Coronavirus Update: China Increasingly Isolated as Countries Scramble to Contain Spread

VISION TIMES The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 362 people globally, according to Chinese and World Health Organization (WHO) data. At this writing, Chinese officials reported a surge in new cases where the death toll rose to at least 361 with nearly 3,000 new cases recorded in the country in the past 24 hours, raising the number […]

Interview: ‘Time To Push Aggressively on Tibet’

Tashi Wangchuk | Radio Free Asia Sam Brownback is a lawyer, former United States Senator and former governor of the state of Kansas who has served as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom since February 2018.  On Nov. 21, he spoke with RFA Tibetan Service reporter Tashi Wangchuk about his visit at the end […]

Some Nepalis Uneasy Over Influx of Chinese Language Teachers

Yeshi Dorje | Voice of America Plans for 100 Chinese language teachers to arrive in Nepal are causing uneasiness among some Nepali and international experts, who see it as a neocolonial bid by China to exert greater control over its Himalayan neighbor. The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported this week on the plan, which coincides with a high-profile visit […]

Tibet Human Rights Violations Spike With Chinese Govt’s Digital Wall

VISION TIMES Oppression cries out from behind the Himalayas as Tibetans are completely shut off from the rest of the world by China’s impenetrable digital wall of surveillance and drones. The digital wall China always has had its share of territorial and racial problems, whether it be with the Uyghurs in Xinjiang or Kazakhs, Mongols, […]

China Has Built a Digital Prison for Tibetans

VISION TIMES In the past, thousands of Tibetans migrated into India to escape the brutal Chinese communist regime occupying their land. But now, such migrations have largely stopped as Beijing has built an expansive hi-tech surveillance system that traps Tibetans inside a digital prison. The digital prison According to estimates, there are about 150,000 Tibetans […]

Tibetan Pilgrims See Passports Destroyed on Their Return

Lhuboom  |  Radio Free Asia In a bid to tighten control over Tibetan travel outside China, Chinese authorities are seizing the passports of Tibetans returning from visits to Buddhist sites in India and Nepal, sometimes destroying the documents in front of them, sources say. Officials were particularly severe with Tibetans arriving at airports in Beijing […]

China Seizes Tibetans’ Passports in a Bid to Block Travel

Kunsang Tenzin and Lhuboom  |  Radio Free Asia Officials in western provinces of China are confiscating the passports of Tibetans authorized to travel abroad, meanwhile ordering other Tibetans to return home, in a bid to reduce attendance at a ceremony to be conducted next year in India by the Dalai Lama, sources say. Government officials […]

For Tibetans, a New Chinese Surveillance System Makes Escape Difficult

Joshua Philipp  |  Epoch Times [caption id="attachment_5177" align="alignleft" width="262"] Tibetans peaceful march from Whitehall to the Chinese Embassy (http://tibetancommunityuk.net)[/caption] While most countries are looking for ways to stop illegal immigrants from entering, the Chinese regime is looking for ways to prevent its own citizens from escaping. A new frontier monitoring system was detailed by the Chinese […]

The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship

Published in: The Center for International Media Assistance Chinese Communist Party media controls are increasingly constraining news outlets based outside China. This is the key finding of a report released today, authored by Freedom House research analyst Sarah Cook and published by the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy. “The […]