(TibetanReview.net, Jun05’19) – Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer had been denied visa to attend a conference organized by the Taiwan International Religious Freedom Forum in Hsinchu on May 30, reported taiwannews.com.tw Jun 5, citing a Radio Free Asia report May 30. The report […]

(TibetanReview.net, May24’19) – Pressure has been sought to be brought on Taiwan’s current president Tsai Ing-wen to invite Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, given that all her directly elected predecessors had done so, reported taipeitimes.com May 24. The challenge has been made by the Taiwan Jury Association and […]

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04’19) – China has ordered the destruction of 300,000 more maps for not mentioning the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the independent nation of Taiwan as parts of its territory and has moved to file a lawsuit against four persons for trying to export them to the Netherlands, […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar27’19) – Customs authorities in Qingdao, a port city in East China’s Shandong Province, had destroyed nearly 30,000 “incorrect” world maps, with problems including “rendering Taiwan as a country and wrong depiction of the Sino-Indian border”, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn Mar 25. In other words, the maps showed Taiwan […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar16’19) – A group of 13 councilors belonging to the pan-green camp has announced on Mar 14 the formation of a Tibet caucus in the Taipei City Council, their agenda being to lend greater support to Tibet and its people, reported Taiwan’s CNA news agency Mar 14. The members […]

(TibetanReview.net, Mar09’19) – Ahead of carrying out a march on Mar 10, the 60th Tibetan National uprising day, Tibetan rights advocates and politicians across party lines in Taiwan have on Mar 7 called for an end to China’s oppression of Tibet. An announcement of the march was made at a […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb28’19) – In an apparent further hardening of its position on self-ruled Taiwan, China wants any proposal for a peace deal from it to include a push for reunification, not just an endorsement of the so-called One China policy. This followed a remark from the island’s main opposition party, […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’19) – Nearly 4000 people from 75 countries, including China and Taiwan, visit the Dalai Lama at his Dharamsala residence, seeking private audiences, during the year 2018, reported timesofindia.com Feb 12. The report said the visitors included 250 Chinese and 330 Taiwanese who traveled on their respective countries’ passports. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan03’19) – President Xi Jinping has made it clear Jan 2 that China must and will be reunified with the incorporation of what Beijing considers the breakaway province of Taiwan. Although Taiwan was not an issue of immediate interest and concern to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, China’s phenomenal […]

(TibetanReview.net, Dec19, 2018) – An Indian parliamentary panel has described as “overly cautious” India’s policy on China’s sensitivities on Taiwan and Tibet issues while Beijing does not show the same deference to New Delhi’s sovereignty concerns, reported India’s PTI news agency Dec 18. Calling for a more robust and equitable […]