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The fact that Irish Military Intelligence felt the need to quietly brief university leaders should tell you everything. This isn’t paranoia. It’s pattern recognition. Research partnerships that look harmless on paper can easily become pipelines for dual-use technology, intellectual property theft, and long-term influence. Once knowledge is shared, it can’t be unshared.

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.

Chogtrul Dorje Tenzin, abbot of Minthang Monastery Osel Thegchog Ling and principal of the Minthang Ethnic Vocational School, was detained on December 4. As of late December, Chinese authorities have not released any public statement explaining the reason for his detention, nor have they disclosed his location. It remains unclear which security body (local police, state security, or other CCP authorities) carried out the arrest.

High in the eastern Himalayas, where the Yarlung Tsangpo snakes through jagged mountains, China is building what could become the world’s largest hydropower system. Valued at $168 billion, it promises unprecedented energy output but behind the engineering ambition lies a story of communities uprooted, ecosystems threatened, and regional tension simmering.

Dorjee Tashi, a 51-year-old Tibetan businessman and philanthropist, has endured repeated assaults while serving a life sentence in Lhasa’s Drapchi Prison (Tibet Autonomous Region Prison #1). According to credible reports, Chinese authorities have failed to protect Dorjee from these attacks and have instead used them as pretexts to restrict his access to family and legal counsel. Legal experts have long criticized the trial and sentencing process as fundamentally flawed and politically motivated.

In a small temple in Lingao County, Hainan, villagers armed with buckets of rice faced off against police carrying riot shields and batons. Drums pounded, tension crackled, and chaos erupted. Some hurled rice, a traditional ritual meant to ward off evil, while others carried sacred artifacts on their shoulders, marching past the authorities in a defiant display of faith and resilience.

Tibetan environmental resistance is not extremism - it is the defense of life, land, and future generations. Nomads are not standing in the way of progress; they are protecting one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems from irreversible harm.

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

According to newly confirmed sources, Tibetan singer A‑Sang, a young artist in his 20s from Kashul village in Barma Township, Ngaba (Aba) County in Sichuan was rearrested in August 2025 shortly after an earlier release.

On 7 November, in the Japanese Diet, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was asked what Japan would do if China used force against Taiwan or tried to cut off the sea lanes around it. Calmly, she gave an answer grounded in existing Japanese law: such a scenario could amount to an “existential crisis” for Japan under its 2015 security legislation, opening the door to collective self-defense alongside allies. It wasn’t a war cry. It was a sober recognition of geography and reality—if Taiwan burns, Japan chokes.