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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on Tuesday at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Fiuggi, Italy. Photo: Reuters

Blinken urges G7 countries to maintain unity in face of China risks

US secretary of state cites Beijing’s economic policies, human rights record and support for Russia in the war against Ukraine.

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Science

Small areas of Tibetan Plateau may have outsize impact on East Asia’s rainfall

16 Oct 2024 - 5:42PMvideocam

Mount Everest

Who first reached Everest’s summit? This boot may help rewrite history

12 Oct 2024 - 6:28AM

Nepal

At just 18, he’s already climbed all the highest peaks on Earth

Nepali teen Nima Rinji Sherpa is no stranger to the world’s high places, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers.

9 Oct 2024 - 2:22PM

Nepali climber Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, atop Mount Makalu in May. Photo: Instagram/nimasherpa_official

Human rights in China

Open Questions | Ethnic minorities expert on China’s treatment of Uygurs, and Han chauvinism

Ethnic minorities expert Barry Sautman gives his take on education, the next Dalai Lama, Han chauvinism and Beijing’s treatment of Uygurs.

23 Sep 2024 - 12:58PMvideocam

Xinjiang

China’s security chief calls for crackdown on separatists in Tibetan areas

Chen Wenqing’s four-day visit comes as security is tightened in sensitive Tibet region ahead of National Day on October 1.

16 Sep 2024 - 9:00AM

US-China relations

US, EU raise alarm over China’s ‘very substantial’ help to Russia in Ukraine war

Beijing’s ‘significant’ exports said to be used on battlefield and given in exchange for Kremlin’s sensitive military technologies.

12 Sep 2024 - 11:00PMvideocam

Ukrainian rescuers try to extinguish a fire following a missile attack in the city of Lviv last week. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the two countries have been at war ever since. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong politics

Hong Kong firms ‘will see US as more difficult, risky’ if trade offices close

Analysts say US bill to close Hong Kong outposts in country has high chance of becoming law, but some shrug off move as ‘highly symbolic’.

12 Sep 2024 - 1:18AMvideocam

US-China relations

‘China week’ at US House puts biotech firms, Hong Kong offices in cross hairs

Most of the scheduled 28 items have bipartisan support and follow efforts to tackle national and economic security threats posed by Beijing.

10 Sep 2024 - 12:46AMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Buddhists urged to obey reincarnation rules as Dalai Lama mulls successor

Top monks and religious experts gather for seminar aimed at making Tibetan Buddhism ‘compatible with socialist society’.

6 Sep 2024 - 12:00PM

Monks and religious experts attend a meeting in Lanzhou, Gansu province on Tuesday about policies and regulations governing the “reincarnation of living Buddhas” in Tibetan Buddhism. Photo: Weibo/琼布活佛

Hong Kong Basic Law

Opinion | Deng Xiaoping and the Tibet factor in ‘one country, two systems’

With hindsight, the one country, two systems framework bears a certain resemblance to a Qianlong policy Deng and others studied in 1957.

4 Sep 2024 - 10:20AMvideocam

Asia travel

History meets modernity against Lhasa’s striking plateau landscape

Amid the well-surveilled streets of Tibet’s main city, a Western traveller discovers an alien cityscape where the past and present collide in a riot of colours and characters

31 Aug 2024 - 11:45AM

14th Dalai Lama

China warns US not to allow ‘separatist activities’ by Dalai Lama

Beijing protests to Washington after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader meets senior American officials in New York.

22 Aug 2024 - 7:50PMvideocam

China and climate change

More than half of Tibetan Plateau’s glaciers will melt by 2100, scientists warn

Researchers said that some areas of the ‘Asian water tower’ will see more than half of their glaciers melting by the end of the century.

20 Aug 2024 - 3:55PMvideocam

Melting glaciers have seen the amount of vegetation on the plateau expanding. Photo: Xinhua

US-China relations

China accuses US National Endowment for Democracy of ‘ideological infiltration’

In new report, Beijing says the NED, sometimes called Washington’s ‘regime-change arm’, supports Taiwan separatists and destabilising forces in Hong Kong.

10 Aug 2024 - 4:40PM

China has published a report on the National Endowment for Democracy aimed at “unmasking” the US-funded organisation. Photo: AP

China’s Communist Party

China’s ethnic policy chief says minority artists must focus on common identity

Pan Yue criticises one unnamed Tibetan-language film for not giving the Communist Party enough credit.

5 Aug 2024 - 9:00PMvideocam

US-China relations

China sanctions US lawmaker who slammed Beijing’s treatment of ethnic Tibetans

McGovern is a co-sponsor of a bill calling for stronger US support for Tibet.

31 Jul 2024 - 10:35PM

Environment

Will Tibet’s ‘Heavenly Lake’ reveal past climate data and clues to the future?

Chinese-led international research team says record-setting drill project at Nam Co could provide ecological information vital to future planning.

19 Jul 2024 - 9:00AM

Crews on a platform on Nam Co in Tibet have drilled to a record depth of 510 metres to extract core samples that could be vital to understanding what the future holds for the region. Photo: Xinhua

Nepal

Trading mushrooms for motorbikes spells change for Nepal’s remote Dolpo

Yarsagumba fungus has boasted incomes in the region and paid for Chinese motorbikes and other mod cons, but will authorities be wise enough to recognise looming potholes on the road to development?

13 Jul 2024 - 8:15AM

US-China relations

US sanctions more Chinese officials over rights in Xinjiang, Tibet

State Department announcement caps week of sharp rebukes over Beijing’s alleged human-rights abuses and support for Russia against Ukraine.

13 Jul 2024 - 5:40AMvideocam

Accidents and disasters in China

Video | Storm traps tourists near China-Nepal border

Heavy rain triggered floods and landslides, washing away road links.

10 Jul 2024 - 5:30PM

Over 130 people, including tourists, were trapped in Tibet on Wednesday. Photo: SCMP

India

India races to build power plants in region claimed by China, adding to tensions

Sources said India plans to build 12 hydropower projects in Arunachal Pradesh, which it says is an integral part of the country, but China claims it is a part of southern Tibet.

9 Jul 2024 - 11:31PM

A road construction site in the Tawang district of India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, almost all of which China insists falls under its sovereignty as “South Tibet”. Photo: AFP

US-China relations

‘There is a limit’: US-China ties may have hit a wall, Chinese scholar warns

‘Fundamental distrust’ must not prevail, or ‘another crisis’ cannot be ruled out, US-China relations expert Da Wei tells Beijing forum.

8 Jul 2024 - 11:00PMvideocam

Human rights in China

‘Only natural’: why China should have a say in choosing next Dalai Lama

Tibetology researchers assert Beijing’s rights on ‘reincarnation of living Buddhas’, blame the Dalai Lama for lack of communication.

30 Jun 2024 - 5:20PM

China-India relations

India to rename 30 places in Tibet as ties with China hit new snag

India’s China policy unlikely to change under Modi’s third term as border issues remain outstanding, analysts note.

22 Jun 2024 - 6:00AMvideocam

An Indian border post near the frontier with China in Khinzemane, in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state. Photo: AFP

China-India relations

US lawmakers meeting Modi after Dalai Lama signals India shift on China: analysts

India, one expert says, has ‘indicated that it is willing to gradually ramp up pressure on issues like Tibet and Taiwan’.

21 Jun 2024 - 6:05AMvideocam

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) poses with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (on his left) and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (on his right). Photo: Twitter/@narendramodi

China’s Communist Party

Xi visits Tibetans and temple in China, calls for ethnic unity

Xi urges provincial leaders to make Qinghai a national clean-energy highland, international ecotourism destination and green export base.

21 Jun 2024 - 5:50AMvideocam

US-China relations

US lawmakers meet Tibet’s Dalai Lama, pressure China on talks

The group, which includes ex-House speaker Nancy Pelosi, says it won’t let China influence the spiritual leader’s choice of successor.

20 Jun 2024 - 3:25AM

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Tibet

A plateau region north-east of the Himalayas, Tibet was incorporated by China in 1950 and currently an autonomous region within China. The conflict between many Tibetans and Chinese government has been nonstop as many demand religious freedom and more human rights.

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22 August, 2024