Executive Summary
China’s language policy in Tibet reveals a fundamental contradiction between constitutional guarantees and actual implementation. While China’s constitution recognizes 56 ethnic minorities and ostensibly protects their linguistic rights, in practice, the Tibetan language faces systematic marginalization. This disconnect …
By Dhondup Wangmo, Research Fellow, TPI
Historical Context and Current Situation
Tibet possesses abundant natural resources, with approximately 126 identified mineral types including bauxite, chromite, copper, gold, iron, and silver. Historically, Tibetans maintained a harmonious relationship with their environment, guided …
In the field of international relations, two categories of voices are generally considered important. They are those of experts that include scholars and journalists who have a carefully-considered take on various issues. And the other is that of practitioners. Practitioners …
Climate change is a global issues that affects the entire planet. However its impact is particularly severe on the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau, often known as the world’s third pole, has been undergoing significant environmental changes due to …
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 …
The 2008 protests in Tibet shocked Chinese leaders and policy-makers, leaving the notion of well-managed ethnic harmony in a state of disrepair. Not long after, Chinese scholars began to debate the effectiveness of existing minority policies that have been largely …
The Potala Palace — as it’s known — was the start of a rare tour of Tibet last month. The Chinese foreign ministry and local government hosted international journalists on a trip to the mountainous region, and I was one …
In the summer of this year, Tibetan NGOs in exile held two meetings here in Dharamshala. One was a meeting of Tibetans who advocate independence for Tibet. The other was a meeting of Tibetans who support the Middle-Way Policy, of …
The current perception of China’s international relations which was decided by a very centralised and cloistered elite in Beijing, is no longer valid as it used to be, as the number of actors who participated in the formation of …
China had 772 million internet users by the end of December 2017, with penetration rate of 55.8%[i]. Thus, it became the largest online population in the world. As the records of internet service and users grew exponentially, the …
The impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau is apparent with unusual scale of torrential rainfall reported across Tibet. The drastic climatic shift has resulted in high frequency of floods and landslides occurring simultaneously in various part of Tibet …
China’s latest white paper ‘Ecological Progress on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau’ begins with a brazen lie that “the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government have always valued ecological progress.
In fact, the infamous slogan ‘Man must conquer nature’ …