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Authorities highlight need for Tibetan Buddhists to study Seventh Central Tibet Work Forum
FreeTibet.org | 5 November 2020 | Read the originally published news here Further meetings held across Tibet require Buddhists to be educated in CCP ideology. Authorities held a meeting in Kardze on 13 October, which called for Buddhist representatives from … Continued The post Authorities highlight need for Tibetan Buddhists read more →
How China’s 13th Five Year Plan impacted its Tibet policy
By International Campaign for Tibet|November 3, 2020. Read original news here. The fifth plenary of the 19th Chinese Communist Party Central Committee meeting, which took place Oct. 26 to 29, 2020, started the process of formulating the 14th Five Year Plan … Continued The post How China’s 13th Five Year Plan read more →
Sebastian Strangio on China in the Mekong region
Tyler Roney | China Dialogue | November 4, 2020 | Read the originally published news here With far-reaching implications for the upcoming elections in Myanmar and with the US tentatively wading into river governance, the Mekong region has become a contentious staging … Continued The post Sebastian Strangio on China in the read more →
Air pollution connected to higher COVID-19 death rates
Bryan Walsh, Axios. November 5, 2020. Read original news here. A new study of more than 3,000 counties in the U.S. finds a correlation between higher levels of particulate air pollution and higher death rates from COVID-19. Why it matters: COVID-19 … Continued The post Air pollution connected to higher COVID-19 read more →
Understand Tibet to Understand China, Tibetan President-in-Exile Says
BY VENUS UPADHAYAYA | Epoch Times | Read the originally published news here NEW DELHI—The world must understand the issue of Tibet to be able to understand what’s happening in contemporary China, the president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), also … Continued The post Understand Tibet to Understand China, Tibetan read more →
Chinese Diplomats Try Using UN as Shield for Xinjiang Crimes
World Body Should Reject Beijing’s False Narrative Akshaya Kumar, Human Rights Watch. November 1, 2020. Read original news here. Click to expand Image The Chinese government is facing a barrage of bad press for its systemic abuses against Uyghur and … Continued The post Chinese Diplomats Try Using UN as read more →
Xi Jinping’s dystopian world is a danger to democracy
John Dobson | Guardian | October 31 2020 | Read the originally published news here Xi is using the power of technology not only to repress the Chinese people, but to push his Marxist-Leninist mode of government to other countries. … Continued The post Xi Jinping’s dystopian world is a read more →
Tibet is an Independent & sovereign state (not an autonomus region of China): Why US and UN need to change their perceptipon based on cold historical facts
Dr Anil Kumar Lal for The Times of India. Read the article here. Tibet history: 19th century 10. The government in Beijing then appointed the Governor of Xining, “Army Commander of Tibet” to reintegrate and assimilate Tibet into China. He … Continued The post Tibet is an Independent & sovereign read more →
China changes school curriculum to reflect Beijing’s positive Covid narrative
Content added to classes will say the state ‘always put the life and safety of its people first’ Helen Davidson and Lily Kuo in Taipei. 3 Nov 2020. Read original news here. Chinese government-endorsed content about the pandemic and the “fighting spirit” of the … Continued The post China changes school curriculum to reflect read more →
China’s quest to control Tibet’s spiritual space | Opinion
Hindustan Times | 3 November 2020 | Read the originally published news here The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) first acknowledged the importance of the religious authority of Tibetan lamas in 1992 when it approved the elevation of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, a … Continued The post China’s quest to control Tibet’s spiritual read more →
China Wants To Build A Tibet With More Wealth And Less Buddhism
NDTV | (c) Bloomberg News | November 02, 2020 | Read the news here Sitting in a home built by Chinese authorities near Tibet’s capital of Lhasa, one of the highest cities in the world, Sunnamdanba tells foreign journalists on a government-sponsored … Continued The post China Wants To Build A Tibet read more →
In Hunt for Coronavirus source, W.H.O let China take charge
By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo, Amy Qin and Javier C. Hernández for The New York Times. Read the article here. As it praised Beijing, the World Health Organization concealed concessions to China and may have sacrificed the best chance to … Continued The post In Hunt for Coronavirus source, W.H.O read more →
China Removes Domes and Minarets of Mosque, UK Diplomat Shares ‘Depressing’ Before-after Photos
China allegedly removed the Arabic-style domes and minarets of Nanguan Mosque in Ningxia province and repainted the building to make it fall in line with the Communist Party of China’s strict stance against the expression of religion. NEWS18.COM. NOVEMBER 2, 2020. … Continued The post China Removes Domes and Minarets of read more →
China’s Clampdown on Hong Kong
Barbara Demick for The New York Review. Read the article here. Despite mass protests and China’s promises when it took back Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, Beijing’s new security law is crushing the former colony’s autonomy. As the 1997 … Continued The post China’s Clampdown on Hong Kong appeared read more →
China to begin construction of Ya’an-Linzhi section of Sichuan-Tibet Railway close to India’s border
The Indian Express | November 1, 2020. Read original news here. China Railway announced on Saturday the bidding results for the construction of two tunnels and one bridge, as well as the power supply project for the Ya’an-Linzhi section of the Sichuan-Tibet … Continued The post China to begin construction of Ya’an-Linzhi read more →