Tibet
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Free and Open Indo-Pacific/FOIP
Human rights advocates, investigators document CCP’s transnational repression
FORUM Staff Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked intimidation, harassment and violence during CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco, California, sought to silence criticism of Beijing’s repressive policies. CCP supporters appeared to coordinate actions that ranged from stealing protest signs to beating demonstrators, according to investigations by The Washington Post newspaper, and the Hong Kong Democracy Council and Students…
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Conflicts - Tensions
PRC sends glacial water from Tibet to the Maldives, raising concerns
Radio Free Asia The People’s Republic of China (PRC) gave 3,000 metric tons of Tibet’s glacial water to the island nation of the Maldives in two batches in March and May 2024 — the same months it announced and imposed water conservation regulations in Tibet. The PRC’s State Council issued the new rules a week before the first delivery of…
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Features
PRC Weaponizes Water
Brahma Chellaney Water is the most precious of natural resources. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) dominates Asia’s water because of its control over the Tibetan plateau, which served as a buffer with India until the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong annexed it in the early 1950s. Since mid-2022, Beijing has raised security concerns by increasing efforts to…
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Conflicts - Tensions
PRC’s residential schools aim to erase Tibetan, Uyghur culture, experts fear
FORUM Staff United Nations experts have warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly separating children from families with an expanding network of boarding schools. The institutions appear to demonstrate the CCP’s strategy of forced assimilation for Tibetan, Uyghur and other minority populations. In Tibet and in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, reports have documented the systematic closing of local…
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