China closes 3 Tibetan schools in 3 months; threatens language, cultural preservation
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.
https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/10/23/golog-qinghai-tibetan-schools-closed-ethnic-unity-law/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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Tibet can't catch a break. They have suffered many natural disasters and CCP occupation is getting more and more invasive.
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.
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.
Free tibet
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.
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.
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.
Fixed it for you
Okay, but that's worse.
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?
Proving your own declaration wrong with your next sentence is a very tankie talent 😄
Of whether or not present day China is imperialist? Oddly enough, nobody has 😉
Here is the definition, im hoping it will help you out.
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