fredag 12. juni 2026

China’s program for cadres to ‘form pairs, make friends’ in Tibetan villages continuing for 15th year

China is continuing into the 15th year a campaign to embed its cadres in each village of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in a long-running campaign to strengthen political control and accelerate forced assimilation policies, said Washington-based Tibet advocacy group International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Jun 2. The campaign is stated to involve over 22,000 cadres being deployed on a yearly rotational basis to villages across the TAR at an average of four cadres per village.

A similar campaign is stated to be continuing in the Tibetan areas outside TAR, namely in Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces, although on smaller scales of deployment. Under the campaign, which began in 2011, teams of cadres are required to live, eat and work full-time in the villages in TAR for one-yearly rotations.