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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/09/2026
China is building an aerial architecture of control over Tibet. New @tibetwatch.org research traces police #drones, counter-drone systems, & flight bans, all through the Chinese state’s own records. The Party-state watches from above while closing the sky to #Tibetans tibetwatch.org/press-releas...
Cover of Tibet Watch’s Eyes Above the Plateau. A DJI EV50 fixed-wing eVTOL drone flies over snow-covered Tibetan mountains, overlaid with digital grids and a red radar network. Text: “Tibet Watch · with research support from C4ADS” and “EYES ABOVE THE PLATEAU.”
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UBC SPPGA @sppga.ubc.ca · 10h
Join an interdisciplinary roundtable with @saraschneider.bsky.social and other UBC experts on Oct 14, exploring the causes and contexts of the recent “Himalayan Tsunami” in Nepal and Tibet and the ongoing impacts. RSVP: sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/living-wi…
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 01/10/2026
VOA reports on @tibetwatch.org new drone investigation. The report has prompted Lord Alton and @fortifyrights.bsky.social Benedict Rogers to call for scrutiny of UK police procurement of Chinese-made drones. www.voachinese.com/a/tibet-dron... #UAV #surveillance #无人机
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“高原上的眼睛” 人权组织报告指中国在西藏建立无人机监控体系
英国人权组织“西藏观察”(Tibet Watch)星期三(9月30日)发布调查报告称,中国当局正在西藏建立从警用无人机、自动机巢到反无人机设备的空中管控体系。报告也促使部分英国议员和人权人士呼吁英国政府,重新审查对中国无人机的相关采购。 这份75页的报告,题目为《高原上的眼睛》(Eyes Above the Plateau)分析查阅了2017年至2026年中国政府的采购公告、警方通报、培训记录和飞...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 01/10/2026
Starting today, @himalsouthasian.bsky.social are screening State of Statelessness (2024) in collaboration with the Tibet Film Festival. State of Statelessness explores themes of statelessness and #migration through four poignant stories of #Tibetans living in exile:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/09/2026
China is building an aerial architecture of control over Tibet. New @tibetwatch.org research traces police #drones, counter-drone systems, & flight bans, all through the Chinese state’s own records. The Party-state watches from above while closing the sky to #Tibetans tibetwatch.org/press-releas...
Cover of Tibet Watch’s Eyes Above the Plateau. A DJI EV50 fixed-wing eVTOL drone flies over snow-covered Tibetan mountains, overlaid with digital grids and a red radar network. Text: “Tibet Watch · with research support from C4ADS” and “EYES ABOVE THE PLATEAU.”
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International Campaign for Tibet @savetibet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New #Tibet Autonomous Region Party Secretary Hu Changsheng vows to prioritize national security and ‘stability,’ deepen ‘anti-separatist struggle.’ Read more: savetibet.org/new-tibet-au...
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New Tibet Autonomous Region Party Secretary vows to prioritize national security and ‘stability,’ deepen ‘anti-separatist struggle’
September 28, 2026 China’s new party secretary of the so-called
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/09/2026
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.
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‘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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Greg @jamyang.net · 29/09/2026
Essential reading: C4ADS' "Monitoring the Frontier" builds an original dataset from PRC government procurement records to map who actually supplies the #surveillance state: #Tibet as prototype, #Xinjiang as scale-up:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/09/2026
#Tibetan veterans recall joining India’s Establishment 22 hoping to return to Tibet & fight China. RFA now reports unverified claims from three sources inside Tibet that young Tibetans face blacklisting if they refuse PLA recruitment.
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“བོད་དུ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་བྱེད་རྒྱུའི་འདུན་པ་བཅངས་ཏེ་དྭང་སློབ་ཏུ་ཞུགས་ཡིན།”
བོད་དུ་ཕྱིར་ལོག་སྟེ་རྒྱ་ནག་ལ་འཐབ་འཛིང་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ལས་རྒྱ་གར་ནང་གཞིས་ཆགས་ནས་བསྡད་རྒྱུའི་སྣང་བ་ཙམ་ཡང་མེད་པ་གསུང་གི་འདུག
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 30/09/2026
Geopolitically significant: the 17th Karmapa will visit #Bhutan at the King’s invitation. A major #Tibetan Buddhist leader long caught between China and Indian security concerns is receiving royal recognition in a Himalayan state navigating its own sensitive relationships with both powers. RFA:
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དཔལ་༧རྒྱལ་དབང་ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆོག་འབྲུག་ཡུལ་དུ་ཆིབས་བསྒྱུར།
འབྲུག་དང་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་མཚམས་ཉེ་འཁྲིད་དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ཏུ་མཆོད་རྟེན་ལ་རབ་གནས་སོགས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རིམ་བང་སྒྲིག་འདུག
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 28/09/2026
Fieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Book cover of “The Quiet State: Micro-Surveillance and Normalisation in Tibet” by Robert Barnett, with a foreword by Andrew J. Nathan. White text overlays a blue sky above a dry, rocky hillside bearing large white Chinese and Tibetan lettering. At the bottom are an “Open Access” label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 29/09/2026
Xi’s DC visit saw fewer attacks on protesters than San Francisco in 2023, but serious #TNR concerns remain. Brian Kern documents attacks on #Tibetan and #HongKong activists and unidentified masked men apparently operating around Xi and Peng events.
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Attacks on Protesters against Xi Jinping in Washington, DC
The situation was better than Xi’s 2023 visit to San Francisco, where dozens were attacked, but there’s still room for improvement.
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This month we’ll be streaming State of Statelessness, the first-ever Tibetan-language anthology feature film, comprising four short segments directed by Tibetan filmmakers living in exile in India, the USA and Vietnam. Subscribe to the Screen Southasia newsletter here: ow.ly/QwYn50ZSvaP
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 29/09/2026
Commentary: Beijing's real vulnerability is not international action. It's rising awareness within the Chinese population.
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Tibet’s advocates need to reach China’s majority
Growing Han Chinese awareness and activism poses the only pressure Beijing cannot ignore on Tibet.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 28/09/2026
Fieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Book cover of “The Quiet State: Micro-Surveillance and Normalisation in Tibet” by Robert Barnett, with a foreword by Andrew J. Nathan. White text overlays a blue sky above a dry, rocky hillside bearing large white Chinese and Tibetan lettering. At the bottom are an “Open Access” label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
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Tibet Action Institute @tibetaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On September 24, 2026, a side event was held in the Palais des Nations in Geneva during the 63rd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council focusing on "Child Rights in Tibet".
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International Campaign for Tibet @savetibet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gyatso was addressing hundreds of Tibetans who had gathered from across North America in Washington DC on Thursday, Sep. 24 to protest Xi’s state visit and demand that #Tibet and #humanrights be part of the agenda in President Trump’s discussions with Xi. Full report: savetibet.org/ict-joins-ti...
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ICT joins Tibetans, rights groups, Congressional partners in urging Trump to put Tibet and human rights on the agenda during Xi visit
The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) joined Tibetans, Tibet supporters, rights groups and members of the U.S. Congress in a coordinated campaign calling for Tibet and human rights to be prioriti...
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 26/09/2026
Tsewang Dorji Jeshong (TPI) examines how border villages, dams, roads, railways, & airports across Tibet are strengthening Beijing’s strategic reach along the India–Tibet border. www.firstpost.com/opinion/chin... #borderization
Xi Jinping waves while wearing a white khata ceremonial scarf, with #Tibetan dancers holding long white scarves behind him during celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua via AP)
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 26/09/2026
Tencho Gyatso's point deserves more airtime than it will get in 2026: repression of #Tibetans increasingly reaches beyond China through technology & #surveillance, including deep into the US.
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Greg @jamyang.net · 24/09/2026
Next week: @c4ads.org *Monitoring the Frontier* on China's #surveillance in Tibet, the Uyghur region, Inner Mongolia, & Hong Kong, and my new Tibet Watch piece on UAVs in Tibet. Sanctioned firms' kit still reaches police via domestic distributors. Turquoise Roof's previous report on this 👇
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China’s digital repression model in Tibet
Recent procurement documents reveal that a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Poli...
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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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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 23/09/2026
Important from @diaahadid.bsky.social & Mamita Bhandari: the Tibet–Nepal disaster exposes a bigger Himalayan risk: #hydropower built basin by basin without fully accounting for cascading climate hazards. www.nprillinois.org/2026-09-23/i...
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Is Nepal's flood a harbinger of what's to come in the Himalayas?
Building dams and hydropower plants in the Himalayas holds great promise for providing electricity. In the wake of the Nepal disaster, experts are asking about the risks of such construction.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
#Tibetans and #Burmese on the same platform in #Paris. Two communities that know *exactly* what Beijing's reach looks like — from Lhasa to the #Myanmar borderlands. Good to see this coalition take shape! 1 Oct, 17:00 CET. #whatishappeninginmyanmar
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Hong Kong Watch @hongkongwatch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yesterday, we launched an explosive report at @c4ads.org in Washington, DC, revealing how sanctions loopholes have allowed 🇺🇸 investment to flow to 🇨🇳 military companies. www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/20...
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C4ADS @c4ads.org · 23/09/2026
Uyghur Rights Monitor mapped 5 surveillance platforms — iTap, Micro-Police, Foundation Work Assistant, Clean Net Guard, IJOP — turning routine checks into predictive policing in the Uyghur region. C4ADS supported this analysis via mentorship, OSINT training, & data. Read 👇 buff.ly/DTGjCxq
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The Architecture of Digital Mass Surveillance in East Turkestan - Uyghur Rights Monitor
Ablet Turdi and Erk Altay EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Chinese government has built an integrated digital surveillance apparatus in East Turkestan (officially called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) as…
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 25/09/2026
Rare reporting from inside Tibet: @nieuws.nos.nl correspondent Laura van Megen travels through #Tibetan regions largely closed to foreign journalists, documenting what remains of centuries-old Tibetan culture amid Xi Jinping’s intensifying assimilation policies www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-C... (EN)
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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
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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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 23/09/2026
Richard Gere WSJ OpEd: @anthropic.com uncovered a Beijing-aligned operation using AI to investigate #Tibetan & other diaspora groups abroad, including @savetibet.bsky.social. AI is becoming infrastructure for #transnationalrepression. www.wsj.com/opinion/beij...
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Opinion | Beijing Turns AI Against Tibetans Worldwide
Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
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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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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 25/09/2026
A few months ago, the Chinese government imposed the Ethnic Unity Law across China, seriously threatening the country's diversity and repressing minorities such as Tibetans. We must not shy away from calling out the human rights abuses faced by our Tibetan friends.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 25/09/2026
Rare reporting from inside Tibet: @nieuws.nos.nl correspondent Laura van Megen travels through #Tibetan regions largely closed to foreign journalists, documenting what remains of centuries-old Tibetan culture amid Xi Jinping’s intensifying assimilation policies www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-C... (EN)
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Reizen door Tibetaans gebied: onderdrukking en China's honger naar grondstoffen
YouTube video by NOS
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ICIJ @icij.org · 24/09/2026
Join us for "Inside #ChinaCapital"! On Sept. 29 at 12 p.m. ET, ICIJ reporter Scilla Alecci and Bradley C. Parks, executive director of AidData at William & Mary, will discuss the global implications of ICBC’s lending practices in a live Zoom panel. Sign up: buff.ly/ekEaigh
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Greg @jamyang.net · 22/09/2026
Team Cymru says it found 10,000+ “transfer stations” masking Chinese access to Western frontier #AI models, bypassing regional blocks, & potentially enabling #distillation. Striking look at China's shadow AI infrastructure. teamcymru-01.webflow.io/post/llm-gat...
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LLM Gateways: How They Enable Frontier Model Abuse
Team Cymru uncovered 10,800+ self-hosted LLM gateways relaying pooled credentials to frontier models like Claude, enabling model distillation and abuse.
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International Campaign for Tibet @savetibet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A recent report from Anthropic makes it clear: Artificial Intelligence is extending China’s oppressive reach to previously protected spaces around the world. Read lifelong #Tibet advocate Richard Gere’s analysis of the report and what it means for Tibetans worldwide: www.wsj.com/opinion/beij...
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Opinion | Beijing Turns AI Against Tibetans Worldwide
Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 23/09/2026
What comes after the Tibet–Nepal disaster? Stuart Dunning argues we can’t reliably predict which of hundreds of thousands of unstable Himalayan slopes will fail. The priority: cross-border seismic monitoring, faster warnings, & communities that trust them indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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Building trust is key in warnings on melting glaciers
Rock-ice avalanches could originate from many hundreds of thousands of steep, rapidly deglaciating slopes with thawing permafrost in the Himalaya.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
CTA Security Minister Kunga Tashi is urging #Tibetans facing Chinese #transnationalrepression to report incidents to the Security Department. Documenting cases, he says, will allow CTA to raise them directly with relevant governments & pursue action. phayul.com/tibetans-tra...
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Tibetans travelling to Tibet must not be tool for propaganda: Security Minister warns in Parliament - Phayul
Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow at Cambridge: a fascinating #MIASU forum on war, peace, & minority politics across Inner Asia. Tibet, Xinjiang, China’s frontier governance feature alongside #Mongolia, Russia and the Himalayan borderlands, with @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, Hildegard Diemberger & others:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 13/01/2026
Myanmar’s digital resistance is adapting under military repression. New research shows how activists organise, fundraise, and survive online, but they urgently need allies: donors, governments, and tech platforms with leverage. secdev-foundation.org/k4dm-mdr-dig... #whatishappeninginmyanmar
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Myanmar’s Digital Resistance: Five Studies of Ingenuity Under Repression - The SecDev Foundation
Even as the military tries to control online space, five studies map how the resistance is adapting its organizing, fundraising and survival.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
#Tibetans and #Burmese on the same platform in #Paris. Two communities that know *exactly* what Beijing's reach looks like — from Lhasa to the #Myanmar borderlands. Good to see this coalition take shape! 1 Oct, 17:00 CET. #whatishappeninginmyanmar
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gift link! (Yes, Richard Gere the actor.) WSJ Opinion: Beijing Turns AI Against Tibetans Worldwide By Richard Gere Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
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Opinion | Beijing Turns AI Against Tibetans Worldwide
Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
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Tibetan Review @tibetanreview.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tibetans protested against Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C. They were met by a large pro-Beijing Chinese crowd that disrupted the protest. The crowd not only physically attacked the protesters but also played loud music to drown out their slogans. www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-supp...
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Chinese supporters attack Tibetan, other protesters as President Xi lands in US for state visit - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Sep24’26) – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington, DC, on Sep 23 evening for a three-day state visit with a prior warning that the US should not cross four “red lines”...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/09/2026
US President Donald Trump is welcoming Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Washington, DC. Both leaders’ attacks on human rights have a global impact. Human rights are non-negotiable. World leaders should reject Xi and Trump’s attack on human rights.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
CTA Security Minister Kunga Tashi is urging #Tibetans facing Chinese #transnationalrepression to report incidents to the Security Department. Documenting cases, he says, will allow CTA to raise them directly with relevant governments & pursue action. phayul.com/tibetans-tra...
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Tibetans travelling to Tibet must not be tool for propaganda: Security Minister warns in Parliament - Phayul
Phayul.com is one of the most popular & successful Tibetan news website in English. With daily readers touching over 12,500 and still growing. It features news and views on Tibet.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow at Cambridge: a fascinating #MIASU forum on war, peace, & minority politics across Inner Asia. Tibet, Xinjiang, China’s frontier governance feature alongside #Mongolia, Russia and the Himalayan borderlands, with @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, Hildegard Diemberger & others:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 24/09/2026
India’s answer to China’s Medog mega-dam advances: Arunachal has formed a high-level committee to push the contested Upper Siang survey, while officials promote the project to local communities whose land could be submerged or transformed by the dam. www.newindianexpress.com/india/2026/S...
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Arunachal Cabinet approves high-level panel to oversee survey for 11,000 MW Upper Siang project
GUWAHATI: The Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday passed a resolution approving the constitution of an Empowered High-Level Committee to guide and coordinate
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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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International Campaign for Tibet @savetibet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Beijing turns AI against Tibetans worldwide, writes ICT Chairman Richard Gere in the @WSJ “For decades, China’s repression of Tibetans has involved controlling physical space: monasteries, schools, communities… AI threatens to undermine the protection gained from going abroad,” Gere says.
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 23/09/2026
Important from @diaahadid.bsky.social & Mamita Bhandari: the Tibet–Nepal disaster exposes a bigger Himalayan risk: #hydropower built basin by basin without fully accounting for cascading climate hazards. www.nprillinois.org/2026-09-23/i...
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Is Nepal's flood a harbinger of what's to come in the Himalayas?
Building dams and hydropower plants in the Himalayas holds great promise for providing electricity. In the wake of the Nepal disaster, experts are asking about the risks of such construction.
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Tibetan Review @tibetanreview.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
China’s new Tibet Party chief, Hu Changsheng, has vowed to fully and resolutely implement Beijing’s key policies in #Tibet, including promoting ethnic unity, opposing separatism, and strengthening the management of religious affairs. #China www.tibetanreview.net/chinas-new-t...
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China’s new Tibet Party chief vows to ‘intensify struggle ​against separatism’ etc - Tibetan Review
(TibetanReview.net, Sep23’26) – The new Party chief of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), Mr Hu Changsheng, has on Sep 22 vowed to fully and absolutely implement Beijing’s top policy measures there that i...
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Nicola Macbean @nicolamacbean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A powerful statement from UN experts on how transnational repression violates human rights. More concerted action needed to protect those being targeted. Joint Statement by United Nations Human Rights Experts on Transnational Repression | OHCHR
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