A mega-dam in Tibet must make ecological integrity and safety a priority, Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing said during a visit to the project. The dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo will be the world’s largest hydropower facility and it is...

In an exclusive interview, the former camp worker describes worsening abuses, transnational pressure, and the urgent need for global accountability. The post Sayragul Sauytbay: China Is Escalating Repression of Uyghurs and Kazakhs first appeared on Bitter Winter.

To counter the CCP’s escalating threats, Taiwan must build a national consensus and demonstrate the capability and the will to fight.The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) –After intimidating Taiwan with a series of highly provocative war games over the stand of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on independence, China has on Apr 12 unveiled 10 new incentive measures for the democratically self-ruled...

(TibetanReview.net, Apr12’26) – A Bollywood film by super star Salman Khan which was previously titled as “Battle of Galwan”, and even partially shot in Ladakh, is now being reshot 40% to reflect India’s new sensitivity towards Beijing amid improving...

The Central Tibetan Administration has highlighted the cases of Lodoe Gyatso and Palden Yeshi, both imprisoned under opaque legal proceedings. Gyatso is serving 18 years for a peaceful protest, while Yeshi received six years after disappearing in 2021, reportedly...

Sonia Faleiro’s The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia follows a spectre that is haunting parts of South Asia — radical Buddhism, which many would see as a contradiction in terms. Buddhism has, in public thinking and discourse, been associated with

Although the terms “language” and “dialect” refer to different things, in real life the boundary between the two is not always clear-cut, and their linguistic definitions are often influenced by polit...

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is “playing with fire” with her remark that the Taiwan Strait should “never be a chessboard for interference by external forces,” Premier ...

When political leaders speak of “peace” across the Taiwan Strait, the word carries an intuitive appeal. However, in international politics, peace rests on commitments — and not all commitments are equ...