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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the “Honest Maps” amendment, a significant legislative move aimed at curbing the depiction of Taiwan as part of the People’s Republic of China in any official maps produced or displayed by the U.S. Department of Defense. The amendment was passed on July 18 as part of the broader 2026 Defense Appropriations Bill.

The Zangmu Dam, located on the Yarlung Tsangpo River (which becomes the Brahmaputra in India), is one of the closest and most significant Chinese hydropower projects with indirect but serious implications for the Rasuwagadhi–Bhote Koshi river system.

In a decisive message delivered to the 15th Tibetan Religious Conference, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama affirmed that the sacred institution of the Dalai Lama will continue. In a pre-recorded video, the spiritual leader declared that the recognition of his next reincarnation will be carried out exclusively by the Gaden Phodrang Trust, the spiritual office he established. With this announcement, His Holiness has laid to rest years of speculation and firmly placed the future of the Dalai Lama lineage in the hands of Tibetans, untainted by political interference.

As the 90th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama approaches, celebrations are taking place around the world except in #Tibet, where the people who revere him most are unable to mark the occasion freely. In #Lhasa, the traditional seat of Tibetan spiritual and political life, there are no visible signs of celebration. The #PotalaPalace stands quiet, the #GadenPhodrang is silent, and the atmosphere is one of enforced suppression, not cultural omission.

OpenAI has revealed that Chinese groups are increasingly using its AI tools—like ChatGPT—for covert operations online, including spreading political propaganda and supporting cyberattacks. In...

In 2025, China’s disinformationcampaigns have metastasized into full-scale psychologicalwarfare. No longer content with censorship at home, Beijing has declared war on truth itself. This is not “soft power.” This is sabotage dressed in the language of diplomacy, algorithmic colonization wrapped in hashtags and AI-generated smog. From Manila to Montreal, from Twitter to TikTok, China is vomiting out fake narratives with mechanical precision and imperial arrogance. Here's how the CCP poisons the global information stream, erases reality, and reshapes it to its liking with malice, method, and military coordination.

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 closed-door meeting that reeked more of imperial theatre than spiritual dialogue, Xi Jinping met with Gyaltsen Norbu, the Chinese Communist Party’s handpicked "Panchen Lama" on June 6, 2025, inside the iron-clad walls of Zhongnanhai. The message was clear: Tibetan Buddhism will bow or it will break.

As China orchestrates a grand celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), it unveils not just a commemorative logo, but a calculated narrative shift—insisting on the term “Xizang” in all official communications. This is no benign rebranding. It is an Orwellian erasure, a political maneuver to overwrite centuries of Tibetan identity with a Sinicized label.

The Chinese government has once again used soft power and cultural manipulation to insert its political agenda into international spaces, this time at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF). The screening of Chinese propaganda films that depict Tibet as “Xizang” is not cultural exchange; it is a strategic attempt to rewrite history and normalize occupation through media.