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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.

Tibet, the source of Asia’s greatest rivers, is under unprecedented ecological strain. As the world races to secure rare earths and strategic minerals, the exploitation of Tibet’s environment threatens to destabilize water security far beyond its borders.

A routine transit stop turned into an 18-hour nightmare for an Arunachal Pradesh–born Indian woman after Chinese immigration officers at Shanghai Pudong Airport allegedly declared her Indian passport “invalid”. India responds.

Chinese scientists have published simulation studies examining whether the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could disrupt or block Starlink communication signals over Taiwan. Conducted by a team at the Beijing Institute of Technology, the research focuses on the challenges posed by Starlink’s fast-moving satellites, which continuously shift their signals between ground receivers. According to the study, it is technically possible to interfere with Starlink across Taiwan, but doing so would require a massive effort.

The recent collapse of the Hongqi Bridge in Tibet has once again drawn global attention to the environmental devastation and instability resulting from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggressive and often unregulated development agenda in the region. What was meant to symbolize “progress” and connectivity instead became a tragic emblem of ecological neglect and political recklessness.

On November 12, 1944, the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was proclaimed in the “Three Districts” of northern East Turkestan. A brief but powerful assertion of self-determination by the region’s Turkic peoples. Though its lifespan was short, it symbolized the enduring struggle of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz to exist as free nations on their own land. That hope was extinguished when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) conquered and annexed East Turkestan in 1949. What followed was not modernization but a colonial occupation, systematically eroding the region’s cultures, ecosystems, and autonomy. The CCP’s so-called “development” has amounted to a slow-motion annihilation of people, environment, and identity hidden behind slogans of prosperity and unity.

There is a hush that falls when a people are told to forget their own names. On November 12 East Turkestan Independence Day Uyghur families light a small lamp in the heart and remember what the maps pretend not to see. They remember Kashgar's alleys, the call to prayer braided with market chatter, the long roads that cut the oases like lifelines through a thirsty land. They remember two brief republics-voices raised in 1933 and again in 1944-snuffed by the same current that now flows through detention centers, classroom scripts, and factory floors. Memory survives because mothers refuse to forget their children, and because elders refuse to let the language of their grandfathers die on their tongues.