(TibetanReview.net, Oct16’19) – China has expressed hope Oct 15 that the 11th Panchen Lama it had appointed in 1995 to replace the boy recognized by the Dalai Lama would play leading role in the Sinicization of Tibetan Buddhism as the latter presented to the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central […]

(TibetanReview.net, May17’19) – Bringing China to the negotiating table may seem to be as futile a flogging a dead horse for now. But a resolute exile Tibetan administration continues to be hopeful and has concluded on May 16 a two-day, 31st meeting of its task force on negotiation with Beijing. […]

(TibetanReview.net, Oct17, 2018) – This has probably been the longest visit by far for the Chinese government-appointed 11th Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu who otherwise lives in Beijing and there have been only few English-language media reports about it. China’s official Xinhua news agency said Oct 16 that the 11th Panchen […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul18, 2018) – By agreeing to accept Chinese investment for infrastructure projects that are too large and grandiose for their needs, fund-starved poor countries, which do not benefit from them all that much, are being lured into debt trap for Beijing to take undue advantage of later on. This […]

(TibetanReview.net, May16, 2018) – Tibetan monks “wrongly educated” in monasteries in India are banned from teaching in Lithang County which is now part of China’s Sichuan Province unless they cleared an indoctrination course and test designed to ensure their absolute loyalty to Beijing, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn May 15. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, Apr04, 2018) – Despite the absence of any official contacts after 2010 when eight years of talks broke down on an acrimonious note in its ninth round, backdoor communications have continued between China and the exile Tibetan establishment, reported news18.com Apr 3, citing an interview with President Lobsang Sangay […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb04, 2018) – China and the Vatican are said to be about to sign a historic accord whereby the former will acknowledge the Pope as the head of the country’s Catholic Church in return for the latter recognizing the bishops appointed by Beijing. Seven Beijing-appointed bishops are due to […]

(TibetanReview.net, Dec25, 2017) – China has expressed anger over the fact that the United States had on Dec 21 imposed sanctions on a former Beijing police chief, along with 51 other people and entities around the world for serious human rights violations and corruption. Human rights groups have welcomed the […]

(TibetanReview.net, Nov11, 2017) – Nearly 200 people including scholars from Han Buddhist monasteries and scholars from religious research institutions as well as representatives from Buddhist institutes and monasteries in Tibet Autonomous Region and Tibetan-inhabited areas in Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces took part in the seventh annual Tibetan Buddhist […]