Tibetan Review
India and China reiterate platitudes, report no resolutions, after 19th military border talks
(TibetanReview.net, Aug16’23) – The 19th Corps Commander-level talks between the armed forces of India and China held at the Chushul border meeting point in Eastern Ladakh over Aug 14-15 ended in the way most of the previous rounds with...
Party-state of China suspends reporting legitimacy-challenging youth joblessness data
(TibetanReview.net, Aug15’23) – The Party-state of China very implicitly denies that citizens are entitled to civil and political rights. Rather, it stakes its legitimacy on guaranteeing the socio-economic well-being of its subject-citizens. And so, the country’s continuously worsening youth...
India airlifted massive arms, troops to eastern Ladakh in the 2020 Galwan Valley clashes aftermath
(TibetanReview.net, Aug14’23) – Ahead of the 19th Corps Commander-level talks between the armed forces of India and China that began at the Chushul border meeting point in Eastern Ladakh on Aug 14, it has been revealed that India had...
Sunni, Shia Muslims of Ladakh host joint-reception for Dalai Lama
(TibetanReview.net, Aug12’23) – The Dalai Lama who has been sojourning in India’s Tibet-border Union Territory of Ladakh since Jul 11 was on Aug 12 hosted a join-reception by the Sunni and Shia Muslim communities at a mosque near his...
Restoring Faith in Tibetan Democracy: A Call to Action
Dr Nawang Phuntsog-la* bemoans the fact that the very institutions and representatives we have elected seem to be the instruments of the potential downfall of Tibetan democracy and calls for a people’s movement to help build a strong foundation...
Three UN experts ask China to account for detained Tibetan environment activists
(TibetanReview.net, Aug11’23) – Three UN human rights experts have issued a joint statement on Aug 10, asking the Chinese government to provide information about nine Tibetans imprisoned for their peaceful efforts to protect Tibet’s fragile environment. The experts—the Special...
Birth certificate to be all-important document for people living in India
(TibetanReview.net, Aug10’23) – Birth certificate is set to become a requirement for availing public services and social benefits in India after the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of parliament, passed the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2023,...
Chinese Communist Party slogans on London’s Brick Lane ricochet on Beijing
(TibetanReview.net, Aug09’23) – An attempt to turn London’s famous Brick Lane into a Chinese propaganda board ricocheted on Beijing when it became a forum for scrutinizing China for everything that is wrong and going wrong there under Xi Jinping’s...
China showcases readiness to sacrifice its troops to annex Taiwan
(TibetanReview.net, Aug07’23) – Through an eight-part documentary, China has sought to make it clear that it is ready to attack Taiwan at any time, that its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers are willing to sacrifice themselves in trying to...
China’s economists under gag orders against airing worsening bad news
(TibetanReview.net, Aug06’23) – Communist Chinese leaders have long used censorship to hide their excesses as well as shortcomings and incompetence to keep the citizenry in the dark about what has really been going on in the country. When the...
Record 132 Tibetan Buddhist nuns taking this year’s Geshema degree exams
(TibetanReview.net, Aug05’23) – A record 132 Tibetan Buddhist nuns are taking part in this year’s Geshema examinations, the highest academic degree in the Gelugpa tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, as Tibetan Buddhism is called. The four-year exams for this year...
Sinicization, patriotism to be China’s new mantra of religious control, come Sep 1
(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’23) – New guidelines on religious activities coming into effect on Sep 1 requires all places of worship in the People’s Republic of China to give top importance to the leadership and policies of the Communist Party of...
China targeting ‘Five Poisons’ that give its rulers sleepless nights
(TibetanReview.net, Aug04’23) – China has built an expansive intelligence apparatus, with tens of thousands of officers, focused on combating the “Five Poisons” that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sees as its top threats both from within the country and...
Xi Jinping’s Sinicization campaign launched in ethnic minorities’ own languages
(TibetanReview.net, Aug03’23) – It is the era of Xi Jinping in China these days and he is a required reading for everyone in the country for understanding the party’s policies, programmes and long-term goals and as an act of...