July 27, 2019 3:48 am
(TibetanReview.net, Jul26’19) – A delegation of Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has on Jul 25 paid a courtesy call on Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at his exile home in Dhartamsala to mainly offer greetings on his 84th birthday. The delegation was made up of the party’s […]
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July 26, 2019 2:32 am
(TibetanReview.net, Jul24’19) – China has listed containing “Taiwan independence” and combating “separatist forces” in Tibet and Xinjiang among its top priorities in a national defence white paper it released on Jul 24. It has refused to renounce the use of force in efforts to reunify Taiwan with the mainland and […]
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June 6, 2019 4:31 am
(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 […]
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May 24, 2019 9:02 pm
(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 […]
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April 4, 2019 11:25 pm
(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, […]
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March 28, 2019 5:23 am
(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 […]
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March 17, 2019 11:02 pm
(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 […]
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March 10, 2019 12:46 am
(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 […]
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March 2, 2019 1:47 am
(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, […]
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February 15, 2019 7:30 am
(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. […]
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