WTN for October 2018

• CTA pays tribute to India and Gandhi through mass cleanliness drive-Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan - Central Tibetan Administration
• Victory for the Human Rights of Tibetans and Americans: Rep Jim McGovern on Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act - Central Tibetan Administration
• Tibet in a world of risk - Rukor
• China-U.S. tensions are over far More than trade - Bloomberg
• The implications of China's recent moves in Tibet - Central Tibetan Administration

• China’s ambassador to the US says altitude-not restrictions-is keeping journalists out of Tibet - Quartz
• US President Mike Pence expresses concerns for human rights in Tibet - Central Tibetan Administration
• The Czech Republic forms the largest parliamentary group for Tibet in Europe - Central Tibetan Administration
• India’s top columnist and novelist Shobhaa De writes about Dr. Lobsang Sangay’s optimism and his personality - The Week
• Trump’s new China strategy faces its first big test – the issue of human rights and Tibet - Washington Post

• Temperatures significantly rise on the Tibetan plateau - Reuters
• Canada prepared to stall trade deal with China until its behaviour is 'more reasonable' - CBC
• Tibet at the centre of environmental and geopolitical tensions between the most populated regions in the world - The Interpreter
• China uses Tibetan Buddhism to promote Belt and Road initiative in Mongolia, Nepal and other Asian countries - Tibet
• Chinese workers attack Tibetans protesting against land grabbing - Radio Free Asia