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Pressure Grows on Biden to Act on Crisis in Tibet
Washington Free Beacon 27 March 2021 Activists and former Trump administration officials are urging the Biden administration to respond to the growing human rights crisis in Tibet. Robert Destro, former president Trump’s special envoy for Tibet and assistant secretary of state for human rights and labor, accused the Biden administration read more →
Iran, China sign landmark 25-year cooperation agreement
India Today 27 March 2021 Foreign ministers from China and Iran, which are both subject to US sanctions, signed a landmark 25-year cooperation agreement on Saturday. “Relations between the two countries have now reached the level of strategic partnership and China seeks to comprehensively improve relations with Iran,” China’s Foreign read more →
UN negotiating with China for unrestricted Xinjiang visit: Secretary General
WION 28 March 2021 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the UN was in negotiation with China for a visit “without restrictions” to Xinjiang in order to see how Uyghur Muslims were being treated. He declared this in an interview broadcast. At least one million Uyghurs and people read more →
China’s Dam Building Is a Security Risk for India’s Northeast
By Amitava Mukherjee, The Diplomat. March 27, 2021. If a new hydropower project at the Brahmaputra’s Great Bend comes about, northeastern India will have to go to sleep with the possibility of breach of mammoth-sized water reservoirs over its head at any time. It may not be outlandish to conclude read more →
Why China has pinned its South Asia hopes on this train from Tibet to Nepal
Amish Raj Mulmi for The Print In ‘All Roads Lead North’, Amish Raj Mulmi writes that the Gyirong–Kathmandu train has been in China-Nepal talks for over a decade. But who will it really help? The Tatopani crossing in the east, similarly, opened up in October 2020 after several months of read more →
A bill in solidarity with six million Tibetans
Lobsang Sangay Daiji World 25 March 2021 Mar 25 (IANS): The Tibetan Support and Policy Act of 2020 was passed by the US Congress, which is a landmark victory for the people of Tibet and their struggle. This bill acknowledges the struggle of people of Tibet against the brutal and oppressive read more →
US Going To Hold China Accountable To Follow Rules, Says Biden
NDTV 26 March 2021 Washington: The United States working with its partners and allies is going to hold China accountable to follow the rules, US President Joe Biden has said, as he referred to his recent meeting with leaders from Quad countries involving Australia, India and Japan. “Earlier this month, and read more →
US backs Philippines in standoff over South China Sea reef
Jim Gomez AP March 23, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The United States said Tuesday it’s backing the Philippines in a new standoff with Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, where Manila has asked a Chinese fishing flotilla to leave a reef. China ignored the call, insisting it owns the offshore read more →
Facebook disrupts China-based hackers it says spied on Uyghur Muslim dissidents and journalists
Ellen Nakashima Washington Post March 24, 2021 Facebook has disrupted what it says is a China-based espionage campaign against Uyghur Muslim journalists, dissidents and activists living overseas, including in the United States, the social media giant announced Wednesday. The firm said it disrupted the hackers’ operations, which were carried out in read more →
Tibetan seeks Bharat Ratna for Dalai Lama
The Tribune. March 23, 2021. Read original news here. Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh: Tsering Yeshi, 47, a resident of Dehradun and former Special Frontier Force (SFF) member, started a bike journey from McLeodganj today demanding Bharat Ratna for the Dalai Lama. Yeshi would be travelling across India to garner support over read more →
Should the Middle-Way policy be put to vote again?
Source: https://www.tibetsun.com/ By Norbu Tsering TORONTO, Canada, 23 March 2021 This question is becoming more and more relevant as we observe the proceedings of the Parliament. Those MPs who favour Rangzen dismiss the Middle-Way policy as a failed policy of unnecessarily appeasing China. No matter the subject of discussion at read more →
China retaliates after coordinated sanctions by western countries over Xinjiang abuses
The Wion 23 March 2021 After the US, the EU, Britain, and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for excesses against Muslims in Xinjiang region, China hit back at the countries with sanctions of their own. Soon after the coordinated western sanctions, China responded with sanctions of their own, mostly read more →
Australian parliament debates motion on rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang
Reuters. March 22, 2021. Parliaments in Canada and the Netherlands drew rebukes from Beijing after they passed non-binding motions in February that said the treatment of China’s Uighur Muslim minority constituted genocide. “The most egregious, systematic abuse of human rights in the world is occurring in Xinjiang,” said Kevin Andrews, read more →
The flowers of a camp in Xinjiang
By Palden Sonam Taipei Times 20 March 2021 Once I watched a Chinese movie called The Flowers of War, which depicts the horrors of war atrocities in Nanjing when Imperial Japan occupied the Chinese city in 1937. In one of the most heart-rending scenes from the movie, a Chinese woman with read more →
What Lies Behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
Prem Shankar Jha for The Wire. China’s prompt withdrawal of its troops and armour from the eastern part of the grey zone around Pangong lake between the Indian and Chinese defined Lines of Actual Control has confirmed the hypothesis advanced in several previous columns on this platform, that its purpose, from the start, was read more →