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CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Notable Reports

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and videos, sensitive...

State of Statelessness review – Dalai Lama presides over intimate dramas about Tibetans’ life of exile

Tibetan directors, who all live outside Tibet, deliver a quartet of films that explore the pain of separation and migrationThe wrench of exile is the theme of this quartet of short films from Tibetan directors, who themselves all live...

Three Centuries After His Death, China Is Still Afraid of the Sixth Dalai Lama

After an international conference celebrating the wisdom and poetry of Tsangyang Gyatso, Beijing repeats its falsehoods about Tibetan history. The post Three Centuries After His Death, China Is Still Afraid of the Sixth Dalai Lama first appeared on Bitter...

Power acts, Taiwan watches closely

The US operation in Venezuela did not feel so far away for Taiwan. As video footage and headlines showed US forces moving swiftly into Caracas — seizing now-deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro...

On China Visit, Carney Must Call for Closure of Tibet’s Residential Schools

Contact: Lhadon Tethong  I  lhadon@tibetaction.net  I  +1 917 418 4181 Nearly One Million Tibetan Children Forcibly Separated from Families, Language, Culture Boston – As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for his first official visit to China next week –...

CDT 2025 Year-End Roundup: Most Notable Censored Articles and Essays (Part 2)

As 2025 draws to a close, CDT editors are compiling a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, reports, podcasts and videos, sensitive...

Surviving the freeze: 10 animals that thrive in extreme cold

Polar bear, Arctic fox, Emperor penguin, Snow leopard, Musk ox, Reindeer, Siberian tiger, Arctic hare and Weddell seal survive extreme cold with unique adaptations across polar and mountain regions.

China's Taiwan Ambitions Threaten the Senkaku Islands and Beyond 

A Taiwan contingency risks becoming Japan's security crisis, with Beijing focused on the Senkakus and a perilous historical rationale. The post China's Taiwan Ambitions Threaten the Senkaku Islands and Beyond  first appeared on JAPAN Forward.

Canada: Confront China’s Heightened Repression

(Ottawa) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should make human rights a key focus of his visit to China from January 13 to 17, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. Carney’s trip to China is the first by a Canadian prime minister in more than eight years.

A new Bollywood film spotlights a forgotten India-China battle

The film 120 Bahadur tells the story of Indian soldiers who fought to defend the Rezang La pass in Ladakh.

Notes from Central Taiwan: Envisioning a Taiwan under PRC rule

In the 2010s, the Communist Party of China (CCP) began crack...

China: New Arrests at Underground Protestant Churches

(New York) – Chinese authorities have detained half a dozen members of an underground Protestant church based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Human Rights Watch said today. This was the latest in a string of arrests of members of prominent unofficial “house churches” in China in the past year.

The Medog Imperative: Why China’s Megadam Must Be on the UNFCCC’s Agenda

China’s Medog (墨脱) hydropower megaproject on the Yarlung Tsangpo (雅鲁藏布江) – located at one of the steepest gorges on Earth – has become one of the most geopolitically sensitive and ecologically alarming infrastructure projects… Source

U.S. Congressional Report Maps a Broadening Repression in China

The document released by the U.S. Congressional‑Executive Commission on China (quoting several “Bitter Winter” articles) insists on religious persecution. The post U.S. Congressional Report Maps a Broadening Repression in China first appeared on Bitter Winter.

Surveillance of digital generation

Social networks have become the primary venue for youngsters in Asia to reveal their characters, construct relationships and participate in international discussions. Nevertheless, the extent of liber...

China’s five green economy challenges in 2026

China is still expanding its coal-fired power stations and depends on coal in its energy network.

China, Kazakhstan, and the “Chinese Flag Burning” Trial

The Atajurt volunteers on trial committed no crime. Theirs was a legitimate political protest. The post China, Kazakhstan, and the “Chinese Flag Burning” Trial first appeared on Bitter Winter.

Why China continues to hold military drills around Taiwan amid high tension

Currently, only 11 of the 193 United Nations member states maintain full diplomatic relations with Taiwan

Why China is holding military drills around Taiwan — and the history behind it

China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots both in the past several weeks and the past several decades

Books to look out for in 2026 – fiction

Maggie O’Farrell, Yann Martel and Julian Barnes are among the authors publishing new novels this year The beginning of the books calendar is usually dominated by debuts, but January 2026 sees releases from some of the year’s biggest authors....

Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age Chinese secret to brewing red rice wine

Rice wine was consumed ceremonially by Mogou people in second millennium BC

From Tibet to Canada: a life standing up against Chinese oppression

Youngdoung Tenzin is living history of modern Tibet.The Chinese government on Dec. 22 last year sanctioned him along with 19 other Canadians who were associated with the Canada Tibet Co...

Borrowing a mouth to speak: overtourism in China’s imagined Tibet

The international tourism industry has undergone a significant recalibration in recent years, with major destinations implementing protective measures to address overtourism and ecological degradation. Japan now limits daily climbers on Mount Fuji’s Yoshida Trail to 4,000, Venice has introduced...

Norad Santa tracker live: Follow Santa Claus and his reindeer as they deliver gifts around the globe

Norad is tracking St Nick’s speedy trip around the globe as he delivers presents worldwide

China considers India’s Arunachal Pradesh of 'core interest', says Pentagon report

The report highlighted China's assertion of Arunachal Pradesh as part of its "core interests", signaling Beijing's broader ambitions to achieve the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" by 2049.