Chinese Propaganda Magazine in Tibet marks its 20th Anniversary
Peter Terpstra
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 13:22 YC. Dhardhowa, editor for The Tibet Post
International
The Chinese state-controlled media, Xinhua, reported that a seminar was held
on 18 December to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "China's Tibet", "an
important Tibet-related magazine" in the Communist's Tibeten Autonomous region
(TAR). But every page of the magazine is filled with the twenty years'
propaganda and censorship put in place by the Chinese Communist Party.
The so-called "China's Tibet", a Chinese political tool first published in
1989, puts forth a paper edition in Chinese, Tibetan and English, as well as
an electronic magazine in Chinese and English. "The magazine was issued in
more than 180 countries and regions," Xinhua claimed.
A thorough investigation by world media over the last 60 years has
demonstrated the news agency Xinhua's involvement in the Chinese Communist
Party's system of propaganda and censorship. There is a Tibetan saying for the
Chinese media's propaganda, "welcome China and crazy world."
The Internet is more heavily monitored, censored and manipulated in all parts
of Tibet than in other Chinese provinces. Several bloggers and other Internet
users were arrested and sentenced in Tibet in 2009, charged for posting
articles on the Internet, writing books, looking at online photos of the
Tibetan flag and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, inciting separatism and
"communicating outside the country" for sending emails, photos and SMS
messages about Tibet-related issues, including the March 2008 protests in
Tibet.
Affirming its authority, the TAR government this month celebrated the 20th
anniversary of "China's Tibet's" publication with fireworks and military
parades. But there remains a need to evaluate the past decades of the Chinese
media's bias, in the name of the Tibetan people's basic right to be truthfully
informed.
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