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On September 4, 2024, Linda Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former Governor Andrew Cuomo, was charged by US authorities with multiple counts, including acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government. Alongside her, her husband, Chris Hu, was also implicated, raising serious concerns about foreign influence within US politics.

In a continued effort to enforce its Sinicization policies on Tibetan youth, Chinese authorities detained four Tibetan teenagers for resisting enrollment in government-run schools. The teens, aged 15 to 18, had previously been students at the Lhamo Kirti Monastery school in Dzoge County, Sichuan Province, where the curriculum was taught in Tibetan and included Buddhist teachings. The monastery school was abruptly closed by Chinese officials in July, with authorities citing a regulation that students under 18 were ineligible for monastic education.

In a chilling display of authoritarian control, the Chinese government has forcibly closed the esteemed Gangjong Sherig Norbu School in Amdo Province Tibet. Founded by Ragya Jigmey Gyaltsen, this 30-year-old institution stood as a beacon of Tibetan culture, language, and education. The school's sudden closure has left its students and faculty in a state of shock and grief, with heart-wrenching images of tearful farewells circulating widely.

Washington DC: On July 12, 2024, the US govt took a definitive stand against China's decades-long occupation of Tibet by signing into law the "Resolve Tibet Act," a pivotal legislation that challenges China's narrative and asserts America's commitment to Tibetan autonomy and human rights.

As the 90th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama approaches, celebrations are taking place around the world except in #Tibet, where the people who revere him most are unable to mark the occasion freely. In #Lhasa, the traditional seat of Tibetan spiritual and political life, there are no visible signs of celebration. The #PotalaPalace stands quiet, the #GadenPhodrang is silent, and the atmosphere is one of enforced suppression, not cultural omission.

In a chilling reminder of the dangers of unchecked nationalism, a Japanese mother and her child were recently stabbed while waiting for a school bus in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. This horrific incident, hardly acknowledged by the government, is yet another example of the growing xenophobia fueled by the Chinese Communist Party. The attack, swiftly dismissed as an "accidental incident" by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning, follows a similar pattern of violence against foreigners, including the stabbing of multiple Americans in Jilin Province earlier this month.

The incident took place in Kashi village in Sershul County, part of the Kardze) Tibetan region. Villagers discovered that a gold-mining operation had begun near their traditional grazing lands and close to the Kham River, a vital water source for local pastoral communities. Residents feared irreversible environmental damage, loss of pasture, and contamination of water used for livestock and daily life.

Disappearing monks into the shadow of “legal process” is Beijing’s standard playbook. In Tibet, allegations of “sending money abroad” or “maintaining separatist ties” are routinely deployed as pretexts for silencing religious figures. In reality, what China fears most is not foreign funds but the persistence of Tibetan faith, identity, and loyalty to the Dalai Lama.

This year, the Ganden Ngamchoe festival in Lhasa, a sacred observance marking the passing of Je Tsongkhapa, the revered founder of the Gelug school...

China’s Ministry of National Defense confirmed that Zhang Youxia, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), was under investigation for “serious violations of discipline and law.” The announcement, delivered without detail, followed days of conspicuous absence from public events and closed-door meetings. Within the rigid grammar of Chinese politics, such language is unambiguous: Zhang had fallen out of favour, and the fall was terminal.