DHARAMSALA, 8 Oct: The 8th Young Indian Scholars’ Conference on Tibetan Studies officially opened in Dharamsala on Thursday, bringing together emerging researchers, university faculty, and academic experts from across the country to deepen Indian scholarship and understanding of Tibet.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 9 Oct: China’s development of DeepZang, a Tibetan-language artificial intelligence model, has taken an explicitly political turn, with its founder pledging to advance the technology to promote state-directed ethnic integration. The announcement has brought into sharper focus concerns over how artificial intelligence could extend Chinese colonial control over Tibet into the digital sphere.

By Tenzin Chokyi

DHARAMSALA, 5 Oct: A California woman has been arrested while attempting to depart to China on charges of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and spying on the son of Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. The case has renewed attention to Beijing’s documented efforts to extend its repressive reach beyond China’s borders and target Tibetans, Uyghurs and other exiled communities.

By Khedroob Thondup

Preparing for the CCP’s Eventual Transition. History teaches us that authoritarian regimes rarely collapse in a neat or predictable fashion. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), despite its formidable machinery of control, is not immune to the pressures of economic stagnation, demographic decline, internal factionalism, and external confrontation. The question is whether and when the CCP will face a moment of breakdown or transition, and whether the international community will be ready when it does.