Uwe Meya: Focus on Tibet

China's strategies for oppression and assimilation in an occupied country

Since March 1959, when the dissatisfied Tibetan population dared to revolt against the unloved occupiers, which was bloodily suppressed, and the Dalai Lama fled to India, the Chinese yoke has weighed on Tibet. Far removed from world affairs, the Beijing leadership rules here with an iron hand and tries out a variety of measures for surveillance, intimidation, oppression and Sinicization. If you want to understand the totalitarian Chinese regime better, it is essential to focus on Tibet and its plagued population.