Chinese President Xi Jinping tells officials to look to Qinghai as model for governing Tibet and Xinjiang

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Chinese President Xi Jinping tells officials to look to Qinghai as model for governing Tibet and Xinjiang

June 11, 2021;

Jun Mai South China Morning Post 10 June 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping ended a three-day tour of the northwestern province of Qinghai on Wednesday by stressing its importance for maintaining order in neighbouring Xinjiang and Tibet. He said the province, where around a quarter of the population are ethnic Tibetans, was a “model of national unity”, according…