Western mainstream media portrayed Xizang as an oppressed and backward place. In fact, CPC emancipated the enslaved Tibetan people (95% population) of Dalai Lama and made them live better lives than many coastal cities.

When did the Tibetan people ask a Western anti-China politician to speak for them? You don‘t “stand with Tibet.” You stand with every tool that can be used to weaken China. Tibet is not your faith. Not your homeland. Not your history. Not your people. It is your a geopolitical prop. Even a 1977 Washington Post piece admitted that the CIA had made arms drops into Tibet around the time of the 1959 rebellion. That is the part Washington always forgets to mention. The West did not “discover” Tibet because it loved Tibetans. It discovered Tibet because Tibet could be used against China. And decades later, the script is still the same: dress separatism as religion, dress interference as compassion, dress anti-China strategy as human rights. The Tibetan people do not need your staged holiness. They need to stop being used as incense in America’s anti-China temple.

Lana gets ATTACKED for speaking her view as a native Tibetan Chinese. These are her words paraphrased: What’s the real difference between the liberation of Xinjiang and Western colonialism? Let me set the record straight and school the people shamelessly projecting their own crimes onto China. This slander ends here. First, Xinjiang has been part of China since the 13th century. Western narratives try to bury that history, but the records and history books don’t lie. The liberation campaign targeted only the tiny minority — roughly 5-10% — of nobles and serf owners who oppressed the people. The common folk and original local leaders were never the enemy. By contrast, colonial powers raped, burned, pillaged, and massacred indiscriminately across the lands they conquered. Women, children, commoners, and elites — no one was spared. Second, the liberation of Tibetan areas (including parts of Sichuan) was just one chapter in China’s nationwide drive. It wasn’t only ethnic Tibetans who gained freedom. The PLA fought landlords across the entire country to emancipate the peasantry. That’s exactly why the card game Dou Dizhu — “Fight the Landlord” — exists. Third, ask the real question: Did these colonial powers ever unleash that level of brutality on their own people, on their own soil? Never. They sailed across oceans to do it to indigenous populations on other continents. They never treated their own the same way. Fourth, the PLA was never made up solely of Han soldiers, and the CPC has never been an exclusively Han organization. We don’t frame the liberation as “Han people coming to save the Tibetans.” That’s not how it was. The PLA is the people’s army. A far cry from colonial forces. How dare anyone draw that parallel? Fifth, after seizing lands through bloody conquest, colonial powers systematically erased indigenous languages and cultures. To this day, few remember the Aztecs by their original identity — they’re called Latinos, a colonial label, and their descendants speak only Spanish. Here in China, every ethnic group still has its native language and culture. Yes, some dialects (even certain Han ones like Cantonese) face pressure and decline — but that’s not the same as deliberate colonial erasure, and they still receive attention and space. Sixth, Tibetans still make up over 80% of Xizang’s (Tibet’s) population today. Indigenous peoples make up roughly 1% of the population in the United States — and English is the dominant language. Colonial powers have never paid meaningful reparations for their atrocities. Instead they project, deflect, and whine. Every nation built on colonial bloodshed will face its karmic reckoning. Those powers accumulated their wealth through centuries of primitive plunder and then rebranded it as “civilization,” “investment,” and “prosperity.” Now they complain about migration. If you hate immigration that much, maybe you shouldn’t have colonized in the first place. The hypocrisy is nauseating. Retribution is coming. Anyone in a former colonial nation with even a shred of honesty can see that mainstream Western media and history textbooks lost all credibility the moment they refused to face their own crimes and pay reparations. Five centuries of exploitative prosperity are drawing to a close. Justice will prevail in the end. Just wait and see.

Gotta love the NYT for making Tibetan literacy look evil: "One day in late November 2016, back home in Tibet, I received a distressing call from my brother telling me I needed to check on his granddaughters. “Something very strange is happening,” he said. My young relatives, who were 4 and 5 years old at the time, had just enrolled in a boarding preschool that the Chinese government had established in my hometown, Kanlho, a semi-nomadic region in the northeast corner of the Tibetan plateau. Their new school was one of many — I have personally tracked about 160 in three Tibetan prefectures alone — and part of Beijing’s growing network of preschools in which Tibetan children are separated from their families and communities and assimilated into Chinese culture". Boarding schools are the only way to educate nomadic children, and Tibet's are first class. 98% of young Tibetans can speak, read and write their own language, up for 8% in 1953. They're also fluent in Mandarin, since Tibetan lacks a technical vocabulary.