Tag Archives: Politics

• New US Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Xinjiang 22 April 2021 | Shishir Gupta This post has no comments yet

  The United States in its new Bill to counter China includes policies for Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, the problem areas of the People's Republic of China, where it aims to uphold democratic values against China's oppression. ...

• China to push legislation to fight ‘long-arm’ foreign pressure 8 March 2021 | Yew Lun Tian This post has no comments yet

  China will speed up lawmaking aimed at countering foreign sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction", its parliament said on Monday, amid increasing pressure from Western countries over issues ranging from Xinjiang to Hong Kong. ...

• Myanmar military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi 1 February 2021 This post has 2 comments

  Myanmar's military seized power in a bloodless coup on Monday, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and imposing a one-year state of emergency. The intervention ended a decade of transition from outright military rule. ...

• Joe Biden becomes 46th President of the United States 20 January 2021 | Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe This post has one comment

  Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherited a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. ...

• China sends top official to Nepal amid political crisis 27 December 2020 | Gopal Sharma This post has one comment

  A senior Chinese official arrived in Kathmandu on Sunday to assess the political situation, local party officials said, a first diplomatic step by the neighbouring power after Nepal’s Prime Minister dissolved parliament a week ago. ...

• Hundreds protest against Nepali PM’s sudden dissolution of parliament 26 December 2020 | Gopal Sharma This post has no comments yet

  Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli faced a fresh political challenge on Friday as hundreds of opponents protested against his sudden move to dissolve parliament and call elections more than a year ahead of the schedule. ...

• Nepal’s PM Oli says parliament had to be dissolved to end inaction 21 December 2020 | Gopal Sharma This post has no comments yet

  Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Monday said his decision to dissolve parliament was the only way to resolve disputes and non-cooperation in his party that have led to a “state of inaction”. ...

• As China restricts access to Tibet, US urges nations to make laws over it 6 December 2020 This post has one comment

  Slamming China for its "repressive" regime in Tibet, a top American diplomat has urged other countries to pass their own versions of a US law that calls for denying access to the US for Chinese officials known to be involved in restricting ...

• Rejecting Trump’s foreign policy approach, Biden says ‘America is back’ 25 November 2020 | Trevor Hunnicutt and Humeyra Pamuk This post has no comments yet

  President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday the US will be “ready to lead” again on the global stage, turning the page on Republican President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies as he pledged to work together with the nation’s allies. ...

• Sangay’s desperate act for legacy 23 November 2020 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has 46 comments

  A recent announcement by Lobsang Sangay saying he is the first Tibetan leader to enter the White House seems to have created confusion amongst Tibetan people. It deserves to be analysed in depth, if not outright debunked. ...