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K Bhattacharjee for OpIndia. Read the original article here. The efforts launched by the Chinese government to capture global imagination and shape the narrative about China is an open secret. Towards that end, the Chinese Communist Party has sought to influence individual journalists and media organisations in its bid to alter global perception about China. More

Radio Free Asia. Link to the original article here. In a job sector already marked by limited opportunities, young Tibetans seeking government workers are being required to join the ruling Chinese Communist Party and to closely study the political thought of party chief Xi Jinping, sources in Tibet say. More

Col Vinayak Bhat (Retd) for India Today. Read the original article here. More

In a bid to train a combat-ready military force, China holds military drills periodically, but rarely do multiple exercises happen at the same time. Kanishka Sarkar, Hindustan Times. Sep 29, 2020. Read original news here. More

Hugh White | 26 Sep, 2020 | South China Morning Post | Read the original post here In Asia, an old threat to peace is returning. For many decades, it has seemed almost unthinkable that the region’s major powers could again engage in a full-scale war, as they did 75 years ago. Today, the United States and  China confront each other as bitter rivals. More

By Sam McNeil |  AP | September 23, 2020 | Read the original news here CHENGBEI GAN’EN, China — Under a portrait of President Xi Jinping, Ashibusha sits in her freshly painted living room cradling her infant daughter beside a chair labeled a “gift from the government. More

Col Vinayak Bhat Col Vinayak Bhat for India Today. Read the original article here. To reduce the raw material production cost, the Chinese have started using the local Tibetan population in Driru and other parts of Tibet extensively as labour. More

It failed to coax cultural assimilation with economic incentives. Now it’s going for coerced labor and micromanaging people’s very lifestyles. By Adrian Zenz | Sept. 24, 2020 | New York Times | Read the original news here Mr. Zenz is an expert on China’s ethnic policies. More

AFP. SEPTEMBER 24, 2020. Read original news here. “The answer to our existential crisis is swift, decisive, scaled up action and solidarity among nations,” said Antonio Guterres. The United Nations and Britain will co-host a global climate summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement, the world body said on Wednesday. More

-Filed by BBC. Read the original article here. China is coercing hundreds of thousands of people in Tibet into military-style training centres that experts say are akin to labour camps, a study has said. The report by the Jamestown Foundation is based on state media reports, policy documents and satellite imagery which Reuters news agency has corroborated. More

Wion | 23 September 2020 | Read the news here According to the US-based China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI), China carried out several cyber-attacks between 2007 to 2018, including computer attacks against Indian satellite communication in 2017. However, ISRO has maintained that none of the systems have been comprised while acknowledging the cyber attacks. More

Wion news | 22 September 2020 | Read the news here Since 1950, when Beijing claimed sovereignty over Tibet, China has tried to maintain a strong grip over this region. Hu Jintao, the sixth President of China has an interesting back story. From 1988 to 1992, he was the Communist Party leader of Tibet. As the party secretary in Tibet, Jintao suppressed an uprising. More

By Rick Gladstone | New York Times | Sept. 22, 2020 | Read the news here In speeches broadcast at this year’s Covid-compromised General Assembly, the presidents of China and the United States punctuated an intensifying schism between the two superpowers. More

By Cate Cadell | Reuters | 22 September 2020 | Read the original news here BEIJING (Reuters) - China is pushing growing numbers of Tibetan rural laborers off the land and into recently built military-style training centers where they are turned into factory workers, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region that rights groups have branded coercive labor. More

Dan Mangan | CNBC | 21 September 2020 | Read the original news here A New York City police officer who also serves in the U.S. Army Reserve was arrested Monday on federal charges that accuse him of spying on fellow ethnic Tibetans while acting as an illegal agent for China. More

According to the report, China has ''started constructing at least 13 entirely new military positions near its borders with India". Vishnu Som for NDTV. September 22, 2020.  Read original news here. More

Claude Arpi for Sunday Guardian Live. Read the original article here. India’s policies or actions should not be dictated by what others will think or say, particularly how China will react to a particular decision. This tendency has lasted too long with no tangible gain for the country. More

While the Nepalese government has denied claims that China occupied part of its land along the border, PLA troops have constructed nine buildings between Limi and Lapcha in Nepal's Humla district. Sujeet Jha for India Today. September 20, 2020. Read original news here. More

Nehru saw China as a partner to create a new post-colonial world, and his aspirations for a global role linked to a big power neglected India’s national and security priorities at great cost. This should be an enduring lesson for our present and future governments. More

NAWANG PHUNTSOG | The Quint | 14 Sep 2020 | Read the original article on Quint here The Hanban Website indicates that there are currently 541 Confucius Institutes (CI) operating in several countries. The most rapid expansion, however, took place within the first six years (2004-2010) when Hanban established 322 Confucius Institutes (CIs) and 369 Confucius Classrooms (CCs) in 96 countries. More