How the Nepal-Tibet disaster became the latest victim of China’s ‘Clean Internet’ campaign

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Tsering Phuntsok watched news of the Nepal-Tibet flood unfold from thousands of miles away in southern India. The 46-year-old Tibetan in exile has missing family members on both sides of the border; those in Nepal are named in official government lists, but in Tibet he has received no information.

“I have started praying for the lost ones now. I have to accept they will not return [because] … I’m not getting any information.”

The flooding disaster is an example of the increasing use by Chinese authorities of “Clean Internet 2026”, the latest version ofa long-running campaign by the Ministry of Public Security that criminalises anything officials rega...

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