China’s Erasure of Tibet Is Accelerating by Brahma Chellaney

In recent years, the international community has stood idly by while China has systematically eradicated Tibetan culture and identity. With the authorities stepping up their assimilation efforts, Asia risks not only losing one of its oldest civilizations, but also facing a China that is bigger, bolder, and more powerful than ever.
NEW YORK—The self-immolation of exiled Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside United Nations headquarters in New York on July 2 was not an expression of personal despair. It was a desperate attempt to jolt the world out of its growing indifference to one of the most important international issues of our time: Tibet’s systematic erasure.