ICT 2026 Tibet Leadership Report: Ahead of 21st Party Congress, China cultivating a more repressive leadership in Tibet to enforce assimilationist agenda

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As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prepares for its 21st Party Congress in 2027, developments in 2025–2026 indicate that Beijing is cultivating a more repressive leadership in Tibet to deepen political control and accelerate its policies of forced assimilation of Tibetans. Leadership appointments, new legislation such as the “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress Law,” and Party directives centered on “Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building” signal further consolidat...

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