In an unprecedented move, Chinese President Xi Jinping made an unannounced visit to Occupied Tibet this week, including to Nyingchi located close to Arunachal Pradesh.
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| Xi puppet with Tibetan protestors in background |
This was Xi’s first visit to Occupied Tibet since taking over as president in 2013. During the visit, he was not surrounded by Tibetan people but more of security personnel which indicates that after more then 6 decades of forceful occupation of Tibet which indicates that Tibetan inside Tibet are still more loyal and devoted to His Holiness.
As per Chinese State Media Xinhua, the president visited the Tibet Autonomous Region in connection with the 70th anniversary of Tibet’s “peaceful liberation the first time in the history of the party and the country”.
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| Xi waves to local in Nyingchi |
During his visit, Xi stressed the need for fully implementing the guidelines of the Chinese Communist Party for “governing Tibet in a new era and writing a new chapter of lasting stability and high-quality development for the plateau region”, the report said.
The visit was kept under wraps by China’s official media till the end of the trip on Friday. Nyingchi is also where China is constructing a massive dam on the Brahmaputra river.
The visit comes amid border tensions with India and at a time when China is said to be suppressing local culture by promoting education in the Chinese language and also slowly taking control of Buddhist monasteries. Chinese leaders periodically visit Tibet. But Xi is perhaps the first top leader in recent years to visit Tibet’s border town. He visited Tibet as vice president in 2011. The last sitting president to officially visit Tibet was Jiang Zemin in 1990.
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