Dharamshala —The Chinese authorities in central Tibet are brainwashing Tibetan children in the Chinese colonial-style boarding schools, taking them to the Chinese military museum, imposing the ideas of Chinese leaders on them and forcing them to undergo military training. These activities are clearly aimed at depriving Tibetan children of their Tibetan identity, religion and culture.
The Chinese Communist Party is intensifying its repressive policies against Tibetans, including children. They are attempting to brainwash them by forcing Chinese leaders' thoughts, particularly those of Xi Jinping, and Chinese culture on them in colonial-style boarding schools.
Recently, in the name of "education for national defense," the Chinese military held a brainwashing session for Tibetan children in Meldro Gungkar County, Lhasa, Central Tibet, on November 18, 2025, in order to instill a "love for the nation" in their minds. This month is being conducted as "Education for National Defense Month," and children as young as three and four years old in nursery school are being made to wear military clothes and undergo military training such as climbing fences. They also told stories about the army in border areas in order to brainwash these children and make them understand how the army ensures their safety.
During the first week of November, Chinese authorities in central Tibet organised brainwashing sessions for Tibetan primary, secondary and university students, introducing them to Chinese revolutionary history, telling them stories about the revolution, taking them on visits to revolutionary museums and asking them to write research papers on the revolution. Another brainwashing session for Tibetan children involved taking 380 pupils from Jebang Gang School in Lhasa, Tibet, to a museum where they were shown how former Chinese Premier Mao Zedong and other liberation armies sacrificed their lives for the nation, with the aim of brainwashing these young children.
The Chinese government is implementing repressive policies not only against Tibetan children, but also against public service personnel. The Chinese authorities organised meetings for Tibetan staff on November 17, 2025, to present them with new and old laws and regulations, with the aim of preventing them from doing anything to promote Tibetan culture, language and religion.
China-Tibet: The one-thing you need to know:
Over the past 70 decades, there has been ongoing political repression, social discrimination, economic marginalization, environmental destruction, and cultural assimilation, particularly due to Chinese migration to Tibet which is fueling intense resentment among the people of occupied Tibet.
The communist-totalitarian state of China began its invasion of Tibet in 1949, reaching complete occupation of the country in 1959. Since that time, more than 1.2 million people, 20% of the nation's population of six million, have died as a direct result of China's invasion and occupation. In addition, over 99% of Tibet's six thousand religious monasteries, temples, and shrines, have been looted or decimated resulting in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of sacred Buddhist scriptures.
Until 1949, Tibet was an independent Buddhist nation in the Himalayas which had little contact with the rest of the world. It existed as a rich cultural storehouse of the Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings of Buddhism. Religion was a unifying theme among the Tibetans -- as was their own language, literature, art, and world view developed by living at high altitudes, under harsh conditions, in a balance with their environment.
