(TibetanReview.net, Jul31’20) – The Dalai Lama has expressed condolences on the passing away on Jul 30 of the man who steered Taiwan towards democracy and became its first popularly elected President in 1996. He has called Lee Teng-hui a personal friend whom he first met in 1997 and on several occasions […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul11’20) – A Taiwan Parliament Group for Tibet, newly formed after the country’s Jan 2020 general election, has said Jul 8 that it hoped the Dalai Lama will soon be able to visit the island. Earlier, on Jul 6, Taiwanese Foreign Ministry suggested that it would welcome the Dalai […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jul07’20) – Taiwan has said Jul 6 that it would welcome a visit by Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as Tibetans and his other devotees across the world marked his 85th birthday with prayers and charity events. The Dalai Lama last visited self-ruled Taiwan in Aug-Sep 2009 […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jun07’20) – Retired Chinese football star Hao Haidong had not only called for the ouster of the Communist party dictatorship in his country but also demanded genuine autonomy for Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet in his two separate YouTube messages on the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, […]

(TibetanReview.net, Feb09’20) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has on Feb 8 urged the country’s state governors to resist Chinese pressure to shun Taiwan as he warned that Beijing was increasingly taking its diplomatic battle to the local level. He has also urged them to ignore Beijing’s pressure on […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan20’20) – The government as well as the two main political parties of Taiwan have reacted angrily to a Jan 18 joint statement by China and Myanmar, in which the latter expressed firm support for the former’s ‘one China’ policy with specific mentions of Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang. The […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan14’20) – Officials from more than 60 countries had greeted Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen by phone call and email on her re-election on Jan 11, reported taiwannews.com.tw Jan 13, citing the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jan 12. The suggestion that far more countries than those with which Taiwan […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan13’20) – The Dalai Lama has on Jan 12 congratulated the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her re-election, expressing confidence that she will be able to make further strides in bringing peace and prosperity to the people of Taiwan. On the same day, China slammed officials from the US […]

(TibetanReview.net, Jan12’20) – In a double blow to China, Taiwan has re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), seen as being independence-inclined, for a second term while the Czech capital Prague, having cancelled a “sister city” agreement with Beijing in Oct 2019, has decided to sign a […]

(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 […]