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China refuses to renew press cards for US journalists as media row deepens
Lily Kuo in Beijing | The Guardian | 7 September 2020 | Read the original article here Chinese authorities have refused to renew the press credentials for at least five reporters for US news organisations based in China, in the latest deterioration … Continued The post China refuses to renew press cards read more →
China’s Xi Jinping is global threat, says exiled Tiananmen leader; Compares CPC with Hitler’s Nazi party
By: Huma Siddiqui | September 7, 2020 | Read the news here The world needs to follow India in fighting Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping’s expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest has said. Zhou … Continued The post China’s Xi Jinping is global threat, read more →
China Plans Building Spree In Tibet As India Tensions Rise: Report
China’s President Xi Jinping has said a number of major infrastructure projects and public facilities would be completed, including the Sichuan-Tibet Railway. Reuters. September 04, 2020. Read original news here. Beijing: China is planning a more than 1 trillion yuan ($146 billion) … Continued The post China Plans Building Spree In Tibet read more →
The Czechs are giving Europe a lesson on how to deal with China
Opinion by Dalibor Rohac | Washington Post | September 3, 2020 | Read the original piece here Dalibor Rohac is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute This week, a senior Czech politician, Milos Vystrcil, visited Taiwan and delivered a powerful speech to the … Continued The post The Czechs are giving Europe a read more →
Apple commits to freedom of speech after criticism of China censorship
Patrick McGee, Financial Times. September 4, 2020. Read original news here. iPhone maker approves new policy after shareholder pressure Apple has for the first time published a human rights policy that commits to respecting “freedom of information and expression”, following … Continued The post Apple commits to freedom of speech read more →
India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China
BBC | 3 September 2020 | Read the news here A further 118 Chinese mobile apps have been banned by the Indian government, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. Those on the list include several of Tencent’s … Continued The post India bans PUBG, Baidu and more read more →
Taiwan’s redesigned passport shrinks words ‘Republic of China’
BBC | 2 September 2020 | Read the original article here Taiwanese officials have announced changes to the passport design, making the word “Taiwan” larger and shrinking the words “Republic of China”. Authorities said the redesign was to stop confusion … Continued The post Taiwan’s redesigned passport shrinks words ‘Republic read more →
Rare rallies in China over Mongolian language curb
BBC | 1 September 2020 | Read the original news here Ethnic Mongolians in northern China have staged rare rallies against measures to reduce teaching in the Mongolian language in favour of Chinese. As schools began a new term on … Continued The post Rare rallies in China over Mongolian read more →
India needs to review its Tibet policy both for strategic reasons and protecting Tibetans
SD Pradhan for Times of India. Read the original article here. Since the occupation of Tibet in 1950s, China is systematically trying to eradicate the Tibetan culture and religion through the changes in the demographic pattern and ruthlessly imposing its … Continued The post India needs to review its Tibet read more →
China Provoked India in Latest Clash, U.S. Believes
By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior Writer, National Security | US News | Sept. 1, 2020 | Read the original article here The latest faceoff between India and China took place Monday at the southern end of the Pangong Tso Lake, located along … Continued The post China Provoked India in Latest Clash, read more →
President Xi’s call for bolstering defences in Tibet ‘misguided’ and ‘unrealistic’: Lobsang Sangay
Rezaul H Laskar Hindustan Times | New Delhi | 1 September 202 | Read the news here Chinese President Xi Jinping’s call for bolstering border defences in Tibet and “sinicisation” of Tibetan Buddhism are “misguided” and “unrealistic”, the head of the … Continued The post President Xi’s call for bolstering defences read more →
Xi’s policy directions on Tibet misguided & unrealistic: Lobsang Sangay
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury | ET Bureau | 1 September 2020 | Read the news here New Delhi: Central Tibetan Administration President Dr Lobsang Sangay has refuted Chinese President Xi Jinping’s proposed policy directions on Tibet and called it “misguided” and “unrealistic”. Xi Jinping has laid out four key policy … Continued The post Xi’s policy directions on Tibet misguided read more →
Tibet Was China’s First Laboratory of Repression
Xi Jinping is bringing methods honed in Xinjiang back to the Himalayas. BY KELSANG DOLMA | Foreign Policy | 31 August 2020 | Read the article here Graffiti relating to Xinjiang and Tibet is seen on the pavement during a rally … Continued The post Tibet Was China’s First Laboratory of read more →
China’s expansionist agenda takes shape on the Indian border
Brahma Chellaney | SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL | AUGUST 31, 2020 | Read the news here Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including Water: Asia’s New Battleground. As the past weekend’s latest skirmishes between rival troops … Continued The post China’s expansionist agenda takes shape on read more →
India and China Face Off Again at Border as Troops Move In
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir and Hari Kumar | New York Times | Aug. 31, 2020 | Read the news here NEW DELHI — Indian and Chinese troops have locked horns again along their disputed border, Indian officials said Monday, in a sign that the … Continued The post India and China Face Off Again read more →