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China is slowly erasing Tibet's name (feddit.de)

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5651275

Original link: https://www.newsweek.com/china-changing-tibet-english-name-1843391

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[-] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, there's a good point.

Doesn't change the fact that ethnic Tibet and the TAR are not necessarily the same territorial entity. Tibetans make up a significant proportion of the population of Qinghai, for example.

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