A 7.1-magnitude temblor struck at a depth of about 6 miles just after 9 a.m. local time in Tibet’s Dingri County, a mountainous region located near the border with Nepal and Mount Everest, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The China Earthquake Networks Center, which measured the initial earthquakeas a magnitude 6.8, recorded several aftershocks with the most recent at 2:08 p.m. local time.

More than 1,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed and tremors were felt as far away as Bhutan and northern India.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/01/07/Tibet-earthquake/1131736230165/

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The evidence has been compiled by German anthropologist Dr Adrian Zenz, whose research was instrumental in raising the profile of the security build-up and mass detention of Uighurs in China’s remote Xinjiang province.

The labour camps are accompanied by enforced indoctrination, intrusive surveillance, and harsh punishments for those who fail to meet labour transfer quotas, according to the research.

The new report by Dr Zenz, sponsored by a global coalition of MPs who have been urging governments to adopt a tougher stance on China, says Beijing has been setting quotas for the mass transfer of rural labourers within Tibet.

The labor transfer policy mandates that pastoralists and farmers are to be subjected to centralized “military-style” vocational training, which aims to reform “backward thinking” and includes training in “work discipline”, law and the Chinese language.

The new evidence will place further pressure on China’s human rights record, which has been criticized for its policies in Xinjiang where more than one million ethnic Uighurs have been forced into internment camps, and a crackdown on pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong.

Anthony is foreign affairs and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Eryk Bagshaw is the China correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Due to travel restrictions, he is currently based in Canberra.

Source: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/asia/china-forces-500-000-tibetans-into-labour-camps-20200922-p55xyk.html

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Earthquake today: An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted Tibet on Thursday, authorities said, adding that there were no reports of casualties.

The quake struck Nyima County at 4.07 a.m., Xinhua news agency quoted the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.

The epicenter was monitored at 33.19 degrees north latitude and 86.81 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km.

The county has launched an emergency response.

Telecommunication, electricity, and water supply remain normal in the county.

The epicenter was less than 20 km away from Rongmar Township where the quake was strongly felt.

Rongmar, at an average altitude of over 5,000 metres, administers two villages.

Source: https://www.zeebiz.com/world/news-earthquake-today-massive-66-magnitude-quake-jolts-nyima-county-in-tibet-131881

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Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese President Xi Jinping warned adversaries on Sunday that any attempt to split China will “end in crushed bodies and shattered bones” according to state-media, as anti-government protesters in Hong Kong returned to the streets for a 19th consecutive weekend.

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There is a “good” and a “bad” China, I read the other day in an article.

The “good” China, the author argued, is southeast of an imaginary diagonal line across the country, while “bad” China is to the northwest of it. The southeastern region prospers and is admired worldwide, this is where the economically significant cities are, where the majority of the population lives and where huge infrastructure projects have created cities for millions of people in regions that were empty 30 years go. Unlike the northwest, which is home to the vast country’s political crisis areas: Inner Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang province.

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People in Europe and the United States tend to focus on southern China, which has achieved considerable success by adapting a more US-style economic model. Thanks to former leader Deng Xiaoping, whose reforms began exactly 40 years ago, the country has changed from a backward Maoist state that didn’t think twice about starving entire regions to a modern nation.

End to Deng reforms

Under President Xi Jinping, however, what constitutes “bad China” has gained the upper hand. He has begun to reverse Deng’s economic reforms, thus putting the Chinese economy on a dangerous path, and he has completely eliminated the political freedoms that his predecessors had allowed bit by bit.

Academic and DW columnist Alexander Görlach

The people who live in China’s northwest are particularly hard hit — including those living in Tibet and Xinjiang. Their cultures are being streamlined and assimilated, and cultural independence is suppressed, like it was in Franco’s Spain, where the Basques were forbidden to speak their language.

For decades, the Tibetans have seen their culture destroyed and their temples burned. The Uighurs in Xinjiang, the majority of whom are Muslim, are next. Huge “concentration camps” have been set up — satellite images prove their existence. China’s leadership denies the existence of “concentration camps,” calling them education camps instead. An estimated 1 million people are imprisoned because of their faith and ethnicity. Xinjiang is about more than state-imposed atheism: It is about the complete oppression of another ethnic group and its culture.

Germany must react

The moment has come for the world to shift its focus from “good” to “bad” China.

Despite the attraction the giant market of the People’s Republic holds for Western countries, the Chinese leadership’s approach in Xinjiang crosses every line regarding human rights.

Read more: What does China want to achieve by ‘modifying’ Islam?

How far is the leap from “concentration camp” to “extermination?” We Germans know how short a jump that can be. A regime that imprisons and “re-educates” people based on their attributes is so degenerate that eliminating these people soon appears to them to be an administrative, logical act. Xi has put his country on the wrong path, the “bad” path.

Due to Germany’s past, the German government in particular must react unequivocally to the alarming reports from China. It is important to distinguish between the Chinese leadership and the Chinese people. There is reason to assume that many do not even know what is happening in Xinjiang. Xi is omnipresent and, unlike Deng, has had himself declared president for life.

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