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‘Deep historical mistrust means China is not a natural ally of India’

(TibetanReview.net, Sep14’25) – India’s “natural alliance” is not with China, given the deep historical mistrust between the two countries which cannot disappear in a space of just a few months, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghu Rajan has...

Dalai Lama wishes success for Nepal’s interim Prime Minister

(TibetanReview.net, Sep13’25) – The Dalai Lama has on Sep 13 written to former Chief Justice of Nepal Sushila Karki, congratulating her on being appointed Prime Minister of Nepal. The appointment is for an interim period pending new elections next...

Securing Tibet’s future: Re-elect the proven leader, Sikyong Penpa Tsering

OPINION Ahead of the expected start of the process for the exile Tibetan elections next month, Prof Nawang Phuntsog* presents his case for the re-election of the incumbent Sikyong, Mr Penpa Tsering, for a second term. Introduction As the...

Preservation of ancient Tibetan manuscripts celebrated in Mongolia

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’25) – Representatives from the US Embassy, the National Library of Mongolia (NLM), and the Arizona-based nonprofit Asian Legacy Library (ALL) gathered in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar on Sep 12 to celebrate the successful completion of a three-year project...

Three weeks on, India yet to see China’s promised lifting of curbs on rare earth exports

(TibetanReview.net, Sep12’25) – Even as India cites trust deficit as the main impediment to fully normalizing bilateral ties with China, the latter is yet to deliver on a promise it made in New Delhi three weeks ago to resume...

Dalai Lama happy to continue to serve Buddha dharma in an era of decline, change

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – Noting that we are living in an era of decline, the Dalai Lama has said Sep 10 that he still has a positive role to play for the benefit of humanity and reiterated his resolve to...

Citing lack of progress, UN rights chief calls situation in Tibet, East Turkestan a priority

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – The UN’s top human rights official has on Sep 8 bemoaned the fact that there has been no progress in the human rights situation in Tibet and East Turkestan (Xinjiang) despite his ongoing engagement with the...

Galwan Valley filming allowed on assurance not to defame China?

(TibetanReview.net, Sep11’25) – A war action drama, Battle of Galwan, based on the mid-2020 fighting between Indian and Chinese troops on Ladakh’s Galwan Valley border may have been shelved but allowed to be filmed after assurance that China would...

Super-surveillance state China largely the work of US tech companies – AP investigation

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’25) – US tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state over the past quarter century, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an investigation by the Associated...

Legislative revisions aim to make PRC a monolingual monolith

(TibetanReview.net, Sep10’25) – China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), or parliament, has reviewed two legislative proposals on Sep 8 to ramp up a drive to promote further ethnic integration through the use of standard Chinese – both the spoken and...