China touts Tibet’s tourism development, ‘ethnic unity’ on 73rd illegal annexation anniversary – Tibetan Review

(TibetanReview.net, May28’24) — While the anniversary of China’s illegal annexation of Tibet went seemingly unnoticed among the Tibetan diaspora, in Beijing, a press conference was held to commemorate the occasion. The people of Xizang (China’s new name for the western half of Tibet proper which it demarcated as Tibet autonomous Region (TAR), if only in name) broke free from the fetters of invading imperialism, embarking on a bright road of unity, progress and development with all the other ethnic groups in China, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn May 23. China has to this day not named any “invading imperialist” power it claims to have saved Tibet from.

The press conference was reported to have been addressed by Yan Jinhai, chairman of the TAR government, and Xu Zhitao, its vice chairman, with focus especially on “ethic unity”, a frequently used official euphemism for the insidious dilution of the ethnographic identity of Tibet, and on the region’s…