Tibetan Review
Delhi Tibetans protest against China on eve of G20 summit
(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – Tibetans staged a protest in their north Delhi colony area of Majnu-ka-Tilla in the morning of Sep 8, the eve of the Sep 9-10 G20 summit being held in the city. The main purpose was to...
Acclaimed late Tibetan director’s film premieres at Venice Film Festival
(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – Snow Leopard, a masterpiece directed by late Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, was screened at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival on Sep 7. The film is about a snow leopard, a protected species, that kills the...
New Dalai Lama learning centre opens in New York
(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’23) – A new library and learning center is being opened at the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies in Ithaca, New York state, with the inaugural festivities continuing from Sep 8 to 10, reported ithacajournal.com Jun 7....
Tibetan youth group to protest against China ahead of New Delhi G20 summit
(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’23) – The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest Tibetan non-government organization, has made clear its plan to protest against China on Sep 8 ahead of the G20 meeting in New Delhi over Sep 9-10. This followed a...
New mine in Tibet to yield 99K tons per year for a globally top copper producer in China
(TibetanReview.net, Sep07’23) – A Chinese company, which is one of the world’s top copper mining companies, is to produce an average of 99,000 tons per year of the metal for some 20 years from a currently undeveloped, ultra-large copper...
No Tibetan protests during New Delhi G20 summit?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’23) – Tibetan protests have been a regular feature during any visit to India by top Chinese leaders for as long as one remembers. But the G20 meeting being hosted by India in New Delhi over Sep 9-10...
Pope in Mongolia cited Buddha to urge religious dialogue
(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Pope Francis has returned to Rome on Sep 4 after the first papal voyage to Mongolia in a trip overshadowed by apparent overtures to Beijing, with whom the Vatican has for years struggled to make inroads,...
Australia finds forced assimilation schooling in occupied Tibet deeply concerning
(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Reports from Tibet of children being separated from their families are disturbing and deeply concerning, Australia has said in various interactions with Chinese officials, reported au.news.yahoo.com Sep 4, citing Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Addressing the country’s...
PM Modi rejects China’s criticisms of G20 meetings held in J&K, Arunachal
(TibetanReview.net, Sep05’23) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi has on Sep 3 rejected criticisms by China and Pakistan earlier this year for hosting G20 events in parts of India they claim are disputed territories ahead of hosting the main event...
Xi Jinping’s absence from G20 summit seen as bad news for Sino-India ties
(TibetanReview.net, Sep03’23) – Chinese President Xi Jinping had no problem flying all the way to South Africa to attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Aug 22 to 24, but is not coming to what China considers its next...
Swedish lawmakers join Tibetans’ 63rd democracy anniversary
(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – A delegation of lawmakers from Sweden and representatives from more than 20 international donor organizations took part in the 63rd anniversary commemoration of Tibetan Democracy Day at the main Buddhist Temple in Dharamshala, India, on Sep...
Envoys taken on Tibet tour to help defend China at UN rights meet?
(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – China is escorting in Tibet Autonomous Region a group of ambassadors from different countries to the United Nations with the aim to convince them of its tale about the “true situation” there following a series of...
UK’s Foreign Secretary raised human rights, Tibet on China visit
(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – British foreign secretary James Cleverly has said he had raised human rights concerns at “every single one” of his meetings with top Chinese officials, as he made a state visit to Beijing on Aug 30, reported...
India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan in chorus of protests against China’s latest cartographic aggression
(TibetanReview.net, Sep02’23) – After diplomatic protests by India, the Philippines and Malaysia, three more countries have joined in the chorus of criticisms of China’s cartographic aggression on their land and maritime territories depicted in the 2023 edition of its...
Dalai Lama to join Obama to lay foundation stone for meditation centre in Karnataka
(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – Former US president Barack Obama and Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit Mandya district in Karnataka state, India, in Dec 2023 to lay the foundation stone for an International Yoga and Meditation Centre,...
Religious repression in Tibet, PRC set to worsen as new regulation comes into force
(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – As China begins implementing on Sep 1 a new set of measures to restrict religious freedom across the country, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) at Dharamshala, India, has expressed serious concern over its particularly serious implications...
China vows tit-for-tat visa sanctions on US officials over forced assimilation school system in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – China has on Aug 31 vowed to impose tit-for-tat sanctions on US officials in retaliation for Washington’s recent announcement to impose visa curbs on Chinese officials responsible for Beijing’s “forced assimilation” boarding school system in Tibet....
Australia’s ruling Labor Party deeply concerned about erosion of rights in Xinjiang, Tibet etc
(TibetanReview.net, Sep01’23) – Australia’s ruling Labour Party has adopted a human rights resolution during its 49th National Conference, held over Aug 17-19 in Brisbane, strongly condemning the situation in Xinjiang as well as across the rest of the People’s...
China brushes aside India’s objections as more countries reject its expansionist 2023 ‘standard map’
(TibetanReview.net, Aug31’23) – China has on Aug 30 justified its cartographic assertion of sovereignty over Aksai Chin and much of the state of Arunachal Pradesh, when asked about India’s lodging of a strong protest over the inclusion of these...
India outraged by China’s Tibet cross-border cartographic annexation of its territory
(TibetanReview.net, Aug30’23) – India has expressed outrage, dismissed as “absurd”, and lodged a “strong protest” over China’s cartographic invasion of its territory on the basis of its illegal annexation of Tibet more than half a century ago following the...
China heightens ethnic separatism campaign in Tibetan areas outside TAR
(TibetanReview.net, Aug28’23) – China may have territorially fragmented Tibet into Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR, or Xizang) and Qinghai province, and as “autonomous” prefectures in its Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan Provinces. Nevertheless, it wants to treat all Tibetan areas as...
Dalai Lama back in D’shala after month and half in Ladakh
(TibetanReview.net, Aug28’23) – Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, returned to Dharamshala Aug 28 morning after a month and half sojourn in India’s Tibet-border Union Territory of Ladakh from Jul 11. He was welcomed at the Kangra Airport...
Bhutan and China set up technical team for border delimitation amid continuing talks
(TibetanReview.net, Aug27’23) – Talks between Bhutan and China over their disputed borders have been proceeding in pretty much the same way as the Sino-India border talks which also involves Chinese-occupied Tibet: a great deal of positive vibes about the...
China’s sudden lifting of Covid curbs caused nearly 2 million avoidable deaths
(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’23) – China’s sudden lifting of Covid-19 restrictions late last year led to nearly two million more deaths than would have been the case otherwise over the following two months, reported Reuters Aug 25, citing a study based...
Differences on normalizing ties continue as Modi and Xi met in South Africa
(TibetanReview.net, Aug25’23) – Despite the absence of a schedule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and President Xi Jinping of China did meet for an “informal conversation” Aug 23 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South...
Angered China demands US withdrawal of visa sanctions over its forced assimilation boarding school system in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Aug24’23) – Having either failed or refused to respond to repeated UN experts’ queries on the issue previously, China now claims that the allegations that it has been carrying out a policy of forcible assimilation of Tibetan children...
US sanctioning China officials in forced Tibetan child assimilation drive
(TibetanReview.net, Aug23’23) – Initiating substantive action to address China’s much-criticized repressive policy, including in the UN, of the forced assimilation of Tibet through the establishment of a Sinicization boarding school system for its children, the US State Department has...
Masked hoodlums rough up Tibetan language right activist in Qinghai province
(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’23) – Apparently for continuing his activism even after release from prison, well-known Tibetan language right advocate Mr Tashi Wangchuk was attacked and roughed up by a group of masked hoodlums in Darlag (Chinese: Dari) County of Golog...
India-China in further, urgent border talks amid concern that the former had gained more thus far
(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’23) – India and China appear to be seeking something of an urgent breakthrough in the more than three-year-old standoff along their Ladakh and occupied Tibet border ahead of a possible meeting between the heads of the two...
Democracy and Unity: The Pillars of Tibetan Exile Governance
OPINION Prof. Nawang Phuntsog* cautions that the deadlock and the precarious democracy in Dharamsala have the potential to diminish international support for the Tibetan cause and urges bolstering the Tibetan public’s commitment to unite rather than divide us to...



































