Zhou Yongkang, the man who persecuted Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, charged
On 3 April 2015, Chinese state media announced that charges had formally been made against former Politburo Standing Committee Member and Public Security Chief Zhou Yongkang. Zhou, who has not been seen in public since December 2013 and will face trial in Tianjin at a future date unknown, has been charged with bribery, abuse of...... Read More
Xi Zhongxun Blog PL Obit
The 10th Panchen Lama and Xi Jinping’s father 28 January 2014 is the 25th anniversary of the passing of the 10th Panchen Lama. The photograph on the right shows the 10th Panchen Lama with China’s former President Hu Jintao, at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet on 23 January 1989. The Panchen Lama died just five days...... Read More
China’s Elaborate Political Show Trial Concludes
By Nicholas Bequelin, Human Rights Watch, 22 September 2013 The life sentence handed down today to China’s disgraced former Politburo member and Chongqing Party secretary Bo Xilai on charges of bribery, embezzlement, and abuses of power is the outcome of a political trial, one that failed to provide due process to Bo, failed to provide...... Read More
Jin Wei and Tibet – a CCP rethink, or a pragmatist going out on a limb?
In early June, Professor Jin Wei, an expert in religious and ethnic affairs at the Central Party School, gave an interview to the Hong Kong magazine Asia Weekly about Beijing’s Tibet policy. We are indebted to the International Campaign for Tibet for translating her interview in full. Although her comments are often prefaced by “my...... Read More
Could Peng Liyuan be a friend of Tibet?
by International Tibet Network. A day or two ago we wrote how the world’s media were avidly following Xi Jinping on his maiden overseas trip as China’s new President; they are also clearly fascinated by Xi’s wife, Peng Liyuan, who seems destined to have a much higher profile than previous Chinese first ladies. Mrs Peng,...... Read More
Who will have the courage to raise Tibet at the BRICS Summit?
The world’s media is avidly following Xi Jinping on his maiden overseas trip as China’s new President. His journey takes him to Russia and Africa – where he will attend the BRICS* summit – whilst the situation in Tibet continues to deteriorate. In the few short months since Xi’s elevation to General Secretary of China’s...... Read More
A message for Xi Jinping
Read in Chinese A Message for Xi Jinping Global Tibet movement calls on new generation of Chinese Leaders to acknowledge policy failures and seek resolution to the crisis in Tibet Tibetan resistance in Tibet strengthens despite China’s intensified crackdown As thousands of Tibetans in Rebkong, Amdo in eastern Tibet (Ch: Qinghai Province) staged protests [1]...... Read More