[China's Cultural Genocide and Sinicization: Uyghurs and Tibet - Part 2 out of 2]
Tibetians forced to worship Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong
It was reported that in December 2018 that tibetians were forced to “clean up” images of the Dalai Lama in their homes, Buddhist temples and monasteries and replace them with portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong.
As the pressure increases, PRC threatens to cut off some families’ subsidies if they don’t comply. In certain areas, officials even go house to house to check that the photos of Xi and Mao are on the altar.
Source:
https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portraits-xi-jinping-dalai-lama
https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/chinese-government-orders-tibetans-worship-xi-jinping-and-party-leaders
#partyworship #tibet #chinapower #sinicization #chinazi
Tibetians forced to worship Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong
It was reported that in December 2018 that tibetians were forced to “clean up” images of the Dalai Lama in their homes, Buddhist temples and monasteries and replace them with portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong.
As the pressure increases, PRC threatens to cut off some families’ subsidies if they don’t comply. In certain areas, officials even go house to house to check that the photos of Xi and Mao are on the altar.
Source:
https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portraits-xi-jinping-dalai-lama
https://freetibet.org/news-media/na/chinese-government-orders-tibetans-worship-xi-jinping-and-party-leaders
#partyworship #tibet #chinapower #sinicization #chinazi
The Observers - France 24
Tibetans ordered to replace Dalai Lama portraits with Chinese party leaders or risk losing aid
Some families in Tibet are being forced to replace portraits of the Dalai Lamai with those of President Xi Jinping of China in order to continue receiving government aid, as authorities clamp down on efforts to assimilate minorities.
#ChinaInfluence #BoycottChina
Media expect President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence to play "Good Cop, Bad Cop" game with China
After Vice President Mike Pence's tough speech on China policies in Oct 2018 (video HERE) at Hudson Institute, he will give a formal speech again tonight (24 Oct, HKT 11:00pm) at the Wilson Center. The speech has drawn high levels of attention from political commentators on US-China Relations.
Nikkei Asian Review expects Pence’s speech tonight will emphasize the tough stance of the Trump’s Administration on Chinese policies. It is also predicted that Pence will talk about topics that are linked to core intersts and are highly-sensitive to China, including human rights in #Tibet, #Xinjiang, #Taiwan, #HongKongProtests, #NBABoycott, and #HuaweiBan.
Bloomberg quoted from the international consultant Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC that Pence will play the role of** “Bad Cop” to criticize China’s human rights problem** and let Donald Trump to be the “Good Cop” to clear up the obstacles for the US-China Trade Deal. Director of Policy Research Isaac Boltansky wrote, “Given both the fundamentals and political realities, we expect Vice President Pence to adopt a hawkish and defensive tone.” and the “tensions between China and the United States have expanded beyond the tariff tit-for-tat in recent weeks", with the US blacklisting 8 Chinese companies, restricting granting visa to Chinese officials, and considering imposing restrictions on funds transfer of enterprises.
According to various reports, Pence had always focused on freedom, democracy, and human rights in China when compared to Trump. He had also urged the European countries to boycott Chinese telecommunications company Huawei during his visit in Sep 2019.
Excerpt : https://hk.news.appledaily.com/china/realtime/article/20191024/60188511
Media expect President Donald Trump & Vice President Mike Pence to play "Good Cop, Bad Cop" game with China
After Vice President Mike Pence's tough speech on China policies in Oct 2018 (video HERE) at Hudson Institute, he will give a formal speech again tonight (24 Oct, HKT 11:00pm) at the Wilson Center. The speech has drawn high levels of attention from political commentators on US-China Relations.
Nikkei Asian Review expects Pence’s speech tonight will emphasize the tough stance of the Trump’s Administration on Chinese policies. It is also predicted that Pence will talk about topics that are linked to core intersts and are highly-sensitive to China, including human rights in #Tibet, #Xinjiang, #Taiwan, #HongKongProtests, #NBABoycott, and #HuaweiBan.
Bloomberg quoted from the international consultant Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC that Pence will play the role of** “Bad Cop” to criticize China’s human rights problem** and let Donald Trump to be the “Good Cop” to clear up the obstacles for the US-China Trade Deal. Director of Policy Research Isaac Boltansky wrote, “Given both the fundamentals and political realities, we expect Vice President Pence to adopt a hawkish and defensive tone.” and the “tensions between China and the United States have expanded beyond the tariff tit-for-tat in recent weeks", with the US blacklisting 8 Chinese companies, restricting granting visa to Chinese officials, and considering imposing restrictions on funds transfer of enterprises.
According to various reports, Pence had always focused on freedom, democracy, and human rights in China when compared to Trump. He had also urged the European countries to boycott Chinese telecommunications company Huawei during his visit in Sep 2019.
Excerpt : https://hk.news.appledaily.com/china/realtime/article/20191024/60188511
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Vice President Mike Pence's China Speech at Hudson Institute
Pence accused China of "meddling in America's democracy," in a wide-ranging speech. He also slammed China's militarization of contested areas in the South and East China Sea, its practice of "debt diplomacy" in developing countries, and efforts to convince…
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Prague, Taipei ink sister deal in snub to Beijing
(14-Jan) Prague mayor Zdenek Hrib canceled a twinning agreement with Beijing in October and hailed a new partnership with Taipei on 13th Jan (Monday) because of "shared democratic values, respect for fundamental human rights and cultural freedoms" between the two cities. Hrib condemned China as an "unreliable partner" in an interview. He also stated that China was "full of resentment", which, in his opinion, #Czech should not sign an agreement with a country against the independence of #Tibet and Taiwan.
Beijing considers Taiwan as part of its territory; the sister deal between Prague and Taipei might be a deterioration of the Czech-Chinese relations. On the other hand, the Czech President Milos Zeman wants closer ties with China and bow to China on many fronts.
Source: Channel News Asia
https://bit.ly/2Ggu3iE
#Prague #Taiwan #Beijing
Prague, Taipei ink sister deal in snub to Beijing
(14-Jan) Prague mayor Zdenek Hrib canceled a twinning agreement with Beijing in October and hailed a new partnership with Taipei on 13th Jan (Monday) because of "shared democratic values, respect for fundamental human rights and cultural freedoms" between the two cities. Hrib condemned China as an "unreliable partner" in an interview. He also stated that China was "full of resentment", which, in his opinion, #Czech should not sign an agreement with a country against the independence of #Tibet and Taiwan.
Beijing considers Taiwan as part of its territory; the sister deal between Prague and Taipei might be a deterioration of the Czech-Chinese relations. On the other hand, the Czech President Milos Zeman wants closer ties with China and bow to China on many fronts.
Source: Channel News Asia
https://bit.ly/2Ggu3iE
#Prague #Taiwan #Beijing
CNA
Prague, Taipei ink sister deal in snub to Beijing
Prague and Taipei signed a partnership agreement on Monday (Jan 13) in an apparent snub to Beijing after the Czech capital dropped it as a sister ...
Disputes about mask donation between China and Japan
@AntiC...
[To Taiwanese]
The story that Japan donated a million masks was a piece of fake news orchestrated by Chengdu!
Japanese media interviewed the distributor itoyokado, who publicly said they sent the masks because they received an order from Chengdu, but no one mentioned it was a donation!
#WuhanPneumonia #China #Garbage #InformationWarfare #Coronavirus #Taiwan #CCP #HongKong #ConcentrationCamp #Uyghur #Tibet @laichinan
google.co.jp/amp/s/rocketne...
Source: Twitter
#Japan #MaskDonation #Cheungdu
@AntiC...
[To Taiwanese]
The story that Japan donated a million masks was a piece of fake news orchestrated by Chengdu!
Japanese media interviewed the distributor itoyokado, who publicly said they sent the masks because they received an order from Chengdu, but no one mentioned it was a donation!
#WuhanPneumonia #China #Garbage #InformationWarfare #Coronavirus #Taiwan #CCP #HongKong #ConcentrationCamp #Uyghur #Tibet @laichinan
google.co.jp/amp/s/rocketne...
Source: Twitter
#Japan #MaskDonation #Cheungdu
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U.S. House of Representatives Passes McGovern Bill to Hold China Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
(28 Jan) A bill proposed by U.S. Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, to update the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 has already passed the House 392 to 22 and is waiting for a vote in the Senate. The bill aims to punish Chinese officials who intervene in the reincarnation and succession of future Dalai Lamas through the Global Magnitsky Act. No new Chinese consulate will be allowed in the United States until a U.S. consulate is allowed in Lhasa, capital of Tibet. The State Department Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues will be given greater authority and resources to strengthen the Tibetan community and promote democracy. McGovern emphasized that the U.S. would not sacrifice Tibetan people’s human rights for the U.S.-China relationship.
Source: U.S. House of Representatives
https://bit.ly/36ZmGqu
#Tibet #DalaiLama #MagnitskyAct #HumanRights #Democracy
U.S. House of Representatives Passes McGovern Bill to Hold China Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
(28 Jan) A bill proposed by U.S. Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, to update the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002 has already passed the House 392 to 22 and is waiting for a vote in the Senate. The bill aims to punish Chinese officials who intervene in the reincarnation and succession of future Dalai Lamas through the Global Magnitsky Act. No new Chinese consulate will be allowed in the United States until a U.S. consulate is allowed in Lhasa, capital of Tibet. The State Department Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues will be given greater authority and resources to strengthen the Tibetan community and promote democracy. McGovern emphasized that the U.S. would not sacrifice Tibetan people’s human rights for the U.S.-China relationship.
Source: U.S. House of Representatives
https://bit.ly/36ZmGqu
#Tibet #DalaiLama #MagnitskyAct #HumanRights #Democracy
Congressman Jim McGovern
U.S. House of Representatives Passes McGovern Bill to Hold China Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Tibet
On the House Floor, McGovern says his bill “reaffirms America’s commitment to the idea that human rights matter.”
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Student known as vocal critic of China faces expulsion from Australian university
//An Australian university with close links to China is taking disciplinary action, including possible expulsion, against a student known for his criticism of Beijing, in a case that has triggered a free-speech debate and renewed scrutiny of colleges' reliance on Chinese students.
//The University of Queensland, last week sent philosophy student Drew Pavlou a 186-page dossier detailing 11 allegations against him, including that he failed to pay for a pen at a campus art shop and damaged the university’s reputation by condemning police attacks on student protesters in Hong Kong in November.
//The disciplinary action alleges he ridiculed, satirized and mocked the university’s relationship with China, including posing in a hazmat suit outside the college’s Confucius Institute
//Pavlou, who has criticized China’s repression of its Uighur and Tibetan minorities and supported Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters.
//China’s consul general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, who is also an adjunct professor at the university, accused the democracy activists of “anti-China separatist activities” and praised the counterprotesters.
//Pavlou’s activities helped him get elected to the university’s governing senate, giving him an official platform to increase his critiques of what he said were restrictions on free speech out of deference to the communist nation.
//The University of Queensland’s website states that it has “more student mobility, research collaborations, and commercialization partnerships with China than with almost any other country.”
//A university spokeswoman said Pavlou would not be penalized for airing his political beliefs, but the university expected students to comply with policies that reflect its values and community expectations.
//Restrictions set up in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic have crippled Australia’s universities, which rely on full-fee-paying Chinese students.
//“He is responsible for making a lot of powerful people uncomfortable and the powerful need to understand that will occur.”
Full Article: Washington Post, (16-Apr)
#Australia #FreedomOfSpeech #Tibet #SharpPower #Censorship #Beijing #Pavlou #UniversityOfQueensland #Uighur
Student known as vocal critic of China faces expulsion from Australian university
//An Australian university with close links to China is taking disciplinary action, including possible expulsion, against a student known for his criticism of Beijing, in a case that has triggered a free-speech debate and renewed scrutiny of colleges' reliance on Chinese students.
//The University of Queensland, last week sent philosophy student Drew Pavlou a 186-page dossier detailing 11 allegations against him, including that he failed to pay for a pen at a campus art shop and damaged the university’s reputation by condemning police attacks on student protesters in Hong Kong in November.
//The disciplinary action alleges he ridiculed, satirized and mocked the university’s relationship with China, including posing in a hazmat suit outside the college’s Confucius Institute
//Pavlou, who has criticized China’s repression of its Uighur and Tibetan minorities and supported Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters.
//China’s consul general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, who is also an adjunct professor at the university, accused the democracy activists of “anti-China separatist activities” and praised the counterprotesters.
//Pavlou’s activities helped him get elected to the university’s governing senate, giving him an official platform to increase his critiques of what he said were restrictions on free speech out of deference to the communist nation.
//The University of Queensland’s website states that it has “more student mobility, research collaborations, and commercialization partnerships with China than with almost any other country.”
//A university spokeswoman said Pavlou would not be penalized for airing his political beliefs, but the university expected students to comply with policies that reflect its values and community expectations.
//Restrictions set up in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic have crippled Australia’s universities, which rely on full-fee-paying Chinese students.
//“He is responsible for making a lot of powerful people uncomfortable and the powerful need to understand that will occur.”
Full Article: Washington Post, (16-Apr)
#Australia #FreedomOfSpeech #Tibet #SharpPower #Censorship #Beijing #Pavlou #UniversityOfQueensland #Uighur
WUC & the #Uyghur people stand in solidarity with #HongKong. China won't silence us, we will keep working towards democracy and respect for human rights.
#StandWithHongKong #Tibet #ClosetheCamps #FreeTibet
Poster: International Tibet Network
Source:
Facebook page
World Uyghur Congress
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3234142699953865&id=205248562843309
#StandWithHongKong #Tibet #ClosetheCamps #FreeTibet
Poster: International Tibet Network
Source:
Facebook page
World Uyghur Congress
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3234142699953865&id=205248562843309
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Tibet: The CCP Launches a Campaign Against Prayer Flags
//Nothing is more typical of Tibetan culture and religion than religious banners. They are now being taken down, village after village, as persecution of religion escalates.
//They are sacred artifacts, believed to create peace and harmony. Their five colors—blue, white, red, green, and yellow—represent the five elements and the five wisdoms of Buddhism... Devotees believe that the wind, by moving the prayer flags, will spread compassion and goodwill around, for the benefit of both Buddhists and non-Buddhists...They are not merely ornamental...
//The CCP is trying to destroy Tibetan religion and culture, leaving only a “Disneyfied” version for the benefit of naïve tourists. This effort is decade-old, but has increased under Xi Jinping... increasing use of torture against monks, nuns, and lay Buddhists, “thousands” of whom were arrested and detained in 2019. A new August 2019 law cancelled the pensions of those former government workers caught participating in any religious activity... the CCP announced, only a “modern, socialist system of Buddhism” will be allowed to (precariously) survive.
//CCP has now started taking down prayer flags from hilltops and villages... The campaign started in Qinghai’s Golog (Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and in Tengchen (Dingqing) county in the Chamdo municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, and is now extending elsewhere... The campaign is carried out under the pretext of “environmental cleanup,” although the CCP also mentions “behavioral reform” of non-sinicized, non-socialist Buddhism.
//From the point of view of the devotees, this is both offense and sacrilege...those who have protested again similar moves by the CCP... have been immediately arrested, and often tortured. The prayer flags are the very soul of Tibet. Even those who are not Buddhist should protest this new manifestation of cultural genocide.
Full Article: Bitter Winter, (23-Jun)
#Tibet #Buddism #CulturalGenocide #Religon #PrayerFlags #HumanRights
Tibet: The CCP Launches a Campaign Against Prayer Flags
//Nothing is more typical of Tibetan culture and religion than religious banners. They are now being taken down, village after village, as persecution of religion escalates.
//They are sacred artifacts, believed to create peace and harmony. Their five colors—blue, white, red, green, and yellow—represent the five elements and the five wisdoms of Buddhism... Devotees believe that the wind, by moving the prayer flags, will spread compassion and goodwill around, for the benefit of both Buddhists and non-Buddhists...They are not merely ornamental...
//The CCP is trying to destroy Tibetan religion and culture, leaving only a “Disneyfied” version for the benefit of naïve tourists. This effort is decade-old, but has increased under Xi Jinping... increasing use of torture against monks, nuns, and lay Buddhists, “thousands” of whom were arrested and detained in 2019. A new August 2019 law cancelled the pensions of those former government workers caught participating in any religious activity... the CCP announced, only a “modern, socialist system of Buddhism” will be allowed to (precariously) survive.
//CCP has now started taking down prayer flags from hilltops and villages... The campaign started in Qinghai’s Golog (Guoluo) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and in Tengchen (Dingqing) county in the Chamdo municipality, Tibet Autonomous Region, and is now extending elsewhere... The campaign is carried out under the pretext of “environmental cleanup,” although the CCP also mentions “behavioral reform” of non-sinicized, non-socialist Buddhism.
//From the point of view of the devotees, this is both offense and sacrilege...those who have protested again similar moves by the CCP... have been immediately arrested, and often tortured. The prayer flags are the very soul of Tibet. Even those who are not Buddhist should protest this new manifestation of cultural genocide.
Full Article: Bitter Winter, (23-Jun)
#Tibet #Buddism #CulturalGenocide #Religon #PrayerFlags #HumanRights
#Canada #ChinaInfluence
China dissuades Canadian MPs from meeting rights activists
According to a report from Amnesty International and Canadian rights group released in May, Chinese government has increasingly resorted to “threats, bullying and harassment” to intimidate and silence activists in Canada, including those raising concerns about democracy and civil rights in Hong Kong and Beijing’s mistreatment of Uyghurs, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners.
Canadian MPs visiting Hong Kong in late 2017 were informed that Chinese authorities did not want the MPs meeting with Hong Kong leading pro-democracy figures such as Joshua Wong or Anson Chan.
In early 2019, Ms. Linda Duncan, NDP MP for Edmonton-Strathcona at the time, was contacted by the Chinese embassy in Canada advising her not to meet with the Dalai Lama, the exile spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
Former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney said the call to Ms. Duncan “was an appalling example of interference.”
Besides these revealed incidents, China may have exerted other covert influence over foreign politicians.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Aug22
#AmnestyInternational #LindaDuncan #Uyghurs #Tibet #Falungong
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mps-say-chinese-officials-have-tried-to-dissuade-them-from-meeting/
China dissuades Canadian MPs from meeting rights activists
According to a report from Amnesty International and Canadian rights group released in May, Chinese government has increasingly resorted to “threats, bullying and harassment” to intimidate and silence activists in Canada, including those raising concerns about democracy and civil rights in Hong Kong and Beijing’s mistreatment of Uyghurs, Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners.
Canadian MPs visiting Hong Kong in late 2017 were informed that Chinese authorities did not want the MPs meeting with Hong Kong leading pro-democracy figures such as Joshua Wong or Anson Chan.
In early 2019, Ms. Linda Duncan, NDP MP for Edmonton-Strathcona at the time, was contacted by the Chinese embassy in Canada advising her not to meet with the Dalai Lama, the exile spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
Former Canadian ambassador to China David Mulroney said the call to Ms. Duncan “was an appalling example of interference.”
Besides these revealed incidents, China may have exerted other covert influence over foreign politicians.
Source: The Globe and Mail #Aug22
#AmnestyInternational #LindaDuncan #Uyghurs #Tibet #Falungong
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mps-say-chinese-officials-have-tried-to-dissuade-them-from-meeting/
The Globe and Mail
MPs say Chinese officials have tried to dissuade them from meeting rights activists
Recent hearings by the special House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations have shone a spotlight on efforts by Beijing to shape public opinion in Canada
Exclusive: China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp