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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Tisdall

China wants to erase Tibet. Will Britain stay quiet about this crime?

China is accused of the ‘forced assimilation’ of one million Tibetan children.
China is accused of the ‘forced assimilation’ of 1 million Tibetan children. Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Last week’s US sanctioning of Chinese officials involved in Beijing’s ongoing criminal efforts to erase Tibet as a separate political, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious entity showed America at its best.

Few other governments give a hoot. Most cravenly look the other way.

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