(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 […]

(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 […]

(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, […]