BEIJING –
China has stepped up security regulations in the border areas of Tibet to combat terrorism and “splittist” risks, state-owned enterprises, “Global Times” said.
This move follows the call by China’s south-western neighbor India in early December to avoid complicating a long argument about a senior Tibetan exile’s religious leaders visiting the border region.
In 1962, the two countries conducted a brief border war.
Beijing believes that the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is a dangerous separatist. Nobel Peace Prize winner, he said, he only wanted his home real autonomy, fled to India in 1959 after escaping to China’s failed uprising.
The Sunday changes “provide the legal basis for a potential terrorist campaign to further open Tibet,” said Wang Chunhuan, a scholar of the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences, who cited the new law.
This measure makes the land ports and trade zones within the scope of previous laws and instructs low-level governments have the responsibility to dump the police to help regulate the border, according to the article, Monday Monday night. “The Tibetan economy is open to the world and the need to combat separatism, infiltration, illegal immigration and terrorism is increasing.” Baju, deputy head of the regional border defense police, said in a December 14 statement that the official Tibetan legal press was reported at the time.
Rights groups say China has trampled on Tibetan religious and cultural traditions, accusing Beijing of refusing to call its troops a peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1950.
Himalayan Communist Party leader Wu Yingjie said in a speech on Tuesday at the official China Tibet website that the Tibetan army built the “Great Wall of Steel” in Tibet to defend the border.
Wu also quoted the words of President Xi Jinping: “governance, governance side, edge, first of all to stabilize Tibet.” Wu said that the military capability of the region must be strengthened in order to “never allow anybody to separate any part of Tibet in any way at any time”.
