Tibetan Review
China is building a vast ‘national ring road’ uniting the entire PRC borderlands
(TibetanReview.net, Aug24’26) – China is building a vast “national ring road”, known as the “border-coast loop”, meant to be a national unity road in the wake of the recent implementation of its national Ethnic Unity Law, encompassing the borders...
US envoy concludes Ladakh visit, misses Dalai Lama meeting
(TibetanReview.net, Aug23’26) – A strongly anticipated meeting between the US ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, and Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in the Union Territory of Ladakh did not take place after all. The Dalai Lama has...
Report: Tibet repression intensifying as Xi looks to prolongs his rule beyond 21st Party Congress in 2027
(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’26) – China is cultivating a more repressive leadership in Tibet as it has begun implementing its forced assimilation policy there under the cover of its Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress (Ethnic Unity Law), and ahead...
Australian Senator urges targeted sanctions on Chinese leaders enforcing transnational Ethnic Unity Law
(TibetanReview.net, Aug22’26) – An Australian Senator has on Aug 20 called for targeted sanctions against Chinese leaders responsible for carrying out transnational repression against Tibetans and others under Beijing’s recently enforced Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. This...
Prayers, protests mark 49th day of Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation death, and to protest China’s forced assimilation move in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Aug21’26) – Prayer services as well as peace and protest marches have been held by Tibetan communities and supporters across the free world Over Aug 19-20, marking the end of the seven weeks since Lobsang Palden, better known...
Facts on Record: The Second Fact-Finding Delegation, 1980
OPINION After witnessing a video commentary on the second fact-finding delegation sent by His Holiness the Dalai Lama which toured Tibet from 1 May 1980, Phuntsog Wangyal*, a member of that delegation, asks that the record be set straight...
Latest satellite images confirm China’s continuing assault on Larung Gar Buddhist learning centre in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – Latest satellite images are stated to confirm reports that China has been carrying out large-scale demolitions at the famed – and the world’s largest Buddhist learning centre – located in a Tibetan County and prefecture in...
China-appointed Panchen has asserted that ‘true Dharma’ begins with observing the coercive ethic unity law
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While members of China’s so-called ethnic Minority groups in the free world, including Tibetans, as well as the international community, have condemned China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law as a tool of forced...
Xi Jinping praises Tiananmen crackdown on Jiang Zemin’s birth centenary, paints a bright future for China under his leadership
(TibetanReview.net, Aug20’26) – While even an indication of referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre by ordinary citizens invites instant merciless crackdown, President Xi Jinping has on Aug 17 praised the Communist Party of China (CPC) he heads for...
As I Saw It: Why a daytime candlelight vigil?
OPINION Palden Sonam* is piqued by the phenomenon of candlelight vigils being held when the sun is still up, and therefore in broad daylight, and asks whether this does not dilute the effectiveness of holding the events. Whoever coined the...














