China: Curbing Mongol schools a step toward Sinicization of minorities

WHILE the world was focused on the plight of Uighurs in Xinjiang, Beijing was moving quietly to further tighten its control over ethnic minorities in two other strategic areas: Tibet and Inner Mongolia.

President Xi Jinping, at a two-day symposium, called for efforts to build a “modern socialist Tibet” where Buddhism would be “guided in adapting to the socialist context and developed in the Chinese context.”