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Panchen Lama – abducted without a trace
It is exactly 27 years to the day that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima became the world’s youngest political prisoner. It was May 17, 1995, when Chinese security forces abducted the then six-year-old. To this day, there is no conclusive sign of life from Nyima. His parents also disappeared that day. The official Communist Party version claims […] continue reading →
Andreas Fuchs – a development-focused economist
In a way, it was the Dalai Lama and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who got Professor Andreas Fuchs involved with China. The 2008 meeting between the Tibetan leader and the then EU Council president caused dissonance between the EU and China. “The political tensions were so present that Chinese people in my circle of […] continue reading →
Demands for Tibet’s cultural adaptation
Beijing wants to speed up Tibet’s cultural assimilation into China. On the 70th anniversary of China’s invasion of Tibet, Wang Yang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, said efforts were needed at every level to ensure that all Tibetans could speak and write standard Chinese and […] continue reading →
Xi visits Tibet unannounced
It has been more than three decades since a Chinese head of state and party leader last visited Tibet. Former president Jian Zemin had visited the autonomous region in 1990. On Friday, it was revealed that Xi Jinping, now the current state and party leader, visited Tibet’s capital Lhasa last Wednesday and probably also briefly […] continue reading →