Politics of Tourists Visits Figures in Tibet
On January 10th 2019, at the opening day of the 2nd session of the 11th Tibetan People’s Congress in Lhasa, Chinese officials released an annual report detailing the arrival of 33.68 million tourist to Tibet. The Chinese government refers to the Tibet Autonomous Region…
Trending This Week on Social Media: A Whimsical Image of Tibetans Welcoming Snowfall Brings Back Memories of Tibet’s Winter
On Sunday morning last week, Dharamshala woke up to the snow-shrouded valley. An incessant rainfall throughout the previous night culminated into fresh snowfall reaching down foothills of upper Dharamshala. Incidentally, a picture of six Tibetans in Chupa posing bare-chested in…
Ignoring climate change in the Himalayas
The Third Pole.net, Climate change has already made the mountain communities in the Tibetan Plateau and the Nepali villages in the west that border it very vulnerable, and new infrastructure adds to the risk. This is the second part in…
From Tibetans to Americans, no one is safe from China’s arbitrary enforcement of local laws
By Kunchok Dolma Yaklha, Special Appointee for Human Rights Last week the U.S. State Department issued an updated travel advisory for China, warning American citizens about the “arbitrary enforcement of local laws” there, including the “exit bans” which bar individuals from leaving…