Tibetan Review
BOOK: China’s official records since imperial times cited to prove Tibet’s sovereign status
(TibetanReview.net, Jan30’26) – The English translation has been launched on Jan 29 of a book by a retired professor from US and Hong Kong which lays bare China’s official and archival historical records which pointedly refute the current party-state’s...
Climate crisis depopulating Nepal’s ethnically Tibetan Limi Valley in face of gov’t apathy
(TibetanReview.net, Jan29’26) – Humla, Nepal’s northern-most district sharing border with Tibet, suffers from climate change-induced livelihood breakdown and the increasing outmigration of communities in the face of government apathy to the residents’ worsening plight, reported kathmandupost.com Jan 25. In...
Tibetan election commission penalises one, cautions two others as polling dates near
(TibetanReview.net, Jan28’26) – The Election Commission (EC) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has on Jan 28 suspended the electoral rights of one person for eight years and cautioned two others for violating or potentially violating the electoral rules...
Over 20,000 evacuated, 49 villages hit by non-fatal 5.5-magnitude earthquake in eastern Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – More than 20,000 people in a county in a Tibetan prefecture in Gansu province have been evacuated following a 5.5-magnitude earthquake which jolted it in the afternoon of Jan 26, said China’s official media reports Jan...
Report: China continues to be ‘World’s ‘Worst Jailer of Journalists’
(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’27) – For the third consecutive year in 2025, China jailed more journalists than any other country, retaining the dubious distinction of being “the world’s worst jailer of journalists”, according to the latest annual report of an international...
China launches record ultra-high-voltage power lines project to massively funnel ill-gotten clean energy from Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jan26’26) – When it comes to clean energy, Tibet is the source and China’s power-hungry coastal megacities the consumers, with the unabashedly exploitative manner in which production is carried out by state-linked Chinese companies rendering the situation colonial,...
Elections’26: Endorsement for Tseten Phuntsok – Institutional Credibility, Information Warfare, and the Democratic Stakes Ahead
Tenzin Norzin* presents her case for the election of Mr Tseten Phuntsok as a candidate for the North-South Americas in the preliminary poll to be held on Feb 1, 2026, for the 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile. This election is not...
Breakthrough technology makes China’s lithium extraction in Tibet much more profitable
(TibetanReview.net, Jan25’26) – China says it has achieved a major technological breakthrough which makes much more profitable its extraction of lithium, often referred to as “white gold”, from its salt lake lithium resources. “China’s” primary lithium mines are concentrated...
Elections’26: Why I Am Running for Chithue – A Call to Heal Our Community and Strengthen Our Future**
Kelsang Phuntsok Jungney* dwells on his qualifications as a North and South Americas candidate for election to the upcoming, 18th Tibetan Parliament in Exile, and his agenda if elected. After a community event in Seattle, a friend shared a...
Tibetan Buddhist leader with provincial-level senior positions reported held, disappeared
(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) – China removed the head-lama of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yushu prefecture of Qinghai province from his provincial level political advisory and religious bodies in Dec 2024 and arrested him for having allegedly helped a fugitive...
China loses its top general to President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption bludgeon
(TibetanReview.net, Jan24’26) –China’s defence ministry has announced Jan 24 that senior military officials Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli had been investigated for suspected serious discipline and law violations, reported China’s state news agency Xinhua Jan 24. “Following a review…...
Report: 3.36 million Tibetans affected by China’s forced labour drive since 2000, 650,000 in 2024 alone
(TibetanReview.net, Jan23’26) – UN rights experts have on Jan 22 expressed deep concern stemming from allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and across other...
Famed Tibetan King’s Nepali queen no longer in home country’s national luminaries list
(TibetanReview.net, Jan22’26) – Bhrikuti, Bhelsa Tritsun in Tibetan, is no longer in Nepal’s list of national luminaries because there was no proper research on her despite the fact that her contribution to Buddhism and Buddhist culture in Tibet as...
Two Gelug exile Tibetan parliament members offer their penitence after the state oracle rebuke
(TibetanReview.net, Jan21’26) – The two Gelug members of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) have on Jan 20 offered their solemn penitence in keeping with a directive issued by the Lachi of the Drepung monastic university in the Doeguling...
Record 10,500 Tibetan students taken to schools in China in 2025 as Sinicization drive intensified
(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’26) – The number of Tibetan students sent to study in classes especially set up for them in schools in various provinces of China has increased in recent years in keeping with Beijing’s intensified drive to Sinicize Tibet...
China’s birthrate fell to lowest since 1949, its economic growth among slowest in decades
(TibetanReview.net, Jan19’26) – Despite a slew of socio-economic measures over the past one decade directed at encouraging the youth to marry and have children, and the married to have more children, China’s birth count plummeted to a record low...
When Science Touches a Wound: Be–Nb–Ta Mineralization and Displacement in Nyalam, Southern Tibet
OPINION Taking a recent journal report by Chinese scientists on the discovery and analysis of rare earth minerals near his birthplace in Tibet to task, Tenzin Jigmey* argues that scientific exploration must account for local impact and incorporate local...
The Dalai Lama and American Presidents: A Story of Faith, Diplomacy, and Friendship
Who was the first US President to write to the Dalai Lama and who the first to meet with him? Which US president became the first to call on China to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, and which...
Elections’26: How Smartvote Tibet Can Strengthen Democracy in Exile
OPINION By obliging candidates to disclose their positions and be judged on them, the smartvote Tibet campaign shows at a glance comprehensive, comparable, and accessible information about all candidates at one place, enabling voters to know which of them...
Sinicization, patriotism educations marginalizing Buddhist education in Tibet’s monasteries?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan16’26) – Rather than being allowed to focus primarily on learning their mother tongue and the extensive religious texts which are written in it, China’s campaign for Sinicizing Tibetan Buddhism and making religion conform to its so-called socialist...
Sincizing Tibetan Buddhism by renaming ‘Chinese Buddhism’ as ‘Han Buddhism’?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan15’26) – China appears to have adopted a sect-wise Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism not only to make it conform to its so-called socialist principles but also to possibly assimilate it with Chinese Buddhism. A symposium on Chinese-Tibetan Buddhism...
Indian MP to propose setting up a Buddhist university at Dharamshala
(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’26) – An Indian lawmaker has on Jan 12 broached the idea of taking up in parliament the setting up of a Buddhist university at Dharamshala, which he represents as the member of its Lok Sabha chamber from...
Citizens’ servility to censorship China’s strongest weapon?
(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’26) – US tech billionaire entrepreneur Palmer Luckey has said in a podcast interview that despite their advanced weapons capabilities, China’s strongest weapon may be the government’s ability to control the populace with propaganda and get people to...
China rejects India’s claim of sovereign infringement by its BRI projects with Pakistan
(TibetanReview.net, Jan13’26) – China has on Jan 12 defended its illegal acquisition in 1963 of the Shaksgam Valley of India’s Union territory of Ladakh, following New Delhi’s sharp criticism on Jan 9 of its expansion of the China-Pakistan Economic...
Far more protests taking place in China than reported, trying to cover them invites frightening ordeal
(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’26) – Given the regime-threatening protests that are being staged across Iran these days by a people no longer able to endure the economic hardship caused by their theocratic government’s grossly misplaced priorities, the Communist party of China...
Two Gelug Tibetan lawmakers urged to express remorse after divine rebuke
(TibetanReview.net, Jan11’26) – The Lachi of the Drepung monastic university has on Jan 9 called on the two monks representing the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) to express heartfelt remorse for their...
India reacts sharply to expansion of CPEC projects to its Pak, China-ruled territories
(TibetanReview.net, Jan10’26) – India has reacted sharply to an announcement by Beijing and Islamabad of an expansion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to include areas across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Chinese-ruled Shaksgam valley of Ladakh. The Shaksgam valley...
Fire destroys 11 shops in Tibetan winter sweater-sellers’ market in Kolkata
(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’26) – A total of 11 shops have been gutted by a raging fire which swept through a Tibetan winter sweater-sellers’ market in Kolkata, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on Jan 8 afternoon. No casualties...
India to let Chinese firms compete for government contracts after a five-year hiatus
(TibetanReview.net, Jan09’26) – In yet another major move to normalise business ties with China even as the border issue continues to fester, albeit with reduced tensions, India has decided to let Chinese companies compete for government contracts, reported Reuters...
Musk-owned X sued by exiled dissident for closing his account at China’s behest
(TibetanReview.net, Jan08’26) – An overseas Chinese democracy activist has sued the social media platform X after it failed to restore his account after repeated representations over the past nearly four years, reported independent.co.uk Jan 7. The platform, owned by...
































