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Turquoise Roof, a portal for briefings on Tibet today - policy, development, insights, stories.
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- UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues warns that undermining a minority’s language can erode culture & #identity across generations. Cites education policies in Tibet as an example of how loss of #Tibetan language contributes to such erasure docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/61/41 docs.un.org/zh/A/HRC/61/41
- 新帖：华语青年挺藏会翻译并介绍了自2026年2月1日启动的藏人行政中央第一轮司政（Sikyong）及第18届藏人流亡议会选举。来自全球30多个国家的流亡藏人参与民主投票，依法行使选举权，通过和平方式选举司政及45名议员。 #华语青年挺藏会 chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/vote Original: savetibet.org/cta-holds-fi... ( @savetibet.bsky.social )
- 🎙️ Pema Yoko interviews Tara’s (张雅迪) friend and fellow activist Ginger on Tara’s advocacy, the risks she faces, and how she’s inspiring a new generation via Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet. ( #华语青年挺藏会 ) podcast.tibetaction.net/episode/epis...
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- Satellite data shows long-term groundwater decline across the Himalaya & #Tibetan Plateau, with 24 billion tonnes lost annually due to climate pressure & heavy use, risking water security across borders. #geoAI timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/sate...
- A 60-year-old Chinese national, reportedly a former PSB officer, has been arrested in Dharamsala for living on an expired visa for 4+ months. Authorities seized devices and say digital forensic exams are underway. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandig...
- Doublethink Lab’s South Asia study documents how PRC influence shapes China-sensitive media narratives. In India, it notes state-sponsored journalist trips promoting Beijing’s #Tibet "development” framing, exemplifying how PRC media influence operates:
- SCMP reports an “official survey” claiming #Tibet’s #hydropower (≈178GW) and wind (>100GW) could meet China’s energy needs. Big numbers, thin transparency: cited journal paper isn’t publicly traceable in 《水电能源科学》 Green transition rhetoric, familiar extractive logic. www.scmp.com/news/china/s...
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- HRW’s World Report 2026 finds the Chinese government intensified repression in 2025, expanding crackdowns on fundamental freedoms under Xi Jinping’s leadership. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
- The UK’s Nature Security Assessment flags ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. Degradation of the Himalayan water system risks destabilising rivers that support billions, increasing water stress, food insecurity, & climate migration pressures with global impact www.gov.uk/government/p...
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- New maps from @esa.int of #Tibet’s tectonic deformation built from Copernicus #Sentinel-1, revealing millimetre-scale ground motion across the plateau. www.esa.int/Applications...
- Buddhist scholar Cortland Dahl reflects on returning to Minneapolis in a moment of fear and uncertainty. He asks us to pause before reacting with outrage and instead choose compassion & wisdom, inspired by the resilience of #Tibetan and #refugee communities. www.lionsroar.com/who-do-we-wa...
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- BBC notes this backlash sits within China’s long campaign to control #Tibet and delegitimise the Dalai Lama’s spiritual authority. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Countering PRC #disinformation is now a CTA priority: Sikyong Penpa Tsering’s 30 Jan 2026 meetings in Washington, D.C. centred on pushing back on Beijing’s systematic narrative warfare, including on the Dalai Lama’s succession. tibet.net/sikyong-hold...
- “Mahajan [ RFA's chief communications officer ] said the Korean Service would join RFA's Mandarin and Burmese Services, which have already restarted content production and that RFA also plans to re-start its #Uyghur, #Tibetan, & #Cantonese service into China.” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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- by Khedroob Thondup (Dalai Lama’s nephew): Takster, the Dalai Lama’s birthplace, is now under CCTV #surveillance. Sacred sites treated as security threats. #Tibet sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/chin... Ping’an District materials explicitly mention Sharp Eyes in Takster #雪亮工程 #securitization
- More than six decades after displacement, #Tibetans in exile are electing their leaders through democratic processes. These #elections exist because Tibetans inside Tibet are denied the right to meaningful political participation. sg.news.yahoo.com/exiled-tibet... (AFP)
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- The English edition of "Tibet Was Never Part of China Since Antiquity" (2026) was launched in Washington with Penpa Tsering, & support from NED. The book examines #Tibet’s historical status through imperial era Chinese records. 中文原著：《西藏自古以來就不是中國的一部份：用中國的官方權威文獻明證》（2019） tibet.net/english-tran...
- China’s intervention has reshaped Myanmar’s war, but not decided its future, argues Ye Myo Hein. Beijing can prop up the junta & stage “elections” yet it lacks legitimacy with the public (which despises it) & cannot extinguish a mass homegrown resistance. Fatalism misreads popular agency in #Myanmar
- Chinese Youth Stand for #Tibet republishes a RTI segment memorialising Gyalo Thondup through the recollections of his #Taiwanese daughter-in-law. Making these narratives accessible in Chinese matters. chineseyouthstandfortibet.substack.com/p/rti
- Framing Hong Kong’s repression as “stability” risks legitimising authoritarian governance as an economic good, and words from democratic leaders matter far beyond Hong Kong and set precedents elsewhere.
- The @nationaltrust.org.uk How Did We Get Here? exhibition at Kedleston Hall features a film by British-Tibetan artist Nyima Murry, adding lived #Tibetan perspective to objects long displayed without context & asking how they came to Britain. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-d... #PeakDistrict
- #Tibetan nomads in Amdo are being pressured into relocation & land loss without proper consent or fair compensation, despite protections in China’s own Grassland Law (《中华人民共和国草原法》). Residents describe coercion, disputes over pasture boundaries, & long-term insecurity. www.phayul.com/forced-reloc...
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- This piece revisits the 1958 assault on Kumbum Monastery, drawing heavily on Arjia Rinpoche’s eyewitness account and memoir. His testimony shows how early CCP campaigns against monasteries marked the start of a wider catastrophe for #Tibetan Buddhism. www.visiontimes.com/2026/01/29/b...
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- A new EU report calls for stronger action against China’s #transnationalrepression citing @icij.org #ChinaTargets investigation that exposes Beijing’s global campaign to surveil, intimidate, & silence critics abroad, including activists from #Tibet, #Xinjiang, #HongKong www.icij.org/investigatio...
- Canada approves Allied Gold’s takeover by China’s Zijin #Mining Group. Zijin operates projects on the #Tibetan plateau, where extractive activity has drawn sustained environmental & human rights scrutiny, linking overseas expansion to Tibet’s resource governance www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/a...
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- As UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer travels to China this evening, 148 Tibet support groups coordinated by @tibetnetwork.bsky.social have urged him to raise #Tibetan rights during his visit. tibetnetwork.org/uk-for-tibet/
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- BTS on the data science, geospatial methods, & engineering behind transnational threat investigations matters. Transparency about *how* evidence is built strengthens the work & the field. Turquoise Roof uses C4ADS' investigative platform to power our open source/PAI research and investigative work:
- Despite release, Ah Sang remains under constant state #surveillance, reflecting continued repression of artistic and cultural expression in #Tibet phayul.com/tibetan-sing...
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- Rejecting the claim that criticising China would risk undermining relations, Lord Patten pointed to a meeting in 2012 between then-prime minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama that brought angry comments from Beijing. www.itv.com/news/2026-01...
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- A new Nature study shows glacier collapse on the #Tibetan Plateau can be sudden and catastrophic. Using Planet Labs #satelliteimagery researchers show why glacier monitoring is now a policy & disaster governance issue, with real downstream risks &accountability gaps www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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