“Unity Without Autonomy”, TCHRD condemns Xi Jinping’s visit to Lhasa

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Tsering Dhundup

DHARAMSHALA, Sep. 1: Rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) has condemned Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Lhasa as a “choreographed spectacle of unity without autonomy”, accusing Beijing of using the 60th anniversary of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) to tighten control rather than honour promises of self-rule.

On August 20, Xi, who is also General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, led a central government delegation to Lhasa, the residence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Chinese state media framed the visit as an unprecedented display of “care and affection” for Tibetans, while Xi presided over official work reports and reiterated long-standing priorities of “political stability”, “ethnic unity&r...

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