China has opened a new state-run boarding school in Chone, eastern Tibet, for students in grades 4 to 6, touting it as a sign of development and educational progress.
China has inaugurated a new state-run boarding school in Chone, eastern Tibet, showcasing modern dormitories, classrooms and sports grounds as part of its drive to expand education in the region. But behind the official narrative of progress, rights groups warn, lies a strategy aimed at dismantling Tibetan culture.
The Tibet Action Institute (TAI), in its July 2025 report When They Came to Take Our Children, argues that the boarding school system is designed to detach Tibetan c...





