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India has put a stop to China’s new debt trap with Sri Lanka.
According to a report in the Sri Lankan media, China has chosen to halt work on a project to build Hybrid Energy Systems in Sri Lanka by Sino Soar Hybrid Technology. These systems were supposed to be built on three northern islands near India.
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Hong Kong’s new film censorship law bans even cartoons over Tibet, Tiananmen Square
The Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong is missing an episode(episode 12 of season 16) of “The Simpsons” in which the cartoon American family makes witty humorous remarks regarding Tibet, the Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong, and the Cultural Revolution. This raises concerns about the mainland China-style censorship in the city.
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Impact of Confucius at American universities is coming to an end?
The University of Akron stated in a university-wide email on Monday, Nov. 8, that the Confucius Institute will close in June 2022. The decision brings the Institute’s 13-year affiliation with Henan University, a public university in Kaifeng, China, to an end.
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Chinese officials forcing local Tibetans to part with their land without any compensation
According to an anonymous video, persecution is taking place in Tibet and the Uyghur belt in Xinjiang, and there is widespread misery among the people in these areas. The video brought attention to the illegal seizure of Tibetan territory. “The authorities are forcing the local Tibetans to part with their land without any compensation,” a…
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China’s invasion of Taiwan would be economic suicide: Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned China that any conflict with Taiwan would draw in Japan and its ally, the United States, and warned of severe consequences if Beijing took military action against Taipei. Abe said acts of an increasingly powerful China toward Japan and Taiwan would likely become more complex, blurring the boundary…
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Tibet Open For Talks But China Doesn’t Want It: Sikyong
Sikyong Penpa Tsering slammed the Chinese government for threatening Tibetans over the China-Tibet disputes, saying that they are open to a formal line of contact with the Chinese side and that this has been the Tibetian side’s continuous motive. He stated that settlements to the Tibet concerns can only be reached after a thorough discussion…
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Destruction of Tibet’s ecosystem poses threat to humanity as a whole: Experts
The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) and the Centre for Himalayan Asia Studies and Engagement (CHASE) from New Delhi co-hosted a webinar on November 27, 2021, in light of the recent conclusion of the international climate summit COP-26 in Glasgow. Experts speaking at the webinar “Climate Changes on the Third Pole – Tibet” agreed that China…
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Now is the time for India to start making amends for its Tibet blunder.
China continues to threaten India by bolstering its military presence along the Indian-Tibetan border, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under pressure in India to prevent China from crossing the Line of Actual Control. Perhaps Modi is thinking along the same lines as Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950-51, deciding that India’s military choices against China are…
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China should be held accountable for its BRI carbon emission
China’s climate action will have a decisive influence on bending the temperature curve to 1.5°C as required by the Paris Agreement. As the world’s second-largest economy, the most populous nation with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, the largest carbon emitter, and one of the fastest-growing global economies. In 2019, China accounted for more than a…
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BRI truly win-win arrangement for everyone or only for China?
The BRI is primarily a debt-financed initiative, with the CDB and China EXIM as key lenders, as well as several state-owned commercial banks. While such loans are not attached to any political or economic reform, they are not primarily development-oriented and are intended to generate a commercial return. China’s unwillingness to cancel the debt, even…