China
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China’s treatment of Uyghurs, Tibetans Is a repeat of Their Own Repression
According to the outgoing Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, Tibetans in China are facing mass persecution close to that faced by ethnic minority Uyghurs in the western part of the region. “It’s not exactly the same, but it is similar,” Sikyong said. “Labor camps are set up in Tibet.” China is forcefully attempting to convert Tibet into…
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SFT in France protests against Chinese detention of Panchen Lama
Paris [France], April 26: Sunday, On the 11th Panchen Lama’s birthday, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, who was recognized by the Dalai Lama in 1995, 300 protesters gathered in the Place de la Republique to demand his release. Students from Students for Free Tibet-France staged a protest in Paris against China’s continued detention of the 11th Panchen…
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China Recruiting More Tibetans Amid Border Standoff With India
China’s military has stepped up efforts to recruit more Tibetans amid the dragging border standoff with India on the Line of Actual Control (LAC), conducting special recruitment drives across the Tibet Autonomous Region since the beginning of the year. Officials from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have crisscrossed the Tibet Autonomous Region, holding recruitment drives and…
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India in jeopardy as China plans to build mega dam in Tibet
The structure will span the Brahmaputra River before the waterway leaves the Himalayas and flows into India. The river, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, is also home to two other projects far upstream, while six others are in the works or under construction. Last October, the Tibet local government signed a “strategic cooperation…
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Reflections on a Bitter Reality
In the past few days, I tried to think and analyze on an unusual and candid comment made by a Tibetan woman who is a soprano in Chinese army and a current member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Gowa Gyamo Kyi has long career in Chinese army as singer who normally performs at…
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China’s Pink Hearts Can Not Conceal Human Rights Suppression In Tibet
The Human Rights Watch China director has published an opinion piece in their official website explaining China’s latest campaign. The latest campaign aims to demand political loyalty through gentle terms such as the one shown in the picture above, China’s pink hearts to conceal its brutal human rights suppression in Tibet and other regions under…
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Why Is China Paranoid of The Dalai Lama: A Non-Tibetan’s Account
Chinese establishment is known for its iron fist that it shamelessly uses every now and then to bring dissenters into submission. Despite this an 81 year old monk makes a nuclear power and an emerging super power nervous simply by making an innocuous joke that was part of answer to a very difficult question .…
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Chinese Student Who Called Xi Jinping ‘Xitler’, Wrote ‘Free Tibet’ May Face Prison Time
Mr Kwon Pong, an ethnic Korean student who studied in America, was taken to Chinese police custody in September last year, reports the New York Times. Mr Kwon shared a selfie on Twitter where he wore a T-shirt which had the word ‘Xitler’ emblazoned on it. Mr Kwon now faces trial for “inciting subversion” and…
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China lodge protest over Obama meeting with Dalai lama
On Wednesday His holiness the Dalai lama was hosted by the president of the United States Barack Obama in the white house. The meeting happened behind closed door in the map room. The White House also said that the president “reiterated the longstanding U.S. position that Tibet is a part of the People’s Republic of…