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Bhuchung K. Tsering @bhuchung.bsky.social · 8h
Since #AI is in the news, this upcoming International Conference on AI and Consciousness would be of interest to many as it brings together scholars on #Buddhism and science on the same stage. www.scienceformonksandnuns.org/event/two-da...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 6h
Tibet’s repression doesn’t stop at Tibet’s borders. Meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, US House Foreign Affairs chair Brian Mast highlighted Beijing’s #transnationalrepression. The Tibet issue increasingly extends to how Beijing targets #Tibetans & their supporters abroad.
openthemagazine.com
‘People of Tibet Seek Freedom’: US Delegation Meets Dalai Lama, Criticises China
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast raised concerns over Chinese repression after meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala. He also said the spiritual leader supported a meeting between D...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 6h
U.S. Congressional Rep Brian Mast leads delegation of American lawmakers to meet the #DalaiLama , affirms U.S. support for #Tibet + says he will 'never forget' his meeting with the Tibetan leader www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chand... 1/3
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 6h
Using #China's own documents, our new report shows the security state buying drones for the places where #Tibetans have protested, gathered to pray and tried to escape persecution, while the state closes the sky to almost everyone else tibetwatch.org/press-releas... 1/7
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Press Release: ‘Eyes Above the Plateau: Drones, DJI, and the Aerial Architecture of Control in Tibet’
Policing the skies on the roof of the world: how China took control of the air over Tibet
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026
Rare reporting from inside Tibet by @lauravanmegen.bsky.social for Dutch NOS News; stories and landscape that are too little seen - lithium mining polluting valleys, mass relocation, children banned from monasteries, devastating hydro projects www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-C...
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Reizen door Tibetaans gebied: onderdrukking en China's honger naar grondstoffen
YouTube video by NOS
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 25/09/2026
4 weeks after the Kyirong mudslide on the Tibet–Nepal border, China has frozen its count of the dead and missing at 562, published no names, and penalised people for posting other figures. Our briefing: tibetwatch.org/a-damocles-s... 1/4
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A Damocles sword over the deep valleys of the Roof of the World
Building in a seismic zone, silencing the aftermath: China’s choices in a climate emergency
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
New @tibetwatch.org report on the #Kyirong disaster: a casualty count fixed at 562 with no names, people punished for posting other figures, a risk documented a year earlier, glacier data withheld from Nepal, and a "strategic corridor" built over #Tibetan history. tibetwatch.org/a-damocles-s...
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A Damocles sword over the deep valleys of the Roof of the World
Building in a seismic zone, silencing the aftermath: China’s choices in a climate emergency
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 22/09/2026
China announces new Tibet Party chief Hu Changsheng www.reuters.com/world/china/... ; with a background as a geologist, will he take fellow Chinese scientists seriously on risks of infrastructure construction + hydro projects in seismically unstable Tibet, an epicentre of global climate change?
reuters.com
China names new top official for Tibet in regional reshuffle
China has appointed Hu Changsheng as the new Communist Party secretary ​of Tibet, making him the southwestern region's top ‌official, replacing Wang Junzheng, state-run Xinhua said on Tuesday.
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Tibetan Review @tibetanreview.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit, U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna and Jim McGovern hosted a shadow hearing on human rights in U.S.-China policy. Witnesses included Palden Gyal, Tahir Imin, Yaqiu Wang, and Jonathan Stivers. www.tibetanreview.net/tibetan-test...
tibetanreview.net
Tibetan testifies at ranking US Congressional Committee members’ hearing ahead of President Xi Jinping’s arrival - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Sep16’26) – Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit later this month, and as Tibetan groups and others prepare protest receptions for him, Ranking Member Ro Khanna of the US ...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026
China's new exit rules let officials bar anyone from leaving China on undefined 'national security' grounds. Tibetans have lived under this system for years: passports seized, travel denied. Beijing is now writing it into national rules. New @hrw.org report www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
hrw.org
China: New Border Decree Curtails Right to Leave
A new Chinese government decree expands the discretion of administrative authorities to arbitrarily bar people from leaving China, violating the internationally protected right to leave a country.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026
Climate breakdown probably weakened the glacier that collapsed causing catastrophic floods and killing hundreds of people in Nepal and Tibet: first scientific study: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... 1/3
theguardian.com
Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds
Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026
Why Tibet, Asia's water tower, cannot remain an ecological black box - by @dhardonsharling.bsky.social www.theweek.in/news/world/2...
theweek.in
Why Tibet, Asia’s water tower, cannot remain an ecological black box
The Nepal-Tibet floods show why environmental information from the Third Pole is a matter of water, climate and regional security for India, South Asia and beyond
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/09/2026
Chinese AI tools are being used to advance the Chinese government’s political narrative on Tibet with the deep integration of AI models into the work of the PRC security mechanisms for oppression + TNR: new report by @anthropic.com www.anthropic.com/threat-intel...
anthropic.com
Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic
Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 16/09/2026
The CCP, which promotes 'unyielding Marxist atheism', installed a child as the 6th Gangchen Rinpoche at ceremony presided over by China's official Panchen Lama. The boy's predecessor the 5th Gangchen lama was known for his loyalty to the anti-Dalai Lama Shugden cult
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 15/09/2026
Analyzing Kyirong: vivid graphics point to chain of risks in Tibet: warming accelerates glacial melting, causes ice bodies to thin; glacial lakes expand and ice avalanches, outburst floods, debris flows + flash floods can result even 100s of kilometers away datanews.caixin.com/interactive/...
datanews.caixin.com
财新|失稳的“亚洲水塔”
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 14/09/2026
@npr.org cites a voice from inside China on the dangers of speaking to press: 'You might live in constant fear and anxiety, never really knowing when you've made an inadvertent remark, which could get you in trouble...nor can we predict if and when our turn might come' www.npr.org/2026/09/12/n...
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How China tried to control the narrative on the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet
Reporting over so-called "the Great Firewall," a journalist details how to report for a global audience from Beijing despite tight obstacles imposed by the government.
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China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net · 11/09/2026
CDT Quote of the Week: chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/09/gyir...
"If you guess [the death toll] right, it’s 'leaking state secrets.' If you guess wrong, it’s 'spreading rumors.' Either way, you’re screwed." - An online comment in response to the news that Chinese cyberspace authorities punished 10 people for "spreading rumors" about the death toll and scale of flooding along the China-Nepal border
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/09/2026
Important analysis by @jamyang.net on PRC ops using Claude to monitor Tibetan targets:
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/09/2026
Post Kyirong glacial collapse and floods, China says Tibetan evacuees are back home - but nothing about deaths and destruction in villages in the area, according to state media reports monitored by Tibet Watch, including english.xzxw.com/xwzx/2026-09...
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Evacuated residents returning home after mudslide hits border port in China's Xizang
Tibet, Tibet news, China Tibet News, Tibet politics, Tibet tourism, vision weekly, Tibetan, Lhasa, Nyingchi, Shannan, Shigatse, Nagqu, Ngari, Chamdo. Serve people, Tibet Daily, Tibet’s first provincia...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 09/09/2026
Tibet Film Festival returns to London 25-27 Sept, offering unmissable reflections on Tibetan identity, heritage and memory through the moving image asianmoviepulse.com/2026/09/tibe...
asianmoviepulse.com
Tibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of Tibet
Tibet Film Festival London returns for its sixth edition with a programme exploring the theme of Memories of Tibet. Tibet Film Festival London 2026 Announces Programme Exploring Memories of Tibet
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 09/09/2026
'If only the flood victims had spread rumors right before they died, they might have been tracked down and rescued in time' - Chinese netizen comment after 10 people punished for speaking about death toll of the floods at the border chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/09/gyir...
chinadigitaltimes.net
Netizen Voices, on Gyirong Floods: “Controlling Speech is One Area Where 'China Speed' is Actually Real.”
Chinese cyberspace authorities announced that ten people from Tibet and several other provinces have been hit with unspecified administrative punishments
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 08/09/2026
The Quiet State @robbiebarnett.bsky.social reconstructs the #surveillance of #Tibetan Buddhist nuns entirely from official Chinese media: coercion repackaged as "care" studied under structured opacity. Remote research on Tibet at its most rigorous link.springer.com/book/9789819... #osint #openaccess
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The Quiet State
This open access book uses open-source analysis to reveal hidden state surveillance of Tibetan nuns, offering new methods for post-ethnographic research.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 07/09/2026
China has organised a carefully choreographed visit by some overseas journalists to Kyirong in Tibet after the horrific mudslides and floods, but maintains an info blackout, suppressing facial recognition footage + failing to provide list of names of those at the port at the time
tibetanreview.net
China suppressing information, silencing victims, even as it takes a foreign media group to flood-ravaged Kyirong - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Sep06’26) – As families of pilgrims visiting Tibet from abroad who went missing after the devastating flash floods of ice, rock, and mud on Aug 26 morning demand answers on what wa...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026
#Tibetan musician Loten Namling sings the #Tibetan blues, talks about music as the soul of the people, his friend Lobga Rangzen + how he is reviving the ancient storytelling tradition of 'lama mani' from his home in Switzerland podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Blues Zeppelin, 16. August 2026
Podcast Episode · The Blueszeppelin - Hosted by Mark Stenzler has been part of the Swiss radio landscape since 1989 · 16 August · 1hr 60min
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 26/08/2026
Devastating news from the Nepal–Tibet border, where flash floods & mudslides have killed at least 17 people. As climate change accelerates snow & ice melt across the #Himalayas, the need for early warning systems & climate-resilient infrastructure grows ever more urgent www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Nepal flash floods: Heavy casualties feared
The flood in Rasuwa - an area north of Kathmandu bordering Tibet - is feared to have swept away villages.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026
Ginger Yuan writes about how her time teaching in #Tibet changed her, and her friend Tara, Zhang Yadi, 'a a deeply thoughtful Buddhist' who remains in detention, incommunicado, one year on @lhashspring.bsky.social
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 26/08/2026
Traditional Tibetan literary and cultural works are being removed from revised textbooks, and little or no Tibetan cultural content in new ones, reports @tchrd_ tchrd.org/2026/08/25/c...
tchrd.org
China’s New Ethnic Unity Law Reshapes Tibetan Education, Removes Traditional Literary and Cultural Works from Textbooks | TCHRD
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 19/08/2026
New #LarungGar demolitions, per RFA/ @planet.com satellite analysis: 1,000+ monastic residences targeted, work carried out at night, visitors capped at 90 minutes and required to rent a tracking device. Religious repression and #surveillance arriving together. www.rfa.org/english/tibe...
rfa.org
Beijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery shows
Advocates say China razes monks’ homes to restrict religious freedom and further ethnic unity law’s reach in Tibet.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 20/08/2026
Ahead of crucial 21st Party Congress, China is cultivating a more repressive 7th generation leadership in Tibet: new @savetibet.bsky.social report savetibet.org/ahead-of-cru...
savetibet.org
Ahead of crucial 21st Party Congress, China cultivating a more repressive leadership in Tibet
August 18, 2026 Seventh-generation leadership in Tibet will be shaped
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 20/08/2026
The visit of one of the 17th Karmapa's senior teachers Tai Situ Rinpoche to eastern #Tibet carries significant religious, political and geopolitical implications, writes Lobsang Dakpa www.firstpost.com/opinion/karm...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 14/08/2026
#Tibet's essential 'deconstructive gaze that challenges endless growth as the abiding source of human happiness': revealing new blog on #Tibetan civilisation + insights into rapid AI devt, by Gabriel Lafitte rukor.org/on-a-i-degen...
rukor.org
ON A.I DEGENERATE TIMES – Rukor
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 12/08/2026
Wangden Kyab, researcher for @tibetwatch, writes about the sacrifice of his friend Lobga Rangzen and his final message in #India's Open magazine: openthemagazine.com/world/why-a-...
openthemagazine.com
Why A Tibetan Activist Set Himself On Fire
The self-immolation by Lobga Rangzen outside the UN headquarters in New York last month has reinvigorated the Free Tibet movement. A friend gives an insight into the activist's life and his final mess...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 11/08/2026
Tibet Watch reports a new wave of demolitions at Larung Gar, threatening around 1,060 monks’ & nuns’ homes. #Tibetan Buddhist life is again being targeted through demolition, expulsion, #surveillance, & political indoctrination:
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 11/08/2026
་‘Like a hunter preparing to kill an animal’: new wave of demolitions at Larung Gar #Buddhist institute in eastern #Tibet: tibetwatch.org/like-a-hunte...
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New Wave of Demolitions at Larung Gar
Chinese authorities are implementing a new wave of demolitions at one of the world’s largest Buddhist institutes, Larung Gar in eastern Tibet
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 10/08/2026
#China has deployed facial recognition on #Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo. Not on people this time — on fish. Every individual identified and counted at the Zangmu dam, 24/7, 95% accurate. No such precision applied to what its dams cost Tibetans. interestingengineering.com/innovation/f...
interestingengineering.com
China deploys 'fish facial recognition' at Tibet hydropower station
China has deployed an AI-based "fish facial recognition" system using sonar, optical tech, and historical footage at the Zangmu Hydropower Station on Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 10/08/2026
The only global forum for Tibetan studies is pushed online after Kathmandu University was told to withdraw. Beijing's reach into Nepal's universities is the point. 100s of scholars had already booked; expect many to travel and meet regardless. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Tibet conference in Nepal pushed online
An international academic conference on Tibet due to take place in Nepal this month has been pushed online, organisers said Saturday, calling it a "worrying development".
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 05/08/2026
The #Nepal govt has cancelled an international #Tibetan studies conference that had been 4 years in the planning, overriding its own security agencies’ assessment that the event posed no threat kathmandupost.com/national/202...
kathmandupost.com
Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say
Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 05/08/2026
In his last message, he urged Tibetan friends to keep dancing, to preserve their culture. But they were too sad to dance now. Moving article in @nytimes on the sacrifice of Lobga Rangzen: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
nytimes.com
Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan
No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 03/08/2026
China’s reported push to restrict #Tibetan media at the #BRICS summit is about more than press accreditation: it tests whether Beijing can export its censorship beyond its borders. Delhi’s response will signal how firmly it defends it's sovereignty & press freedom. theprint.in?p=3003392
theprint.in
Ahead of Xi visit to India for BRICS, China pushes for curbs on media houses linked to Falun Gong, Tibet
Several media outlets connected to Falun Gong & Tibet are blocked in China. Nation’s embassy now wants Ministry of External Affairs to curtail access to such outlets too during summit.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 04/08/2026
A towering Buddha statue demolished by Chinese authorities and transformed into a horse-racing track named after the Red Army. A Buddhist school razed to the ground. Our latest report reveals how sacred places are being repurposed to erase memory and identity in Tibet: tibetwatch.org/tibetan-budd...
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Tibetan Buddhist landmark transformed into racecourse
Once home to a 99-foot Buddha statue in Sengdeng Village, the sacred site has been converted since 2023 into a racecourse.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 03/08/2026
CNN tells the rare story of a Tibetan's daring escape from #Tibet, including his imprisonment at the age of 8, the shuttering of private Tibetan schools and Xi Jinping's crackdown on religion and #Tibetan language education edition.cnn.com/2026/08/02/c...
edition.cnn.com
A young Tibetan flees his homeland – and reveals how China is eroding his culture | CNN
Xi has mounted what critics say are intensified efforts to suppress dissent and tighten control of China’s ethnic minorities.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 29/07/2026
China has unveiled another high-altitude #UAV research centre in #Tibet, but claims that it is the country’s first deserve scrutiny: Tibet University opened a similar lab in 2021, while a separate test base at #Ngari launched in 2025. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...
scmp.com
New peak in US-China tech rivalry? Tibet drone hub launches on Mount Everest
Centre’s establishment represents Beijing’s first research and application platform dedicated to drones operating at high altitudes.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 28/07/2026
#China has stepped up interference into the independent scholarly gathering of Tibetologists in #Kathmandu for the International Association of Tibetan Studies conference next month with the visit of CCP-aligned monk Yinshun to Nepal's capital this week kathmandupost.com/national/202...
kathmandupost.com
Ahead of Tibetan conference, top Chinese monk is visiting Kathmandu
Around 700 delegates from 39 countries are expected to attend the event next month. The US will have the largest delegation, followed by China.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 27/07/2026
Kathmandu’s first #IATS conference will bring 700+ scholars from 39 countries, but reported Chinese pressure has already prompted Tibet’s exile administration to withdraw formal participation. Scholarship meets geopolitics in Nepal’s delicate balancing act: english.nepalnews.com/s/explainers...
english.nepalnews.com
17th Tibetan Studies Seminar in Kathmandu: Academic gathering or geopolitical flashpoint?
KATHMANDU: Every few years, the International Association for Tibetan Studies brings together the world’s leading experts on Tibetan language, religion, history and culture for a week long academic ga...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 27/07/2026
Manufacturing consent: Manila readout had India reaffirming its position on #Tibet and respect for Chinese sovereignty. Delhi says that's not what was said. The PRC routinely manufactures third-country endorsement of its claims on Tibet. Govts should correct the record, as India has.
chinaglobalsouth.com
India Denies Endorsing China’s Tibet Position After High-Level Talks
The Indian government angrily reacted to a Chinese read-out of last Wednesday's meeting between External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Foreign Minister Wang Yi that claimed New Delhi accepted Bei...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 20/07/2026
'Can the Tibetan freedom movement survive China's long game?' Cheng Lei — imprisoned by China for three years — travels to Dharamsala, meets the Dalai Lama and asks whether the world will simply stop paying attention. Her answer is a reason it shouldn't: www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/can...
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Can the Tibetan Freedom Movement Survive China’s Long Game? – Central Tibetan Administration
– By Cheng Lei for THE AUSTRALIAN, 18 July 2026 Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen set himself on fire in front of UN headquarters in New York on July 2. His death came just a day after Beijing’s new Ethn...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 19/07/2026
Chinese human rights defender Zhang Yi has reportedly been detained after displaying a photo of the Dalai Lama outside Lhasa’s Potala Palace on 1 July. His family says he is suspected of an “incitement” offence and fears he has become a target under China’s new Ethnic Unity Law.
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 17/07/2026
Happening in the middle of the night to avoid public documentation, more than 1000 homes of monks and nuns are being demolished at the famed Buddhist academy of Larung Gar in Serthar, eastern #Tibet, says @savetibet.bsky.social savetibet.org/famed-larung...
savetibet.org
Famed Larung Gar Buddhist academy in eastern Tibet faces new round of demolitions
July 17, 2026 A new round of demolitions that will
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 16/07/2026
New research in Nature underlines how the Tibetan Plateau shapes the monsoon, rivers and biodiversity across Asia. What happens on the plateau matters to billions downstream — and it's why the world cannot look away from Beijing's policies there www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
West versus Central Tibet exhumation difference influenced by Indian slab underthrusting - Nature Geoscience
The extent of Indian continental underthrusting beneath Western Tibet influences its moderate-to-rapid exhumation, relative to slow exhumation in Central Tibet, according to thermochronological data a...
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Tibet Watch @tibetwatch.org · 16/07/2026
The self-immolation of Lobga Rangzen was not an expression of personal despair, but a bid to jolt the world out of its indifference to one of the most important international issues of our time: Tibet’s systematic erasure www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
japantimes.co.jp
China’s erasure of Tibet is accelerating
In recent years, the international community has stood idly by while China has systematically eradicated Tibetan culture and identity.
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