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 Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 22 July: Tenzin Pemo, an Instagram and YouTube content creator known as Zoe Family, launched her first book today titled Where He Leads, I Follow – a memoir about raising her autistic son, Tenzin Dhamchoe – at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives here.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 21 July: A fresh demolition campaign at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in eastern Tibet has placed more than 1,000 monastic residences at risk, reviving concerns over a long-running effort by Chinese authorities to reduce the size of and tighten control over one of the world’s largest centres of Tibetan Buddhist learning.
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 19 July: The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has launched a worldwide chain hunger strike protest beginning today in Dharamsala, calling for concrete international action following the self-immolation and death of Tibetan independence activist Pawo Lobga Rangzen outside the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 17 July: China has taken another step toward shaping global artificial intelligence governance after 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai on Thursday establishing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organisation (WAICO), an intergovernmental body headquartered in the Chinese financial hub.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 16 July: The demolition of a historic stone fortress in Tibet’s eastern Gyalrong region by Chinese authorities has drawn criticism from Tibetans, who say it has heightened concerns over the preservation of Tibetan cultural heritage just days after China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” came into force.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 16 July: European lawmakers have intensified their opposition to China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said in a report on 10 July, with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), European Union officials and national parliamentarians warning that the legislation threatens the cultural, religious and linguistic rights of Tibetans and other affected communities.
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By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA, 15 July: Members of the Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)-Itanagar chapter in Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian border state claimed by China as part of “South Tibet” held a candlelight vigil on Monday to honour Tibetan independence activist Pawo Lobga Rangzen, whose self-immolation outside the United Nations headquarters in New York coincided with the implementation of China’s “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress”.
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By Khedroob Thondup
China’s new “Ethnic Unity and Progress Law” is not a benign framework for harmony but a legal codification of assimilation, directly undermining the viability of the Middle Way Approach by criminalizing cultural distinctiveness and foreclosing genuine autonomy for Tibet. It signals Beijing’s intent to replace negotiated coexistence with enforced homogeneity, making the pursuit of autonomy increasingly precarious.
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By Khedroob Thondup | European Times
There is a painful truth that Tibetans must face. Those who still believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will one day grant Tibet genuine autonomy are clinging to a mirage. The CCP’s record in Tibet is not one of compromise, dialogue, or respect for cultural identity. It is one of control, assimilation, and suppression. To imagine that this same system will suddenly soften and allow Tibetans to live freely under its rule is to indulge in wishful thinking.