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New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): An international webinar “Tibet Was Never a Part of China”, organized on February 14 to mark the 109th anniversary of ‘Proclamation of Independence of Tibet’ on 13th February 1913, urged the global community to support Tibet’s independence from China’s illegal rule.
Unchallenged control over the vast geographic areas and huge natural resources of Tibet, Xinjiang, South Mongolia and other occupied countries have only emboldened and encouraged present-day China to behave like a bully with the world community.
Vijay Kranti, writing in Phayul said that it is in the interest of world peace and world order that the international community join hands to support these colonized nations to regain their independence from China’s illegal rule.
The webinar was organized on the eve of the anniversary jointly by the Centre for Himalayan Asia Studies and Engagement (CHASE) and Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the most prominent socio-political organization of the Tibetan Diaspora.
Referring to China’s aggressive claims over Tibet, Thubten Samphel, a prominent Tibetan scholar and founder Executive Director of Tibet Policy Institute said, “Today when President Xi Jinping’s China makes claims that Tibet has been a part of China on the basis of the Mongol and Manchu influence over Tibet then he and his Communist Party of China should not forget two basic historic facts. One is that China itself was occupied and ruled by the Mongols and the Manchus as foreign occupiers of China. The other fact is that at some stages in history Tibet too was a powerful empire that had ruled over China and had pushed out the Chinese Emperors and occupied their capital which is currently called Xian, the host of ongoing Winter Olympic Games today.”
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