The Dalai Lama's successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in his dispute with Beijing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/11/asia-pacific/dalai-lama-successor-outside-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #dalailama #china #tibet
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Chinese colonizer regime closing access to Tibet is *only part of the reason* the plight of the Tibetan people has been all but forgotten in the Free World.
The forgetting fully correlates — over the years and decades — with the volume of democracies' business entanglement with the CCP dictatorship.
Foreign business missions queueing up for audition at CCP's Beijing headquarters *only months* after the Tiananmen massacre of June 4th 1989.
US bi-partisan decision to grant the Chinese dictatorship the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) trading priviledges in 1994 against all ethical considerations.
The entire Free World agreeing to grant the Chinese dictatorship full membership rights (to manipulate at will) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001... and what predictably happened to world trade thereafter...
Mirroring this appeasement and empowering of the CCP regime, critical media coverage of CCP's domestic and colonial repression and exploitation began vanishing from the coverage of media organizations owned by foreign billionaires and state broadcasters alike.
Notice how trump and maga has been *normalized* in much of media? Same principle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Perhaps one day after Ukraine is secure and free we might consider offering at least *moral* support for the nation that was entirely overrun and enslaved by an unrepentingly imperialist neighbour, back in 1950.
It is worth noting that one key reason putin felt emboldened to attack Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022 was that the Chinese dictatorship was allowed to avoid any real consequences for its own genocidal expansionism for all these decades.
Maybe we should try *NOT REWARDING* repressive and military-expansionst regimes and see if that works out better for humanity?
#Tibet #Ukraine #CCP #china #PRC #colonialism #imperialism #appeasement
10 March 1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Uprising_Day
You don’t hear much about #Tibet in international news these days. In large part, this is by design – that is, by design of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. It’s a consequence of China’s increasing efforts to seal off information from the region, through intense surveillance & censorship. It’s the part of China’s repression in Tibet that keeps the outside world from seeing all the other parts of China’s repression in Tibet.
Read: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/03/10?story=paragraph-10371
Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2025/03/10/tibet-today-daily-brief-march-10-2025
Today is known as Tibet Uprising Day. A revolt started in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, on 10th March 1959, which lasted two weeks. The Tibetan people were rioting against the Chinese government, which had annexed the country. Thousands of Tibetans were killed. #FactsMatter #Tibet
Today is the 66th anniversary of the Tibetan people’s uprising in Lhasa. Tibetans around the world will be holding protests against the Chinese government's ongoing human rights abuses in Tibet
Australia needs to need advocate more consistently and clearly for human rights in Tibet, write Kyinzom Dhongdue and Daniela Gavshon
"Un mystérieux appel sur une ligne sécurisée": Richard Gere "out" à cause de la Chine
#Tibet: Former Tibetan Political Prisoner Namkyi Speaks at the 17th Geneva Summit for #HumanRights and Democracy
This is quite an incredible read, a longform piece on #China's #energytransition that, despite being 5000+ words, had scant mention of #forced #labor, #humanrights violations, or the role of colonialism in resource-rich #Tibet and #Xinjiang, key to China's ability to produce cheap cleantech. Why only call out western imperialism but ignore Chinese imperialism?
From a European organization that does great work, but has a giant, China-sized, blindspot.
https://www.tni.org/en/article/china-and-the-geopolitics-of-the-green-transition
China could be inciting Tibetans and Uyghurs in Switzerland to spy on their own communities and exert pressure on them, a Swiss government report has concluded. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/13/asia-pacific/politics/china-tibetans-uyghurs-switzerland/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #tibet #uyghurs #switzerland #xinjiang
Mountain climbers often succumb to altitude sickness — the body's reaction to a significant drop in atmospheric pressure, which means less oxygen is taken in with each breath. Yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive. @ScienceAlert tells us how:
Habt Ihr schon von Chinas Kolonialschulen gehört?
1 Million tibetische Kinder werden gezwungen, ihre Sprache und Kultur zu vergessen und sie erleiden Misshandlungen, Angst und Depressionen.
Ich habe diese Petition unterzeichnet, um eine UN-Untersuchung zu fordern.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/de/china_indoctrination_schools_loc/?
#China has discovered more than 20 million tons of copper in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Massive mining operations would likely be very damaging to #Tibet's sensitive ecology https://www.ecoticias.com/en/china-20-million-tons-copper-tibet/10950/
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