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By Associated Press, Read the original article here. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world on the first international day to remember the victims of religious persecution to “step up to stamp out anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, the persecution of Christians and other religious groups.” The U.N. More

Brahma Chellaney, Times of India, 22 August 2019 Read original article here Like a typical school bully, China doesn’t have a lot of friends. Having joined with the US to impose international sanctions on its former vassal, North Korea, China has just one real ally left – an increasingly fragile and debt-ridden Pakistan. More

By Jordan Baker, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 22, 2019, Read original article here. A Chinese government-funded language and culture program will be removed from NSW public schools and replaced with one run by the NSW Department of Education. More

Bloomberg News, Read the original article here.  Foreign Ministry sends 43-page letter to foreign media outlets  Describes ‘violent activities’ in city amid ongoing unrest China is looking to reshape the global narrative over Hong Kong as months of street protests dominate news agendas around the world. More

By Kris Cheng, Read the original article here. A top US politician has warned Beijing that there would be “real and painful costs” to any crackdown in Hong Kong. Mitch McConnell, the US Senate majority leader, wrote a strongly-worded op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, titled “We Stand With Hong Kong. More

  Yaqiu Wang, Los Angeles Times. Read the article here. It’s hard for Americans to understand why so many Chinese students attending school in Western countries have turned out in recent days to express support for the Chinese government in its current conflict with Hong Kong protesters. More

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By International Campaign for Tibet|August 21, 2019 Read original article here Chinese authorities in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) have apparently deepened their control over the Tibetan population with the rollout this summer of social security cards. More

By Ellen Halliday, Read the original article here. BRUSSELS—In the comfortable living room of a family home near Antwerp, photographs from not so long ago recall the faces of the missing. A business man sits proudly behind the desk of the company he owns. A party of women smile and laugh as they share a cup of tea. More

The Guardian, 21 August 2019 Read original article here An employee at the UK’s consulate in Hong Kong has been detained by mainland Chinese authorities on his way back to the city, his girlfriend has said. Simon Cheng, 28, was returning from a trip in Shenzhen to his native Hong Kong on 8 August when his girlfriend, Li, stopped receiving communications from him. More

By Tami Abdollah, Read the original article here. WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter said it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong. The company also said Monday it will ban ads from state-backed media companies, expanding a prohibition it first applied in 2017 to two Russian entities. More

Annie Palmer, CNBC, 19 August 2019 Read original article here. Twitter and Facebook have suspended numerous accounts that they say are tied to a Chinese disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Twitter said Monday it suspended 936 accounts likely related to the activity. More

By Tashi Choedon, Read the original article here. Expelled from their monasteries, nuns face violence and rape in horrific “detention centers. More

By Sagatom Saha, Read the original article here. Most Chinese-financed, coal-fired power plants built overseas use low-efficiency, subcritical coal technology, which produces some of the highest emissions of any form of power generation. Thus, China is destroying the environment. hina has continually assured the world that its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a green project. More

By Minxin Pei, Read the original article here. More

By James Flynn, Read the original article here. In April of this year, the Dalai Lama was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi for a chest infection. He was discharged three days later, reassuring the world that he felt “normal” again. But the words of the Tibetan spiritual leader did little to quell the anxieties of those who have tracked Tibet’s plight over the years. More

Claude Arpi’s third volume on relations between India and Tibet covers the deepening Chinese penetration of the plateau and Beijing’s administrative and military consolidation there. The free hand given to China in its consolidation in Tibet was made possible when the two Asian giants signed the Panchsheel Agreement on Tibet in 1954. More

  As the fourteenth Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, turned 84 last month, China has started pushing its agenda by claiming rights in the selection process of the next Dalai Lama. The recent controversy involving Tibet and China is related to the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. More

By Brenda Goh, Greg Torode, Read the original article here. SHENZHEN, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hundreds of China’s People’s Armed Police conducted exercises at a sports stadium in Shenzhen on Thursday, as the U.S. State Department expressed concern that they could be deployed across the border in Hong Kong to break up protests wracking the city. More

By David Crawshaw, Read the original article here. The West’s approach to containing China is akin to its failure to prevent Nazi Germany’s aggression, an influential Australian lawmaker warned, earning a rebuke from Beijing while highlighting the difficulty the U.S. ally faces in weighing its security needs against economic interests. More