Inflection EP21: Tibet, China in the Spotlight Again

Tibet is back in the news alongside Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan as the US consolidates its efforts to divide and undermine China’s territorial integrity and agitate ahead of the Beijing 2022 Olympics. What were separate movements are now openly coordinating their activities together.

Inflection is a weekly show featuring Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic, discussing recent headlines and in-depth discussion of topics shaping the shift from West to East and unipolarism to multipolarism.

References:

***Long History of US Interference***

US State Department, Office of the Historian - Courses of Action in Vietnam (1965):
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v03/d189
US State Department, Office of the Historian - Review of Tibetan Operations (1964):
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d337
US State Department, Office of the Historian - Status Report on Tibetan Operations (1968):
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d342
New York Times/AP - World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A.:
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/02/world/world-news-briefs-dalai-lama-group-says-it-got-money-from-cia.html

***US Interference Today***

National Endowment for Democracy - Tibet (China) 2020:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/tibet-china-2020/
AFP - Activists unfurl Tibet flag at Beijing Olympics flame ceremony:
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2199839/activists-unfurl-tibet-flag-at-beijing-olympics-flame-ceremony
Students for a Free Tibet, Twitter - Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Press Conference:
https://twitter.com/SFTHQ/status/1448992549532753924
Students for a Free Tibet - About:
https://studentsforafreetibet.org/about/
International Tibetan Network - About Us:
https://tibetnetwork.org/about-us/
National Endowment for Democracy - Xinjiang/East Turkestan (China) 2020:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/xinjiang-east-turkestan-china-2020/
World Uyghur Congress - About:
https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/introducing-the-world-uyghur-congress/
NED - Dalai Lama Honored with NED Democracy Service Medal at Library of Congress (2010):
https://www.ned.org/dalai-lama-honored-with-ned-democracy-service-medal-at-library-of-congress/
NED - NED to Host His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2016):
https://www.ned.org/dalai-lama-to-speak-about-democracy-and-hope-at-ned/
Tibet TV - 'The Allied Committee - Interaction Amongst Tibetans, Uyghurs & Mongols' (held in India, 2015):
https://youtu.be/l2quORYAm2g
NED - Board of Directors:
https://www.ned.org/about/board-of-directors/
New York Times - MISSIONARIES FOR DEMOCRACY: U.S. AID FOR GLOBAL PLURALISM (1986):
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/01/world/missionaries-for-democracy-us-aid-for-global-pluralism.html
Washington Post - INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS (1991):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/
UN - UN Charter Article 2(1)–(5):
https://legal.un.org/repertory/art2.shtml

***The ”Free Tibet” Movement***

New York Times - Dalai Lama Gives Up Political Role (2011):
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/asia/11tibet.html
SCMP - Tibetans have a new political leader. Here’s what to expect (2021):
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3134103/tibetans-have-new-political-leader-heres-what-expect

***Development in Tibet, China***

CNN - Tibet's first bullet train line enters service (2021):
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/lhasa-nyingchi-high-speed-railway-china-tibet/index.html
Al Jazeera - China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/8/china-to-build-the-worlds-biggest-dam-on-sacred-tibetan-river
Global Times - China to build historic Yarlung Zangbo River hydropower project in Tibet:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1208405.shtml
Great Tibet Tour - Top 6 Rivers Rising From Tibetan Plateau:
https://www.greattibettour.com/tibet-travel-tips/top-6-rivers-rising-from-tibetan-plateau.html
Global Times - Before and after photos show Tibet’s development miracle in past 70 years:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1232122.shtml

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