WTN for May 2018

• Opinion: Most foreign companies prize Chinese market access over human rights, an unfortunate but understandable reality - The Washington Post
• US Ambassador Kenneth Juster called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala - Business Standard
• TCHRD releases 2017 Annual Report on Human Rights situation in Tibet - TCHRD
• US condemns recent guidance from the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration to foreign airlines - The Diplomat
• A Tibetan language advocate’s journey to imprisonment - Amnesty International

• Tibetan Rights Groups Reject China’s attempt to Whitewash Human Rights Crisis in Tibet - Students for Free Tibet
• Tibetan nomads appeal for return of land seized for tourist project - Radio Free Asia
• China detains 30 Tibetans, and village leader disappears for opposing mining at sacred mountain in Tibet - TCHRD
• Emboldened China – and its webizens – telling foreign firms to fall in line - The Christian Science Monitor
• We protest Chinese government’s suppression of minority languages: European Parliamentary Delegation - Central Tibetan Administration

• China arrests elderly Tibetan man for keeping books and CDs of His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Free Tibet
• China’s massive mining projects worth over $60 billion in Tibet bordering Arunachal Pradesh state of India may become the next South China Sea. - Times of India
• The Chinese Revolution directly impacted Chinese authority in Tibet. - Sunday Guardian
• University of British Columbia event looks at impact of Canada-China FTA on human rights in Tibet - Canada Tibet Committee
• Tibetan activist who promoted his native language is sentenced to prison - New York Times