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Turquoise Roof, a portal for briefings on Tibet today: policy, development, insights, news.
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Sacred Authority and State Power: The Dalai Lama Institution and its Future in a Global Context

The Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday in July 2025 arrives at a critical juncture. China is intensifying its campaign to eliminate the spiritual leader’s influence and control his succession, regarding this as a ‘protracted war’ crucial to maintaining its grip on a strategically vital region.…
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A Long Shadow: The expansion and export of China’s digital repression model in Tibet

Apr. 16, 2025
Recent procurement documents reveal that Meiya Pico, a Chinese state-owned digital forensics firm, will provide an offensive cyber operations training environment and digital forensic laboratory to the Tibet Police College in Lhasa.
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Future Tibet : China’s strategic plans – 2025-2049

Mar. 19, 2025
China’s strategy for Tibet through 2049 reveals a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach aimed at assimilation of Tibet into the Chinese nation-state, a major shift from the framework of nominal autonomy which allowed for some protections in preservationof language and culture.
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The risks of China’s dangerous dam-building in Tibet: the impacts of China’s move upstream on the Machu/Yellow River

Nov. 13, 2024
China is accelerating dam building on the upper reaches of the Machu or Yellow River despite evidence from Chinese scientists of the risks of geological disasters and serious environmental problems.
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Forceful Diplomacy: China’s Cross-Border Villages in Bhutan

Oct. 15, 2024
In 2016, China began constructing a village in territory generally understood to be part of Bhutan. It was five years before the existence of that village was discovered by outside observers or noticed by foreign governments.
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Occupying Tibet’s rivers: China’s hydropower ‘battlefield’ in Tibet

May. 21, 2024
Rare protests against the construction of a new hydropower dam in Tibet that risks catastrophic impacts on the world’s highest and largest plateau and downstream in China have been met with violent paramilitary reprisals.
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SPYWARE-AS-A-SERVICE: What the i-Soon files reveal about China’s targeting of the Tibetan diaspora

Apr. 18, 2024
In February 2024 a leak of documents from i-Soon, a Chinese cybersecurity firm tied to the nation’s security apparatus, gave new evidence of People’s Republic of China’s (China or PRC) large-scale and shadowy cyber espionage activities.

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Turquoise Roof is a collaborative new research network of digitally connected specialists, Tibetan analysts and scholars brought together by Kate Saunders and Greg Walton in partnership with SecDev Group . We combine forensic data analysis, sources and methods including remote sensing platforms with the insights and expertise of Tibetans and Tibet watchers.

China is rapidly transforming the physical, digital, and psychological landscapes of Tibet. Although colonisation efforts are occurring in plain sight, they are concealed from international public scrutiny. One reason for the lack of visibility is that it is simply too risky for Tibetans in Tibet to publish openly about PRC developments, much less triangulate and validate locally available information.

New technologies are starting to break the PRC’s monopoly on information in Tibet. But it is only when they are combined with Tibetan expertise and networks of trusted sources that we can understand these new developments in context. Turquoise Roof brings together Tibetan researchers, Tibet watchers, and experts in new tech methods to leverage independently verifiable data and details from multiple open and unconventional sources to deepen our understanding of the situation in Tibet.

Turquoise Roof also enjoys technical assistance and mentorship from leading global technology and risk consultancy firms.