Tibet Affairs

The Tibet policy bill was hugely popular in the US Congress and was the "One voice of one nation, showing the US stands behind the people of Tibet," US House Foreign Affairs Committee head Michael McCaul, who met the Dalai Lama had told NDTV.

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - in India as part of a bipartisan delegation of American lawmakers - met the Dalai Lama Wednesday and, hours later, launched a ferocious attack on China and President Xi Jinping.

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over "serious human rights abuse" in Tibet, including alleged torture and killings of prisoners and forced sterilization.

This key visit comes shortly after President of Central Tibetan administration Penpa Tsering's visit to Washington last month.

Highlighting the role of Tibet in Indo-China friendship, Sun Xiaobo, Deputy Director-General of Foreign Affairs Office in Tibet Autonomous Region, has said that the "roof of the world" can play an important role in boosting bilateral relations.

As the Dalai Lama tours Arunachal Pradesh, infuriating China, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, in a comment that will add to the tension, has stated that his state shares a border with "Tibet and not China."

Enraged by the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, China has said that the trip has "severely damaged China-India relations." Hours before China's Foreign Ministry issued this statement, China's official state media published an article in which it wrote, "Unlike his predecessors, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have taken a diff...

India will take up with China the issue of its blocking a tributary of Brahmaputra in Tibet to facilitate construction of Beijing's "most expensive" hydro-power project, External Affairs Ministry said today.

China will make countering the Dalai Lama's influence the "highest priority" in its work on ethnic affairs in Tibet, the region's Communist Party boss has said, vowing to uproot the monk's "separatist and subversive" activities.

The United States should not interfere in China's internal affairs on matters related to Tibet, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call on Saturday.

China today said President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama has "violated" US' promises on not supporting Tibetan independence and warned that it will hurt bilateral cooperation.

China today promised "non- interference" in Nepal's internal affairs as the two sides signed 10 agreements including a landmark transit treaty to end the land-locked country's total dependence on India while Beijing agreed to extend the strategic Tibet rail link to Nepal to boost connectivity.

China has approved the construction of three more dams on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet region apart from the Zangmu hydroelectric project that started operations in October, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today flagged off the first batch of pilgrims for Kailash Mansarovar yatra in Tibetan Autonomous Region of China through a new route via Nathu La pass which was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit last September.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Beijing and said China and India have taken solid steps to step up cooperation and implement the agreements reached between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The Tibet policy bill was hugely popular in the US Congress and was the "One voice of one nation, showing the US stands behind the people of Tibet," US House Foreign Affairs Committee head Michael McCaul, who met the Dalai Lama had told NDTV.

Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - in India as part of a bipartisan delegation of American lawmakers - met the Dalai Lama Wednesday and, hours later, launched a ferocious attack on China and President Xi Jinping.

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on two senior Chinese officials over "serious human rights abuse" in Tibet, including alleged torture and killings of prisoners and forced sterilization.

This key visit comes shortly after President of Central Tibetan administration Penpa Tsering's visit to Washington last month.

Highlighting the role of Tibet in Indo-China friendship, Sun Xiaobo, Deputy Director-General of Foreign Affairs Office in Tibet Autonomous Region, has said that the "roof of the world" can play an important role in boosting bilateral relations.

As the Dalai Lama tours Arunachal Pradesh, infuriating China, Chief Minister Pema Khandu, in a comment that will add to the tension, has stated that his state shares a border with "Tibet and not China."

Enraged by the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, China has said that the trip has "severely damaged China-India relations." Hours before China's Foreign Ministry issued this statement, China's official state media published an article in which it wrote, "Unlike his predecessors, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems to have taken a diff...

India will take up with China the issue of its blocking a tributary of Brahmaputra in Tibet to facilitate construction of Beijing's "most expensive" hydro-power project, External Affairs Ministry said today.

China will make countering the Dalai Lama's influence the "highest priority" in its work on ethnic affairs in Tibet, the region's Communist Party boss has said, vowing to uproot the monk's "separatist and subversive" activities.

The United States should not interfere in China's internal affairs on matters related to Tibet, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call on Saturday.

China today said President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama has "violated" US' promises on not supporting Tibetan independence and warned that it will hurt bilateral cooperation.

China today promised "non- interference" in Nepal's internal affairs as the two sides signed 10 agreements including a landmark transit treaty to end the land-locked country's total dependence on India while Beijing agreed to extend the strategic Tibet rail link to Nepal to boost connectivity.

China has approved the construction of three more dams on the Brahmaputra river in Tibet region apart from the Zangmu hydroelectric project that started operations in October, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today flagged off the first batch of pilgrims for Kailash Mansarovar yatra in Tibetan Autonomous Region of China through a new route via Nathu La pass which was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit last September.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Beijing and said China and India have taken solid steps to step up cooperation and implement the agreements reached between him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.