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.
