Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Tibet for the first time since 2011 on Wednesday to laud the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s progress in assimilating the Himalayan region to Han ethnic culture since China launched an occupation of the majority Buddhist territory in 1950, China’s official state-run Xinhua press agency reported Friday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he phoned the Dalai Lama on Tuesday to personally greet him on his 86th birthday in a show of public support for the Buddhist leader, who has been exiled in northern India since 1959 following China’s forcible seizure of Tibet in 1950.
China on Tuesday headed off a call for an international investigation of its human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims by demanding a U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHCR) investigation of Canada for allegedly abusing its indigenous population.
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar warned Tuesday that Chinese “close up deployments” on the two countries’ border still continue over a year after a Chinese invasion of Indian territory led to a military clash killing dozens.
Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday warned the Biden administration not to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over human-rights complaints, claiming that such a boycott would “damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter” and inflict severe economic and political damage on the weakened United States.
China organized the first nationwide homages on Sunday to four soldiers killed fighting Indian troops on the nations’ border in June, the first time the Communist Party had allowed such public mourning over the incident in nearly a year.
Members of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the government of Tibet in exile, requested that the Indian government aid in vaccinating the Dalai Lama, the top authority in Tibetan Buddhism, against the Chinese coronavirus.
Women detained in Chinese government-run camps in Tibet are “routinely raped” by their guards, Bitter Winter, an online human rights magazine, alleged on Thursday.
Chinese state media boasted of China’s massive military buildup over the weekend while simultaneously claiming Beijing wants nothing more than to renew friendly dialogue with the United States under the Biden administration.
China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper threatened other states considering a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with “fierce” retaliation on the part of the Communist Party in a column published Sunday.
A coalition of human rights advocates representing groups repressed by the Chinese Communist Party — including members of the Tibetan, Uyghur, Inner Mongolian, and Hong Kong communities — issued a call Thursday for the world to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, set to take place in Beijing.
Senior Chinese foreign policy official Yang Jiechi, one of the top aides to dictator Xi Jinping, on Monday instructed President Joe Biden to abandon the “misguided policies” of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
The Indian Army on Monday confirmed that “a minor face-off” between Indian and Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) border troops took place last week in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, which neighbors Tibet.
Evidence points to the CCP committing crimes “indicative of genocide” in Xinjiang, the UK’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission said.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced visa restrictions Monday for “officials of the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Republic of China believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the repression of members of ethnic minority groups, religious practitioners, and human rights defenders.”
Both houses of Congress passed a bill late Monday allocating $600 in stimulus payments for Americans that also included the text of the Tibet Policy and Support Act, a bill that delineates how the United States should recognize a successor to the current Dalai Lama.
China’s state-run Global Times reported Thursday that People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops stationed in the mountainous Tibetan province of Ngari, which borders India, have been issued “a type of exoskeleton suit that enables them to conduct tasks in harsh, high altitude environments more efficiently.”
Congressman Scott Perry (R-PA) railed against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Thursday as the group celebrated 71 years of national rule.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the New York Post on Thursday that the recent arrest of a New York City police officer on charges of spying for the Chinese government was just the tip of the iceberg, with more arrests likely on the way.
A U.S.-based think tank published a study on Tuesday alleging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has forced over half a million rural Tibetans into military-style labor camps in the first half of 2020.
China allegedly pushed over half a million rural Tibetans into forced labor camps in the first seven months of 2020, mirroring a its concentration camps for Uyghurs in western Xinjiang.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh testified before the nation’s parliament on Tuesday that China had “mobilized a huge number of Army battalions and armaments” along its border with India recently, fueling mounting clashes between the two nuclear-capable militaries.
Multiple Indian news outlets published photos on Wednesday alleging to show Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers approaching their Indian counterparts on the border with spears, machetes, and other rudimentary weapons.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said on Tuesday that it had “found” two Indian youths reportedly “abducted” by Chinese soldiers near the two countries’ eastern Himalayan border on Friday, the Times of India reported.
The Communist Party of China accused the Indian military of firing shots across their mutual border on Tuesday, a claim New Delhi refuted, instead accusing China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of firing their weapons.
The Indian government reached out to China for answers on Monday following the disappearance of five civilian young men in Arunchal Pradesh, an Indian border state China claims as its own “South Tibet.”
India sent a four-star army general to its northern Ladakh territory on Thursday to oversee troops’ operational readiness amid an escalating border dispute with China. On Tuesday, Tibetan officials said an ethnic Tibetan commander in the Indian Army was killed on
A Tibetan commander in India’s Special Frontier Force (SFF) was killed and another ethnic Tibetan soldier wounded on Saturday in a border clash with China in the Western Himalayan Indian territory of Ladakh, Tibetan officials said.
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Wednesday announced the United States will place restrictions on Chinese diplomats in the U.S. in a move reciprocal to those placed on American diplomats on China.
India increased its military presence along at least one part of its border with China, Reuters reported on Wednesday, anticipating a response from the communist nation for India’s removal this weekend of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops allegedly attempting to establish an illegal presence in India.
Indian military sources revealed to national news outlets there on Tuesday that its troops had prevented the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from illegally occupying an Indian mountain peak near the two countries’ border.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping addressed strengthening border security in Tibet – where most of China’s border with India is located – for the first time since a bloody encounter between the two nations’ militaries resulted in dozens of deaths in June, the state-run People’s Daily reported on Monday.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Europe for a “charm offensive” this week but found himself shadowed by human rights activists and Hong Kong democracy champions.
The head of the armed forces of India warned on Monday that a military response to the Chinese invasion of Indian territory in the Himalayas is still possible, even after over a month of talks to cool tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently held a live-fire drill in the Himalayas – the Chinese army’s second such exercise near the Indian border in the past month – as an ongoing boundary conflict between the two Asian neighbors continues to escalate.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi made a “rare” visit to Tibet on Friday amid China’s ongoing border dispute with India along their shared Himalayan boundary.
A multi-ethnic coalition against the Communist Party of China convened an event Sunday in Washington, DC, urging Americans to join their efforts against Beijing’s illegal territorial claims, affecting over half a dozen countries.
The Chinese government seized the building that formerly housed the U.S. consulate in Chengdu on Monday and allowed a communist crowd to convene outside the premises to wave Chinese Communist flags, set off fireworks, chant slogans and take selfies.
The Chinese Communist government on Friday ordered the United States consulate in Chengdu to close in retaliation for the U.S. shuttering the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday condemned the United States for its “reckless and dangerous” shuttering of the Chinese consulate in Houston, Texas, and promised Beijing’s retaliation would bring “real pain” to America.
