{"id":7694,"date":"2021-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/agenda\/tte-11-break-the-silence-tibet-was-never-part-of-china\/"},"modified":"2021-02-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:00:00","slug":"tte-11-break-the-silence-tibet-was-never-part-of-china","status":"publish","type":"agenda","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.eu\/nl\/agenda\/tte-11-break-the-silence-tibet-was-never-part-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"TTE #11: Break the silence: Tibet was never part of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Chinese government, Tibet has always been part of China.\u00a0According to Michael van Walt, this claim has no legal basis:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina has occupied Tibet against the will of the Tibetan people for nearly three generations now. Its sovereignty claim to Tibet has no legal basis and rests solely on a self-serving historical narrative. This narrative is Sino-centric, part inaccurate and part misleading. But it is so persistently and forcefully pushed by Beijing, that the world has gradually bought into it and today largely treats Tibet as China\u2019s internal affair, beyond its purview. \u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13971\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Michael2-100-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"Tibet Talks Europe #11: Break the silence: Tibet was never part of China\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this Tibet Talk, we will explore the implications of this new research for China as well as other states\u00a0with the author of Tibet Brief 20\/20 and discuss how this research helps to achieve a negotiated solution for the Sino-Tibetan conflict.<\/p>\n<p>[button type=&#8221;yellow&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/3350727355033522&#8243;]Join this livestream on Facebook[\/button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-7694","agenda","type-agenda","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TTE #11: Break the silence: Tibet was never part of China - Campaign for Tibet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.eu\/nl\/agenda\/tte-11-break-the-silence-tibet-was-never-part-of-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TTE #11: Break the silence: Tibet was never part of China - Campaign for Tibet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to the Chinese government, Tibet has always been part of China.\u00a0According to Michael van Walt, this claim has no legal basis: \u201cChina has occupied Tibet against the will of the Tibetan people for nearly three generations now. 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