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...
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UMass Boston under pressure to cut ties with Chinese learning institute accused of censorship and propaganda
Tibetan students at UMass Amherst, professors and US and state representatives are advocating for an end to the contract with the Confucius Institute
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Apple China removes VPN Apps that bypass Chinese censorship
DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 2: Against the back drop of China’s intensifying Internet censorship drive, tech giant Apple has removed many Virtual Private Network (VPN) Apps from its Chinese App store over the weekend. BBC which cited data from www.aso100.com, reported that more than 60 VPNs were no longer available in Apple’s China App Store. In January,...
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The high-tech war on Tibetan communication
The Chinese digital security state versus a small exile community.
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China surveillance: WeChat users’ messages on Dalai Lama, Tibet disappear
The Tibet Action Institute found that the keyword combination “Kalachakra + Dalai Lama + Tibetan” was blocked in group chats between users in India and China.
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Report finds extensive censorship of Tibet related posts on China’s top video sharing site
DHARAMSHALA, DEC. 1: Tibet related contents on a prominent video sharing site in China is being censored “aggressively and systematically” in order to limit awareness and information on Tibet and Tibetan related issues, according to a new research paper by the US based Tibet Action Institute. “Although content blockage on issues related to Tibet by...