Opinions

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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By Claude Arpi | The Pioneer | 19th December 2019.
It is surprising that successive Indian Governments preferred to remain, mum, even as China kept on making advances towards the border. If this continues, a new disaster may unfold

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.  

By Tenzin Sangmo | 17 October 2019
The Tibetan Supreme Justice Commission’s verdict in case No. 20 issued on Monday was much awaited as it could put to rest the endless speculation over key issues in the high-profile defamatory case.

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?

Despite the Dalai Lama’s efforts to resist Chinese interference, Beijing is trying its best to appoint a puppet successor to him.