Posted on 08/19/2021 8:00:12 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
“The population living at the border regions in Tibet has increased 10.5%,” Wu Yingjie, the Communist Party of China (CPC) chief of TAR was quoted as saying by state media at a ceremony in Lhasa marking the 70th anniversary of what Beijing calls the “peaceful liberation” of the mostly-Buddhist remote Himalayan TAR region.
Wu did not elaborate on the numbers but added that 21 border counties in TAR are now under direct supervision and aid of central government departments.
Wu’s specific views on the importance of the TAR’s border areas of China found support from one of CPC’s top leaders, Wang Yang, at the function in Lhasa.
Stressing harmony and stability in Tibet and national security and stability in the border areas, Wang, member of the CPC’s seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the top party organ, said officials and the general public of all ethnic groups should be mobilised to “forge an ironclad defence against separatist activities”.
According to China’s latest census data, Tibet’s permanent resident population is around 3.64 million, an increase of 645,900 or 21.52% in the last decade.
India shares 3,488km of border with China that runs along the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and the states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh; on the Chinese side, it is mostly TAR.
Border area consolidation is among the four major policies that Beijing is implementing in Tibet, the other three being stability, development, and protection of ecology.
The TAR party chief’s statement gives credence to reports that say China is bolstering its presence all along the TAR border, fortifying the remote regions not only by building critical civil-military dual use infrastructure but also building villages and populating them.
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So Tibet first? Or Taiwan?
Tibet was first. China has it thoroughly under control.
More recently, its upped its efforts to flood it with Han Chinese, but that’s been ongoing.
Of course. That explains the increase in “population.”
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