The attacks are the latest element of a massive cyber espionage campaign, known as Salt Typhoon, by Beijing’s intelligence service. ft.trib.al/7RyrXh1

China’s broken promises and human rights abuses are highlighted in the CECC’s 2025 report. Read more on #China’s continued oppression of the #Tibetan people and their culture: savetibet.org/us-congressi...

Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet highlights a documentary on #Tibetan writer @woeser.bsky.social, once seen as a potential “successor of the red cause”. The film uses her dossier to show how the state tried to control her life & silence her writing: chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/woeser

#China has halved its forward troop presence in eastern #Ladakh, but is building border infrastructure four times faster than #India. Satellite images show a tenfold rise in permanent Chinese structures since 2020. www.tibetanreview.net/current-sino...

Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet highlights a documentary on #Tibetan writer @woeser.bsky.social, once seen as a potential “successor of the red cause”. The film uses her dossier to show how the state tried to control her life & silence her writing: chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/woeser

India’s approach to China tests whether asymmetric interdependence gives countries strategic options that more deeply integrated economies lack, argues Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury warontherocks.com/2025/12/the-...

China is exporting a surveillance empire built on U.S. technology. An AP investigation found Tibetans in Nepal are trapped under constant watch.

Nigel Inkster: "China is, in any case, engaged in surveillance and interference operations, whether it has a new embassy or not. And it will probably be easier for British intelligence services to monitor its activities if they are all grouped together in one place." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Human Rights Watch earlier noted that China had an ongoing two-tier system for passport issuance: #Tibetans face far more stringent procedures & scrutiny compared to Han Chinese. Officials can require additional layers of review, & travel for religious reasons is treated as suspicious/unlawful:

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology. This technology is now a key part of China’s push for global influence. religionnews.com/2025/12/22/u...

Human Rights Watch earlier noted that China had an ongoing two-tier system for passport issuance: #Tibetans face far more stringent procedures & scrutiny compared to Han Chinese. Officials can require additional layers of review, & travel for religious reasons is treated as suspicious/unlawful:

"How does colonialism shape Tibetan experiences of kinship? China's colonial occupation of Tibet forced Kalden to leave Tibet not ones but twice, fracturing and rupturing attachments to families and places of origin in the process." In the book: Difficult Attachments: Anxieties of Kinship & Care

Nigel Inkster: "China is, in any case, engaged in surveillance and interference operations, whether it has a new embassy or not. And it will probably be easier for British intelligence services to monitor its activities if they are all grouped together in one place." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

No passive utopia: Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, reviewed Tibet is portrayed as an uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political traumas of two peoples collide in this sardonic, erudite novel www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/no-p...

India’s approach to China tests whether asymmetric interdependence gives countries strategic options that more deeply integrated economies lack, argues Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury warontherocks.com/2025/12/the-...

2 tragedies tied to China’s Shuangjiangkou #hydropower project. The collapse of Hongqi Bridge & the earlier death of archaeologist Liu Tuo reveal the human & environmental costs of “development” imposed on #Tibetan lands chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/two-falls-under-one-hydropower-station

Xi Jinping says only the CPC can secure China’s rise, calls Taiwan’s “reunification” inevitable, defends the tightened controls in Hong Kong, touts 2025 gains, and pushes a $170B Brahmaputra mega‑dam despite ecological risks and India’s strategic concerns. www.tibetanreview.net/president-xi...

China’s top mining company eyes double-digit growth, to expand its #Tibet mine www.tibetanreview.net/chinas-top-m...

No passive utopia: Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, reviewed Tibet is portrayed as an uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political traumas of two peoples collide in this sardonic, erudite novel www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/no-p...

The Hongqi Bridge collapse in #Tibet was caused by continued #dam filling despite geological warnings. Repeated increases in the dam’s height and water level triggered frequent landslides, culminating in the massive slide that destroyed the bridge. www.tibetanreview.net/repeated-rai...

A few weeks ago I traveled to Ladakh to see how the India-China frontier had changed since a bloody clash five years ago. Things are much calmer, but both sides are rapidly building up infrastructure & there is no going back to the pre-2020 status quo. www.economist.com/asia/2025/12...

2 tragedies tied to China’s Shuangjiangkou #hydropower project. The collapse of Hongqi Bridge & the earlier death of archaeologist Liu Tuo reveal the human & environmental costs of “development” imposed on #Tibetan lands chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/two-falls-under-one-hydropower-station

#Copper prices are hitting record highs as demand for EVs and green tech soars. China’s discovery of 20M+ tonnes of copper in #Tibet, worth about $100B, puts #China in a powerful position to reshape global supply chains. www.tibetanreview.net/massive-copp...

Anti-China sentiment has risen in #Myanmar, including a perception that #China is stoking conflict to increase its own leverage over the country www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Today in @economist.com, we highlight the ongoing resistance to military rule in Myanmar, including the brave actions of Tayzar San and his friends. But we also canvass the reasons that the army has racked up a string of battlefield victories this year. (Russia, China, and Elon all played a part).

Beijing has been tight-lipped on details of what it has called a "project of the century.” CNN's Simone McCarthy breaks down how the plan might take shape: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/w... #OSINT #Tibet

#China has approved a revised #language law taking effect Jan 1, 2026. The new law will have grave implications for linguistic identity in ethnic minority regions amid Xi Jinping’s push for a unified national identity. #Sinicization www.tibetanreview.net/china-revise...

US tech enabled China’s #surveillance empire. Now #Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c... @dakekang.bsky.social /AP

Chinese Youth Stand For Tibet commemorates Li Jianglin (李江琳), a #Chinese historian of Tibet who devoted her life to documenting #Tibetan voices and challenging state narratives, preserving suppressed truths through rigorous oral history. chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/jianglin-li

Political theatre of Chinese Panchen ceremony demonstrates China’s priorities in counter-influence campaign against the Dalai Lama. Report: tibetwatch.org/beijing-rehe...

Chinese Youth Stand For Tibet commemorates Li Jianglin (李江琳), a #Chinese historian of Tibet who devoted her life to documenting #Tibetan voices and challenging state narratives, preserving suppressed truths through rigorous oral history. chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/jianglin-li

Beijing has been tight-lipped on details of what it has called a "project of the century.” CNN's Simone McCarthy breaks down how the plan might take shape: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/w... #OSINT #Tibet

“The Red Wind Howls”: Tibetan Novel makes China Books Review “Best of 2025” bruce-humes.com/2025/12/24/t...

Around December 4th, under unknown circumstances, Choktrul Dorje Ten Rinpoche was detained by Chinese authorities. This follows the forcible closure of his #Tibetan language school, the Dorje Ten Ethnic Vocational and Technical High School. Read more: savetibet.org/tibetan-budd...

"Uyghurs who fled are losing protections as China pressures other countries to hand them over, and as America and Europe have grown more hostile towards refugees."

FNVA’s Research Associate, Rinzin Namgyal reviews Shokdung's (Tagyal) book 'The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution' translated by Matthew Akester. fnvaworld.org/the-division...

“Inspect satellite imagery for almost any midsized PRC industrial city & coal storage bunkers each around 300 meters in length often stand out as among the largest structures visible, frequently clustered near the largest local power plants & foundries” #Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics #漂绿

“ #Tibetans are protecting their sacred and ancestral land,” Yangtso @tibetnetwork.bsky.social said. “China and the international community should respect traditional knowledge and local communities to make them ideal stewards to protect the Tibetan plateau.” www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

Nepal in joint Tibet-border security patrol with the Chinese www.tibetanreview.net/nepal-in-joi...

'By writing that “they may take our bodies, but they cannot take the mind that refuses to believe in lies,” Shokdung relocates resistance into the moral and intellectual realm' - review by Rinzin Namgyal, FNVA fnvaworld.org/the-division...

“Inspect satellite imagery for almost any midsized PRC industrial city & coal storage bunkers each around 300 meters in length often stand out as among the largest structures visible, frequently clustered near the largest local power plants & foundries” #Greenwashing with Chinese Characteristics #漂绿

🚨 Following Jimmy Lai’s conviction for three national security charges today, Hong Kong Wach and 32 other civil society organisations have written to Keir Starmer, urging the 🇬🇧 government to press 🇨🇳 to #FreeJimmyLai – read the letter below👇 www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...

China’s government has long sought to silence dissent abroad, but recently there’s been a disturbing escalation: harassment through sexually explicit letters targeting activists outside the country www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

“ #Tibetans are protecting their sacred and ancestral land,” Yangtso @tibetnetwork.bsky.social said. “China and the international community should respect traditional knowledge and local communities to make them ideal stewards to protect the Tibetan plateau.” www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...

FNVA’s Research Associate, Rinzin Namgyal reviews Shokdung's (Tagyal) book 'The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution' translated by Matthew Akester. fnvaworld.org/the-division...

CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/c...

On Human Rights Day, we stand with TCHRD and echo their call for justice for Tibet, including an independent probe into the mistreatment of imprisoned Tibetan entrepreneur Dorje Tashi. Read their full statement: tchrd.org/2025/12/10/t... #HumanRightsDay #Tibet

Post sparked from watching this Frontline on China in Tibet today. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...