China Touts Success Building Tibet Less Focused on Religion
- Region’s Communist Party leader lauds road building, education
- Beijing is criticized for social controls in Tibet, Xinjiang
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China’s top leader in Tibet lauded the progress his country has made developing the region, touting an ethnic-assimilation campaign that has fueled international accusations of human-rights abuses.
“More and more believers have been trained from pursuing a good afterlife to living a good life in this life, and religion has been increasingly compatible with a socialist society,” Wu Yingjie, the Communist Party chief of Tibet, said at a press briefing in Beijing Saturday.