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The President of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), Mr. Penpa Tsering, sharply rejected Beijing’s claim over the Tibetan Buddhist reincarnation process during an address at the National Press Club on Thursday, calling China’s invocation of a “golden urn” system both historically unfounded and politically motivated.

A Tibetan source from inside Tibet revealed that following the dismantling of the school at Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery last year, the government appointed surveillance personnel to monitor monastic activities closely. Even the presence of small children within the monastery premises triggers immediate questioning and follow-ups to identify the #monks sheltering them. Individuals found harboring children face interrogation and detainment. Moreover, new #monk enrollments at Ngaba Kirti Monastery now require stringent approvals from both prefecture and county-level authorities, reflecting the intensifying suppression of Tibetan monastic education.

For 49 days, Zhang Yadi (known online as Tara) has been missing in China. She is a 22-year-old international student, linguist, and advocate for Tibetan culture. Reports confirm that state security agents took her back to Changsha under the pretext of “endangering national security”—a vague, overused charge regularly used to silence students, academics, and human rights defenders.

What links the silent boulevards of Xiong’an to the emptied grasslands of Tibet is not geography, economics, or culture, but power specifically the governing instinct of Xi Jinping, which treats people as variables to be repositioned, not as communities rooted in place.

On 15 May, Hong Kong Watch hosted a panel discussion on transnational repression (TNR) against journalists in the House of Lords, in collaboration with International Human Rights Advisors (#IHR Advisors) and the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (#IBAHRI).

The work was not a political manifesto. It was a lament, a diary, a whisper carried across the cold plateau. Yet that whisper was dangerous enough to be silenced. The book was banned and its author imprisoned an act that, in many ways, confirmed the very truths he sought to reveal.

China’s property empire isn’t just cracking, it’s collapsing in plain sight. The delisting of China Evergrande Group from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange marks the spectacular implosion of what Beijing once touted as a symbol of its unstoppable growth. Now, it’s an open indictment of a system rotting from the inside out.

Driru County, located in Nagchu Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), remains one of the most tightly controlled areas in Tibet, with reports of widespread restrictions on religious practice, movement, and communication. Human rights groups and Tibetan exile sources say the county has become a testing ground for Beijing’s hardline policies aimed at erasing Tibetan identity and enforcing absolute loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

China is weighing the possibility of launching lithium mining operations in one of the planet’s most ecologically delicate regions near Mount Everest ,after uncovering what officials describe as its third-largest reserve of the mineral.

China's recent push to Sinicize the art and literature of ethnic minorities marks a disturbing escalation in its ongoing efforts to undermine and assimilate diverse cultural identities within its borders. Pan Yue, the head of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, recently criticized ethnic minority works that fail to emphasize a unified Chinese national identity, singling out Tibetan and Uyghur cultural expressions as particularly problematic.