Tibetan Review
China makes clear it disapproves of Western aid projects, influence in Nepal
(TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – China has on Jun 15 sought to drive home to visiting Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal the point that the West, especially the United States, should not be trusted whereas “good neighbour” China is always there...
Robert Thurman, top Buddhist scholar who espoused Tibetan culture, cause
(Aug 3, 1941 – Jun 16, 2026) OBITUARY (TibetanReview.net, Jun18’26) – Professor Robert AF Thurman, the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and who went on to become an...
US House committee chair cosponsors Tibet genocide bill
(TibetanReview.net, Jun17’26) – Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the Select Committee on China, US House of Representatives, has on Jun 15 cosponsored the Tibet Atrocities Determination Act introduced earlier on Jun 2 by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Select...
Baltic state lawmakers call for joint EU action on China’s assault on Tibetan language
(TibetanReview.net, Jun17’26) – Members of parliament from the three Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania issued a joint statement calling on the international community to renew and elevate its support for Tibetan freedom ahead of the coming into...
Mongolia in new history endorses Beijing’s ‘One China’ Tibet policy
(TibetanReview.net, Jun16’26) – Foreign countries that enjoy normal diplomatic ties with China today have to pay a kind of tribute to Beijing: recognize Taiwan as part of China under the latter’s One China policy and declare it as well...
After rebuff from the West, China now establishing Confucius Institutes in Tibet
(TibetanReview.net, Jun16’26) – Confucianism was violently suppressed during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Mao Zedong viewed Confucian traditions as oppressive tools of feudalism that promoted strict obedience to authority and hindered the mass revolutions necessary for modern communism. But now,...
China reports completion of first large-scale hydropower station on main stream of Yarlung Tsangpo
(TibetanReview.net, Jun15’26) – China has formally completed on Jun 14 the first large-scale hydropower station on the main stream of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, following the conclusion of its final acceptance check. An acceptance check is the...
Independent Tibet campaigner who said ‘No’ to His Holiness is no more
OBITUARY (TibetanReview.net, Jun14’26) – Mr Lhasang Tsering, one of the best-known faces of the campaign for an independent Tibet, besides being a writer, poet, and journalist, including as a former editor of Tibetan Review, has passed away at the...
Tibetan Sikyong briefs German parliament’s top rights official, urges joint effort on China front at Uyghurs meet
(TibetanReview.net, Jun13’26) – The Sikyong (executive head) of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), based in Dharamshala, India, has met with the Chairman of Germany’s Parliamentary Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief and also taken part in the opening...
Indian Ambassador’s Tibet visit seen as uptick in Sino-India ties
(TibetanReview.net, Jun13’26) – India’s new ambassador to China has paid his first visit to Tibet in what is seen as the latest sign of thawing relations between the two Asian giants. The two countries became neighbours only since the...











