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The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response
June 3, 2021August 2, 2021
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The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response

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Original article: https://www.cfr.org/blog/straw-man-tibet-xinjiang-equivalence-response?utm_medium=social_share&utm_source=fb&fbclid=IwAR1wvQ-ZZzwJuFnq61ASQoCtP4sfRSjp5xf-t8AJPWxp-GDaoPbzNUshvEE Tenzin Dorjee is a Senior Researcher and Strategist at the Tibet Action Institute and a PhD candidate at Columbia University. In a post published on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog on March 29, Tibetologist Robert Barnett admonishes what he sees as the blurring of lines between advocacy and scholarship in the discourse on...

Full-blown boycott pushed for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing
May 17, 2021October 15, 2021
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Full-blown boycott pushed for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing

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ESPN (Associated Press): https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/31459936/full-blown-boycott-pushed-2022-winter-olympics-beijing Groups alleging human rights abuses against minorities in China are calling for a full-blown boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a move likely to ratchet up pressure on the International Olympic Committee, athletes, sponsors and sports federations. A coalition representing Uyghurs, Tibetans, residents of Hong Kong and others issued a...

Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option
April 8, 2021January 16, 2024
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Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option

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We are Uyghur and Tibetan activists. We call on the United States, Canada and like-minded countries to coordinate a global boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. By Zumretay Arkin and Lhadon Tethong Article link: https://zumretay.medium.com/beijing-2022-boycott-is-the-only-option-23de017b579b A movement calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is gaining momentum. State Department officials have recently...

Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option
April 8, 2021April 8, 2021
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Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option

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We are Uyghur and Tibetan activists. We call on the United States, Canada and like-minded countries to coordinate a global boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. By Zumretay Arkin and Lhadon Tethong A movement calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is gaining momentum. State Department officials have recently denied reports that...

Opinion: Anti-China is not anti-Asian
April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
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Opinion: Anti-China is not anti-Asian

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The Atlanta-area spa shootings — in which a White gunman allegedly slaughtered eight people, including six Asian women — have propelled the subject of anti-Asian violence to the center of the national conversation. For first-generation Asian Americans such as myself, who never begrudged our collective invisibility so long as our personal security was assured, it is profoundly...

32 innovators who are building a better future
April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
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32 innovators who are building a better future

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Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of TorontoselectsLobsang Sither, digital security program director at the Tibet Action Institute Lobsang Sither has worked quietly, compassionately and tirelessly to improve digital security among Tibetans for well over a decade. As one of the key people behind the Tibet...

WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy: What it is and what it isn’t!
March 8, 2021March 8, 2021
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WhatsApp’s New Privacy Policy: What it is and what it isn’t!

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A viral piece of “news” was circulated widely in January, 2021 about WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, prompting questions about the App’s security. Some critics claim that WhatsApp now plans to share user data and private conversations with its parent company, Facebook. Others claimed that WhatsApp removed the app’s critical end-to- end encryption feature from conversations between two people or in a group. Our TibCERT team delved deeper and have concluded that these claims misrepresent WhatsApp’s policy change.

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