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China is slowly erasing Tibet's name (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5651275

Original link: https://www.newsweek.com/china-changing-tibet-english-name-1843391

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[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The spokesperson is hardly a god king.

Tenzin Lekshay, a spokesperson for the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government-in-exile, said of Beijing’s report.

[–] BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah, so he’s not the god king, just the representative of the god king in absentia, thanks for clarifying that for me. Doesn’t change that I don’t respect anyone who represents or is integrated into a caste-based ethnostate, but it’s good information nonetheless.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Sure, I'm not asking you to respect anything in particular.

The only placenames mentioned in the article are Chinese or English.

Got me wondering what the actual Tibetans would call it (both those inside Tibet and those outside it).