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Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced visit to Tibet, according to International Campaign for Tibet (ICT). Video clips shared on Chinese social media on Thursday show Xi addressing people in the city of Nyingtri (Chinese: Linzhi), stepping out of a shop in the Barkhor area in Lhasa and giving remarks to the public while facing the "Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional winter residence of the Dalai Lama. A recent official notice announcing the closure of the Potala on July 22 indicated a visit by a high-level dignitary, ...

Xi Jinping makes surprise visit to Tibet The ICT quoting a source said Xi first landed at Mainling airport in Nyingtri, in southeast Tibet, on July 20 Friday July 23, 2021 8:55 AM, IANS [Xi Jinping delivers a speech facing the “Monument of Peaceful Liberation of Tibet” at the Potala square in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa. (Image: SaveTibet.org)] New Delhi: Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced visit to Tibet. Video clips shared on Chinese social media by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Washington-based advocacy group, show Xi addressing people in the city of Nyi...

Chinese President makes surprise visit to Tibet ​ By IANS | ​ 0 Views   New Delhi, July 23 : Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an unannounced visit to Tibet. Video clips shared on Chinese social media by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a Washington-based advocacy group, show Xi addressing people in the city of Nyingtri, stepping out of a shop in the Barkhor area in Lhasa and giving remarks to the public, while facing the "Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional winter residence of the Dalai Lama. Xi last visited the T...

Elder returnee shows Switzerland reality of homeland By CHEN YUEHUA | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-24 10:22 Share Shagkor Yeshe Palden Shagkor Yeshe Palden, an 83-year-old living in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, makes WeChat calls every day to his two daughters and grandchildren in Switzerland, where he lived for nearly 30 years. During the calls, he updates them on what's been going on in Tibet since he returned to China in 1994. Shagkor Yeshe Palden was once a Living Buddha at the Drepung Monastery, one of the "great thre...

This piece is adapted from Tsering Woeser’s Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule, translated by Kevin Carrico, which will be published by Verso on January 12. February 27, 2009, was the third day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. It was also the day that self-immolation came to Tibet. The authorities had just cancelled a Great Prayer Festival (Monlam) that was supposed to commemorate the victims of the government crackdown in 2008. A monk by the name of Tapey stepped out of the Kirti Monastery and set his body alight on the streets of Ngawa, in the region known in Tibetan as ...