Chinese media are reporting that the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been carrying more Chinese troops into Tibet. This confirms that a key consequence of the railway is that the Chinese government can now more easily sustain its military occupation of Tibet.
According to the BBC:
The Xinhua news agency cited unnamed sources in the People’s Liberation […]
This is an exciting time for Tibet. As the Beijing Olympics approach, it’s good to assess now and then where the Tibet movement is. More and more, the Tibet movement has been winning important victories — even as repression worsens inside Tibet.
Internationally, HH the Dalai Lama is receiving more honors than at any time […]
News flash: the Chinese government is using Tibetan school children as Olympic props. According to China’s official Xinhua News, 2,008 middle school students from Lhasa were made to act as “human dominos” in the shape of the Olympic rings to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
We missed the article when it first came out, since it […]
The Chinese government, showing again how the Olympics are bringing more human rights abuses to China, has just arrested a Chinese activist for gathering over 10,000 signatures on a petition.
Land rights activist Yang Chunlin had gathered this impressive number of signatures on a petition entitled “We want human rights, not the Olympics,” according to the AP.
Watchdog […]
Tibet and Burma are linked in many ways: their peoples and languages are related, and they share a deep faith in Buddhism and the misfortune of being under brutal regimes. Tibet and Burma also both saw widespread protests for freedom in the late 1980s, which their respective regimes crushed violently.
Could a new wave of technology-enabled […]
SFT’s Everest and Beijing actions continue to impact news stories about the Olympics, China, and Tibet.
In the latest example, the UK’s Channel 4 News ran a TV story on August 28 about how the Chinese government is exerting socio-economic control over Tibet. The anchor started out the broadcast mentioning SFT’s “free Tibet” banners, and said […]
SFT has always said that the Chinese government is using the Beijing Olympics to whitewash its image. Now China scholar Ross Terrill has analyzed the Chinese government’s Olympics strategy in the context of its Orwellian desire to sanitize the “truth.”
In an op-ed in the New York Times (also carried in the International Herald Tribune), Mr. Terrill […]
Lester Thurow, former dean of MIT’s Sloane School of Management, wrote an interesting piece in today’s International Herald Tribune, questioning the accuracy of the Chinese government’s claims to astronomical growth rates.
If he’s right, then other countries have much greater leverage over the Chinese government than Beijing would have us believe. China’s leadership has tried to cast […]
Dramatic new photos of the crackdown by Chinese security forces at the Lithang Horse Races have been released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).
Meanwhile, the fate of brave protester Rongye Adak remains unknown, since his arrest on August 1 for peacefully exercising his right to free speech. We previously wrote about […]
Ban Ki-moon, the new UN Secretary General, succumbed to pressure from his staff to duck the issue of Tibet, reaffirming that the UN’s lofty principles do not apply equally in all cases. “By way of diplomatic silence,” reports Mexican news agency Notimex, “UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon did not respond to the question posed to […]
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