For Immediate Release July 20, 2024 Boston – Chinese authorities forced the closure of Gangjong Sherig Norbu Lobling [1], a renowned Tibetan-run private school [2] located in one of Tibet’s most sparsely populated regions. The move starkly contradicts China’s chief justification that the controversial boarding school system, holding at least one million Tibetan children, is...
The U.S. delegation gave the Dalai Lama a framed copy of the Resolve Tibet Act that was passed by Congress last week and represents a shift in U.S. policy toward Tibet. By: Gerry Shih and Shibani Mahtani Published: June 20, 2024 NEW DELHI — A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation made rare calls for Tibetan self-determination...
. Visiting a Tibetan region where children must attend Chinese-language boarding schools Illustration: Chloe Cushman June 13, 2024 Original Article from the Economist: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/06/13/why-china-takes-young-tibetans-from-their-families An air of quiet piety hangs over Rongwo Monastery in the western province of Qinghai. The streets near this ancient complex draw pilgrims and Tibetan Buddhist monks in dark red robes....
The Chinese government’s efforts to quell rumors – code for any communication critical of or threatening to The Party – seem to just foster more rumors. Never quite knowing what is going on is much more intriguing than the simple facts would be. This is the case with the “Maoist Revival” that David Bandurski of...
Recently, the New York Review of Books published an insightful article by Andy Nathan, a leading China scholar and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Here are a few excerpts from Andy Nathan’s observations on the ways in which Xi Jinping is similar to, and different from, Mao, and how his power consolidation project has...
To Concentrate or to Disperse One useful way of classifying the various nonviolent tactics is to divide them into tactics of concentration and tactics of dispersion. For example, protest demonstrations or rallies are tactics of concentration, because they tend to concentrate hundreds or thousands of people in one location. Tactics of dispersion, on the contrary, are...
