Beijing’s Cartographic Aggression: China Draws Ire with Inclusion of Indian Regions in Controversial Map

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 30 Aug: China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has released a new edition of the map on Monday that includes India’s state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin region as part of its territory, arousing strong protest and responses from Indian ministers and army veterans.

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TCHRD Condemns China’s Alarming Use of Enforced Disappearances, Demands Answers

DHARAMSALA, 30 Aug: Enforced disappearance, a reprehensible practice in violation of human rights, has cast a shadow over the lives of Tibetans living under Chinese occupation, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has said while condemning China for weaponising enforced disappearance to suppress dissent and opposition within Tibet.

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KHADHOK ART EXHIBITION – Celebrating Jigme Choedak’s Life and Art

KHADHOK Collective held its Debut Exhibition from 25-27 August 2023 at the old Tibet Museum, McLeod Ganj. In celebration of the co-founder of the KHADHOK and the artist – late Jigme Choedak’s life and art, the collective aims to celebrate the artworks of Tibetan artists. The exhibition showcased over 90 artworks, with a large number of them by the late Jigme Choedak (JC) and others by the two young contemporary artists Tashi Nyima and Tenzin Menlak. In addition, several other artists and photographers had contributed to the exhibition.

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CHINA’S CARTOGRAPHIC MANIPULATION OF
TIBET IS ‘COLONIALISM OF PERCEPTION’

New Delhi, Paris, New York & Dharamshala – 28 August 2023 Many international experts on
China and Tibet are of the opinion that President Xi Jinping’s obsession with security and to present
himself as the new Mao Zedong is resulting into cultural genocide and total annihilation of the national
personality of China’s colonies like Tibet, East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and Southern Mongolia. Analyzing the
causes and impact of dividing occupied Tibet in 1965 into many pieces at an international webinar titled
“China’s Cartographic Colonialism in Tibet” experts from USA, Europe, Tibet and India expressed
concern that China’s Communist Party (CCP) and its leaders are religiously focused at washing out
Tibet’s history by rewriting and propagating a manufactured version that suits Chinese expansionism.

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