China and Tibet
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Dubious Interest in Tibetan Buddhist incarnations by Chinese Authorities
Why would Chinese Authorities be Interested in Tibetan Buddhist incarnations? Well, to sum in one word, Politics. In late November, a senior local Chinese Communist Party official visited three townships in Sog, a county in the Tibet Autonomous Region known for its religious resistance. His purpose is to persuade local Tibetan officials to support government…
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China’s latest ethnic ruse in Tibet
China would like us to believe that 70 years ago it liberated Tibet. It truly didn’t happen that way. True, on 23 May 1951, Tibet and China signed the ‘Agreement for peaceful freedom of Tibet’, known as the 17-point Agreement. It did, however, seal Tibet’s invasion, not its “freedom.”