NEWS: Today, I joined a bipartisan Congressional delegation to meet with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India. In our meeting, we reaffirmed our strong & unwavering commitment to the people of Tibet.

Tibetan monks & nuns are a big source of insecurity for the #CCP regime. They fear them for their loyalty, reverence and unshakeable belief in the #DalaiLama, & Tibetan Buddhism, & perceive them as a unifying force for common #Tibetans.

This article I wrote for the The Diplomat sometime ago discusses the #CCP regime's insecurity concerning Tibetan monks & nuns. Xi Jinping always met monks/nuns during his visits to Tibet. This time is no different in Amdo @Tsongkha Monas The Diplomat thediplomat.com/2021/03/why-th…

The #Chinese government forcefully shut down Gangjong Sherig Norbu School, a highly reputed 30-year-old Tibetan private school in Golog, Qinghai Province. A heartbreaking video from Tibet shows students in tears at the closing ceremony held earlier this morning.

近日，青海省果洛州吉美坚赞民族职业学校被停办。于1994年由深孚民望的拉加寺高僧吉美坚赞创办的青海省第一所福利学校，以教授藏族传统文化、现代文化和科学知识为主，被誉为“是藏区学子最向往的学校之一”，男女学生主要来自青海、四川、甘肃、西藏、内蒙等地。从视频可见师生悲伤告别场面。/1 #藏语

Colonial #China forcefully closes down a Tibetan school in Golog, Amdo, #Tibet.

Wang Junzheng the #CCP's Party Secretary in the #Tibet Autonomous Region visited #Mongolia & #SouthKorea (Sept 22-28). Both countries have a considerable percentage of Buddhist population In July, the King of #Bhutan Jigme KNW visited Mongolia. Religious(Buddhist) diplomacy?

First my serious objections to a scholar from South Africa calling #Tibet Xizang! She is using this term used by Chinese to rename a country that has been in existence and has a distinct culture and language for thousands of years! Second, when will people like Lloyd Kuveya

#LAC #IndiaChinaBorderRow #IndiaChina #Ladakh

Can the political parties stop blaming each other and work collectively in the name of value for human (and animal) lives and the country's image?! #leavepoliticsbehindforonce #Airpollution #Delhi #India #banfirecrackerswithstrictestlaws AAP BJP Congress

Volkswagen had always prioritized cutthroat profit over humanity, no exception in #Xinjiang. Good that Karma and great advocacy pushed them out.

" China, too, has used renaming as a tool of imperial erasure, particularly in Tibet, where it has sought to replace the globally recognized name “Tibet” with “Xizang." A good read on China's colonial strategy of renaming. blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institut…

རྒྱ་ནག་གི་གསང་མྱུལ་བས་ Stanford གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་དུ་གསང་མྱུལ་གྱི་ལས་དོན་སྤེལ་བཞིན་པ་གསལ་འདོན། CCP Agent Posed as Stanford Student for Years in Espionage Operation, Targeted AI Researchers #China #espionage #stanford #institute vot.org/%e0%bd%a2%e0%b…

India's High Commissioner to the UK shows Yalda Hakim a photo which he claims shows Pakistani military standing behind "a sanctioned terrorist under the American sanctions regime" called Hafiz Abdul Rauf. Sky News cannot verify the photo. 📺 Sky 501 & YouTube

Speaking next Friday on the panel ' From Dharamshala to Beijing: The Diplomatic Calculus of the Dalai Lama's Successor, at IIC, organized Organisation for Research on China & Asia (ORCA) & 108 Peace Institute.