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Gyaltsen Choedak* says China’s Regulations on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, which came into force on Jul 1, symbolize an ongoing struggle over language, memory, culture, and identity, with China being bent on erasing them all in this latest...
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Since language is inseparable from cultural and religious identity to the Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian communities, China's requirement that they adopt Mandarin in school education and public institutions under its new law strikes at the very survival of these...
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Tenzin Jigmey* makes the point that while the recent discovery of potentially vast reserves of rare top quality quartz from southern Tibet is great news for modern digital and clean energy technologies in diverse fields of great importance, and...
Wangpo Tethong* remembers Lhasang Tsering, who passed away just recently, for the remarkably cool-headed manner in which he steered the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as its President when His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his Strasbourg proposal in 1988...
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As the future of Tibet's cultural identity is increasingly being shaped not in monasteries or family homes, but inside classrooms where political indoctrination is steadily replacing native language education, Ashu Maan* points out that international human rights standards offer...
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China’s continuous strengthening of its decades-long crackdown on monasteries, language, schools and public gatherings in Tibet means that its persistent, often murky and disturbing, efforts to sideline the Dalai Lama, and his enduring presence in Tibetan consciousness, has been...
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While it seems to make no difference to China whether Tibetans are seeking autonomy or campaigning for independence for their occupied homeland, Tseten Lhundup* contends that the former sustains the cause internationally and offers possibilities for the future while...
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Vijay Kranti* contends: “The Chinese Embassy Spokesperson’s threats to the Modi Government to keep off the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation is the last wake-up call on India. A puppet Dalai Lama in the hands of Beijing will put the security...
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As China continues to disappear Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, whom it abducted with his family 31 years ago at six years of age with absolute impunity to this day, Ashu Maan* makes the point that you...
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Gyaltsen Choedak* contends that the narrative on the “17-Point Agreement” is as much about China’s illegal annexation of Tibet in the name of “peaceful liberation” as it is about getting the terminology underlying the coerced signing of this document...
