New Delhi — What makes the Dalai Lama and his fellow Tibetan refugees stand tall as a community among a host of other refugee groups across the world today is their remarkable success in reviving their national identity despite the most ruthless adversary and emerging as one of the most organized and productive refugee communities of recent human history.

An article discusses how Chinese President Xi Jinping is aggressively reviving Mao-era authoritarianism through ruthless crackdowns, deliberate erasures of historical truth, and a tightening stranglehold on basic freedoms and dismantling individual liberties.

This escalating conflict is exacerbated by the Chinese Communist Party’s strategic refusal to recognise—or meaningfully respond to—the peaceful overtures of Tibetans, whose autonomy proposals were met with authoritarian resistance, political surveillance, and ideological suppression.

China’s dirty strategic use of grabbing economic power, political influence, and media control in suppressing criticism, undermining democratic values, and strengthening authoritarianism has been revealed in a critical analysis recently conducted by a Tibetan journalist living overseas.

There are fears the British Government is willing to place trade and access to Chinese markets above the rights ofTibetan people, as well as those affected by crackdowns in regions such as Hong Kong and Xinjiang.

Dharamshala – My Life – Born in Free Tibet, Served in Exile, the Autobiography of Tashi Wangdi, a seasoned Tibetan diplomat is an interesting ring side view of exiled Tibet’s early history and a document for posterity.