Tibetan sources who spoke to Radio Free Asia linked the closures to the Chinese government’s education policies and its promotion of the Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, which took effect on July 1, 2026. They said the shutdowns could further limit opportunities for Tibetan children to learn their mother tongue and cultural traditions.
Tibet can’t catch a break. They have suffered many natural disasters and CCP occupation is getting more and more invasive.
Do you have any idea what Tibet looked like before Chinese intervention?
It was a shithole where practically everyone was legally a slave with no access to healthcare, education, or opportunities for the slightest improvements in their lives. The only people allowed to live decent lives were the lamas, who we can only expect are pedophiles, just like their current leader.
Today literacy rates in Tibet are higher than in the US. So is elementary school completion (more than 99%), and access to healthcare. Their language is a mandatory subject in all schools, and is legally protected. It’s a requirement for all universities.
Now, I’m by no means a fan of bigger countries ‘saving’ smaller countries. But if ‘Tibetan culture’ amounts to slavery and misery, then I think it’s perfectly fine if China (or any other country) erodes just a little bit of that culture to give people genuinely better lives (whether or not that was the goal).
Are the schools getting closed a good thing? Absolutely not, and it’s okay to point it out. Just keep in mind Tibetans are still infinitely better off than they used to be under independent Tibetan rule.
This response is fucking disgusting
All by design. Its what imperialists do. It’s what the US and Canada did to my people and family.
Whether or not you trust RFA as a source. This is all part of a larger thread being reported on in wider credible coverage. And not just them as a group. Its part of a self stated literal policy position on the part of China.
And as the saying goes. Believe victims/women. Whether the accusations are true or false. Tibet is the one most liable to suffer repercussions from them not China.
Also if the United States was really going to try to discredit china. Considering all the bigots and racists involved in our government. Who don’t give a shit about such groups here let alone elsewhere. Our government which is guilty of the same thing here. The last thing that they would care about or do is try to create a narrative around something like this. It’s really disgusting to see “groups” hand wave stories like this away claiming such things.
Calling China imperialist is akin to admitting you have no clue what the fuck you’re talking about. China hasn’t dropped a bomb in fifty years. Look no further than the US if you’re interested in imperialist ghouls, not socialist China. The idea you think the US wouldn’t spin up these stories is laughable, that’s what we do.
Closing 3 schools in a country with 1.5 billion people is only news if youre desperate to disparage China because you’re scared shitless of losing control over the world. Sinophobic fucks, you aren’t going to win.
China has been using economic warfare for those 50 years
China, since the revolution, has been lifting up the proletariat of various nations and investing in infrastructure and technologies. There is no debt trapping, those stories have been thoroughly debunked by world economists for decades now.
The United States, on the other hand, has been using economic warfare since inception.
Free tibet
Tibet was a slave society with literal royalty and serfs. You want to go back to that? Kind of snitching on yourself as a reactionary loser.
Free tibet now, you reactionary loser.
Mao already did
Clown
Edit, it’s actually worst than that. Sometimes i feel like you people live in a sect. You are as bad as a religion.
So to you the slavery and oppression is preferable to living under china?
China hasn’t dropped a bomb in fifty years.
Dropping a bomb is not a requirement for imperialism. Seriously go read the definition.
Nobody said it was, you’re attempting to handwave an important piece of evidence because it is inconvenient for your narrative.
The idea that China hasn’t dropped a bomb in fifty years supports that they’re not imperialist. But the biggest evidence is that they’re, you know, a socialist state. Socialist states do not have the budget nor interest in imperialism.
Feudal Tibet was liberated from its slavery. Xianjing was recovered after western color revolution attempts. Taiwan is allowed to exist and China has zero interest in taking it, given it’s already a part of China.
There is no imperialism coming out of China since the revolution. Western liberals coping with their own violence by being sinophobic never ceases to amaze me.
You do understand the person that I quoted that was basically implying that was you right?
In nearly 300 years of strife. I don’t think the state ever dropped bombs on my people or ancestors. That doesn’t make what they did not imperialism. And even then. Even if China isn’t directly dropping the bombs. They’re supplying Russia who is. The state by its absolute Monopoly on violence and overwhelming Force doesn’t even need to fire a shot sometimes. Let alone drop a single bomb. But it’s still imperialism all the same. And you’re twisting into pretzels trying to defend it is pretty disgusting. Imperialist often see themselves as liberators or uplifting people. It’s rarely true.
The state has always been the oppressor. And those who defended it tools.
Ahistorical drivel. China is not imperialist, and if you can’t see that, I ask that you study Lenin’s titular book on the topic. There is no pretzels twisting, I can happily debunk whatever claim you make about China being imperialist with ease.
The state is not an enemy, only idealists think this way. The state, when governed by the proletariat, is good.
Okay, even if I grant you that, does everyone in the Chinese government have to sell their labour-power for a wage, aka the definition of a proletariat?
Holy shit you are so out of touch, you can be imperialist without dropping bombs, your ignorance is showing
In their defense I don’t know that they’ve realized that they have gone outside of their echo chamber.
Yeah… that’s a fair assessment
I almost strictly post to .world. I guess you have to make shit up all the time to hang.
Okay, but that’s worse.The only place worse than .world is piefed. Both are completely full of ignorant liberals. Piefed is just extra cringe.
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almost strictly post to .world. I guess you have tomake shit up all the timeFixed it for you
I am far from ignorant on what constitutes imperialism. China is not imperialist. Their lack of dropping bombs is just one example of how obvious this is. Have you read Lenin’s work on the subject?
I am far from ignorant on what constitutes imperialism. China is not imperialist
Proving your own declaration wrong with your next sentence is a very tankie talent 😄
Have you read Lenin’s work on the subject?
Of whether or not present day China is imperialist? Oddly enough, nobody has 😉
Just clarifying to readers, here: “imperialism” in m-l terms is strictly an extension of capitalist expansionism for economic extraction, and colonialism is an extension of that.
Also: since China can do no wrong Tibet has always been a vassal state of the, wait, what am I saying?
Tankies don’t acknowledge that China and Russia are also settler states that have invaded their neighbours and continue to repress and dominate ethnicities and exploit the regional resources.
Yep, Everyone is always the hero in their own story. Regardless of whether or not they actually are.
Everyone is always the hero in their own story.
So true. I vote for “Comment of the week” award.
Also TIL: found this origin story link
Tibet was liberated from a feudal mode of production that used slavery. Liberation is not imperialism. You can say China is repressing whomever you want with no evidence, and I can handwave such absurd claims with no evidence.
You know you’re in trouble when even Wikipedia is telling you there is no genocide in Xinjiang and that Tibet was full of slavers and feudalists.
Here is the definition, im hoping it will help you out.
I actually like the idea of state atheism but the consequences of implementing such policies will always lead to suffering, repression, and cultural genocide. I’ve thought about this a bit and haven’t come up with any kind of gentle solution. It seems to me that the core issue is the structural aspect of the religion that imposes its own laws on the group that conflicts with other hierarchies.
I think secularism is the closest you can get to something like that. People have a right to believe what they want even if that can be harmful. The most we can do is to make sure that those harmful beliefs don’t affect others.
I think you’re probably right. It’s just such a headache to deal with religious nationalism always inching toward power and capturing offices.
The right thing is never the easiest option unfortunately.
