Beijing Cries “Manipulation” as Dalai Lama’s Grammy Exposes China’s Cultural Hypocrisy
Beijing’s outrage at the Dalai Lama’s Grammy win says less about music and more about the Chinese Communist Party’s enduring fear of moral authority it cannot control.
Dalai Lama Wins First Grammy at 68th Annual Awards, Dedicates Honour to Global Responsibility
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has won his first Grammy Award at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, receiving the honour for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
China’s Strategy in Tibet Shifts From Control to Erasure, UN and Rights Groups Warn
As Tibet enters the 67th year since the Uprising, international experts argue the issue is no longer merely autonomy or development, but cultural survival. The UN has urged China to allow unrestricted access to independent observers and to halt policies that separate children from families and sever religion from tradition.
Leaked Videos and On-the-Ground Accounts Point to Extraordinary Security Movements in Beijing
Multiple videos filmed by citizens inside Beijing show dense formations of armed police vehicles, heavily armed personnel, and continuous guard posts surrounding politically sensitive areas, including Zhongnanhai and Xinhuamen, the gateway to the Chinese Communist Party’s central leadership compound.
Power, Purge, and Silence: Inside China’s Latest Military Upheaval
The convergence of Zhang’s fall and Chan’s disappearance underscores the same underlying reality: China’s political system increasingly treats both independent military judgment and independent inquiry as risks to be neutralised. Between 2023 and 2026, senior officers were removed, journalists silenced, and command authority concentrated. Each step was incremental.
UN Experts Warn China’s Forced Labour of Uyghurs, Tibetans May Amount to Crimes Against...
Independent UN Special Rapporteurs said evidence points to a systemic, State-imposed labour regime targeting ethnic minorities, not only in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region but “across multiple provinces.” The experts described a pattern of coercion so pervasive that workers face systematic monitoring, surveillance, threats of punishment and virtually no freedom to refuse or leave assigned work.
Troop Deployments Near Beijing Reinforce Sense of Lockdown
In the early hours of January 27, residents on the eastern outskirts of Beijing shared videos showing substantial People’s Liberation Army formations moving along routes toward the capital, particularly from the Tongzhou direction.
Xi Jinping’s Deepest Military Shake-Up: Investigation of Top General Signals Unprecedented Power Consolidation
Zhang’s investigation is significant not merely because he is second in command under Xi Jinping, but because he was widely seen as a key ally of Xi and a leading figure in efforts to modernise the PLA. His fall marks the most senior military leadership removal since the epochal Lin Biao incident of 1971, which underscored factional tension within the CCP and triggered decades of institutional reforms.
“The Zhang Youxia Incident” and the Militarisation of Xi Jinping’s Control
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.
China Tightens Grip on Journalists as Global Jailings Remain Alarmingly High
China remained the world’s largest jailer of journalists in 2025, with at least 50 reporters imprisoned in connection with their work as of December 1, 2025, according to the 2025 Prison Census released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on January 21, 2026.