China’s New Tibet Report Masks Forced Relocations of 93,000 Rural Tibetans
By Tenzin Chokyi
DHARAMSALA 16 Oct: China has released a new think tank report portraying its rural development policies in occupied Tibet as “a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity,” a model it contrasts with Western modernisation, which it claims erodes culture and heritage at the expense of development. But for Tibetans, beneath this new packaging lies the old mechanism of assimilation, control, and the systematic remaking of a civilisation and its culture under the twin project of modernity and colonialism.
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