Don’t blame ‘China’ for the coronavirus — blame the Chinese Communist Party

By Josh Rogin | The Washington Post | 20 March 2020.
We must all be specific in blaming the Chinese Communist Party for its actions. It was the CCP that hid the virus outbreak for weeks, silencing doctors, jailing journalists and thwarting science — most notably by shutting down the Shanghai lab that publicly released the first coronavirus genome sequence.

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China should be wary of meddling in the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation

By Ngodup Dongchung | The Week | 27 Jan 2020.
The story of Tibet under China has been one of suffering and suppression. According to the 70,000 Character Petition, submitted to the Chinese leadership in 1962 by the 10th Panchen Lama, over 90 per cent of religious institutions and cultural centres in eastern Tibet had been destroyed, and monks and nuns forced to marry and tethered to manual labour.

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China buying Indian media for propaganda gimmick

By Tsewang Gyalpo Arya | 16th December 2019.
Hindustan Times, one of the leading Indian dallies, has on its Friday issue [13/12/2019] carried a full-page supplement with two ostensible articles by some Yuan Shenggao under the sponsorship of China Watch Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese communist regime. The articles are titled “Decades of progress highlighted”1 and “Unparalleled change experienced within a space of generation”2.  

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Obituary-Chime Dorjee, founder & director of Gangjong Doeghar

Ms Tsarong Dolkar Tshering | Gangtok | 4 November 2019.
Legendary Tibetan musician, artist, and craftsman and Founder-Director of Gangjong Doeghar (Tibetan-Himalayan Performing Arts), Mr Chime Dorjee, popularly known as A Dogah, age 77, passed away peacefully on 2nd November 2019 at 9.05 a.m. at Anandaloke Nursing Home, Siliguri, West Bengal, India.

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If the UK’s new PM wants to be free from China, he should meet the Dalai Lama

Gray Sergeant| HKFP | 26 July 2019.

In his column for The Times of London last October, the writer Edward Lucas invited his readers to consider whether or not they lived in a free country. For Lucas, the answer to this multifaceted question came in the form of one simple test: do your politicians feel free to meet the Dalai Lama?

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