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US congressional-executive commission urges steps to pressure China on Tibetan rights

(TibetanReview.net, May15’24) —Highlighting a panoply of continued serious human rights violations in Tibet under Chinese rule, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has on May 10 called for a series of steps to pressure Beijing to bring its...

Sikyong visited Austrian parliament as he lobbied for Tibet across Europe

(TibetanReview.net, May13’24) —The Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, was on May 10 welcomed in the parliament house of Austria in Vienna for a meeting with members of Austrian People’s...

Tales of miracles from the Dalai Lama’s Less Known Trips

Tenzin Sherab* recounts events from three of the Dalai Lama’s trips marked by eyewitness occurrences of miracles. To our naked eyes, what His Holiness the Dalai Lama did at that time looked uncanny and atypical. The whole entourage watched...

China’s new envoy to India appears accommodating, but belittles border standoff issue

(TibetanReview.net, May12’24) —China’s new envoy to India, who arrived in New Delhi on May 10, appears to have expressed willingness on the part of his government to be accommodating in talks on settling the ongoing, nearly four-year-old border standoff...

China is India’s top trade partner, enjoys a huge trade surplus

(TibetanReview.net, May12’24) —Despite what India has been saying about the normalization of its overall ties with China being subject to the resolution of the ongoing four-year-old border standoff in eastern Ladakh, trade between the two counties has been rising,...

Chinese volunteers joined Hungarian security to harass Tibet protesters during Xi Jinping visit

(TibetanReview.net, May10’24) —Chinese people not only turned up in strength to welcome their President Xi Jinping who arrived for a state visit to Budapest on May 8 evening but also harassed and bullied Tibet protesters and others as well...

China has outlawed mother tongue in Sichuan Tibetan schools?

(TibetanReview.net, May09’24) —Authorities in a part of the historically Tibetan province of Kham, which now forms part of the People’s Republic of China’s Sichuan province, have banned students from speaking in their mother tongue when communicating amongst themselves or...

UNESCO lists Tibetan Dege Sutra-Printing House as China’s contribution to the world

(TibetanReview.net, May09’24) —Like all other things Tibetan, which are now being touted as China’s, The Dege Sutra-Printing House (Tibetan: Dege Parkhang) has just been included in UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Regional Register of Memory of the World as “China’s largest Tibetan...

China designates its new India ambassador after 18-month delay

(TibetanReview.net, May08’24) —After an unusual delay that has lasted 18 months amid continuing frayed bilateral ties following a particularly violent mid-2020 border clash in an eastern Ladakh border area, China has finally designated a senior diplomat as its new...

China militarizing its entire population in new defence build-up?

TibetanReview.net, May07’24) —China appears to have embarked on a campaign to militarise its entire population as its economy falters while having adopted bullying or combative tactics to assert its outlandish South China Sea, Taiwan, and India-Tibet border claims. The...

‘Free Tibet’ banner greets President Xi Jinping on arrival in Paris for state visit

TibetanReview.net, May06’24) —Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on May 5 to discuss EU-China trade relations and to get an earful against his country’s mainly covert support for Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. However, the pomp and grandeur...

China’s hand seen in Nepal’s new currency-note-map claims on Indian territory

(TibetanReview.net, May05’24) —India-Nepal ties may be headed for turbulence as the latter’s new left front coalition government, long lobbied for by China, included as belonging to Nepal a set of three strategic pieces of territories in India bordering Tibet...

Tibetan Sikyong meets with Italy’s South Tyrol president, calls its autonomy exemplar for Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, May04’24) —Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on May 2 met with President Mr Arno Kompatscher of South Tyrol (full name: Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol) in northern Italy...

China has jailed more journalists than any other country

(TibetanReview.net, May04’24) —The People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest prison for journalists, and its Communist party-state conducts a campaign of repression against journalism and the right to information worldwide, said Paris-based global press watchdog Reporters Without Borders...

US annual int’l religious freedom report red-flags China’s move to acculturate Tibetan Buddhism

(TibetanReview.net, May03’24) —Releasing its 2024 report on May 1, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended that China be again listed as a “country of particular concern”, along with 16 others, for reasons that include...

China pledges five-year development assistance for Nepal’s Tibet-border districts

(TibetanReview.net, May03’24) —The Chinese government of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), which constitutes roughly the western half of Tibet proper, is to fund a five-year initiative in Nepal’s northern border districts, offering different kinds of logistical and material support, mostly...

India protests China’s building of road in Ladakh territory ceded to it by Pakistan

(TibetanReview.net, May03’24) —India has lodged a strong protest to China last week over the latter’s building of a road in Shaksgam Valley which belongs to it, and which also has the potential to threaten Indian defences in Siachen Glacier....

China is world’s top jailer of writers

(TibetanReview.net, May01’24) —China, the world’s top jailer of journalists, also has the largest number of writers as well in its prisons, according to the 2023 Freedom to Write index, a report compiled by Pen America, published on May 1....

Tibetan Sikyong meets with French President ahead of state visit by Chinese president

(TibetanReview.net, May01’24) —Ahead of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit, President Emmanuel Macron of France had a brief meeting with the Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at...

Djibouti deports Tibet-supporting UK lawmaker sanctioned by China

(TibetanReview.net, Apr30’24) —Djibouti, strategically located on the Horn of Africa, has been accused of acting as a vassal state of China after it deported a British lawmaker sanctioned by China due to his critical stand on Beijing’s human rights...

New township reported coming up in Lhokha in China Tibet-border build-up

(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’24) —China is strengthening infrastructure close to the line of actual control (LAC) in occupied Tibet, with a major construction project taking place for a new township in Shannan (Tibetan: Lhokha), in south-eastern Tibet, reported the timesnownews.com Apr...

India refuses to be cowered by China’s hectic Tibet-border build-up

(TibetanReview.net, Apr29’24) —As China continues its substantial build-up of military or military-related infrastructure in occupied Tibet close to the line of actual control (LAC) after its violent cross-border attacks jolted India four years ago, New Delhi has sought to...

China pushed back on rights, Tibet in meetings with top US diplomat

(TibetanReview.net, Apr28’24) —Back from meetings with top Chinese leaders in Beijing and Shanghai over Apr 24-26, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that apart from discussing the numerous weighty matters that continue to bedevil good relations between...

China reiterates stance of no autonomy talks on Tibet

(TibetanReview.net, Apr27’24) —China has reiterated its position Apr 26 that it will only hold talks, if at all, with representatives of the Dalai Lama, subject to conditions, while hurling condemnations at the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which is effectively...

Chinese ‘democracy activist’ in Germany known to be close to Tibetan groups held for spying

(TibetanReview.net, Apr27’24) —An aide to a German member of the European Parliament arrested for spying for China was not only a familiar presence in the overseas Chinese pro-democracy movement but had also organized a group visit to the Dalai...

29-year-long China-disappeared Panchen Lama’s 35th birthday marked with call for his urgent release

TibetanReview.net, Apr26’24) —Despite remaining disappeared after being abducted by the Chinese government since 1995 at six years of age, Tibetans continue to be hopeful for the condition and wellbeing of the 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Tibet’s second...

China to try former Tibet propaganda chief for corruption

(TibetanReview.net, Apr25’24) —China has charged with corruption an official who was for many years responsible for promoting its official line on Tibet and human rights, including with a stint as the propaganda chief of Tibet Autonomous Region, before rising...

Genocidal China condemned for catena of Tibet violations in US annual rights report

(TibetanReview.net, Apr24’24) —While highlighting China’s continued genocidal crimes against the predominantly Uyghur Muslims and others in East Turkestan (Xinjiang), the US State Department’s 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released Apr 22, also cited a long list of...

China warns Tibetans for rejecting paltry compensation for their illegally confiscated grassland

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’24) — Chinese authorities have offered to pay a laughably paltry amount of compensation to some 25 Tibetan families in Markham (Chinese: Mangkang) County of Chamdo (Changdu or Qamdo) City in Tibet after a local official had illegally...

Children not spared in China’s persecution of human rights defenders’ families

(TibetanReview.net, Apr23’24) —The practice of collective punishment dates from the days of Mao Zedong’s dictatorship and it continues to this day in a China which claims to practice what is sought to be called a globally superior “whole process...