{"id":1335979,"date":"2023-11-16T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/tibets-government-in-exile-urges-australia-not-to-compromise-on-chinas-human-rights-record"},"modified":"2023-11-16T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:00:27","slug":"tibets-government-in-exile-urges-australia-not-to-compromise-on-chinas-human-rights-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/16\/tibets-government-in-exile-urges-australia-not-to-compromise-on-chinas-human-rights-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet\u2019s government-in-exile urges Australia not to \u2018compromise\u2019 on China\u2019s human rights record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norzin Dolma said government should sanction Chinese officials for \u2018threatening the very existence \u2026 of Tibetan identity\u2019<\/p><ul><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Australia must not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-council\">compromise on human rights<\/a> as it improves its relationship with China because \u201cthe truth must be told\u201d, a minister from the Tibetan government in exile has said during a visit to Canberra.<\/p><p>Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala in India, met Australian MPs from across the political spectrum on Thursday to warn against a \u201cquiet diplomacy\u201d approach to \u201cgross human rights abuses\u201d and \u201cbrutal suppression\u201d in Tibet.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/tibets-government-in-exile-urges-australia-not-to-compromise-on-chinas-human-rights-record\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/nov\/17\/tibets-government-in-exile-urges-australia-not-to-compromise-on-chinas-human-rights-record\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norzin Dolma said government should sanction Chinese officials for \u2018threatening the very existence \u2026 of Tibetan identity\u2019Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia must not compromise on human rights as it improv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1208,1730,190,6,2113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336097,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335979\/revisions\/1336097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}