It’s been 75 years since China invaded Tibet, the mountain territory it has long claimed as its own. With the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama approaching his 90th birthday, the ...

The People's Republic of China seized control of Tibet in 1950 in what its leaders termed the "peaceful liberation" of a theocracy. Generations of Tibetans in exile continue to call it an invasion and ...

China has embarked on a major railway project near the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This Chinese railway line will pass very ...

Beijing — A strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in Tibet on Tuesday and left many others trapped as dozens of aftershocks shook the region of western China and across the border in Nepal. The ...

China views Tibet as the “palm” and its surrounding regions as “five fingers” to be controlled, former Tibetan Prime Minister in exile Lobsang Sangay has said, warning that Beijing’s expansionist ...

As India and China continue to face off across the Himalayas six decades later, the echoes of that earlier conflict remain ...

(Reuters) - At the heart of the conflict over Tibet's status within China is their historical relationship. The Chinese government and Tibet's government-in-exile offer competing versions of whether ...

On December 25, 2024, Chinese state media Xinhua reported that the country had officially approved the construction of what will be the world largest hydro-dam with annual capacity of 60 gigawatts (GW ...

In April, the National People’s Congress, China’s legislative branch, passed the “Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) Ecosystem Protection Act” (hereafter referred to as the QTP Act). The QTP Act is China’s ...

Since then, Tibet has seen an unprecedented surge in tourism, predominantly from mainland China with visitors flocking to the region for spiritual exploration. A record 64 million people visited Tibet ...

India says the proposed new structure could counteract rival China's building of a likely record-breaking dam upstream in Tibet by stockpiling water and ... the Adi community will vanish from the map ...