From AP, via CNews: There’s a new type of pilgrim spinning the prayer wheels at Tibet’s holiest sites. Along with the Tibetans who prostrate themselves before the vacant throne of their exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, swarms of Chinese tourists rub crisp Chinese money on their foreheads and then cram the bills into collection boxes.
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Chinese hackers have been blamed for a wave of attacks on South Korean government computer systems, the latest in a series of internet security breaches involving China. The US, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama are among other victims of suspected Chinese cyber sabotage over recent years. Nearly 300 South Korean government […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via News.com.au: Chinese President Hu Jintao had a meeting today with a teenage boy picked by Beijing to become the second-highest spiritual figure in Tibet, telling him to be patriotic on the eve of his 15th birthday. Hu was shown on state television urging the 11th Panchen Lama, chosen by Beijing in defiance […]
Read MoreThe Press Trust of India reports that the Chinese government is holding anti-terrorism exercises in Tibet, ahead of a scheduled visit by envoys of the Dalai Lama. “The holding of the counter-terrorism exercise in Tibet was significant in the sense that China views the supporters of the exiled Tibetan religious leader, the Dalai Lama, as […]
Read MoreLast week’s CDT Chinese 404 Archives podcast highlighted the recent revival of the Silent Observer WeChat account. The account, which for several years has provided a platform for philosophically-inclined reflections on...
Read MoreTwo research reports published this week underscore how authorities in Tibet have displaced local communities to impose state-sponsored projects, undermining environmental protection and human rights. The collaborative research...
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With Sino-U.S. relations strained amid a rapidly escalating trade war, and months after the U.S....
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Tibetan entrepreneur and language education activist Tashi Wangchuk was detained in January 2016,...
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Earlier this week AsiaNews.it, a news site run by the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions,...
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At the National People’s Congress, China’s parliament overwhelmingly approved a series...
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