"While there has been some evidence of military-style training and labor transfers in Tibet in the past, this new, enlarged program represents the first on a mass scale and the first to openly set quotas for transfers outside the region." reuters.com/article/us-chi…
"Tibetan state media reports in July say that in 2020 some of the workers transferred outside of Tibet were sent to construction projects in Qinghai and Sichuan. Others transferred within Tibet were trained in textiles, security and agricultural production work."
"Local government documents inside Tibet and in three other provinces say workers remain in centralised accommodation after they are transferred... One state media document, describing a transfer within the region, referred to it as a 'point to point nanny service.'"
Zenz, who was also at the forefront of Xinjiang:
Xinjiang, Tibet, and then the world.
Spooky timing for this reporting given the Angwang indictment earlier today.
"[Angwang] was 'acting at the direction and control' of Chinese officials, reporting on the activities of ethnic Tibetans and others in the New York metropolitan area"
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Also notable: the retaliatory closure of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu was presumably chosen in part because it was the intelligence gathering hub for Tibet and western China. rfa.org/english/news/t…
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