May 24, 2004Foreign Affairs

China’s white paper on Tibet

China has released a white paper on Tibet which asks the Dalai Lama to stop calling for an independent Tibet or a ‘one country, two systems’ model like that of Hong Kong and Macao. The Chinese government argues that Tibet already has regional ethnic autonomy:

This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.

Regional ethnic autonomy means, under the unified leadership of the state, regional autonomy is exercised and organs of self-government are established in areas where various ethnic minorities live in compact communities, so that the people of ethnic minorities are their own masters exercising the right of self-government to administer local affairs and the internal affairs of their own ethnic groups,”[People’s Daily]



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