Iran was a key supplier of crude oil to China. US-Israeli strikes have destabilized supply lines.
Author
Khedroob Thondup
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China’s problems with Tibet endure because Beijing is trying to solve a political and civilizational question with instruments of coercion, assimilation, and demographic engineering—tools that cannot manufacture legitimacy …
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For decades, Tibet has lived in the diplomatic shadows—acknowledged but rarely prioritized, invoked but seldom defended with sustained policy attention. That is why two recent developments from Washington …
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China’s Tibet policy has hardened into a doctrine of hostility, one that treats the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan diaspora not as spiritual or cultural actors but as …
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Grammy awards belong to the world of music, not to the realm of geopolitics.
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For Tibetans, visiting the Dalai Lama’s birthplace carries spiritual weight. Surveillance discourages such visits.
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The decline of US leadership does not automatically confer legitimacy on Beijing’s model.
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By allowing meetings with the BJP and the RSS, Beijing signals openness to dialogue while probing for influence.
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Kim Jong Un remains uncontrollable.
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The most decisive tool of assimilation has been language policy. Mongolian-medium education has been systematically dismantled, replaced with Mandarin instruction.
