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On October 26, 2023, the Chinese Buddhist Association approved a new "Five-Year Work Plan for the In-Depth Promotion of the Sinicization of Buddhism (2023-2027),"...

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 troubling development, Chinese authorities have arrested a Tibetan woman, Zomkyi, for allegedly spreading rumours about the recent closure of the Ragya Sherig Norbuling school, a revered Tibetan educational institution.

Shujun Wang, a 75-year-old Chinese-American scholar who once championed himself as a pro-democracy activist, was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on Tuesday for acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government. Wang's case, which has been likened to the plot of a spy novel, reveals the depths of China's espionage network within the United States.

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.

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 sudden display of Beijing's ongoing campaign against Tibetan culture and education, Chinese authorities in County, have seized control of the Kirti Monastery School, forcing over 200 students out of 900, aged 6 to 14, to enroll in state-run boarding schools. The remaining students have been sent home and instructed to enroll in state-run schools instead of monastery schools.

In a rare act of defiance, a protest banner was displayed in Xinhua County, Hunan province, calling for democracy and the end of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rule. The banner, hung from a pedestrian footbridge, bore slogans advocating for democratic elections and the ousting of Xi, reminiscent of the 2022 ‘Bridge Man’ protest in Beijing.

Representative McGovern, a long-time advocate for human rights, has been a vocal critic of China's brutal treatment of ethnic minorities. He has repeatedly condemned the Chinese government's systematic oppression of Tibetans and Uyghurs, labelling it as nothing short of cultural genocide. His criticisms extend to the forced Sinicization policies in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to erase Tibetan cultural and religious identity.

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.