By Khedroob Thondup When the Republic of China (ROC) government fled to Taiwan in 1949, it carried with it the constitutional claim to rule all of China—including Tibet and Mongolia. For decades, this claim was not only symbolic but...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 17 Sept: Unverified claims that Chinese President Xi Jinping suffered a stroke during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi have circulated on popular social media platform X, with Wanjun Xie, chairman of the China...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 16 Sept: The second session of the 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (TPiE) opened in Dharamshala on Wednesday, launching nine days of departmental oversight and deliberations on Beijing’s escalating assimilation policies in occupied Tibet. Scheduled to run...

By Khedroob Thondup For decades, Tibetans in exile have lived with the knowledge that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks not only to control our homeland but also to police our voices abroad. I have experienced this firsthand. In...

By Khedroob Thondup Sixty-seven years of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in Tibet has produced not trust, but alienation. The CCP’s occupation has been marked by broken promises, suppression of culture, and systematic efforts to erase Tibetan identity. For...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 15 Sept: The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) on Monday lobbied around 45 offices of members of the US House of Representatives and Senate, urging Washington to raise the Tibet issue at the upcoming meeting between...

By Khedroob Thondup When historians weigh the legacies of China’s rulers, Mao Zedong inevitably looms as the architect of both revolutionary triumph and catastrophic suffering. Yet in the decades after Mao, China’s leadership sought to avoid repeating his excesses...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 14 Sept: What began with monks taking to the streets of Lhasa in 1987 would soon become more than a series of protests, as photographs, medical records and eyewitness accounts carried the events beyond occupied...

By Khedroob Thondup Introduction. India’s relationship with China is one of the most consequential in Asia, shaping the future of regional security, trade, and diplomacy. Yet trust between the two nations has remained elusive. From the 1962 war to...

By Tenzin Chokyi DHARAMSALA, 11 Sept: Over 200 members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), representing 20 regional chapters across India, staged a “Chalo Delhi” demonstration in the national capital on Friday to protest Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming...