"A new United Nations report has issued one of the clearest warnings to date that Chinese state policies in Tibet are actively eroding the foundations of #Tibetan civilisation, threatening the survival of Tibetans as a distinct people." via @tibetnet.bsky.social tibet.net/un-report-wa...

More than ever, we need investigative reporting on China—work that takes time and resources to produce—not commentaries from YouTubers speculating about imminent economic collapse or elite political infighting in China.

The UK’s Nature Security Assessment flags ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. Degradation of the Himalayan water system risks destabilising rivers that support billions, increasing water stress, food insecurity, & climate migration pressures with global impact www.gov.uk/government/p...

UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues warns that undermining a minority’s language can erode culture & #identity across generations. Cites education policies in Tibet as an example of how loss of #Tibetan language contributes to such erasure docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/41 docs.un.org/zh/A/HRC/61/41

Doublethink Lab’s South Asia study documents how PRC influence shapes China-sensitive media narratives. In India, it notes state-sponsored journalist trips promoting Beijing’s #Tibet "development” framing, exemplifying how PRC media influence operates:

新帖：华语青年挺藏会翻译并介绍了自2026年2月1日启动的藏人行政中央第一轮司政（Sikyong）及第18届藏人流亡议会选举。来自全球30多个国家的流亡藏人参与民主投票，依法行使选举权，通过和平方式选举司政及45名议员。 #华语青年挺藏会 chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/vote Original: savetibet.org/cta-holds-fi... ( @savetibet.bsky.social )

🎙️ Pema Yoko interviews Tara’s (张雅迪) friend and fellow activist Ginger on Tara’s advocacy, the risks she faces, and how she’s inspiring a new generation via Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet. ( #华语青年挺藏会 ) podcast.tibetaction.net/episode/epis...

The Delhi High Court reaffirmed that Tibetans born in India between Jan 26, 1950 & Jul 1, 1987 are citizens by birth, and rejected the MEA’s view that registering as a “Tibetan Refugee” or holding an IC counts as voluntarily renouncing Indian citizenship. www.tibetanreview.net/delhi-high-c...

The Tibetan people have the right to worship freely. This week, @tibetnet.bsky.social Sikyong Penpa Tsering spoke at the IRF Summit in Washington, DC, highlighting China’s suppression of Tibetan Buddhism. Grateful to @pelosi.house.gov for her remarks and long-time support.

The exploitable solar, wind, and hydropower resources in western Tibet—designated by #China as the #Tibet Autonomous Region—could theoretically meet all of the People’s Republic of China’s energy needs, according to Chinese government survey data. www.tibetanreview.net/survey-tibet...

Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs, because these governments now have the power to suppress dissent even outside their borders.

Satellite data shows long-term groundwater decline across the Himalaya & #Tibetan Plateau, with 24 billion tonnes lost annually due to climate pressure & heavy use, risking water security across borders. #geoAI timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/sate...

HRW’s World Report 2026 finds the Chinese government intensified repression in 2025, expanding crackdowns on fundamental freedoms under Xi Jinping’s leadership. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

A 60-year-old Chinese national, reportedly a former PSB officer, has been arrested in Dharamsala for living on an expired visa for 4+ months. Authorities seized devices and say digital forensic exams are underway. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandig...

Doublethink Lab’s South Asia study documents how PRC influence shapes China-sensitive media narratives. In India, it notes state-sponsored journalist trips promoting Beijing’s #Tibet "development” framing, exemplifying how PRC media influence operates:

SCMP reports an “official survey” claiming #Tibet’s #hydropower (≈178GW) and wind (>100GW) could meet China’s energy needs. Big numbers, thin transparency: cited journal paper isn’t publicly traceable in 《水电能源科学》 Green transition rhetoric, familiar extractive logic. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

Blog from December 2025 by journalist John Gittings @soasuni.bsky.social blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Ocean, as Much as Rain," a translation of Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser's stories, poetry & prose by Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba. buff.ly/dIm4pZk @hpeaks.bsky.social @woeser.bsky.social #Tibet

HRW’s World Report 2026 finds the Chinese government intensified repression in 2025, expanding crackdowns on fundamental freedoms under Xi Jinping’s leadership. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

The UK’s Nature Security Assessment flags ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. Degradation of the Himalayan water system risks destabilising rivers that support billions, increasing water stress, food insecurity, & climate migration pressures with global impact www.gov.uk/government/p...

Two books on civil society & how change will likely happen in China, and why advocates for human rights and democracy shouldn't lose hope. Imprisoned organizer of the Citizens Movement, Xu Zhiyong, is an eloquent writer whose book will soon be released in English. chinachange.org/2026/01/31/o...

Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession. tibet.net/sikyong-hold...

“Mahajan [ RFA's chief communications officer ] said the Korean Service would join RFA's Mandarin and Burmese Services, which have already restarted content production and that RFA also plans to re-start its #Uyghur, #Tibetan, & #Cantonese service into China.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

New maps from @esa.int of #Tibet’s tectonic deformation built from Copernicus #Sentinel-1, revealing millimetre-scale ground motion across the plateau. www.esa.int/Applications...

More than six decades after displacement, #Tibetans in exile are electing their leaders through democratic processes. These #elections exist because Tibetans inside Tibet are denied the right to meaningful political participation. sg.news.yahoo.com/exiled-tibet... (AFP)

Buddhist scholar Cortland Dahl reflects on returning to Minneapolis in a moment of fear and uncertainty. He asks us to pause before reacting with outrage and instead choose compassion & wisdom, inspired by the resilience of #Tibetan and #refugee communities. www.lionsroar.com/who-do-we-wa...

Preservation or Dispossession? "These texts, hidden and preserved at great personal risk by Tibetan Lamas (Buddhist masters) from Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution and entrusted to BDRC to safeguard Tibetan heritage, are now slipping out of Tibetan control."

BBC notes this backlash sits within China’s long campaign to control #Tibet and delegitimise the Dalai Lama’s spiritual authority. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Europe must take a coordinated response to fight the rising threat of transnational repression, according to a group of experts commissioned by the European Parliament to investigate ways to counter this form of cross-border authoritarian coercion.

🚨Are you an investigator, lawyer, journalist, or researcher interested in skilling up in #OSINT? Join us and @instituteici.bsky.social this April at The Hague for our foundational open source investigations training: 🗓️ April 20–24 📍The Hague 🖊️Apply by Feb. 23: iici.global/courses/open...

This February, learn about the Grateful Dead, trans history, Tibetan literature, cultural patrimony and more. Check out all our new releases: buff.ly/yFB1kAQ #NewBooks

After 2 unjust arrests in 2025, most recently in August for his performance of a song commemorating the #DalaiLama’s 90th birthday, #Tibetan singer A-Sang was released from detention. Read more: savetibet.org/tibetan-sing...

Thank you Gabriel Lafitte for letting us know that the "Dictionary of Tibetan Pastoralism" as mentioned by Tsering Dondrup is freely downloadable online. The first edition was primarily Tibetan to Japanese, with Wylie. In 2022, an English edition came out nomadic.aa-ken.jp/search/?lang...

BBC notes this backlash sits within China’s long campaign to control #Tibet and delegitimise the Dalai Lama’s spiritual authority. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A Grammy for the @DalaiLama for his audiobook narration 'Meditations' underscores his global reach as influential cultural figure in his 90th birthday year. The album was made in collaboration with sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RISh...

Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession. tibet.net/sikyong-hold...

“Mahajan [ RFA's chief communications officer ] said the Korean Service would join RFA's Mandarin and Burmese Services, which have already restarted content production and that RFA also plans to re-start its #Uyghur, #Tibetan, & #Cantonese service into China.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

"These elections show that political agency exists even without a state, especially when democratic participation is denied inside #Tibet" said Sonam Palmo, 38, from University of Zurich, who helps run Smartvote Tibet, a website helping the diaspora select candidates. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

by Khedroob Thondup (Dalai Lama’s nephew): Takster, the Dalai Lama’s birthplace, is now under CCTV #surveillance. Sacred sites treated as security threats. #Tibet sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/chin... Ping’an District materials explicitly mention Sharp Eyes in Takster #雪亮工程 #securitization

More than six decades after displacement, #Tibetans in exile are electing their leaders through democratic processes. These #elections exist because Tibetans inside Tibet are denied the right to meaningful political participation. sg.news.yahoo.com/exiled-tibet... (AFP)

Chinese Youth Stand for #Tibet republishes a RTI segment memorialising Gyalo Thondup through the recollections of his #Taiwanese daughter-in-law. Making these narratives accessible in Chinese matters. chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/rti

China’s intervention has reshaped Myanmar’s war, but not decided its future, argues Ye Myo Hein. Beijing can prop up the junta & stage “elections” yet it lacks legitimacy with the public (which despises it) & cannot extinguish a mass homegrown resistance. Fatalism misreads popular agency in #Myanmar

The English edition of "Tibet Was Never Part of China Since Antiquity" (2026) was launched in Washington with Penpa Tsering, & support from NED. The book examines #Tibet’s historical status through imperial era Chinese records. 中文原著：《西藏自古以來就不是中國的一部份：用中國的官方權威文獻明證》（2019） tibet.net/english-tran...

China’s lifting of sanctions on UK MPs dismissed as ‘meagre return’ on PM’s visit www.tibetanreview.net/chinas-lifti...

Canada approves Allied Gold’s takeover by China’s Zijin #Mining Group. Zijin operates projects on the #Tibetan plateau, where extractive activity has drawn sustained environmental & human rights scrutiny, linking overseas expansion to Tibet’s resource governance www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/a...

Framing Hong Kong’s repression as “stability” risks legitimising authoritarian governance as an economic good, and words from democratic leaders matter far beyond Hong Kong and set precedents elsewhere.

China has lifted sanctions from six serving British MPs and peers, PM Starmer says – The Guardian: ‘China’s sanctions were a retaliation against the UK imposing sanctions on Chinese officials held responsible for atrocities in Xinjiang. It is understood that those will not be lifted in return.’

The @nationaltrust.org.uk How Did We Get Here? exhibition at Kedleston Hall features a film by British-Tibetan artist Nyima Murry, adding lived #Tibetan perspective to objects long displayed without context & asking how they came to Britain. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d... #PeakDistrict

The English edition of "Tibet Was Never Part of China Since Antiquity" (2026) was launched in Washington with Penpa Tsering, & support from NED. The book examines #Tibet’s historical status through imperial era Chinese records. 中文原著：《西藏自古以來就不是中國的一部份：用中國的官方權威文獻明證》（2019） tibet.net/english-tran...

A new EU report calls for stronger action against China’s #transnationalrepression citing @icij.org #ChinaTargets investigation that exposes Beijing’s global campaign to surveil, intimidate, & silence critics abroad, including activists from #Tibet, #Xinjiang, #HongKong www.icij.org/investigatio...