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By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 4 April: “If I change the name of your house, will it become mine?” India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in response to Beijing’s release of 30 new names last week for areas within the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China has been blatantly claiming as its own, an assertion deemed illegal by India.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA 27 March: The US and the UK have filed charges and imposed sanctions on Beijing’s covertly-run cyber espionage hacking group, nicknamed Advanced Persistent Threat 31 (APT31), on Monday. The espionage campaign allegedly targeted millions of people, including lawmakers, academics, journalists, and companies, including defence contractors, as reported by Reuters on 25 March.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 22 March: China has criticised the US for declaring India’s sovereignty over Arunachal Pradesh and the US’ opposition to “any unilateral attempts (by China) to advance territorial claims by incursions or encroachment, military or civilian, across the Line of Actual Control (LAC),” as stated in response to a question during the State Department’s press briefing on Wednesday.

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 19 March: Li Ying, a Chinese artist-turned-dissident in Italy’s followers on X(formerly Twitter) who are living in China are being tracked and threatened by Chinese police, signifying Beijing’s widening crackdown on foreign social media sites, CNN reported on Monday.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 16 March: At the “Assessing the PRC’s Assimilation Policies in Tibet” event, Uzra Zeya, the United States Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, condemned Beijing’s ‘Sinicization’ policies in Tibet. The event, hosted by the University of Ottawa and Canada Tibet Committee on 12 March, irked Chinese authorities, with a spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Canada calling it hyping up Tibet-related issues and spreading lies about Tibet, as stated on their official website on 14 March.

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 14 March: A Chinese military delegation recently visited the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal to discuss further cooperation in defence issues, China’s Ministry of National Defence reported yesterday on its website.

By Tsering Choephel
DHARAMSALA, 6 March: The ruling coalition government of Nepal, comprising the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and Nepali Congress (NC), collapsed on Monday, with Prachanda of the Maoist Centre joining hands with the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) to form a new government, signalling influence and victory for Beijing, according to several online reports.

By Tsering Choephel DHARAMSALA, 26 Feb: Uzra Zeya, the US Undersecretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights,

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 16 Feb: A bipartisan bill promoting a Resolution to the Tibet-China Dispute Act, known as the Resolve Tibet Act, cleared the US House of Representatives on Thursday, edging a step closer to becoming law in the US.

By Tsering Choephel

DHARAMSALA, 1 Feb: A video widely circulating on social media shows Ladakhi nomads in a confrontation with several Chinese armies equipped with armoured vehicles. According to media reports, the incident occurred on January 2 in the Kakjung area of the Nyoma constituency, adjacent to the Chushul Valley in Ladakh close to China-occupied Tibet near the long-contested border between India and China— known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC).