By Khedroob Thondup
In 1979, Gyalo Thondup’s meeting with Deng Xiaoping in Beijing marked the beginning of a new chapter in Tibet’s modern history. Deng’s words were blunt: “Anything but Independence can be discussed.” With that statement, the parameters of dialogue were set, and Tibetans entered into a process that would span decades, yielding both moments of hope and deep disillusionment.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 30 July: Chinese state media has confirmed that a historic stone fortress in Tibet’s eastern Gyalrong region was demolished by authorities, attributing the destruction to an expressway construction project. The official admission comes weeks after footage of a bulldozer tearing down the structure circulated online around 14 July, triggering widespread grief inside occupied Tibet and condemnation from Tibetan exile communities.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 28 July: Chinese authorities have begun forcibly removing monks and nuns from Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serta, eastern Tibet. This comes after authorities demolished their residential quarters earlier this month. The monastics are now barred from remaining at the academy, one of Tibet’s most important centres of Buddhist learning, even after loosing their home.
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By Khedroob Thondup
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long envisioned a future where the nation stands shoulder to shoulder with — or above — the United States as a global superpower. This ambition rests on two pillars: economic might and military strength. Yet, the trajectory is far from smooth. The CCP’s path is being tested by slowing growth, demographic decline, and intensifying confrontations abroad.
By Khedroob Thondup
The Tibetan struggle today is not only about sovereignty or autonomy—it is about survival. Communist China’s project of Sinicization is relentless: language policies that erode Tibetan in schools, religious restrictions that hollow out monasteries, demographic engineering that dilutes Tibetan presence in our own homeland. If Tibetans—inside Tibet and across the diaspora—do not act decisively, the distinctiveness of our culture risks being absorbed into a homogenised Chinese identity.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 27 July: The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has announced plans to establish a dedicated office in New York, US, to counter what it describes as Chinese disinformation and propaganda surrounding the death and sacrifice of Pawo (Martyr) Lobga Rangzen, as the organisation expands its global campaign calling for a formal United Nations(UN) response to his self-immolation.
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By Khedroob Thondup
For more than four decades, the Tibetan leadership has held to a strategy that Beijing has consistently rejected. The reliance on a framework conceived in the 1980s—anchored in appeals for dialogue and autonomy—has not yielded meaningful negotiations. Instead, it has left Tibetans in a holding pattern, waiting for a door that Beijing has bolted shut. The time has come to recognize that persistence without adaptation is not resilience; it is stagnation.
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By Khedroob Thondup
China’s recent warnings to India not to interfere in the future reincarnation of the Dalai Lama are more than just diplomatic posturing. They strike at the heart of a centuries-old Tibetan spiritual tradition and the geopolitical contest over who gets to define its future. Beijing insists that the next Dalai Lama must be chosen under its authority, a claim rooted in its broader assertion of sovereignty over Tibet. Yet the Dalai Lama himself has repeatedly suggested that his reincarnation may well occur outside Tibet — most plausibly in India, where he has lived in exile since 1959.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 23 July: Despite widespread international criticism and opposition from Tibetans, China is pressing ahead with the implementation of its new ethnic unity law, with senior Communist Party official Wang Huning calling for its full enforcement and the further alignment of Tibetan Buddhism with China’s socialist system during a visit to occupied Tibet this week.
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By Khedroob Thondup
When Wang Huning, a senior member of the Politburo Standing Committee, traveled to Tibet, his words carried the weight of Beijing’s long-term vision for the region. His call for the implementation of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress was not a passing remark but a reaffirmation of the Party’s central strategy: to bind Tibet’s development inseparably to the project of national integration.