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In a scathing indictment of Beijing’s ongoing ethnic engineering, Human Rights Watch has exposed a 25-year campaign of forced relocations in Tibet, uprooting over 930,000 rural Tibetans from their ancestral lands under the pretense of “poverty alleviation” and “ecological protection.” The report, titled “Educate the Masses to Change Their Minds,” published May 22, 2024, shreds the Chinese government’s façade of “voluntary development” and lays bare a state-directed policy of displacement, coercion, and cultural erasure.

In a pivotal session of the Rajya Sabha, Sikkim MP Dorjee Tshering Lepcha has called on the central government to revise the terminology used for the northern frontier. Lepcha urged the government to replace the term "China border" with "Tibet border," arguing that the 1,400-kilometer stretch from Leh, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh to Sikkim more accurately borders Tibet than China. He appealed to the Indian government and military agencies, including the Indian Army and the Border Roads Organization (BRO), to officially recognize this distinction.

On June 16, 2025, Chinese authorities sentenced Sherab, the abbot of Yena Monastery, to four years in prison. Gonpo, the monastery’s chief administrator, received a three-year sentence. Both men were charged for leading peaceful protests against the construction of the massive Gangtuo hydropower dam project a part of China’s 13-dam cascade planned for the upper reaches of the Drichu.

In a significant development for global diplomacy and democratic solidarity, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) has officially welcomed Taiwan as a member during its fourth annual summit held in Taipei on July 30. This move marks a historic moment in international politics, underscoring the growing global resistance to China's policies.

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.

In yet another move to tighten its grip over Tibetan culture and identity, China has forcibly relocated approximately 200 students from the Lhamo Kirti Monastery school in Amdo (present-day Sichuan province) to state-administered residential schools. This controversial action is part of Beijing's wider strategy to control Tibetan education and assimilate Tibetan identity, according to intelligence sources.

That grim possibility is now staring U.S. security agencies in the face after damning discoveries revealed that Chinese-manufactured power inverters—widely installed in American solar farms—contain hidden “kill switches” and covert cellular radios. These components, invisible in public documentation, may allow Beijing to remotely manipulate, disable, or even destroy critical sections of Western power infrastructure. And these devices aren’t rare. Chinese giants like Huawei, Sungrow, and Ginlong Solis dominate the inverter market, supplying over 200 gigawatts worth of tech to European countries alone in 2022. Their presence is deep, their reach long—and now, their intent increasingly suspect.

As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-appointed Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, prepares to attend the Nanhai Buddhism Roundtable in Nepal this December, Beijing’s political motives behind this visit are becoming increasingly evident. The so-called Panchen Lama’s international appearances are part of a calculated effort by China to tighten its control over Tibetan Buddhism and extend its influence across global Buddhist communities.

In the remote, pristine highlands of Tibet, China is pushing forward with the construction of the Metok Dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, a project set to be the world’s largest hydroelectric facility. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dresses the initiative in the language of green energy and economic progress, the reality is far more insidious. The Metok Dam is an ecological catastrophe waiting to happen, a geopolitical time bomb, and yet another attempt by Beijing to tighten its grip over Tibet and its downstream neighbors, India and Bangladesh.

MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated, “We firmly reject such attempts by China to rename places in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Assigning invented names will not alter the fact that Arunachal Pradesh is, has been, and will always be an integral part of India.”