Tenzin Dalha is a Research Fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute, Central Tibetan Administration, specialising in media studies, Chinese cybersecurity policy, digital governance, and surveillance in Tibet. His research focuses on the intersection of media, technology, and political power, particularly China’s digital infrastructure, information control, censorship, and surveillance.
He holds an M.Phil. in Journalism and Communication from the University of Madras (2014). In 2024, he took a one-year mid-career academic leave to pursue studies at the Faculty of Global Studies, Reitaku University, Japan.
He has presented his research at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Westminster, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and international forums including the China in the World 2026 Forum in Taipei, Geneva Forum, and the 9th Tibet Support Group Conference in Brussels. His analysis and commentary have appeared in The Diplomat, Asia Times, Taipei Times, Times of India, CADAL, Bitter Winter, Modern Diplomacy, The Quint, and Outlook, among others.
His work explores China’s evolving digital architecture and its implications for digital freedom, surveillance, censorship, predictive governance, and social control in Tibet.
Research interest:
- Digital Freedom
- Chinese policy on Internet censorship and filtering
- Chinese Cyber Security policy
- Internet openness, security and right
- Chinese Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence (AI)