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New UK-US Alignment Can Reshape Transatlantic Cooperation
Chatham House | 2 March 2021 When Joe Biden was elected as US president, many observers thought the UK would struggle to establish a close relationship with him, and that British diplomats feared being sidelined by the new administration – especially as Biden had referred to British prime minister Boris read more →
Covid: Dalai Lama urges others to get vaccinated as he receives first shot
BBC | 7 March 2021 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine while urging others eligible to “take this injection”. “This is very very helpful, very good,” he said as he was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab at a facility in the Indian read more →
Antony Blinken says China poses 21st century’s greatest geopolitical challenge
China is the biggest geopolitical challenge that United States faces in the 21st century, one that pales beside the likes of Russia or the Middle East, the US secretary of state said on Wednesday in an address outlining the Biden administration’s foreign policy priorities. If the US does not push read more →
Uighurs, Tibet and Hong Kong issues not in the essence of human rights: China
Wion. China has said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) govt welcomes the UN high commissioner (for human rights Michelle Bachelet) to visit Xinjiang but she should not use this opportunity to engage in political operations to pressure the country. Earlier, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet had said read more →
Will Ensure That America Not China Sets The International Agenda: White House
PTI | NDTV | 4 March 2021 Washington:The Biden Administration has said that by restoring US credibility and reasserting forward-looking global leadership, it will ensure that America, not a more assertive and authoritarian China, sets the international agenda, working alongside countries like India to shape new norms and agreements globally read more →
Erasing memory in China’s Tibet
GRAEME SMITH | 1 March 2021 | The Interpreter This article draws from the “Tibet: Colonialism with Chinese characteristics?” episode of The Little Red Podcast, which features interviews and chat celebrating China beyond the Beijing beltway. Evolving from an organisation that almost no one had heard about five years ago, the United read more →
Water Imperialism and Future Water Wars – Why China Has Colonised Tibet
The modern day China, in future, can scale up water war through its control of the Tibetan water. SANTOSH CHAUBEY, CNN-NEWS18. MARCH 03, 2021. Historically, when China used to colonise Tibet, the main intention of Chinese rulers was to create a buffer state for security. The onslaught by the Communist read more →
China in Tightened Security Clampdown in Tibet’s Capital Lhasa and on the Border
Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Tenzin Dickyi. Written in English by Richard Finney. March 3, 2021. Chinese authorities in Tibet are tightening security and carrying out arrests in the regional capital Lhasa and along Tibet’s border with Nepal in the run-up to a month of read more →
Tibet should be core issue for India: Dr Lobsang Sangay
The Sentinel | 3 March 2021 GUWAHATI: Dr Lobsang Sangay, the President of exile Tibetan government, also known as the ‘Central Tibetan Administration’ (CTA), has asserted that Tibet should be a core issue for India as it is for China, and urged India to acknowledge its importance and discuss the read more →
Foreign journalists in China see ‘rapid decline in media freedom’: survey
Reuters | 1 March 2021 BEIJING (Reuters) – China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row, no journalists read more →
Xi Mobilizes China for Tech Revolution to Cut Dependence on West
Bloomberg News | 2 March 2021 For U.S. politicians, China’s potential to dominate sensitive cutting-edge technologies poses one of the biggest geopolitical threats of the next few decades. President Xi Jinping is similarly worried the U.S. will block China’s rise, and this week will unveil plans for greater self-sufficiency. At read more →
China Charges Ahead With a National Digital Currency
Annabelle Huang | New York Times | 1 March 2021 After joining the lottery through the social media app WeChat, Ms. Huang, 28, a business strategist in Shenzhen, received a digital envelope with 200 electronic Chinese yuan, or eCNY, worth around $30. To spend it, she went to a convenience store read more →
To understand China, first understand Tibet: Lobsang Sangay, Sikyong, CTA
The Shillong Times | 1 March 2021 SHILLONG, Feb 28: Fifty-two-year-old Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard scholar who has served as Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration of the Tibetan Government in Exile (TGiE) for two tenures beginning 2011, is set to relinquish his post by May this year. Sangay read more →
Party leader calls for a Olympic boycott in Parliament
FreeTibet.org | 26 February 2021 Liberal Democrat Sir Ed Davey told the House of Commons that athletes “under no circumstances” should be “used as propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party” given its rights abuses At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 24 February, Sir Ed Davey called for Team GB to boycott read more →
Dutch parliament: China’s treatment of Uighurs is genocide
Reuters Staff | Reuters | 25 February 2021 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and U.N. rights experts say at least one read more →