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Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession.
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Sikyong Holds High-Level Engagements in Washington, D.C., Highlighting PRC Dissemination of Systematic Disinformation – Central Tibetan Administration
Washington D.C.: Recognising the strategic importance of engaging with think tanks specialising in China studies, Sikyong Penpa Tsering undertook a series of high-level interactions on 30 January 2026...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession.
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A Grammy for the @DalaiLama for his audiobook narration 'Meditations' underscores his global reach as influential cultural figure in his 90th birthday year. The album was made in collaboration with sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RISh...
The Dalai Lama wins Grammy Award for “Meditations:The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”
YouTube video by TibetTV
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February 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
A Grammy for the @DalaiLama for his audiobook narration 'Meditations' underscores his global reach as influential cultural figure in his 90th birthday year. The album was made in collaboration with sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, www.youtube.com/watch?v=RISh...
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Tenzin Rabga Tashi, a Tibetan activist & Campaign Lead at @freetibet.org, a London-based advocacy group that has been at the forefront of protests against the mega-embassy, warned that the development risks normalising intimidation of exile communities.
phayul.com/uk-approves-... #surveillance
phayul.com/uk-approves-... #surveillance
UK approves Chinese ‘mega embassy’ in London despite fears of surveillance among exiles - 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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January 20, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Tenzin Rabga Tashi, a Tibetan activist & Campaign Lead at @freetibet.org, a London-based advocacy group that has been at the forefront of protests against the mega-embassy, warned that the development risks normalising intimidation of exile communities.
phayul.com/uk-approves-... #surveillance
phayul.com/uk-approves-... #surveillance
Chair of APPG on #Tibet Chris Law: "The UK govt decision to greenlight the PRC's new diplomatic headquarters at Royal Mint Court is not just a planning failure. It’s a moral capitulation prioritising diplomatic expediency over national security and human rights." www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Approving China’s ‘mega-embassy’ is a capitulation that betrays our values and our security
The UK government’s decision to green-light the People’s Republic of China’s new diplomatic headquarters at Royal Mint Court is not just a planning...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Chair of APPG on #Tibet Chris Law: "The UK govt decision to greenlight the PRC's new diplomatic headquarters at Royal Mint Court is not just a planning failure. It’s a moral capitulation prioritising diplomatic expediency over national security and human rights." www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Lord David Alton on UK approval of #China's mega embassy in London: 'We stand at a very dangerous crossroads' - it's amazing the government would want to be 'so out of step with our allies' to approve plans for a Chinese 'super embassy'.
January 20, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Lord David Alton on UK approval of #China's mega embassy in London: 'We stand at a very dangerous crossroads' - it's amazing the government would want to be 'so out of step with our allies' to approve plans for a Chinese 'super embassy'.
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CDT Quote of the Week:
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!["When confronted by that force constantly threatening to drag us down, we must deliberately exert a countervailing force, lest we be overcome by that downward momentum. [...] Don’t give in to anger, or lower yourself to the level of your opponents, or succumb to defeatism if at first you don’t succeed." - Legal scholar Lao Dongyan, in one of 2025's most notable Chinese essays, offering advice for combatting "political depression"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppd3ypfty6f2rlonrydgsjgj/bafkreibpxznjt5enwcxsn6lgv2w6d3hhjfcmppt56ptuvgdngzdgrkjufy@jpeg)
January 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
CDT Quote of the Week:
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Film review of 'State of Statelessness' by #Tibetan directors: intimate, emotional family dramas telling stories of separation + exile. In 2, the Dalai Lama smiles out from photographs on shrines, a reminder of the precarity of Tibet’s future www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... @theguardian.com
State of Statelessness review – Dalai Lama presides over intimate dramas about Tibetans’ life of exile
Tibetan directors, who all live outside Tibet, deliver a quartet of films that explore the pain of separation and migration
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January 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Film review of 'State of Statelessness' by #Tibetan directors: intimate, emotional family dramas telling stories of separation + exile. In 2, the Dalai Lama smiles out from photographs on shrines, a reminder of the precarity of Tibet’s future www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja... @theguardian.com
'When Faith and Geopolitics Collide' examines the implications for millions of #Tibetans + gives policy recommendations on the geopolitical risks and flashpoints a succession crisis will generate. Further analysis in @turquoiseroof.org report: turquoiseroof.org/sacred-autho... 3/3
Sacred Authority and State Power
China is intensifying its campaign to eliminate the spiritual leader’s influence and control his succession
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January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
'When Faith and Geopolitics Collide' examines the implications for millions of #Tibetans + gives policy recommendations on the geopolitical risks and flashpoints a succession crisis will generate. Further analysis in @turquoiseroof.org report: turquoiseroof.org/sacred-autho... 3/3
Tensions along the LAC and the Himalaya; aggressive economic coercion impacting water security, critical minerals, and cross-border trade; brazen TNR + new domestic challenges within #China will all interact in unpredictable + consequential ways 2/3
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Tensions along the LAC and the Himalaya; aggressive economic coercion impacting water security, critical minerals, and cross-border trade; brazen TNR + new domestic challenges within #China will all interact in unpredictable + consequential ways 2/3
New report from @csis.org : govts urgently need to reexamine their policy frameworks on #Tibet, preparing for the geopolitical, economic, environmental + humanitarian challenges a future Dalai Lama succession will spark www.csis.org/analysis/whe... 1/3
When Faith and Geopolitics Collide
The Dalai Lama is widely revered as an advocate for human rights and nonviolence, but Beijing considers him an existential threat. When the 90-year-old monk passes, a succession crisis will ignite geo...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
New report from @csis.org : govts urgently need to reexamine their policy frameworks on #Tibet, preparing for the geopolitical, economic, environmental + humanitarian challenges a future Dalai Lama succession will spark www.csis.org/analysis/whe... 1/3
"Tibet remains a frontier in more than a geographic sense. It stands at the edge of a political system that does not tolerate difference easily. Until this is addressed Tibet will remain a symbol of how [...] silence replaced self-rule" sundayguardianlive.com/news/how-chi...
How China Silenced Its Frontiers: Tibet and the Death of Promised Autonomy
Tibet is one of the clearest cases of how China’s frontier regions lost the autonomy they were once expected to have. For decades before 1950,
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January 8, 2026 at 8:16 PM
"Tibet remains a frontier in more than a geographic sense. It stands at the edge of a political system that does not tolerate difference easily. Until this is addressed Tibet will remain a symbol of how [...] silence replaced self-rule" sundayguardianlive.com/news/how-chi...
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Buddhist herders in Amdo #Tibet around Kokonor face shrinking grazing land, climate shocks, and market volatility. Rather than seeking control, they integrate modern infrastructure with a Buddhist acceptance of uncertainty, navigating state power through social networks & “directed improvisation”:
The loss of the central role of people in today's complex global systems is the greatest danger of all.
In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.
In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.
In this age of global uncertainty, where in the world can we look for guidance?
The loss of the central role of people in today’s complex global systems is the greatest danger of all. In Kenya and Amdo Tibet, it can be rediscovered.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Buddhist herders in Amdo #Tibet around Kokonor face shrinking grazing land, climate shocks, and market volatility. Rather than seeking control, they integrate modern infrastructure with a Buddhist acceptance of uncertainty, navigating state power through social networks & “directed improvisation”:
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RSF calls on the #UnitedStates government to halt deportation proceedings against Guan Heng, a Chinese national, and grant him asylum. His courageous and award-winning reporting exposed Uyghur detention camps in the Xinjiang region. If deported to China, his life will be put at serious risk.
He risks deportation to China for sharing information about Uyghur detention camps: RSF calls on the US to protect Guan Heng
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the United States government to halt deportation proceedings and grant asylum for Chinese national Guan Heng. Guan risked his life to document and share inform...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:50 AM
RSF calls on the #UnitedStates government to halt deportation proceedings against Guan Heng, a Chinese national, and grant him asylum. His courageous and award-winning reporting exposed Uyghur detention camps in the Xinjiang region. If deported to China, his life will be put at serious risk.
Political theatre of Chinese Panchen ceremony demonstrates China’s priorities in counter-influence campaign against the Dalai Lama. Report: tibetwatch.org/beijing-rehe...
Beijing Rehearses Control of Tibetan Reincarnation
Political theatre of Chinese Panchen ceremony demonstrates China’s priorities in counter-influence campaign against the Dalai Lama.
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December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Political theatre of Chinese Panchen ceremony demonstrates China’s priorities in counter-influence campaign against the Dalai Lama. Report: tibetwatch.org/beijing-rehe...
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Today’s verdict against British citizen Jimmy Lai is more than a legal failure; it is a cruel act of state repression that reverberates across every territory controlled by Beijing, from Lhasa to Urumqi.
We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Jimmy Lai.
#FreeJimmyLai #StandWithHongKong
We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Jimmy Lai.
#FreeJimmyLai #StandWithHongKong
December 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today’s verdict against British citizen Jimmy Lai is more than a legal failure; it is a cruel act of state repression that reverberates across every territory controlled by Beijing, from Lhasa to Urumqi.
We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Jimmy Lai.
#FreeJimmyLai #StandWithHongKong
We stand in unbreakable solidarity with Jimmy Lai.
#FreeJimmyLai #StandWithHongKong
While China complains, a successful conference on the life of the Sixth Dalai Lama - who was born in Tawang - only further fortifies Arunachal Pradesh’s place in India’s Buddhist legacy, says @VijayKranti6 www.tibetanreview.net/first-intl-c... @TibetanReview
First Int’l conference on the 6th Dalai Lama: India’s fitting response to China’s aggression on Arunachal Pradesh - Tibetan Review
OPINION Vijay Kranti* condemns China’s criticism of the first international conference on the Sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet – which was held in Arunachal Pradesh recently – as a baseless justification of ...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
While China complains, a successful conference on the life of the Sixth Dalai Lama - who was born in Tawang - only further fortifies Arunachal Pradesh’s place in India’s Buddhist legacy, says @VijayKranti6 www.tibetanreview.net/first-intl-c... @TibetanReview
Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...
Prominent Buddhist Lama and educator detained; school forced to close
A prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator from Amdo has been detained and ‘disappeared’, and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediatel...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...
'By writing that “they may take our bodies, but they cannot take the mind that refuses to believe in lies,” Shokdung relocates resistance into the moral and intellectual realm' - review by Rinzin Namgyal, FNVA fnvaworld.org/the-division...
The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet’s Peaceful Revolution - fnvaworld.org
Shokdung’s The Division of Heaven and Earth is one of the most intellectually bold and politically provocative pieces of writing to emerge from contemporary Tibet. Written in the tense period after th...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
'By writing that “they may take our bodies, but they cannot take the mind that refuses to believe in lies,” Shokdung relocates resistance into the moral and intellectual realm' - review by Rinzin Namgyal, FNVA fnvaworld.org/the-division...
Inspiring new generations of #Tibetans seeking freedom and political change in his homeland, the Dalai Lama has become a leader for all of us, a moral authority known for his progressive leadership in secular ethics, science + education. 6/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Inspiring new generations of #Tibetans seeking freedom and political change in his homeland, the Dalai Lama has become a leader for all of us, a moral authority known for his progressive leadership in secular ethics, science + education. 6/6
The 14th Dalai Lama has protected #Tibet's identity during the most difficult period in Tibet's history. He has transformed Tibetan Buddhist culture into a secular + spiritual force while becoming the 1st of his lineage to relinquish the role as head of state for democratic governance in exile 5/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The 14th Dalai Lama has protected #Tibet's identity during the most difficult period in Tibet's history. He has transformed Tibetan Buddhist culture into a secular + spiritual force while becoming the 1st of his lineage to relinquish the role as head of state for democratic governance in exile 5/6
The #Nobel award came at a symbolic moment, soon after the fall of the Berlin wall + collapse of communism in Europe. It began a new era of global diplomacy for the Dalai Lama, who travelled for decades meeting Popes, presidents, prime ministers + became a leader for the world 4/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The #Nobel award came at a symbolic moment, soon after the fall of the Berlin wall + collapse of communism in Europe. It began a new era of global diplomacy for the Dalai Lama, who travelled for decades meeting Popes, presidents, prime ministers + became a leader for the world 4/6
Even facing brutal oppression, His Holiness has tirelessly led efforts to engage in dialogue with #China and has never abandoned his commitment to nonviolence 3/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Even facing brutal oppression, His Holiness has tirelessly led efforts to engage in dialogue with #China and has never abandoned his commitment to nonviolence 3/6
The Nobel Committee specifically recognized his Buddhist philosophy founded on reverence for all living things and the concept of universal responsibility, embracing both humanity and nature 2/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Nobel Committee specifically recognized his Buddhist philosophy founded on reverence for all living things and the concept of universal responsibility, embracing both humanity and nature 2/6
Today, 36 years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama received the #NobelPeacePrize in honour of his advocacy of peaceful solutions based on tolerance and mutual respect to preserve Tibet's culture, religion + identity. 1/6
December 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today, 36 years ago, His Holiness the Dalai Lama received the #NobelPeacePrize in honour of his advocacy of peaceful solutions based on tolerance and mutual respect to preserve Tibet's culture, religion + identity. 1/6
Chogtrul Dorje Ten, prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator detained just a few days ago + his vocational school abruptly closed; Tsering Dolma, whose health has deteriorated since being sentenced to eight years in 2022 for her courageous resistance 6/6
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Chogtrul Dorje Ten, prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator detained just a few days ago + his vocational school abruptly closed; Tsering Dolma, whose health has deteriorated since being sentenced to eight years in 2022 for her courageous resistance 6/6