On Friday, November 28, 2025, Tendor (Tenzin Dorjee) Tibet Action Institute’s Senior Researcher and Strategist, delivered powerful remarks at the United Nations in Geneva. **Scroll down for the full transcript** Despite both China and Iran interrupting multiple times and demanding he be stopped from speaking, Tendor was able to continue to rousing applause...
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Foreign Affairs: Beijing’s Dangerous Game in Tibet By Tenzin Dorjee and Gyal Lo
September 1, 2025. Original article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/beijings-dangerous-game-tibet In early July, thousands of Tibetans, Buddhists, and other well-wishers gathered in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamsala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, to mark the 90th birthday of Tenzin Gyatso—better known as the 14th Dalai Lama. The de facto pope of Tibetan Buddhism announced...
The Straw Man of Tibet-Xinjiang Equivalence: A Response
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...
TESTIMONY OF TENZIN DORJEE, TIBET ACTION INSTITUTE, BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA
Thank you Chairman McGovern, Co-chair Mr. Rubio, and members of the Commission for allowing me to testify on behalf of the Tibetan people. Over the course of seven decades, the Chinese government has waged an unrelenting campaign of violence and coercion aimed at eradicating the Tibetan people’s faith, identity, and way of life. As China...



