New Delhi: When Liqi set foot outside his house in central China last April, he was a 31-year-old man with a dream and a two-wheeled cart. Nearly a year later, he arrived in Lhasa, Tibet – his body battered, his knee injured, and his face 20 years older. He had walked 3,300 km across mountains … Read more
WASHINGTON — A newly released report from the United Nations’ International Labor Organization states that authorities in China are not only using “vocational skills training and education centers” for forced labor in Xinjiang and Tibet, but also the large-scale transfer of “surplus” rural workers to state-led labor programs across the country. China called the report … Read more
BEIJING — China hopes the Dalai Lama can “return to the right path” and is open to discussions about the Nobel Peace laureate’s future, as long as certain conditions are met, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism, who turns 90 this year, fled Tibet in 1959 for India after … Read more
NEW DELHI — The elder brother of the Dalai Lama and former chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Gyalo Thondup, who led several rounds of talks with China and worked with foreign governments for the Tibetan cause, has died. He was 97. Thondup died at his home in Kalimpong, a hill town in the … Read more
After Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, his Arunachal Pradesh counterpart Pema Khandu has raised concern about China’s plan to construct the largest hydropower dam in eastern Tibet, warning that it could be used by Beijing as a “water bomb”. Speaking at the inaugural function of a seminar titled ‘Environment and Security’ in the state … Read more