-The Times Of India 

New Delhi: The Chinese media is increasingly beginning to refer to Tibet as ‘Xizang’, days after Beijing– in its continued efforts to assert wider control over the western region of the country– issued a white paper titled “CCP Policies on the Governance of Xizang in the New Era: Approach and Achievements”, which outlines developments in tIbet since President Xi Jingping took power in 2012.

The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile on Sunday, however, accused China of denying the most fundamental human rights to people in Tibet and vigorously carrying out the “extermination of the Tibetan Identity”.

China changing names of areas not under its control is not new.

In April, Beijing had issued a new map in which it showed Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin as part of its territory with new names.