U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), House Committee on Rules Ranking Member Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), U.S. Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), joined by actor Richard Gere and the International Campaign for Tibet, host a press conference at 3:30 p.m. ET on March 28, to discuss the situation of Tibetans […]
Beijing is boosting its efforts to promote the Chinese language in Tibetan schools. The language shift aims to weaken Tibetans’ ties to their own culture—and promote Chinese culture in its place. After winter break, Tibetan students returned to school, but found that their classes taught only in Chinese.
In the middle of the 19th century, British people declared that Mount Everest is the highest summit in the world. Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa mountaineer, was the first man who reached the roof of the world, together with Edmund Hillary in 1953. In this episode, we will follow in the footsteps of Tenzing Norgay and […]
On the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Party leader Xi Jinping claimed that his party has “written a splendid chapter” in human history. But exiled Tibetan political leaders in India are calling the anniversary instead a “black day” in history.
A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer’s arrest has placed a spotlight on how the Chinese consulate seeks to infiltrate and influence local dissident communities. Baimadajie Angwang, a 33-year-old ethnic Tibetan and naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested on federal charges for allegedly acting as an illegal agent for Beijing. Federal investigators found that he was […]
Mainland China is the site of some of the largest and most brutal human rights abuses. Chinese of faith have been persecuted since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took power in 1949. They have been arrested, tortured, put in labor camps as prisoners of conscience, and even mass-murdered for their organs. Tibetan Buddhism Tibet was […]
