Author: Tibet Action Institute (Tibet Action Institute)

ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་ཐང་།

ཆབ་སྲིད་ཀྱི་ཐོབ་ཐང་།

Authoritarian regimes can seem too difficult to topple. But that’s because we often think of power as coming from the top down. What if we see that power comes from the bottom up, and that people can win their rights even up against the most brutal political system?

Confucius Institute draws criticism from Congress, community
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Confucius Institute draws criticism from Congress, community

The Confucius Institute, located on Packard Avenue, photographed on Mar. 27, 2018. Christine Lee / The Tufts Daily Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) urged Tufts to disassociate with the Confucius Institute, an educational collaboration between the university and Beijing Normal University (BNU), in a letter sent to 40 institutions in Greater Boston earlier this month.  Confucius Institutes are overseen by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, known as...

In the Name of Confucius Saw An Over Capacity Premiere in Boston
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In the Name of Confucius Saw An Over Capacity Premiere in Boston

  The Kendall Square Cinema in downtown Boston was packed with audiences who came to watch film In the Name of Confucius on March 1, 2018. In the city of Boston, US, weekends start from Thursday nights. We experienced that first hand on March 1 at the premiere of our film In the Name of...

TAI conducts cyber workshop at TLA
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TAI conducts cyber workshop at TLA

By tla_en_admin | January 19, 2018 0 Comment Tibet Action Institute based in Dharamsala with its vision of enhancing the digital strength and its effectiveness amongst the Tibetans and its Organizations in exile with their primary goal of securing and strengthening democracy,enabling the basic human right and Freedom, are implementing their objectives by providing workshop and digital awareness...

UMass Boston Urged to Shut Down China’s Confucius Institute
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UMass Boston Urged to Shut Down China’s Confucius Institute

  The University of Massachusetts Boston has been urged in a letter from students, professors and alumni, along with outside advocates to shut down the China’s Confucius Institute that operates on its campus. The center is openly known to be overseen by the Chinese government and it is accused of promoting censorship abroad and undermining...

University Institute Accused of Curbing Democracy on Campus
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University Institute Accused of Curbing Democracy on Campus

University of Massachusetts Boston students, alumni, and professors protested earlier this month, accusing the university’s Confucius Institute of “undermining human rights” initiatives, according to the Boston Globe. The Confucius Institute is a worldwide non-profit public education organization based in Beijing, China. Its parent organization is the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China...

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