BOOK REVIEW Challenging the Chinese art of manufacturing history of convenience, a book that convincingly exposes all those narratives which China is using as a weapon to make world accept its colonial occupation of Tibet, East Turkistan and South...

OPINION Shongka* blames China’s double standard in enforcing laws for the now much-criticized ‘Rising Dragon’ fireworks publicity stunt that has created a possibly irreversible environmental mess in Tibetan Himalayas’ Gyantse county. On September 19, 2025, the thin air high...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep25’25) – Australia has on Sep 23 expressed concern over continuing reports of human rights violations in Tibet including China’s interference in the recognition of reincarnation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the ongoing UN human rights...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR (TibetanReview.net, Sep23’25) Last week, the Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx, now owned by Chinese sportswear giant Anta, joined hands with Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang to stage a massive fireworks display in Gyantse, Tibet. The company presented...

Reviewing Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s ‘The Politics of Sorrow’, Wangpo Tethong* asks the Tibetan youth to adopt an open mind in making sense of the bitter, regionally rooted disputes that continue to shape our exile politics today, for it is...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’25) – In deepening trouble for the Chinese-owned Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx and the famed visual artist Cai Guoqiang, the China Small Animal Protection Association has said Sep 23 that the former’s massive fireworks display publicity stunt in...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep22’25) – Preparations for the environmentally destructive fireworks took more than a week, encompassed a mountainous path of 3,000 metres over a 5,000-meter altitude, involved extensive use of drones, and the spectacle was displayed before a large crowd...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep21’25) – An Assembly of Asian Buddhist Leaders and followers that took place in Dharamshala on Sep 20 unanimously declared His Holiness the Dalai Lama ‘The Universal Supreme Patriarch of the Buddhist World’ at a ceremony to pray...

OPINION Aritra Banerjee* examines how Tibetans have made democracy and non-violence central to their identity and resistance, contrasting the repression inside Tibet with the democratic institutions established in exile. For more than seven decades, Tibet has endured one of...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep20’25) – It is not clear how much Tibet or Tibetans are going to benefit from it all, if at all, in real terms, but China has started building on Sep 16 an ultra-high voltage (UHV) power line...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – More than 50 members of the Swiss parliament took part in celebrations marking the milestone 90th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the country’s parliament building in Bern on Sep 17, said Tibet Bureau...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – The penultimate regular session of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile (TPiE) concluded on Sep 18 with the election of two Additional Election Commissioners to the Tibetan Election Commission, ahead of the launch next month of the...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep19’25) – In what is seen as the latest case of transnational repression, a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep18’25) – In another joint communication from the United Nations in Jul 2025, a group of six rights experts has asked China to account for the arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment, and imprisonment of a Tibetan teenager in 2015-16...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’25) – A prominent member of New York’s Chinese dissident community, granted asylum in 2002, has pleaded guilty Sep 16 to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government, reported the AP Sep 17. He...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep17’25) – While seeking to expand its influence at the UN, promoting itself as the leader of an alternative to the US-led world order, with US President Donald Trump increasingly stepping away from multilateral co-operation, China has been...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep16’25) – Chinese police in Tibet’s capital Lhasa arbitrarily took away a Tibetan Buddhist monk over four years ago, along with two others, and there has been no information about him so far despite desperate searches by his...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep15’25) – Backdoor contact with the government of China continues to take place and we are not at a stage where the viability of seeking a middle way solution with China should be tabled for discussion, Sikyong Penpa...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep15’25) – As atheist Communist Party of China-state continues its rhetoric on its self-assumed right to appoint its own 15th Dalai Lama reincarnation, five UN human rights experts have presented a joint communication to it in Jul 2025,...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’25) – India’s “natural alliance” is not with China, given the deep historical mistrust between the two countries which cannot disappear in a space of just a few months, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghu Rajan has...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Sep 13 written to former Chief Justice of Nepal Sushila Karki, congratulating her on being appointed Prime Minister of Nepal. The appointment is for an interim period pending new elections next...

OPINION Ahead of the expected start of the process for the exile Tibetan elections next month, Prof Nawang Phuntsog* presents his case for the re-election of the incumbent Sikyong, Mr Penpa Tsering, for a second term. Introduction As the...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’25) – Representatives from the US Embassy, the National Library of Mongolia (NLM), and the Arizona-based nonprofit Asian Legacy Library (ALL) gathered in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar on Sep 12 to celebrate the successful completion of a three-year project...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’25) – Even as India cites trust deficit as the main impediment to fully normalizing bilateral ties with China, the latter is yet to deliver on a promise it made in New Delhi three weeks ago to resume...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – Noting that we are living in an era of decline, the Dalai Lama has said Sep 10 that he still has a positive role to play for the benefit of humanity and reiterated his resolve to...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – The UN’s top human rights official has on Sep 8 bemoaned the fact that there has been no progress in the human rights situation in Tibet and East Turkestan (Xinjiang) despite his ongoing engagement with the...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – A war action drama, Battle of Galwan, based on the mid-2020 fighting between Indian and Chinese troops on Ladakh’s Galwan Valley border may have been shelved but allowed to be filmed after assurance that China would...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’25) – US tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state over the past quarter century, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an investigation by the Associated...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’25) – China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), or parliament, has reviewed two legislative proposals on Sep 8 to ramp up a drive to promote further ethnic integration through the use of standard Chinese – both the spoken and...

(TibetanReview.net, Sep08’25) – India confirmed Sep 5 that China had lifted certain export restrictions, leading to the resumption of supplies of rare earths, fertilisers, and tunnel-boring machines to India, reported deccanchronicle.com Sep 6. On its part, New Delhi has...