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How China’s Military-Style Labor Programs in Tibet Operate
Thubten Samphel | Taiwan Times | 17 November 2020 | Read the originally published news here Why does the CCP operate military-style mass coercive labor programs in Tibet? The goal is to fuse Tibetans, Uighurs and other minorities into the majority … Continued The post How China’s Military-Style Labor Programs in read more →
US House passes bipartisan resolution on Tibet
PTI | 19 November 2020 | Read the original article here. A bipartisan resolution recognising the cultural and religious significance of an autonomous Tibet and seeking peaceful solutions to the conflict was passed by the US House of Representatives. The … Continued The post US House passes bipartisan resolution on read more →
Beginning of the end of the pandemic
Anirban Mahapatra, Live Mint. 18 Nov 2020. Read original news here. A year from now, India is likely to be in the midst of a massive vaccination initiative. What’s the fine print? There are long days ahead. But there’s reason … Continued The post Beginning of the end of the read more →
Arunachal shares border with Tibet, not China; nobody can erase history: CM Pema Khandu
By Prasanta Mazumdar | Express News Service | Read the originally published news here ITANAGAR: The Central government may officially call it India-China border but for Arunachal, the neighbouring region remains Tibet, occupied by China. Chief Minister Pema Khandu categorically stated that … Continued The post Arunachal shares border with Tibet, not read more →
China Bans Smoke Offerings Outside Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple
Reported by Lhuboom for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Richard Finney. Read the article here. China is now banning offerings of burnt juniper boughs and other fragrant smoke outside the iconic Jokhang temple in … Continued The post China Bans Smoke Offerings Outside Lhasa’s read more →
Vaccine Will Not Be Enough To Stop Pandemic: WHO Chief
The pandemic is raging months after it broke out, with infections soaring past 54 million and claiming more than 1.3 million lives. Agence France-Presse. November 16, 2020. Read original news here. Mr Tedros said that supplies of the vaccine would initially … Continued The post Vaccine Will Not Be Enough To read more →
Canadian and Swiss ambassadors to China make a rare visit to Tibet
WION. Read the article here. Canadian and Swiss ambassadors to China made rare visits to Tibet in the past two months, observing local conditions and raising issues of worry with their Chinese hosts, yet have remained to a great extent remained quiet so far … Continued The post Canadian and Swiss ambassadors to China read more →
Citizen journalist facing jail in China for Wuhan Covid reporting
Helen Davidson in Taipei | The Guardian | 16 Nov 2020 | Read the originally published news here A Chinese citizen journalist detained since May for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan is facing up to five years in jail after … Continued The post Citizen journalist facing jail in China read more →
Continued Melting of Ice in Tibet Worries Scientists
Martin Quin Pollard reported this story for Reuters. Mario Ritter Jr. adapted it for VOA Learning English. Ashley Thompson was the editor| Voice of America. November 15, 2020. Read original news here. Glaciers in China’s bleak, rugged Qilian mountains are disappearing … Continued The post Continued Melting of Ice in Tibet read more →
EXCLUSIVE: China’s ‘secretive, crash’ nuclear buildup revealed
The Washington Times | 12 November 2020 | Read the originally news here China is rapidly building up its nuclear forces, including the expansion of plutonium and uranium plants as part of a secretive, crash program to add warheads to its … Continued The post EXCLUSIVE: China’s ‘secretive, crash’ nuclear buildup read more →
Taiwan is the future of the Asia-Pacific, not China
Daniel Twining | November 15, 2020 | Nikkei Asia | Read the originally published news here Even before the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated trends toward authoritarianism and instability, it was clear that the Asia-Pacific region would face a crisis of democracy in … Continued The post Taiwan is the future of the read more →
We must choose our China policy: Commerce or conscience?
By Bert-Jan Ruissen | MEP from the Netherlands and member of the ECR Group in the European Parliament | By Charlie Weimers | MEP from Sweden and a member of the ECR Group in the European Parliament | Read the originally published report … Continued The post We must choose our China policy: read more →
Surveillance, reeducation and the Office of Honesty: How China tames its people
By Dina Temple-Raston | Washington Post | November 13, 2020 | Read the originally published news here Traditionally there have been two ways to define China watchers — either as “panda huggers” or “dragon slayers.” Panda huggers tended to be foreigners who … Continued The post Surveillance, reeducation and the Office of read more →
China under pressure to reveal Covid-19 vaccine data after Pfizer success
American drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and German biotechnology firm BioNTech SE announced this week that its vaccine appears more than 90% effective in stopping Covid-19 infections. Posted by Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times. Nov 13, 2020. Read original news here. Western politicians … Continued The post China under pressure to reveal Covid-19 read more →
Why the world looks down on China and the US
By URBAN C. LEHNER | NOVEMBER 12, 2020 | Asia Times | Read the originally published news here It shouldn’t surprise anyone that people around the world have a low opinion of China these days. What might surprise some is that on … Continued The post Why the world looks down on read more →