The next Inner #Asia #Colloquium is coming! Join the talk on 📆 2 September at 10:00 CEST (bit.ly/4mguLhA) to learn how #cadre management shapes #China’s strategy for governing #Tibet in #XiJinping’s ‘New Era’: www.remote-xuar.com/events/stabi... 🎤 Speaker: @doctordev.bsky.social

China has announced that from next month, Tibetan will no longer be a subject in the annual National College Entrance Examination (高考 gaokao), China's most important test for high school students. According to the announcement (www.scio.gov.cn/live/2025/36...):

Benno Weiner's talk on the history of Sino-Tibetan borderlands, focusing on "pluralistic promises" vs "revolutionary impatience" in Amdo: Friday 18th Jul at 15:00 CET (9am EST, 2pm UK, 630 IST). www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

End of the year, new app, seems like a good time to share something I did for Shepherd back in summer. Particularly happy that three of the books are by Tibetan authors writing in Tibet/China. @woeser.bsky.social @robbiebarnett.bsky.social shepherd.com/best-books/u...

As traffic to our site from Chinese readers grows, we continue to make available Mandarin translations where possible: 强力外交：中国在不丹的跨境村庄 摘要 turquoiseroof.org/download/%e5... (Summary of @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's report: Forceful #Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in #Bhutan) #不丹

3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan. Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.

3 Maps showing China's new villages in Bhutan. Map 1: principal areas of Bhutan currently claimed by China. Most of the claimed areas in the west (parts of Bji gewog) & in the northeast (the Beyul and Menchuma) have now been annexed by China. Map: Foreign Policy/Robert Barnett.

China is close to achieving its objectives on its border with Bhutan. Its strategy can be called 'Friendly Annexation' - friendship-based diplomacy at the same time as annexing territory within its neighbour's customary borders. It seems to be working: blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit.... /1

Seminar at SOAS, Thurs Nov 21, 5pm on "Text-mining Propaganda: Studying Tibetan Newspapers, 1950s to early 1960s". Speakers: Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) & Robert Barnett (SOAS). Moderator: Marcus Gilroy-Ware @mjgw.bsky.social (Creative Digital Media, SOAS). Details: soas.ac.uk/about…

In this new essay, James Leibold examines the expansion of the Tibet-Aid Project in Xi Jinping’s ‘New Era’ of Han-centric nationalism and explores how the project facilitates Han settler colonialism in the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

Forceful Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.