Month: March 2018

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR TIBETANS? Top seven relaunched ministries, and their new era of impacts on Tibet How does the 2018 reorganisation of China’s government affect Tibet? Although the reorganisation is the biggest in decades, with hardly any ministry unaffected, there has been no commentary on how this impacts on Tibet. Further, the commentaries […]

“Is it true that in your country you can touch the clouds?” The question was composed by a Han Chinese student practicing his English, in a conversation class in Xining, to be answered by the guest for this class, a Tibetan fluent in Chinese, English and of course Tibetan.  The questioner’s English was halting, tentative, […]