01/14/2025
དིང་རིའི་ས་ཡོམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྲིད་ཁྲིམས་ལ་དཔྱད་ཞིབ། Analysis of the CCP's control over the Tibet earthquake disaster and global attention
ཀུན་གླེང་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ཚེ་རིང་དབང་མོ་ལགས་ཀྱིས་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་ཁྲིམས་ལུགས་ཉམས་ཞིབ་པ་སྒྲོལ་མ་སྐྱབས་ལགས་དང་བྱང་ཨ་རིའི་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ཚབ་དོན་གཅོད་ཁང་གི་རྒྱ་རིགས་འབྲེལ་མཐུད་པ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལགས་རྣམ་གཉིས་གདན་ཞུས་ཀྱིས་དིང་རིའི་ས་ཡོམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གི་སྲིད་ཁྲིམས་ཐད་བགྲོ་གླེང་ཞུས་ཡོད།
On January 7, 2025, a powerful earthquake struck Dingri, Tibet. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) measured the earthquake’s magnitude at 7.1, which, according to China’s national earthquake emergency response plan, classified it as a particularly significant disaster requiring a Level I response. However, Chinese state media reported a lower magnitude of 6.8, and the death toll has remained fixed at 126.
Meanwhile, local Tibetans and those who traveled to the disaster area to provide assistance have reported that the region is under strict control. Local residents are prohibited from posting images and videos related to the disaster online, while Chinese state media and social media platforms are flooded with optimistic portrayals of the post-disaster relief efforts. In light of this, we invited Dolma Kyab, a Chinese legal researcher, to offer a legal perspective on the Chinese Communist Party’s strict control measures regarding the Tibet earthquake. Additionally, we have invited Tsultrim Gyatso, Chinese Liaison Officer at the Office of Tibet, to analyze the level of attention the disaster has received from Tibetans both domestically and abroad, as well as from the international community. Host,Tsering Wangmo with guests Dolma Kyab and Tsultrim Gyatso.
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