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Nearly seven decades since the 1959 uprising in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the Chinese government still treats March 10 with vigilance. On that date, popular anger against eight years of control by the People’s Republic of China boiled over into protest, triggering the Chinese government’s bloody imposition of direct rule and the flight into exile of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual and political leader. Few Tibetans now dare to publicly commemorate the day as the risks are too high.
The repression of Tibet remains unrelenting. Apart from the torrent of state propaganda—well-funded and amplified in recent years by state-controlled social media—almo...
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