Tibet Rights Collective

At TRC, we aim to increase access to #information around the politics, culture & traditions of #Tibet by combining policy with advocacy.

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

#ArunachalPradesh borders #Tibet, not #China.

McMahon Line set boundary in 1914, and #Beijing’s transgressions have no legal basis.

China rejects the Line and calls the region “South Tibet” (Zangnan).

It illogically argues that Tibet lacked authority to sign 1914 agreement.

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

His Holiness the #DalaiLama.

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Death is not dark. It is like changing old clothes.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama on how to live so that you have no regret at the end: a life of service to others, whatever you believe.

🎥April 2, 2018
#DalaiLama #Compassion #Tibet

[Dean Baxendale @DMCBaxendale]

Joshua’s face is known to all. Today the silent and faceless army is working for his release stood in front of the Chinese Consulate this afternoon.

Outside China’s consulate, I called for freedom for Joshua Wong, Jimmy Lai and all jailed for defending liberty and the rights guaranteed by the CCP in 97.

Xi Jinping, hear us: end (TNR) transnational repression.

Let Chinese diaspora communities live in peace.

Freedom is a right, not a threat.

@ChinaCGToronto

#CCP @ChinaCGToronto @cbcwatcher @VoCommunism @benedictrogers @DavidAltonHL @williamnee #freejimmylai #FreeJoshuaWong @C_DemFoundation @anderscorr @jaketapper @joshrogin

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Territorial extent of Tibet and approximate line of the Chinese Communist advance in 1950.

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara of Jainism, is considered to have attained nirvana near Mount Kailash in Tibet in Jain tradition.

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

What happens when solar farms replace open grasslands?

On the #TibetanPlateau, some herders earn more, while others see fenced pastures, excluded yaks and goats, and a fading nomadic tradition.

https://t.co/vDrT6Z8C60

#Tibet #Nomads #RenewableEnergy

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

The long arm

The CCP’s reach doesn’t stop at its borders. Rights groups have exposed Chinese “overseas police stations” and the harassment of Tibetans, Uyghurs and dissidents abroad.

Tibet was first. Don’t be next.

#FreeTibet #StopCCP

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Water as a weapon

Tibet is Asia’s water tower. China is building a mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo, the river that becomes India’s Brahmaputra.

Whoever controls Tibet’s water controls the lives downstream. Tibet’s occupation is Asia’s problem.

#FreeTibet #WaterSecurity

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Loans, then ports

Loans today, your port tomorrow. In 2017, debt-stressed Sri Lanka leased Hambantota port to a Chinese state firm for 99 years.

Before signing any Belt and Road deal, read the fine print.

#StopCCP #BRI

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Rename, then claim

First they rename it. China keeps issuing Chinese names for places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh and printing “standard maps” that claim them.

Tibet is now officially “Xizang.” A name change is always step one.

#TibetIsNotChina #Arunachal

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Salami slicing

The CCP rarely starts a big war. It takes land one slice at a time: artificial islands in the South China Sea, villages built on land Bhutan claims, clashes like Galwan in 2020.

By the time the world notices, the land is gone.
#StopCCP #SouthChinaSea

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

Signed, then broken

1951: Tibet was forced to sign the “17-Point Agreement.” Beijing promised autonomy and religious freedom.
By 1959 the uprising was crushed and the Dalai Lama was in exile.

Lesson for every nation: never trust a CCP signature.

#FreeTibet #StopCCP

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

They took his land.
They took his Panchen Lama.
They want to take his reincarnation.
They will never take his message.

#FreeTibet #DalaiLama

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

His Holiness has made it clear: only his own institution, the Gaden Phodrang Trust, can recognise his successor.

Any “Dalai Lama” picked by Beijing will be a CCP puppet. The world must never recognise him.
#FreeTibet #StopCCP

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

China’s state media has called the Dalai Lama a “splittist” and a “wolf in monk’s robes.”

A monk who preaches compassion, and a superpower terrified of him. Ask yourself why.

#FreeTibet #TibetIsNotChina

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

The Dalai Lama never asked for war. His Middle Way seeks genuine autonomy for Tibetans within China, a peaceful compromise.

Beijing rejected it for decades. When a regime fears even compromise, it fears its own people.

#FreeTibet #StopCCP

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

In 1995, the Dalai Lama recognised 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the Panchen Lama.

Within days, China took him and his family away. He hasn’t been seen in public since.

This is what the CCP does to Tibet’s spiritual leaders.

#WhereIsThePanchenLama #FreeTibet

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

The CCP says religion is poison, yet insists it alone will choose the next Dalai Lama.

An atheist party picking a Buddhist leader isn’t religion. It’s control. Tibetans, not Beijing, decide their spiritual future.

#FreeTibet #TibetIsNotChina

[Tibet Rights Collective @TibetCollective]

1989: The Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize for non-violent resistance.

1989: The CCP sends tanks into Tiananmen Square.

Same year. Two answers to the people. History knows which side was right.

#FreeTibet #Tiananmen