI BHATIA ASSOCIATED PRESS MAY 27, 2021 DHARMSALA, India — The new president of the Tibetan government-in-exile said Thursday that he was willing to reach out to the Chinese government to resolve their conflict, though the sides haven’t had dialogue in more than a decade. Penpa Tsering, the former speaker read more →
Tibetan rights group highlights oppression, destruction by China in Tibet
WION News 26 May 2021 Researchers from the Central Tibetan Administration highlighted China`s systematic violations of human rights and destruction of culture and natural environment in Tibet since 1950. During the second day of the three-day virtual event on ’17-point Agreement and 70 Years of Oppression in Tibet’ organised by read more →
Biden Is Continuing the Trump Administration’s Revised Stance on Tibet
By Kelsang Dolma Foreign Policy History is proverbially written by the victors. When it comes to the United States’ position on Tibet, that is often true. Washington was willing to accept Beijing’s language about a conquered country to keep relations smoothed over. Yet the Biden administration has unexpectedly continued firm read more →
Indian foreign minister says border tension cannot continue with cooperation in other areas: Need to review Tibet policy
SD Pradhan for Times of India India’s exasperation with continued standoff along-side lack of progress on dis-engagement on friction points other than Pangong Tso is distinctly palpable. There has been no visible forward movement in disengagement of troops in the remaining friction points as ‘the Chinese side did not show read more →
Tibet can’t be used as leverage by India with China, needs resolution: President-elect Tsering
NAYANIMA BASU for The Print India is now realising that the Tibet issue cannot be just used as diplomatic or political leverage against China, but needs resolution. This will be beneficial for the entire region, according to Penpa Tsering, President-elect of the Tibetan government-in-exile. The position of ‘Sikyong’ of the read more →
China says to uphold leadership of Communist Party in Tibet
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world May 22, 2021 12:54 PM IST China will uphold the leadership of the Communist Party in Tibet to further its economic development, and guide Tibetan society in accordance to socialism, the region’s top official said on Saturday. Chinese troops entered Tibet in 1950, and a year later, the read more →