Tibetan Review
Dalai Lama condoles passing away of Senator who helped to institutionalize US support for Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’23) – Recalling his first meeting with her, in Dharamshala in 1978, and her many initiatives since then which led to the institutionalization of US support for his Chinese occupied homeland, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama,...
Top Chinese leader stresses Sinicization agenda on model ethnic minority representatives
(TibetanReview.net, Sep30’23) – China’s top leader on ethnic minority affairs has on Sep 29 met with representatives from across the People’s Republic of China in Beijing and told them to be resolute in forging a strong sense of community...
China spending billions to reshape global information environment, destroy democratic values
(TibetanReview.net, Sep29’23) – The US State Department has issued a stark warning in a report Sep 28, accusing the Chinese government of spending billions of dollars to expand efforts to control information, disseminate propaganda and disinformation that promotes “digital...
Please, let Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche have peace in his retirement
(TibetanReview.net, Sep29’23) The Tibetan Parliament in Exile session that ended in Dharamshala on Sep 28 after sitting for just three days has proved to be no different from the earlier ones – divided irreconcilably, mincing no words in giving...
Exile Tibetan leader says existing back-channel with China not worth talking about
(TibetanReview.net, Sep28’23) – Back-channel talks exist between Tibetan representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government, but they are not of such nature or progress as to warrant any exuding of hopes or public discussions, Sikyong (executive head)...
China jails Tibetan after second arrest for possessing Dalai Lama photo
(TibetanReview.net, Sep28’23) – China has jailed a Tibetan man in Ngaba (or Ngawa, Chinese: Aba) Prefecture of Sichuan Province for two years after they arrested him for the second time in Feb 2023 for keeping a photo of His...
6th session of 17th Tibetan parliament appears set to be a washout
(TibetanReview.net, Sep27’23) – The 6th session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE), scheduled to be held from Sep 19 to 28, appears set to end after having met for just the first three days. The Dotoe province...
Nepal reaffirms Tibet commitment to China, refuses to yield on geostrategic tie-up demand
(TibetanReview.net, Sep26’23) – Nepal and China have signed 12 agreements and resolved to carry forward the connectivity projects the two countries are working on including the flagship cross-border railway from Tibet’s capital Lhasa to Kathmandu. None of the agreements...
Nepal categorical on China’s tough conditions for BRI projects
(TibetanReview.net, Sep25’23) – During his Sep 23 meeting with Nepal’s Prime Minister Mr Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Chinese President Xi Jinping noted that the two countries had made progress in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation and that the Trans-Himalayan...
Nepal promises China unshakable stance on Tibet and Taiwan, seeks assistance for long list of projects
(TibetanReview.net, Sep24’23) – Visiting China with a plan to request assistance for a long list of development, infrastructure, agricultural, health, education, and other types of projects, Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has met with President Xi Jinping...
US state suspends scholarships at four schools accepting Chinese propaganda funding
(TibetanReview.net, Sep24’23) – Taking direct action on schools accepting Chinese government propaganda funding, the office of the US state of Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis has on Sep 22 announced the suspension of school choice scholarships to four schools over...
India strongly protests China’s regular visa denial to its Arunachali Asian Games athletes, minister cancels participation
(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’23) – India has on Sep 22 lodged a strong protest to China for denying accreditation and entry to three of its wushu sportswomen who belong to its border state of Arunachal Pradesh to the 19th Asian Games...
Tibetan parliament derailed by members demanding clearance of colleague from suggestions he may have met with a Chinese official
(TibetanReview.net, Sep22’23) – While much of exile Tibetans waited, although more with pessimism than hope, to see if the 6th session of the 17th Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) will finally be able to amend the Charter of Tibetans...
China bars three Arunachali Wushu sportswomen from Asian Games
(TibetanReview.net, Sep22’23) – China has again prevented three wushu sportswomen from the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh from travelling to its city of Hangzhou to participate in the Asian Games which opened on Sep 22. China calls the state...
New Nepal-Tibet trade route from Mustang set for opening
(TibetanReview.net, Sep21’23) – In further opening or reopening of trade routes with Nepal, China has given the go-ahead for establishing a new border trading facility in a village in occupied Tibet for which construction has been completed, as is...
Exile Tibetan parliament begins session amid public campaign for restoration of apex judiciary
(TibetanReview.net, Sep20’23) – Into the second of its five-year term, the 17th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) began its 6th half-yearly session on Sep 19 with no certainty that it will finally move to allow the Charter of Tibetans in Exile...
Xi not a dictator?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’23) – China has on Oct 18 strongly objected to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s Sep 14 citing of its President Xi Jinping as among “dictators” who should not be allowed to derive satisfaction from Russia winning its...
India to implement birth certificate single-document rule from Oct 1
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’23) – Come Oct 1 and the only document residents in India will need to avail most of vital government services will be your birth certificate, according to Indian media reports. The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment)...
German foreign minister says Ukraine’s defeat would send wrong signal to ‘dictators’ like Xi Jinping
(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’23) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has on Sep 15 become the second Western leader to call Chinese President Xi Jinping a dictator, a sobriquet strongly criticised by China when US president Joe Biden labelled him similarly...
Dalai Lama congratulates PM Modi on G20 success, greeting him on latter’s 73rd birthday
(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’23) – The Dalai Lama has on Sep 17 congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India for his successful hosting over Sep 9-10 of the G20 summit while offering his greetings on the latter’s 73rd birthday. He has...
Arunachal chief minister reviews preparations for Dalai Lama visit
(TibetanReview.net, Sep15’23) – Apart from Sikkim from Oct 10 to 14, Tibet’s exile spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is to visit Arunachal Pradesh as well, another Tibet-border state in northeast India, it has emerged. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema...
Tibetans refuse to budge as China moves to restrict prominent Tibetan lama’s coveted Buddhist teaching to local residents only
(TibetanReview.net, Sep15’23) – Religious freedom in Chinese ruled Tibet to the limited extent it is allowed is quintessentially local, whether it comes to getting the requisite permits and clearances to enrol in a monastic order or to attending important...
Sikkim Chief Minister announces October visit of Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’23) – Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang of Sikkim has announced Sep 13 that Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit the northeast Indian border state for five days next month. It is not clear yet...
Ongoing Xinjiang-Tibet railway project via Aksai Chin set to multiply China’s military capacity
(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’23) – What India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru did not foresee – and the fact that he also did not bother to define the border between the two countries – while recognizing Tibet as an autonomous region...
Imposed Panchen calls Tibetan medicine a treasure in Chinese culture
(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’23) – In keeping with China’s appropriation of all things uniquely Tibetan as Chinese and the ongoing Sinicization campaign, China-imposed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu has called Tibetan medicine a treasure in Chinese culture as he concluded a...
India inaugurates 90 more border projects to narrow huge gap with China in occupied Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’23) – Continuing its ongoing effort to reduce the huge infrastructure differential with China across occupied Tibet amid continuing border tensions, India has on Sep 13 inaugurated 90 projects to enhance its preparedness for any future conflict. Launched...
Top officers purged, more in offing, in unprecedented corruption probe of China’s defence establishment
(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’23) – As questions swirl on public no-show of China’s defence minister Li Shangfu over the last two weeks, at least four high-ranking officials from the country’s military enterprises have been detained by the party’s Central Commission for...
Has China’s defence minister also disappeared?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’23) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has on Sep 8 called for comprehensively enhancing the troops’ combat readiness during an inspection of a group army headquartered in the country’s northeast as speculation whirled on the whereabouts of defence...
China’s official think tank accuses India of pursuing anti-China agenda as G20 host; India praises China role at summit
(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’23) – In what has been seen as a hint on why Chinese President Xi Jinping took the unprecedented decision to skip the 18th G20 Leaders’ Summit in New Delhi, Sep 9-10, a Chinese think tank affiliated with...
Chinese police to get power to punish citizens for wearing clothing or symbols they don’t like
(TibetanReview.net, Sep09’23) – China is to give more power and opportunity for corruption to its police forces by empowering them go after citizens for “hurting the feelings of the Chinese nation” under a proposed legal amendment that has triggered...



































