Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala in India, met Australian MPs from across the political spectrum on Thursday to warn against a “quiet diplomacy” approach to “gross human rights abuses” and “brutal suppression” in Tibet.
She also urged the Australian government to use its new Magnitsky-style sanctions laws to target Chinese Communist party officials for “threatening the very existence and survival and maintenance of Tibetan identity, culture and language”.
The Australian government is prosecuting a whistleblower for leaking war crimes. They don’t give a shit about what’s morally or ethically right, and don’t care about Tibet as long as China economically benefits “national security”, aka “the economy”, aka the stock market and GDP.
China Is Slowly Erasing Tibet’s Name
The Chinese government is gradually dropping the name “Tibet” in official English-language references in favor of the region’s Mandarin Chinese name—“Xizang”—with experts saying the move is in line with Beijing policies aimed at erasing Tibetan culture.
The propaganda department of China’s State Council, its central government, last week released a white paper on “Governance of Xizang in the New Era.” Though the term “Tibetan” is used to refer to the region’s people and geographical features like the Tibetan Plateau, Xizang is used exclusively when referring to the southwestern region’s official name.
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Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala in India, met Australian MPs from across the political spectrum on Thursday to warn against a “quiet diplomacy” approach to “gross human rights abuses” and “brutal suppression” in Tibet.
She also urged the Australian government to use its new Magnitsky-style sanctions laws to target Chinese Communist party officials for “threatening the very existence and survival and maintenance of Tibetan identity, culture and language”.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, visited China last week for meetings with the president, Xi Jinping, and the premier, Li Qiang, as part of what the Australian government calls the “stabilisation” of ties with its largest trading partner.
Norzin Dolma urged the Australian government to take a strong stand when China faces the “universal periodic review” of its human rights record at the UN next year, and should also oppose CCP meddling in the process of the selection of the next Dalai Lama.
She conveyed this message during meetings with MPs and senators from Labor, the Coalition and the Greens, including the shadow foreign minister, Simon Birmingham, and the deputy speaker, Sharon Claydon.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, rejected the February boarding school report, saying some UN experts “endorsed lies and rumours to malign and discredit China”.
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