The Chinese government has declared its intentions to relocate over 100,000 Tibetans from their homes by 2030 to bolster its control over border regions.
The Chinese government has declared its intentions to relocate over 100,000 Tibetans from their homes by 2030, in an attempt to end their traditional way of life and strengthen its control over border regions, including those with India. According to the Tibet Press, this is a part of China’s policy to actively build new villages in disputed border regions in order to enhance its grip over these areas, which India, Bhutan, and Nepal claim to be part of their national territory.
According to reports, the Chinese government has a plan to build at least 624 villages along the border in disputed Himalayan areas. This new move is reportedly part of the Chinese administration’s larger plan, which was unveiled in 2018 by the Communist Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Under its so-called ‘very high-altitude ecological relocation plan, the measure was coined to resettle the Tibetans who lived in the very high altitude regions of Tibet. There is no scientific proof that relocation would have a positive influence on the environment, despite China’s claims that it was done to protect the ecosystem.
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