Click to expand Image French President Emmanuel Macron and China's President Xi Jinping during the official welcoming ceremony in Beijing on April 6, 2023. © 2023 Sipa via AP Images (Paris) – French President Emmanuel Macron should privately and publicly...

The press, movies, and TV dramas can be strong allies of truth. They can also turn away from it, distracting the public through spectacle and display. The post When the Media and the Entertainment Industry Slander Religion first appeared...

On Friday, November 28, 2025, Tendor (Tenzin Dorjee) Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations in Geneva. Despite both China and Iran interrupting multiple times and demanding he be stopped from speaking,...

On Friday, November 28, 2025, Tendor (Tenzin Dorjee) Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations in Geneva. Despite both China and Iran interrupting multiple times and demanding he be stopped from speaking,...

‘Silent Night’ was written in the fallout of war and famine and still resonates today

A unique wedding tradition exists within China’s Yugur ethnic group which requires the groom to shoot three arrows at the bride, striking her clothing without causing her any harm. This unique ethnic minority who primarily live in the Sunan...

In his latest book, Clinton Fernandes explains why the AUKUS deal is an all-too-predictable continuation of past follies.

Her friends warned her not to go, but pro-Tibet activist Zhang Yadi (張雅笛) wanted to see her family, and so traveled home to China this summer, hoping the trip would go as smoothly as previous visits.

Hidden in the frozen highlands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau – often called the “Third Pole” – lies an unexpected trove of biological innovation: animal poop. Chinese scientists have discovered that the faeces of yaks, Tibetan sheep, antelope and other...

Scholars Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Stephen Batchelor discuss what we lose when we drop the Buddha’s mythological dimension and, simultaneously, what we gain by leaning into his humanity. The post The Man, the Myth, the Buddha appeared first...

In A phone call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平), Xi is reported to have stated that in his view, “Taiwan’s return to China” is to be considered an integral par...

For more than seven decades, the Chinese Communist Party has claimed to govern Tibet with benevolence and progress. I have seen the truth behind the slogans. I have listened to the silences of monks f...

The new regulations institutionalize a system known for its abuses and often used against religious dissidents. The post China’s New Residential Surveillance Rules: Reform or Consolidation of an Abusive System? first appeared on Bitter Winter.

A study by Li Hou-chen in “Lingua Sinica” examines how China’s VIP guests are outmaneuvered and manipulated to further CCP propaganda. The post Holger Chen’s Shanghai Sojourn: A Taiwanese Influencer Under Influence first appeared on Bitter Winter.

(Bangkok) – Thai authorities should drop criminal defamation charges against the Australian journalist Murray Hunter, who is being prosecuted for reporting on Malaysia’s media regulating agency, Human Rights Watch said today.

The government is enacting the Comprehensive Action Plan to Establish Defense of Democracy Systems and the Comprehensive Acti...

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Tensions are reignited after Arunachal-born Prema Wangjom Thongdok is detained at a Chinese airport.

From Buddhist teachings and fitness camps to wild swimming and days of meditation – Daniel Stables picks the best of the bunch

As family visits blocked, new evidence of coordinated violence against high-profile prisoner Source

India has lodged a protest with China over the detention of an Indian citizen during a layover at the Shanghai airport on November 21

Incredible Winners of the 2025 Nature Photographer of the Year Contest Norwegian photographer Åsmund Keilen has been named 2025 Nature Photographer of the Year for his artistic long-exposure photo of a common swift flying across the summer sky. Taken...

With their round bodies, big ears, and cute name, pikas are often called the “real-life Pikachu.” Though often mistaken for rodents, pikas are actually close relatives of rabbits and hares. Pikas typically grow about to 20cm in length, with short limbs and no visible tail. They live in high-altitude regions across North America and Asia, where freezing temperatures and rocks define their world.

Traveller claims Chinese officials declared her Indian passport invalid for mentioning Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims as its territory, as her birthplace

Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goalsIn the summer of 2023, I arrived in Dharamshala, an Indian town celebrated as the home of the Dalai...