LOS ANGELES—A crowd of human rights activists chanted “Free Tibet, free Uyghur, free Taiwan, free Hong Kong, free East Turkestan” in front of the Chinese Consulate in downtown Los Angeles on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. On Feb. 3, a coalition of 15 human rights groups gathered outside 443 Shatto Place, one of China’s…

SAN FRANCISCO—15 human rights groups gathered outside the NBC Sports office in San Francisco on Friday, Dec. 10 to call on the station not to air the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. In light of Human Rights Day, the groups—comprised of Tibetan, Uyghur, Southern Mongolian, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Chinese Democracy, and other human rights campaign…

Commentary “Free Tibet” has been a rallying cry since communist China’s 1951 occupation, but more is at stake than re-establishing the sovereignty of the Tibetan nation or stopping China’s human rights abuses. The Tibetan land mass, despite its sparse population and remote resources, is one of the most geostrategic on the planet. As goes Tibet,…