Tibetan Review
Dalai Lama’s 1959 escape route in Arunachal to be developed for spiritual tourism
(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’24) – The government of the state of Arunachal Pradesh is developing the 1959 escape trail within India of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, following China’s annexation of Tibet into a spiritual and religious tourism circuit. Little-known...
UPDATE: China has arrested over 1,000 in Dege hydropower dam Tibetan protesters
(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’24) – Police have arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks, in an eastern Tibetan area that is currently administered as part of China’s Sichuan province after they took part in a series of protests to demand a...
New Delhi asked to act on China-paid domestic social media influencers with large following
(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’24) – India’s security establishment has shortlisted more than a dozen Indian social media influencers and vloggers who allegedly peddle Chinese government narratives, including on Tibet and Xinjiang, with grave implications for the country’s national security, reported indiatoday.in...
India and China hold their 21st border commander-level talks after 2020 clashes, agree to maintain status quo
(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’24) –India and China have held their 21st Corps Commander Level Meeting on the occupied Tibet side of the Moldo-Chushul border in Ladakh on Feb 19. Begun after the 2020 non-firearms violent clashes in the area, the two...
China linking various biometric surveillance systems and databases in Tibet to consolidate control
(TibetanReview.net, Feb21’24) – The Chinese government in Tibet Autonomous Region is linking the large number of various biometric surveillance systems and databases it has deployed there as the next logical step to consolidate control of the region, reported the...
Bhutan reticent as China continues to expand new villages built in disputed Tibet-border territory
(TibetanReview.net, Feb20’24) – Bhutan has so far downplayed the controversy posed by China’s continued building and expansion of new villages in disputed occupied-Tibet-border territory, but Thimphu’s closest partner India is keeping a close eye on developments amid suggestions that...
Reputed science fiction award excluded authors who might offend the 2023 event host China
(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’24) – Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most prominent literary awards in science fiction, excluded multiple authors from shortlists last year over concerns their work or public comments could be offensive to China, reported pajiba.com...
Chinese firm behind local ‘news’ websites spreading Beijing propaganda in 30 countries
(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’24) – China appears to have co-opted, through the agency of a Beijing public relations firm, more than 100 websites in 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America to push its propaganda information at local levels. The...
Journal retracts 18 papers from China due to Tibet and other human rights concerns
TibetanReview.net, Feb17’24) – A genetics journal from a leading scientific publisher in the United States has retracted 18 papers from China in what is seen as the biggest mass retraction of academic research due to concerns about human rights...
Monk reported disappeared after arrest by Chinese police for Dalai Lama photo on mobile
(TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) – Chinese police in a Tibetan area that currently remains incorporated as a part of Sichuan province had arrested in Jul 2023 a Tibetan Buddhist monk for possessing a photo of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual...
Tibetans protest against forced resettlement from largest capacity dam construction on Jinsha River
(TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) – Chinese authorities have tightened security while trying to identify organizers and participants after at least 300 local Tibetans staged a protest Feb 14 against the ongoing construction of the largest capacity dam on the Jinsha (Tibetan:...
House Bill adopted asking US to push China to negotiate to resolve Tibet’s disputed status
TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) –The US House of Representatives has on Feb 15 approved a bipartisan legislative bill that refutes China’s claim that Tibet has been part of China since ancient times; recognizes the Tibetan people’s right to independence and self-determination;...
Over 100 residential compounds in Lhasa alone stated to be multi-ethnic
(TibetanReview.net, Feb15’24) – Inter-ethnic marriage has long been encouraged with a slew of preferential policies by the Party-state of China as a way to Sinicize the ethnic minority regions, all the more so under President Xi Jinping’s current imperative...
Chinese nationals moving into hitherto vacant ‘border defence village’ buildings in occupied Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Feb15’24) –Chinese nationals have started occupying the double-storeyed spacious buildings in some of the model “Xiaokang” border defence villages that had come up in occupied Tibet across India’s north-eastern borders along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since...
China’s continued Covid closure of Nepal-Tibet border separates families, affects livelihoods
(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’24) – The Covid-19 pandemic may have long ceased to be a matter of serious concern across the world, but not so to the Chinese government as far as its occupied Tibet’s border area with Nepal is concerned....
‘Ladakh stand-off led India to cite China as No. 1 threat’
(TibetanReview.net, Feb13’24) – India may still be flummoxed by the audacity of the Chinese army intrusion into eastern Ladakh in mid-2020, especially as regards the level of authority at which the decision was taken, but it has enabled the...
China opens Lhasa for Tibetans from other regions for Losar, but tight restrictions remain
(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’24) – China announced a relaxation in restrictions it had imposed in 2018 on the entry into Tibet’s capital Lhasa of Tibetans from outside the region in a move to revive its flagging economy ahead of the Tibetan...
China fails to stop New Jersey Township Mayor from raising Tibetan flag to celebrate Losar
(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’24) – Losar, the Tibetan New Year, which fell on Feb 10 this time, was celebrated in the US State Department while Mayor Michael Melham of Belleville Township in the state of New Jersey flew the Tibetan national...
China has weaponised anti-Fraud App to surveil Tibetans?
(TibetanReview.net, Feb08’24) – A software, ostensibly designed to combat fraud, is under scrutiny for its potential use as a surveillance tool against the Tibetan population in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), said the bbc.com and several other news...
‘Lack of information from Tibet is due to high level of Chinese gov’t repression’
(TibetanReview.net, Feb07’24) – The reason why not much is heard about, and therefore reported on, on the human rights situation in Tibet today is because it remains the least free country on earth, an international summit on religious freedom...
China claims ‘no idea’ on monk it arrested for republishing books from exile Tibetan community
(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’24) – Chinese authorities in the historically Tibetan region of Sichuan Province had arrested a Buddhist monk in Jun 2023 for having republished books from the exile Tibetan community and also for having contact with people outside the...
China urges religious leaders to be more purposeful in the Sinicization drive in New Year greetings
(TibetanReview.net, Feb06’24) – Signalling full onslaught on Sinicization of religion, China’s top leader on religious and minority affairs has on Feb 5 called on the country’s religious leaders to be more purposeful in serving the overall work of the...
China censors bad news on economy, but its citizens are fastest growing group trying southern US border crossing
(TibetanReview.net, Feb05’24) – Chinese authorities have been scrubbing the internet of negative takes on the state of the country’s economy, including news articles from financial experts and economists, according to reports last week by The New York Times and...
Ladakh observes shutdown to press statehood and other demands
(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’24) – India’s strategically important Tibet-border Union Territory of Ladakh observed a complete shutdown on Feb 3 as thousands of its residents staged a march, demanding statehood and protections of local people’s interests under the Sixth Schedule of...
Exile administration to compile database of Tibetan households in India, Nepal
(TibetanReview.net, Feb04’24) – The exile Tibetan Administration at Dharamshala, India, is to compile a database of exile Tibetan households in a project that will be launched after the Tibetan New Year, Losar, which begins on Feb 10. This was...
China to strengthen propaganda control on discussion of ethnic minority issues
(TibetanReview.net, Feb03’24) – Sounding the urgency to realise President Xi Jinping’s vision of “forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation,” a top policy office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has pledged to tighten control of...
China greets Tibetans ahead of their New Year with Dalai Lama-denunciation call
(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’24) – Chinese authorities in the historically Tibetan region in Sichuan Province have greeted with bearing of gifts the local people for Losar – the Tibetan New Year coming up on Feb 10 – by asking the leading...
Lithuanian lawmakers join visiting exile Tibetan leader’s lobbying events
(TibetanReview.net, Feb01’24) – The executive head of the Central Tibetan administration (CTA) at Dharamshala in India, the Sikyong Mr Penpa Tsering, has on Jan 31 held meetings and discussions and answered questions in the Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament building,...
Shepherds in Ladakh take on Chinese soldiers to assert right over their grazing land
(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’24) – Shepherds in India’s Union Territory of Ladakh have clashed with Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers on Jan 2 in a dispute over a piece of grazing land arising from difference in the two sides’ perception...
China largely satisfied with UN review of its rights record despite mixed outcome
(TibetanReview.net, Jan30’24) – Amid allegations that China “gamed” the process, a top Chinese diplomat has said his government would “earnestly study” the 428 recommendations for addressing the human rights situation in the country submitted by UN members during the...



































