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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This report uncovers the Chinese government’s escalated digital surveillance in Tibet, marked by the compulsory installation of the ‘National Anti-Fraud Centre’ app on smartphones.

A leading Tibetan businessman serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Tibet was repeatedly tortured whilst in custody in Tibet due to charges that were reportedly fabricated against him and his brother by a top official in the Chinese Communist Party.

A lithium boom is underway in eastern Tibet as China’s geologists have established that at least 85% of the PRC’s reserves of the critical mineral are to be found on the plateau.