China creating ‘iron curtains’ for Tibet: Report

Tibetans are working for a political cause while facing consistent security challenges from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Being intimidated by CCP officials directly, Tibetans are unable to talk to their families who live in Tibet and their electronic devices are being hacked and monitored, Inkstick reported.
As per the report, the Chinese Communist Party’s goal is to create “an iron curtain between those within and outside Tibet.” In order to fulfil its aim, the CCP has been taking several measures, including confiscating the passports of Tibetans in Tibet and the whole of China.
Tibetans who wish to visit Tibet are only permitted to enter with a special permit. For visiting Tibet, they need to register themselves in Lhasa and the authorities then monitor their movement.
These activities are being carried out by two primary entities of CCP – the Ministry of State Security and the United Front Work Department.
These entities of the CCP have stressed that they will “assist” members of the Tibetan diaspora in visiting Tibet, Inkstick reported. If the Tibetans do not agree, these entities start imposing pressure on them by threatening their family members in Tibet as a ‘tactic of intimidation.’ China is trying to “gain control” of the Tibetan community as much as possible and they are using their family members as an advantage.
Tibetans have a sense of unity among people as they continue to make efforts for defending their rights and culture. Tibetans have been making efforts to have an international debate regarding their rights and culture while facing external threats, as per the report.
The CCP constantly infiltrates the Tibetan community living in other nations by spreading disinformation and recruiting informants. CCP has been trying to create a divide between different sections of Tibetan Buddhism on social media sites, like Facebook and Telegram.
As per the report, Tibetans receive phishing emails and fake Chinese Communist Party social media accounts following pages which support Dalai Lama to make themselves look legitimate to unsuspecting users.
CCP officials sometimes openly intimidate Tibetan leaders, make use of monetary incentives and threaten people’s connections in Tibet to recruit Tibetans to act as spies within their own community, Inkstick reported.
China is doing everything possible in both subtle and overt ways as Tibet is important to Beijing.
Serta Tsultrim, a Tibetan MP, has said that 20 out of 45 MPs in the government-in-exile support total independence of Tibet, as per the news report. People in Tibet are forced to give personal documents to obtain sim cards.
Many Tibetan activists living in other nations do not contact their families in Tibet to protect them. Tsultrim’s brother was imprisoned in Tibet for explaining no reason.
Tsultrim has not spoken about the issue in front of the media, however, he suspects that his brother could be punished for his own political involvement.