New facilities near Golmud in Qinghai Province suggest an expansion of the PLARF's long-range conventional and nuclear strike capabilities, with major implications for India, Taiwan, and the U.S. 

As China pursues clean energy, Tibet has emerged as a site for extractive mining and an unsustainable spree of dam building. 

A cultural center in the U.S. state demonstrates how the authority of Tibet’s spiritual leader has gained new forms of strength in exile. 

Xi’s visit to the TAR was about China’s external relations – and especially India – as much as it was about domestic political priorities.

A Bangkok gallery was last month forced to remove materials about Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong from an exhibition about global authoritarianism.

It’s not just the new mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River. For years, Tibetans who draw attention to environmental damage have faced detention and lengthy jail sentences.

The region around Medog, the site of a new mega-dam, is one of the last strongholds of Tibetan cultural and ecological integrity.

With Beijing eager to control the Tibetan centuries-old reincarnation process, a spiritual question has become fused to a complex geopolitical conflict.

Beijing's discriminatory passport policies are part of a systematic effort to control Tibetan spiritual and cultural identity through mobility restrictions. 

There is a veritable cottage industry of cultural production related to the Gesar epic.

For China, Sinicizing Tibet’s next generation through boarding schools is the ultimate strategy for solidifying its control over the region.

Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. Many of those languages are at risk of extinction. 

The CCP’s religious and cultural repression on the Tibetan Plateau is also feeding an ecological crisis. The response from the world has been a deafening silence. 

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors.

The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China’s apathy.

Kashmir's geographical continuity with Central Asia and Tibet has been a defining feature of its historical importance. 

China has offered no explanation why it halted cross-border marriages between Nepali and Tibetan people living in border villages like Olangchung Gola.

Tsowo Tsering says sand mining is disrupting his community and endangers the international water supply. His supporters fear he risks jail for speaking out online.

Nepal’s Department of Hydrology and Meteorology claims that China has been withholding vital information on glacial lakes under its control in Tibet.