Contact is taking a holiday!

Contact is taking a break after 25 years of bringing you news of Tibet and Tibetan issues. We are celebrating our 25 years by bringing you the story of Contact and the people who have made it happen, and our archive is still there for you to access at any time, and below you can read the story of Contact, how it came into being and the wonderful reflections of the people who have made it happen over the years.

When and how Contact will re-emerge and evolve will be determined by those who become involved.

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Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese activist “to comply with local law”

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, author of China| AXIOS| 10 June 2020| Read original news here The U.S. video-conferencing company Zoom closed the account of a group of prominent U.S.-based Chinese activists after they held a Zoom event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the June … Continued The post Zoom closed account of U.S.-based Chinese read more →

Tibet to become China’s data gateway to South Asia

Rita Liao| Tech Crunch| 8 June 2020| Read original news here A sprawling 645,000-square-meter data facility is going up on the top of the world to power data exchange between China and its neighboring countries in South Asia. The cloud computing … Continued The post Tibet to become China’s data gateway read more →

China’s military adventurism is meant to distract from origins of Covid: Tibetan President

NAYANIMA BASU for The Print| 10 June 2020| Read original news here Lobsang Sangay, President of the Tibetan government-in-exile, says China is doing to India and its other neighbours what it did to his country in the 1950s. New Delhi: The Chinese … Continued The post China’s military adventurism is meant to read more →

Border incursions, tensions will continue till Tibet issue is resolved: PM of Tibetan govt-in-exile

Rahul Kanwal| India Today| 9 June 2020| Read original news article here A resolution of the Tibetan issue is the way to peace on the India-China border, says Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile Dr Lobsang Sangay in an exclusive interview … Continued The post Border incursions, tensions will continue till read more →

Countries in free world must join hands to hold China accountable for coronavirus blunders: Dr Lobsang Sangay

By Shri Ram Shaw for Asianet News| 9 June 2020| Read original news here New Delhi: ‘‘China’s cover-up allowed the coronavirus to spread exponentially in just weeks, causing a global pandemic. Chinese leaders deliberately suppressed crucial information and reprimanded key voices. Now, China … Continued The post Countries in free world must join read more →

Hong Kong 2020 Commemoration of the Tiananmen Square Massacre In Pictures

Pressenza Hong Kong. June 9, 2020. Read original news here. Defying a government ban, thousands of people in Hong Kong attended the traditional commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and suppression of the Chinese Students’ democratic movement. For the first … Continued The post Hong Kong 2020 Commemoration of the read more →

To counter China, look for options beyond LAC | Opinion

C Uday Bhaskar for Hindustan Times. Read the original article here India and China are currently engaged in an opaque military stand-off across the contested Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the eastern Ladakh region. The meeting between the two … Continued The post To counter China, look for options read more →

Nato chief urges nations to stand up to ‘bullying’ as China power rises

Financial Times| 8 June 2020| Read the original article here Jens Stoltenberg says threats posed by Beijing demand a ‘more global approach’  Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg: ‘The [Chinese are] coming closer to us in cyber space, we see them in … Continued The post Nato chief urges nations to stand read more →

MPs from eight countries form new global coalition to counter China

By Latika Bourke| Sunday Morning Herald| 5 June 2020| Read original news here London: What does the chair of the Australian Parliament’s intelligence committee have in common with a German Greens MP, a former Japanese defence minister and a former Liberal Canadian attorney-general? … Continued The post MPs from eight countries form new read more →

China’s two faces: After talks with India to resolve border dispute, PLA carries out large-scale manoeuvres

Pranav Kulkarni for the Times Now. Read the original article here The exercise, which concluded in a few hours, demonstrated China’s capability to quickly deploy troops and step-up border defences within a short span of time. Beijing: A day after talks … Continued The post China’s two faces: After talks with read more →

China political meetings focus on strengthening control in Tibet

International Campaign for Tibet| 4 June 2020| Read original report here This year’s two delayed and shortened political meetings of the Chinese government in Beijing saw a renewed focus on an “anti-separatism campaign” and “stability” and a call for “absolute … Continued The post China political meetings focus on strengthening read more →

Dr Lobsang Sangay: Chinese security law will greatly undermine freedom and democracy in Hong Kong

By Shri Ram Shaw| Asianet Newsable| 4 June 2020| Read the original news here In an exclusive interview with Asianet Newsable, Tibet’s self-declared government-in-exile President (Sikyong) Dr Lobsang Sangay said, “It is clear that in the guise of ‘security law’, … Continued The post Dr Lobsang Sangay: Chinese security law read more →

‘Ladakh belongs to India’: Tibet sides with India, exposes China’s expansionist tactics

Mudit Bhatnagar| International Business Times| 4 June 2020| Read original news here In a scathing attack on China, the Tibetan exile administration has said that the disputed territories of both Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh have always been a part of … Continued The post ‘Ladakh belongs to India’: Tibet sides read more →

Chinese Troops Have Come Into Eastern Ladakh in Sizeable Numbers, Says Rajnath Singh

The Wire| 3 June 2020| Read original news here New Delhi: A “sizeable number” of Chinese have moved into areas in eastern Ladakh which China claims as its territory and India has taken all necessary steps to deal with the situation, … Continued The post Chinese Troops Have Come Into Eastern read more →

PLA holds ‘infiltration drills’ in Tibet amid border stand-off

Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu. June 4, 2020. Read original news here. The Chinese military in Tibet has held night-time high-altitude ‘infiltration exercises behind enemy lines,’ says the Communist Party-run Global Times China’s official media reported on Wednesday that the Chinese … Continued The post PLA holds ‘infiltration drills’ in Tibet read more →