17-Point Agreement

  • China’s Seventeen-Point Agreement: A Subversion of the Patron-Priest Relationship in Tibet

    From its inception, Tibet has been an independent entity, distinguished by the Tibetan alphabet and language, distinctive culture, geographical landscape, political system, and perhaps most notably by the Tibetan Buddhist religion. However, Tibet’s claim to its territory has been a source of contestation for centuries, with the most recent and arguably most brutal annexation of…

  • Reviewing China’s White Paper and its Gap on Real Tibet

    Reviewing China’s White Paper and its Gap on Real Tibet

    China recently issued a White Paper titled “Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity”, on Tibet accordance to 70 years of signing the 17-Point Agreement on 23rd May 1951. The Chinese State-owned media the Global Times [1] and the China Global Television Network (CGTN) [2] published the crux of the distorted information on their websites.

  • 17 Point Agreement: The last historical symbolic of Tibet’s Independence

    17 Point Agreement: The last historical symbolic of Tibet’s Independence

    China celebrates every 23rd May as an anniversary of the so-called “Peaceful Liberation of Tibet” by imposing the Tibetans to perform cultural show competitions, praising the Chinese leaders and its policy strategically for political propaganda in international communities, claiming what China always lies to the world in one tune—brings social and economic development in Tibet.…