Tibetan Review
Chinese Premier to avoid year’s only media interaction event
(TibetanReview.net, Mar04’24) – As questions swirl about the country’s struggling economy and governmental transparency in the face of disappeared high-profile ministers, Premier Li Qiang is not holding a news conference at the conclusion of the Chinese parliament’s annual meeting...
China urges Indian media to uphold One China policy, berating a Taiwan foreign Minister interview
(TibetanReview.net, Mar04’24) – China wants the media in India to follow its so-called One China policy after the television channel NewsX aired on Feb 29 an interview with Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu. The Communist Party of China (CPC)-state...
Online reports of fatalities due to flood damage to dam in Qinghai province denied
(TibetanReview.net, Mar02’24) – Online reports suggested that dozens of people had died and thousands had gone missing after a dam was damaged by flooding recently in the previously earthquake-hit Maduo (Tibetan: Matoe) county in Golog Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Qinghai...
China-ruled Tibet is second least free country, territory in rights group’s annual survey
(TibetanReview.net, Mar01’24) – With an abysmal -2 out of 40 for Political Rights and just 2 out of 60 for Civil Liberties, China-ruled Tibet has scored a total of zero out of 100 for “Freedom” in the international rights...
China awards 12 top Tibetan Buddhist degrees in Tibet, compared to over 300 in India in last four years
(TibetanReview.net, Mar01’24) – China reported Feb 28 that 12 monks had been awarded the degree of Geshe Lharampa following a sutra debate that day in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), apparently to make the point that religious freedom is respected...
Further fall from grace for disappeared former foreign, defence ministers in opaque world of China
(TibetanReview.net, Mar01’24) – China said Feb 27 that the resignation from the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) by the months-long disappeared former foreign minister Qin Gang had been accepted, without any information on his whereabouts or current status. China...
China imposes lockdown on monasteries earmarked for destruction for dam at centre of Tibetan protests
(TibetanReview.net, Feb28’24) – China has imposed a lockdown on the seven monasteries along the two banks of eastern Tibet’s Drichu (Chinese: Jinsha) river which it is set to demolish to make way for a massive hydropower dam project in...
Int’l outrage grows over China’s brutal ill-treatment of Tibetan dam protesters
(TibetanReview.net, Feb27’24) – The United States’ top official on Tibetan issues has on Feb 25 added her voice to the growing outpouring of international outrage on the scale and brutality of China’s ongoing repression of Tibetans in Dege County,...
Tibet campaign, support groups conclude 9th int’l meet in Brussels
(TibetanReview.net, Feb26’24) – A three-day conference of over 170 members representing “Tibet support Groups” from 44 countries concluded in Belgium’s capital Brussels on Feb 25, reported the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which facilitated the event, on its Tibet.net website....
Tibetans arrested for Dege dam protests being severely beaten by Chinese police
(TibetanReview.net, Feb25’24) – Chinese police in Dege County of Kardze (Chinese: Ganzi) prefecture, Sichuan province, had begun interrogating the more than 1,000 Tibetans they had arrested for protesting against the building of a massive hydropower dam complex in their...
US town to mark 65th Tibetan national uprising anniversary
(TibetanReview.net, Feb25’24) – The Amherst Town in the US state of Massachusetts is to commemorate the 65th Tibetan Uprising Day on Mar 10 by flying the Tibetan national flag as a way to express solidarity with the Tibetan people...
China’s Panchen gets an earful on perfecting his role to help Sinicize Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism
(TibetanReview.net, Feb25’24) – China’s politburo leader on ethnic minority and religious affairs has on Feb 21 met with its replacement 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu in Beijing and called on him to step up in carrying out his role...
China’s biggest gold producer cleared to massively expand Tibet copper mine project
(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’24) – Zijin Mining Group, China’s biggest listed gold producer,has received local government approval for the second phase expansion of its Julong copper project in Tibet, reported Reuters Feb 23, citing the company in a filing with the...
Dalai Lama’s 1959 escape route in Arunachal to be developed for spiritual tourism
(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’24) – The government of the state of Arunachal Pradesh is developing the 1959 escape trail within India of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, following China’s annexation of Tibet into a spiritual and religious tourism circuit. Little-known...
UPDATE: China has arrested over 1,000 in Dege hydropower dam Tibetan protesters
(TibetanReview.net, Feb24’24) – Police have arrested more than 1,000 Tibetans, including monks, in an eastern Tibetan area that is currently administered as part of China’s Sichuan province after they took part in a series of protests to demand a...
New Delhi asked to act on China-paid domestic social media influencers with large following
(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’24) – India’s security establishment has shortlisted more than a dozen Indian social media influencers and vloggers who allegedly peddle Chinese government narratives, including on Tibet and Xinjiang, with grave implications for the country’s national security, reported indiatoday.in...
India and China hold their 21st border commander-level talks after 2020 clashes, agree to maintain status quo
(TibetanReview.net, Feb22’24) –India and China have held their 21st Corps Commander Level Meeting on the occupied Tibet side of the Moldo-Chushul border in Ladakh on Feb 19. Begun after the 2020 non-firearms violent clashes in the area, the two...
China linking various biometric surveillance systems and databases in Tibet to consolidate control
(TibetanReview.net, Feb21’24) – The Chinese government in Tibet Autonomous Region is linking the large number of various biometric surveillance systems and databases it has deployed there as the next logical step to consolidate control of the region, reported the...
Bhutan reticent as China continues to expand new villages built in disputed Tibet-border territory
(TibetanReview.net, Feb20’24) – Bhutan has so far downplayed the controversy posed by China’s continued building and expansion of new villages in disputed occupied-Tibet-border territory, but Thimphu’s closest partner India is keeping a close eye on developments amid suggestions that...
Reputed science fiction award excluded authors who might offend the 2023 event host China
(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’24) – Organizers of the Hugo Awards, one of the most prominent literary awards in science fiction, excluded multiple authors from shortlists last year over concerns their work or public comments could be offensive to China, reported pajiba.com...
Chinese firm behind local ‘news’ websites spreading Beijing propaganda in 30 countries
(TibetanReview.net, Feb18’24) – China appears to have co-opted, through the agency of a Beijing public relations firm, more than 100 websites in 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America to push its propaganda information at local levels. The...
Journal retracts 18 papers from China due to Tibet and other human rights concerns
TibetanReview.net, Feb17’24) – A genetics journal from a leading scientific publisher in the United States has retracted 18 papers from China in what is seen as the biggest mass retraction of academic research due to concerns about human rights...
Monk reported disappeared after arrest by Chinese police for Dalai Lama photo on mobile
(TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) – Chinese police in a Tibetan area that currently remains incorporated as a part of Sichuan province had arrested in Jul 2023 a Tibetan Buddhist monk for possessing a photo of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual...
Tibetans protest against forced resettlement from largest capacity dam construction on Jinsha River
(TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) – Chinese authorities have tightened security while trying to identify organizers and participants after at least 300 local Tibetans staged a protest Feb 14 against the ongoing construction of the largest capacity dam on the Jinsha (Tibetan:...
House Bill adopted asking US to push China to negotiate to resolve Tibet’s disputed status
TibetanReview.net, Feb16’24) –The US House of Representatives has on Feb 15 approved a bipartisan legislative bill that refutes China’s claim that Tibet has been part of China since ancient times; recognizes the Tibetan people’s right to independence and self-determination;...
Over 100 residential compounds in Lhasa alone stated to be multi-ethnic
(TibetanReview.net, Feb15’24) – Inter-ethnic marriage has long been encouraged with a slew of preferential policies by the Party-state of China as a way to Sinicize the ethnic minority regions, all the more so under President Xi Jinping’s current imperative...
Chinese nationals moving into hitherto vacant ‘border defence village’ buildings in occupied Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Feb15’24) –Chinese nationals have started occupying the double-storeyed spacious buildings in some of the model “Xiaokang” border defence villages that had come up in occupied Tibet across India’s north-eastern borders along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) since...
China’s continued Covid closure of Nepal-Tibet border separates families, affects livelihoods
(TibetanReview.net, Feb14’24) – The Covid-19 pandemic may have long ceased to be a matter of serious concern across the world, but not so to the Chinese government as far as its occupied Tibet’s border area with Nepal is concerned....
‘Ladakh stand-off led India to cite China as No. 1 threat’
(TibetanReview.net, Feb13’24) – India may still be flummoxed by the audacity of the Chinese army intrusion into eastern Ladakh in mid-2020, especially as regards the level of authority at which the decision was taken, but it has enabled the...
China opens Lhasa for Tibetans from other regions for Losar, but tight restrictions remain
(TibetanReview.net, Feb11’24) – China announced a relaxation in restrictions it had imposed in 2018 on the entry into Tibet’s capital Lhasa of Tibetans from outside the region in a move to revive its flagging economy ahead of the Tibetan...

































